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Contemplations on the weekly gospel readings in The Christian Community in poetic form. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

Contemplations on the weekly gospel readings in The Christian Community in poetic form. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

Contemplations on the weekly gospel readings in The Christian Community in poetic form. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

Contemplations on the weekly gospel readings in The Christian Community in poetic form. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away. (Revelation 21:4) ‘Our thoughts and prayers’ weightless words drift, disperse, leaving no trace. Petitions scroll, light on screens; they cannot write the stories of lives erased. A finger follows a map of grief, traced in tears shed without water on...

Contemplations on the weekly gospel readings in The Christian Community in poetic form. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

Contemplations on the weekly gospel readings in The Christian Community in poetic form. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

Weekly contemplations on the gospel readings of The Christian Community in poetic form. The music is by Peter Heathfield, played by Michael Bracewell. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

Weekly contemplations on the gospel readings of The Christian Community in poetic form. The music is by Peter Heathfield, played by Michael Bracewell. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

Weekly contemplations on the gospel readings of The Christian Community in poetic form. This week is the first week of Michaelmas, and the reading is from Matthew 22. The music is by Peter Heathfield, played by Michael Bracewell. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

Weekly contemplations on the gospel readings of The Christian Community in poetic form. This week is the first week of Michaelmas, and the reading is from Matthew 22. The music is by Peter Heathfield, played by Michael Bracewell. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

In The Christian Community we read a series of ten gospel passages in the time between St John’s and Michaelmas. While drawn from different Gospels and not chronological, these readings outline a progression—a path. I set myself the task of writing ten poems that would trace the path of the disciples as a central motif, seeking its resonance in each passage. To frame this journey, I set myself a f...

In The Christian Community we read a series of ten gospel passages in the time between St John’s and Michaelmas. While drawn from different Gospels and not chronological, these readings outline a progression—a path. I set myself the task of writing ten poems that would trace the path of the disciples as a central motif, seeking its resonance in each passage. To frame this journey, I set myself a f...

In The Christian Community we read a series of ten gospel passages in the time between St John’s and Michaelmas. While drawn from different Gospels and not chronological, these readings outline a progression—a path. I set myself the task of writing ten poems that would trace the path of the disciples as a central motif, seeking its resonance in each passage. To frame this journey, I set myself a f...

In The Christian Community we read a series of ten gospel passages in the time between St John’s and Michaelmas. While drawn from different Gospels and not chronological, these readings outline a progression—a path. I set myself the task of writing ten poems that would trace the path of the disciples as a central motif, seeking its resonance in each passage. To frame this journey, I set myself a f...

A spiral of poems In The Christian Community we read a series of ten gospel passages in the time between St John’s and Michaelmas. While drawn from different Gospels and not chronological, these readings outline a progression—a path. I set myself the task of writing ten poems that would trace the path of the disciples as a central motif, seeking its resonance in each passage. To frame this journey...

The crowd – a Temple Fourth in the series A spiral of poems In The Christian Community we read a series of ten gospel passages in the time between St John’s and Michaelmas. While drawn from different Gospels and not chronological, these readings outline a progression—a path. I set myself the task of writing ten poems that would trace the path of the disciples as a central motif, seeking its resona...

Welcome to the Perspectives Magazine podcast, where we publish contemplations on the gospel readings of the week as poems. This week’s poem is part of a series of ten inspired by the gospel readings between St John’s Tide and Michaelmas. While drawn from different Gospels and not chronological, these readings outline a progression – a path. I set myself the task of writing ten poems that would tra...

Third poem in the cycle of ten from St John’s to Michaelmas, called The Path. The full series will be made available for paid subscribers at the end of September. You can see the previous episodes on our website. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

This week’s poem is part of a series of 10 inspired by the gospel readings between St John’s Tide and Michaelmas. For more details about the form of the poems, please see the post from 27th July, ‘The Question’ This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit perspectivesmagazine.substack.com/subscribe

This podcast offers a weekly contemplation on the gospel reading of the week in the form of a poem. With this episode, we are embarking on a new poetic journey: a series of ten poems tracing the disciples' path through the gospel passages that we read annually between St. John's Tide and Michaelmas in The Christian Community. Drawing inspiration from John Donne's "Holy Sonnets," the poet employs a...

A fateful dance, and two heads lost. Herod, an old man,seeking solace in youth’s allures,blurred the line between desire and rule. He vowed a gift,and gave away himself. John meanwhile, was in his cell far from the feast, for saying out loud, what all suppressed:No man—not king nor common fool—may grasp what burnsto have,and in the seizing consumes. And now the dread climaxof the sensuous dance’s...

I knew a man; he stood like a mountain his voice was like thunder the plates of the continents trembled at his will. A will whose roots lay deep beneath mountains— too deep for himself or anyone else to plumb. I knew a man; he was my senior; he hurt me gravely, and when at last— feeling the such pain that respect could no longer hold back my tongue, I shouted my insult loud, to his face– I saw a s...