Following Jesus in rejecting empire
By the end of the day Delaney has learned the names of many of the flowers that adorn the Townley Hall gardens. Despite his impatience, Mr. Byrne has taken note of the diligence with which the child works, and the great interest she has taken in the garden. “And these, in the shade,” she says,…
Experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic these last few weeks has reminded me of a section of my unpublished novel, Nocturn: The Ethiopian Orthodox. In it I describe the shift that occurs in a population as a disease moves from bubonic form, carried by fleas, to pneumonic form, carried through the air. In it the gap between…