the waiting country

after a thousand days of absence, sight and sound, with only fading memorials to presence the past, i'm still doing all i can to keep yo...

Now we must look about us. Near at hand cloud like a fist has closed on all the hills and by this meager daylight on our land we see just th...

In a recent interview to mark his 90th birthday, Billy Graham was asked about the challenges he faces as an old man. He replied, We don'...

JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY AND CHRISTIANITY Rosik, C. H. Pandzic, J. (2008). Marital satisfaction among Christian missionaries: A longitudinal an...

The LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. Genesis 3:21 My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wande...

but Jesus Christ and him crucified is not simply about the words i speak, that they be of him, for him, to him; but also, for his sake, know...

Yup, here you go .

Cribbed from CT .

An economist writes about writing.

The Holy Spirit uses a man with converting power when the people see in that man not demands of them but desires for them. Raymond C Ortlund...

There are so many ways in which one might learn from the late Alistair Cooke but, whilst reading his piece of the recently-deceased (when th...

New Testament scholar Robert Yarbrough was interviewed about his forthcoming commentary on 1-3 John ( here ). During the interview, he was a...

Is this article sad? Or is it simply inevitable? You decide.

...has got herself a Blue Peter badge. Well done, Iola!

My work is loving the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there th...

For some time, the volume 'Thirst' by Mary Oliver has been on my Amazon wish list. I don't remember how I first read about these...

She said I was wrong; I thought I was right. So I left her to choose the way.

Can Sundays be fun days if they precede Mondays? I'd rather choose Tuesday as follow-on to Sunday. But what then of Monday? Wednesday ne...

on the Beatitudes from Scot McKnight: The Beatitudes are normally mis understood as a list of virtues. The Beatitudes are not, however, a vi...

I got tagged by Alan Davey to report my best 5 teachers. Here we go: 1. All-time tops would have to be Mr Curwen who taught us Latin in Ysgo...