Unapologetic

Happening next Wednesday in the English Cambridge. Adam Roberts’ novel The Thing Itself can be placed into many sentences featuring the phrase ‘the only one’, but one of the things The Thi...

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1st Address: The Scent of Water ‘Why do you turn your eyes towards human suffering when you could enjoy the immeasurable prospect of your own endless being? If you fix your gaze upon mortals,...

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Alright, this qualifies as an announcement large enough to justify momentarily un-suspending the tumblr: Unapologetic has been shortlisted for the 2016 Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writi...

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George Washington out for a stroll with Liberty, who is pointing to the title of a new venture of theirs in a map of 1783 .   This tumblr has been going since my book Unapologetic came out i...

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Today we offer our worship to a child born into insecurity, into a temporary shelter offered by compassion.  When he grew up, he was to say of himself, ‘Foxes have holes, and birds of the air ...

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From A Tapestry of Early Christmas Carols and Festive Music, St George’s Canzona (1971) Happy Christmas.

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… and the darkness has not overcome it. Rembrandt, ‘The Adoration of the Shepherds’, 1646.

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But on the way home tonight, you wish you’d picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As if it were you wh...

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Ruined street, Aleppo. The light shines in darkness…

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From A Tapestry of Early Christmas Carols and Festive Music, St George’s Canzona (1971)

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Ruins of Homs, Syria.

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What do you think, it’s a children’s story? There aren’t any. The children are away dreaming, but the Empire has no place for dreams and it’s Adults Only in here tonight, here in this ref...

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From A Tapestry of Early Christmas Carols and Festive Music, St George’s Canzona (1971)

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‘Blick vom Rathausturm’, photograph of Dresden by Richard Peter, taken September-December 1945.  Source: Deutsche Fotothek , licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 G...

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Up across the downs, past the spotlights where the migrant birds in autumn choked the beams night after night, fatally held till they dropped exhausted out of the sky, a shower of dead birds, the...

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From A Tapestry of Early Christmas Carols and Festive Music, St George’s Canzona (1971)

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Stanley Spencer, ‘Furnaces’ (1946) from the ‘Shipbuilding on the Clyde’ sequence

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No, Jessica’s never seen his face exactly like this, in the light of a few hanging oil lamps, the flames unguttering and very yellow, on the nearest the verger’s two long fingerprints in fine...

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From A Tapestry of Early Christmas Carols and Festive Music, St George’s Canzona (1971)

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The area around St Paul’s Cathedral, in the London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945.  Purple = ‘damaged beyond repair’, dark red = ‘seriously damaged (doubt if repairable)’, l...

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