paradox

Why Chesterton Continues to Knock the Socks Off My Bipeds

by andrewkooman on September 9, 2010

Last and most important, it is exactly this which explains what is so inexplicable to all the modern critics of the history of Christianity. I mean the monstrous wars about small points of theology, the earthquakes of emotion about a gesture or a word. It was only a matter of an inch; but an inch [...]

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Chasing Tradition: Herbert’s “Altar”

by andrewkooman on March 29, 2010

George Herbert, one of the 17th century’s fine poets, came to mind today. I recalled his poem “The Altar”, an experimental and spiritually rich arrangement of words. Like Donne, who was a good friend of Herbert’s mother, Herbert played with impossibilities and surprised with metaphysical conceits. I’m pulling from my own archives some poempictures I’ve [...]

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RS Thomas – The Bread of Truth

by andrewkooman on March 25, 2010

I encountered the work of RS Thomas only recently after reading Art & Soul. A Welsh poet and Anglican minister, Thomas was considered to be a man of contradictions. I think this description is given in the present with a bit of bewilderment, though I suspect it should be received as a compliment, the most [...]

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