WritingIn the Belly of the Fish
An account of a near-death experience from February 2022, and how it affected my experience of memory, the Eucharist and the season of Lent.

Tolkien, Talking Trees and the Harrowing of Hell
An exploration of how Christ’s death has been reimagined through history, especially in the underground journeys featured in the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Not For A Fire In Ely Fen
Part review of David Lowery’s The Green Knight, part defence of the use of pagan imagery and art by a Christian people.

All The Clods At Once Made Sacred
A Thomas Stafford poem provokes the question; what is the point of the mystical, confusing martyr tales found in St. Bede’s Ecclesiatical History of the English People?
Fors Clavigera
An exploration in three parts of the enduring relevance of John Ruskin’s letters to the labourers and craftsmen of England.
Clava
Clavis
Clavus

Eucatastrophe
An introduction to J.R.R. Tolkien’s concept of the ‘good disaster’ in storytelling.

Dyscatastrophe
If history centres on the good disaster, what purpose does apparently meaningless suffering play, especially in mythic storytelling?

Julian in Isolation
Reflections on Julian of Norwich’s Revelations of Divine Love from the 2020 pandemic.

St Peter’s Seminary and the Lost Future
A trip to an abandoned brutalist seminary in Cardross prompts throughts about memory, suffering and the end of the world.

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