The Whole Earth is One Family
An interview with the Indian poet-author and diplomat Abhay K.
‘I think it’s fundamentally a matter of faith that if we sit together and debate and discuss, we will be able to resolve our differences.’
Music and the Ineffable Divine
Catherine Coldstream contemplates the sublime nature of music
‘The gift of music comes down to us like rain or dew or inspiration, as beauty, as gratuity. It softens the heart and inclines us to listen to and nurture that love that is beyond all loves, and to accord it the highest place in our lives.’
Jung in the 21st Century
A conversation with Mark Vernon about the heritage and continuing influence of the famous psychotherapist
‘There’s always something in the divine presence that’s striving to be born. Trying to be open and receptive to what that might be matters even more than getting troubled by what is going wrong.’
Pointing Towards the Void
Farah Ahamed explores the concept of sunn kaall (the primordial void) in the music and poetry of Islam, Hinduism and Christianity
‘Through singing, the human voice becomes an entry point into the underlying mysticism of nature and universal sound. Music as a way of searching for the divine.’
Edwin Muir: The Return to Eden
Andrew Watson contemplates the life and work of the famous Orkney poet who made a journey from childhood trauma to rediscovery of faith and meaning
‘Eden represents an integrated world in which meaning is not severed from experience and one’s place is secure.’
The Mystic Ark: Notre-Dame
The distinguished poet James Harpur considers what makes places sacred and whether ‘sacredness’ requires an act of poetic imagination.
‘Craftsmen laboured to make things beautiful not just to please the mind but to raise the mind to God.’