Living With The Gods by Neil MacGregor (Allen Lane, London, 2018). Hbk. 512 pages. £16.98. Living With The Gods is beautifully written, with 471 pictures, which the presenter in the original Radio series skilfully built...
A short talk given at the 2018 SOF Annual Conference, whose theme was The Necessity of Hope. One way of experiencing this talk is to see me now, starting to read my script, imagining me...
Hard to imagine on this benign-sea, sun-blessing afternoon the gloomy Reverend Lyte, sitting here complaining of 'change and decay in all around I see'. Change, yes – there's a fleet-sized marina and devil's hordes of...
'Swimming strictly prohibited' proclaims the board in three languages. Walking on the water's not mentioned, but there's something beyond the natural here. The lunch is heavenly and the waiter celebrates his tip by discus-hurling a...
The main title of this interesting collection of Quaker essays is derived from words by the 13th century Dominican, Meister Eckhart: ‘Man’s last and highest parting occurs when, for God’s sake, he takes leave of...
The Erotics of God Sebastian Barker prefaces this book of poems with a quotation from Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: ‘The soul of sweet delight can never be defil’d.’ Anyone who has dipped...
The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl’d. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to...
