Five and a half hours at Heston West service station
is not, I suspect, everyone’s idea of fun;
Some Poetic thoughts on Resisting Tides
Some poets use tides as an image for that which is irresistible.
Alfred Lord Tennyson used the tides as an image for the irresistibility of death in Crossing the Bar (1889). He hoped for calmness in his last moments: “such a tide as moving seems asleep, too full for sound and foam”.
A Resistance to the Appropriation of Scripture
James Priestman reviews the first Festival of Biblical Literature In 2017, Evangelical Christians in the United States of America proposed that Isaiah’s description of the emperor Cyrus, who allowed the people of Judah to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem, should be...
Meet the New Editors
General Editor: David Chapman My undergraduate degree was in physics, and I’ve sometimes said that if you scratch me, you’ll still find a physicist in there somewhere. My first job was as an electronics design engineer working in the telecommunications industry, but...