Favourite hymns

Better keep this list handy. Never know when you might need it. BBC Songs of Praise poll.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3DnJQz7zsF1JrB3rZ8yQ86w/the-uks-top-100-hymns

Stewardship of creation

The theology of environmental stewardship

A great resource here

https://www.webofcreation.org/archive-of-resources/505-stewardship-of-creation

Reading Augustine

Fascinating looking series of books from Bloomsbury

Reading Augustine

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/reading-augustine/

New heavens, new earth

Prof NT Wright on Romans 8, 18-25

Towards a Christian theology of the stewardship of creation. 

Tom doesn't quite go all the way here but he uncovers the path.

Very helpful

http://operationnoah.org/resources/bible-study-creation-renewed-patient-hope/

New words needed

George Monbiot's glossary for the environmental debate

Be careful with your language

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/09/forget-the-environment-new-words-lifes-wonders-language

The precariat - A follow up

More from Great Transition

What or who exactly is the precariat? 

Is it just a "North" or a "Middle class" thing?

Answer: No

https://greattransition.org/roundtable/precariat-author-response

Another Advent Litany

A threefold, trinitarian form of response from the Sisters of the Church

Useful. I used some of these responses on Advent Sunday 2018

http://sistersofthechurch.org/poetry-prayers/litany-for-advent

Advent Litany - O Antiphons

A shorter form of O Antiphon responses from Dave Beswick

Useful for services in Advent

https://re-worship.blogspot.com/2011/11/advent-litany.html?m=1

A Litany. Prayer for Advent

Fransiscan. O Antiphon responses.

Get to know your O Antiphons

Remember 'O Come, O Come Emmanuel'?

https://datinggod.org/2011/12/02/a-litany-and-prayer-for-advent/

So far so good. Ursula Le Guin

Poetry review

Ursula Le Guin is always worth our attention. 

'So far, so good' is her last book 

Excellent review

http://portlandreview.org/review-of-so-far-so-good-ursula-k-le-guins-lasting-meditative-landscape/

Words of caution from Jesus himself

Cleaning the house is not sufficient in itself. 

You need to choose your new tenant wisely.

Swept out the house? 

Nice and clean and tidy? 

Spick and span? 

Empty? 

Mmm. 

Better watch out

(Wasn't that in Ghost-busters?)

http://blog.adw.org/2015/03/how-can-a-demon-driven-out-return-with-seven-more-a-meditation-on-a-puzzling-parable-of-jesus/

Be careful

Sage advice from F Nietzsche on exorcising your demons. 

Discernment required.

Nietzche?

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/33044-be-careful-lest-in-casting-out-your-demon-you-exorcise

It's that time of the year

Exorcising your demons

Sort of a bit iffy perhaps but has a valid central point: we all have our own personal demons

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6887904

Landscapism blog

Interesting stuff here on the history of the Welsh borderlands - or should that be English borderlands

https://landscapism.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-topographical-legacy-of-medieval.html?spref=tw&m=1

The Precariat - time to fly

Social and economic transformation needed

Essay

https://greattransition.org/publication/precariat-transformative-class

The Summer Day - Mary Oliver

https://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/133.html

Poetry anthologies

Ten best anthologies: National poetry day 2018
@guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/03/top-10-poetry-anthologies?CMP=share_btn_tw

Rain

This is a morning of wild wind
and chasing cloud. We had
rain in the night. I believe
there was thunder. The whole

world seems alive after
weeks of beating sun and heat.
Even the train horn from
the line behind the houses

sounds like it's celebrating.
Plants whip back and forth: such
exuberance among the buddleias!
Today perhaps we can breathe

and go about our business
like normal human beings.