Setting up a personal website is a troubling business. I am not speaking about the trouble of rummaging through thirty years of hard and soft files of miscellanea, much of it occasional in purpose and often only half-finished. No, the trouble is deeper: what is a Christian minister, make that a Christian of any stripe, doing exalting himself on the worldwide web? Well, here are my excuses.
Author: Stephen Noll
TURNING THE DIAMOND: George Herbert on Prayer, Day Fourteen
Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood,
TURNING THE DIAMOND: George Herbert on Prayer, Day Thirteen
The Milky Way, the bird of Paradise,
TURNING THE DIAMOND: George Herbert on Prayer, Day Twelve
Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,
TURNING THE DIAMOND: George Herbert on Prayer, Week 3, Day Eleven
Exalted manna, gladness of the best,
TURNING THE DIAMOND: George Herbert on Prayer, Week 2
The second week of meditations on George Herbert's gem of a poem on Prayer.
TURNING THE DIAMOND: George Herbert on Prayer, Week 2, Day Ten
Softness, and peace, and joy, and love, and bliss,
TURNING THE DIAMOND: George Herbert on Prayer, Week 2, Day Nine
Engine against the Almighty, sinner’s tower, Reversed thunder, Christ-side-piercing spear, The six-days world transposing in an hour, A kind of tune, which all things hear and fear; Today I hope to speak a bit about prayer, poetry and hymnody. Dennis …
TURNING THE DIAMOND: George Herbert on Prayer, Week 2, Day Eight
The six-days world transposing in an hour,
TURNING THE DIAMOND: George Herbert on Prayer, Week 1
Note: the following five meditations on George Herbert’s sonnet “Prayer” were posted serially from March 16-20. I have now compiled then in one edition for “Week 1.” The meditations will continue daily during the second week of March 22-28, followed …
REMEMBRANCE OF THE MARTYRS: Reflections from Uganda 2020
While the Church of Uganda remembers its debt to its founders and stands firm, Canterbury plays politics with the inheritance of the saints.