the waiting country

In Housegroups this week we were looking at 1 Peter 4 and the various ways in which people who follow Jesus can suffer at the hands of those...

Light My Fire by The Doors just bursts open from the very first note and delivers in spades. For once, I'm not going to comment on the...

I realise this is an extremely hard song to listen to, for all sorts of people and for all sorts of reasons. I'm not including it here b...

In introducing the section of his book, The God I Don't Understand , that deals with evil and suffering, Chris Wright makes this valuab...

The River was among the first Bruce Springsteen tracks I remember hearing, along with Hungry Heart and Sherry Darling off the same album...

Ever worry that the ever-increasing barrage of status updates from Facebook, Twitter and every other real-time, hey-look-what-I’m-doing and ...

Willpower is a notoriously sputtery engine on which to rely for internal energy, but a right image silently and inexorably pulls us into its...

If we have never sought, we seek Thee now; Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; We must have sight of thorn-pricks on Thy brow,...

I know Coldplay come in for a lot of (sometimes deserved) criticism - taking themselves too seriously, overblown and underwhelming. But whe...

This song is deceptively simple and potentially inconsequential. It doesn't mean to deceive; it isn't a set-up or a falsification. ...

Well, who would have thought this would have been the first Beatles track to feature on these lists? Many others could have been chosen (Hey...

There was a time when I would never have admitted to having a song like this in amongst my favourite tracks...but no longer. August 1980 was...

I could have populated this list with a number of songs by Everything But The Girl (possibly Apron Strings or maybe Mirrorball or Flipsid...

I am in love with Ocean lifting her thousands of white hats in the chop of the storm, or lying smooth and blue, the loveliest bed in the wor...

if a poem is a work of art and i write a poem but don't work on it, shaping, sieving, splicing; does that mean it is simply art?

It's only recently that I've come to appreciate Eric Clapton - in particular, his albums Slowhand and 461 Ocean Boulevard are hug...

I know, this seems to go against what I blogged a few weeks back - I'd only buy a new book when I'd finished three old ones. But who...

Agricultural mechanisation as metaphor for the challenge of time and change in personal relationships? It could only be Neil Young . His 197...