the waiting country

Trying to get God into a verbal formula is like trying to force a large and irritated cat into a small basket. As soon as you tuck in his h...

The books I most enjoyed reading this year, without any why's or wherefore's - you can go check them out if you so desire. (Oh and...

Reading 'church' for land/place/farm in this from Wendell Berry makes for worthwhile musing: Analogies have tied things together ...

Interviewed by Jim Leach of NEH , Wendell and Tanya Berry said the following about people thinking to take up farming... BERRY: Well, I h...

I always thank my God for you because of his grace given you in Christ Jesus. For in him you have been enriched in every way—with all kinds...

Every night you're trying to prove your self-worth. It's like meeting your girlfriend's family for the first time. You want to ...

In speaking of the Lord's Supper as "an epitome of the gospel of redemption", Vos notes that he could not then (and perhaps we...

Are we sure that we feel with the frequency and intensity which our greater privileges demand the desire to meet with God? Or are we satisf...

It is certainly striking that these expressions of passionate desire to come into living fellowship with God are found in the Old Testament...

Paul's letter to the Galatians is an important text for reflecting on the continuities and discontinuities of redemptive history. On th...

Commenting on the "peacefulness and serenity enveloping the figures of the patriarchs" (in the Genesis narratives), Geerhardus Vo...

Whether the call was to believe or to follow, to do or to bear, the obedience to it sprang not from any earth-fed sources but from the infi...

One of the ways to recognise narcissism within ourselves is to notice when we have not yet accepted the field, the sphere of action, that G...

The disciples' problem...has been a loss of the sense of dependence on Jesus unique exousia which had undergirded their earlier exorci...

If pastoral work is removed from its ground it loses...the strength to grapple with the complexities inherent in the work. Separation, by ig...

It is important...to recognise that "wisdom"...finds its home above all else in the poetical books - among metaphors, wordplay a...

Writing about the poets and others who have influenced her, and of the 'inherited responsibility' of being formed by exposure to the...

In your hands - all my times, all my hopes, all my fears; holding my days, cupping my tears. All my times are in your hands. In your ha...

Wendell Berry says he wrote this to remind himself. It strikes me that it could easily be re-titled How to be a Preacher... How to be a Po...

In a recent interview ( here ), Keeley Hawes said she didn't think her time in the limelight would last. “These are only very brief mome...