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A new-materialist meditation woven around four poems by Lucretius, A. R. Ammons, Joseph Blanco White, and Mary Oliver—‘It is only enough to touch the inner light of each surrounding thing and hope it will itself be stirred to radiance’

Staying Alert in the company of Lucretius on Fen Ditton Meadows

Revisiting Sacred Economics: “We've all been given a gift, a gift of life. What we do with our lives is our gift back.”

Weekend greetings from the minister . . . and a few thoughts about two types of clapping

Weekly greetings and a piece from the archive: The quiet opening—“To be that porous, to have such largeness pass through me”—A meditation on what the coming liberal religion might feel like

Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure”—letting ‘fellow suffering’ go and encouraging ‘fellow rejoicing’

For the good of all let’s cancel our subscription to the resurrection—A reflection for the Easter Weekend of 2020

The eerie (but not weird) nature of my daily ‘lockdown’ walk