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The Silent Vigil of Holy Saturday

A REFLECTION ON J.M. Coetzee’s DISGRACE by Tina Beattie (an edited version of an article by me published in The Tablet in April 2000). ...

Humanity in Its Beauty and Brokenness

Zimbabwean author and poet Chiedza Musengezi discusses Between Two Rivers: Beattie explores our humanity in its beauty and brokenness...

The Poetry of Death

I’ve just finished Rachel Joyce’s novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. It’s one of those rare books that lingers in the...

Footprints

Camber Sands. It's winter and the sunrise is late enough for me to clamber over the dunes to walk on the beach at dawn. At low tide, a...

Serendipity

I awake to a whatsapp from my daughter, with a link to an article in The Guardian about grandmothers. As I read, I’m filled with joy and...

Fragments: Reflections in a Shattered Screen

Essay published in a special edition of The Journal of Political Theology: “Ten Years After 9/11”, Vol. 12, No. 5, October 2011. Photos...

Asking Forgiveness of the Birds

I'm gradually reposting here some of the blogs from my old Google Blog, "Marginal Musings". This was a new year reflection in January...

Cheating at Canasta—The Furtive Joy of Eating Alone

I'm gradually moving some of my old posts from my Google Blog, "Marginal Musings", to this website. I'm not editing or updating them, but...