the waiting country

In Shakespeare's Measure for Measure the self-righteous villain Angelo pronounces a death sentence on Claudio, who is guilty of committi...

When I was an undergraduate at Yale University, students flocked to Professor Alvin Kernan's lecture courses on Shakespeare. Kernan'...

from John 19: i) The correlation in v.7 & v.12 of the terms 'Son of God' and 'King' suggests that the Jewish leaders wer...

Since God gives freely, we should too. That's how the apostle Paul thought of gift giving; it should be voluntary. He praised believers ...

The attempt to recover and renew psalmody in our time must not be undertaken merely as an embellishment of liturgical practice. Crucial poss...

In his Confessions, Augustine tells how he used the psalms in a period of retreat between his conversion and baptism. "What utterances ...

It has always struck me as a great (and regrettable irony): Festus and Agrippa agree that Paul could have been set free (Acts 26:32) but bec...

Doctrines, then, are profitable for celebrating, communicating, criticizing - and coping - provided they are used competently. The present w...

God bless you, Dad; God bless you, Dad. You've been a wonderful father, a good husband and a lovely grandad. You've loved us all so ...

A year ago I closed your eyes after that last, long gasp of life. It was the hardest thing I've ever done. You were there when my eyes o...

Some people say I have my father's eyes but I've always known I had his heart.

For the longest time your voice has been silent; that voice which could boom out, calling for tea, while preserving from sight a thousand re...

He was a deserter; a failure. And the cause of a sharp disagreement between two Christian ministers, one of them his uncle. So sharp in fact...

Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift all of you as wheat. But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail. And when you have...

1. Fightings Without Israel has been delivered from the terrors of Egypt and has begun to self-destruct in the wilderness. It is often the c...

let me fall into the hands of Yahweh, for his mercy is very great; and let me not fall into the hands of men (1 Chron. 21:13) David was offe...

1. Oh Book! infinite sweetnesse! let my heart Suck ev’ry letter, and a hony gain, Precious for any grief in any part ; To clea...

Part of me You are a part of me I never want to lose Hard for me This is too hard Maybe I can't get through What will I miss the most Pr...

Israel are well and truly in the wilderness and have been for some time now. The problem for them is that the wilderness “is no longer simpl...

"The Sinai event is a kind of axle for holding together two basic realities: one, everything God does involves me (election); and two, ...