Fire and Brimstone in the Scottish Highlands
In late autumn, before we brought in our geraniums for the winter, my wife and I took the night train...
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Big Potatoes, Small Patch #goodfriday
Potatoes should be planted on Good Friday? That’s what they say. But that’s not all they say: they also say...
Armistice Day In Abney Park Cemetery
from the desk of the Hackney Preacher Grief needs ritual acts of public commemoration where our painful memories are shared...
Saint Jude’s Day, An “Act of God”
While the preacher’s parish was still turning in its sleep, Jude was whipping up a storm: scudding tiles, skyborne...
Russell Miller, Tree Musketeer
A reading from the prophet Isaiah But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as...