Archive - The Lays of Language

The Silence of the Sea

Prayer as Soul-Forming in Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Jun 24 •

God, the Artificer and Poet

Is God an artificer or a poet?

Jun 3 •

May 2025

The Balance of Beauty and Truth

The Real and the Ideal through the Lens of Art

May 10 •

April 2025

O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

A Brief Good Friday Reflection

Apr 18 •

A Life Lived Sacramentally

Believing in and Being Aware of God in All Things

Apr 15 •

A Crown That Forever Flowers

A Reflection on John Donne's La Corona

Apr 9 •

A Sonnet of Awakening

Apr 1 •

March 2025

A Reflection on Loss

It has been almost three years since the death of my mother.

Mar 25 •

Of That Eternal Language

How Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight" teaches us to find God in all things.

Mar 22 •

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