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Posted on March 10, 2019March 10, 2019

Malcolm Guite with pilgrimage poems for the first week of Lent

  At his blog the poet Malcolm Guite features a suite of poems on pilgrimage, one for each day of the first week of Lent: In this first week in…

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Posted on March 1, 2017March 1, 2017

“Teach us to care and not to care/ Teach us to sit still.” Ash Wednesday

An Ash Wednesday I’ll Never Forget: Chesterton did not actually say that those of us who don’t believe in God will believe in anything, but he ought to have because…

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Posted on February 6, 2017March 1, 2017

“Whether our work leads to victory becomes irrelevant to us” Jeffrey Bilbro on the happy loser

I am not (yet) familiar with the work of Wendell Berry, though I think I am going to make it my business to be. Berry is the inspiration of this wonderful…

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