Daily Archives: January 21, 2020

The Ebbing

She was beginning to mislay our names And also where she came from, who she was— Her childhood inside house and orchard walls, The fruit as warm as sunshine on her palm: The words that should have held the world fell back. Yet in her gestures, there was mystery And something luminous that tried to…

Tract III: The British and English Churches from 597 to the 8th Century

This entry is part 7 of 16 in the series Erlandson: Tracts for the Times 2.0

Tracts for the Times 2.0 Introduction In Tract 2, I went to great lengths to establish the incontrovertible fact that, contrary to the way the story is often told, the Church in the British Isles was planted long before 597, was relatively well-established, and was associated with but not under the rule of the Roman…