#AprilCountry – April 21st, “Amazing Grace”, Loretta Lynn
For Easter Sunday, here is Loretta Lynn – born a month and a day before my own father – with “Amazing Grace”
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#AprilCountry, “Satan is Real”, The Louvin Brothers
It would be easy to mock the Louvin Brothers’ “Satan Is Real”, with its lurid and rather literal cover. Easy that is, until you listen to a song of evident…
Henri Nouwen on Passion
From “The Road to Daybreak”: This moment when Jesus is handed over to those who do with him as they please is a turning point in Jesus’ ministry. It is…
#AprilCountry – April 17th, “If Jesus Leads This Army”, Howard Haney
I came across Howard Haney rather randomly via Spotify – on “The Half Ain’t Never Been Told: Early American Religious Rural Music” album From Hillbilly Music.com , here is a…
“Alienated America”, Timothy Carney, reviewed by James Bradshaw, Position Papers
Found this review extremely interesting. Some highlights: Carney begins his account of social alienation in an unusual location: Chevy Chase, Maryland. Far from being a depressed post-industrial town in the…
A poem for Palm Sunday – “The Donkey”, G K Chesterton
I find Chesterton a somewhat mixed bag , and that applies to his poetry also, but this has always moved me deeply, and is all the more effective for concealing…
Séamus Sweeney 