Change and Rest: A Reflection on the Work of Edmun Spenser
In 2019 and 2020 I had the privilege of having a teaching position at the University of Warwick, where despite my academic work being in Maths I was able to work with people from many…
Author: Fellowship & Fairydust
Inspiring faith and creativity & exploring the arts through a spiritual lens
At the Light’s Edge
“I figured it was going to do something like this,” Benny muttered under his breath as he huddled next to a brick wall, trying to get under the eaves of the building as much as…
Maid of Orleans
Set your eyes upon this torture stake As the road to sainthood she must take The great Princes of both church and state Did bid her here to seal her fate To kill the life…
Men Without Piety: A Study of Chivalry in David Lowery’s The Green Knight
“The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall,…
Small Transformations Everywhere
Everywhere are Changes I mean of the transformational kind Dandelion into clock Or Romantic blackbirds Into parents Or mourners Bare tree into blossoming Cherry Into shedder of display Into bursting with Fruit beginnings Daffodils into…
Ipswich, Willesden and Walsingham: Three Marian Shrines in Sixteenth Century England
Everyone likes a mystery. The story I am going to tell has elements of a good detective story: statues revered for centuries, royal agents bent on destruction of images, traditionalists trying to preserve sacred objects…
Jack in the Green on a Beltane Morning
“Have you seen the Jack in the Green?” asked the English Rock Band Jethro Tull in their 1977 album Songs from the Wood. Yes, I have. I’ve seen him in numerous guises, as art, as…
Springtime Gallows
"Come with me," came the call which hit my ears but ne'er to stall the last of my departure. The open door, the windows past through the yard to home at last and blessed gates…
A Willing Victim: Easter in Narnia and Middle Earth
Although the reader may be more familiar with Christmas in Narnia, in relation to Christian festivals in C. S. Lewis’s fantasy, Easter may resonate more when exploring Christian themes. The same is also true of…
Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?: A Review of “The Spear” by Louis DeWhol
One of the best ways to visit the reality of biblical truth is through biblical fiction. To take the reality of the historicity of the bible and add wonderous speculation about how events turned out…