Word: pastorale
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In the press, it’s a battle cast as the ever-present clash between one individual’s free exercise of religion, guaranteed by the First Amendment, and the separation of church and state. Last week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Locke v. Davey to...
Revell’s style is often pastoral; reflection on his desert surroundings dominates My Mojave. His reverent descriptions recall Henry David Thoreau, whom he reads every morning. But while Thoreau influences the content of his poetry, the innovative structure of his work is drawn from another source of inspiration...
But if his insistence on theological conformity inside the church was absolute, his warmth and generosity in reaching out to Christians outside the Catholic communion and to other faiths was without precedent. John Paul II will be remembered as much for his doctrinaire enforcement as for his ecumenical outreach - and...
The brutality of World War I appalled most who were caught up in it. One British volunteer was Paul Nash, a young painter who before the conflict produced gentle, wispy landscapes that recalled English visionaries like Samuel Palmer. After his appointment as an official war artist, though, Nash abandoned pastoral...
I do remember. My parents were members of the KBGC in the 1970s. The gardener's house with its pitched roof and two windows and the well in front of it (a real well, with a bucket on a rope) seemed as pastoral as an illustration from a Brothers Grimm...