The Hearth of Mopsus

"Gothic Isn't Just the Spiky Bits on Churches"

Monday, 27 April 2026

Misery Loves

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For every expression of Christianity that gives the impression believers ought to be bouncily cheerful at al times and anything else implies...
Tuesday, 21 April 2026

A Matter of Time

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The new-ish contemplative service on the third Sunday evening in the month was over. I've been trying this since September: there are ve...
Thursday, 16 April 2026

Cyfarthfa Castle Museum

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Raven (who used to be Cylene, keep up) now lives considerably up the Rhondda Valley and so I don't see them very often. Yet it's sur...
Thursday, 9 April 2026

Smaller Than You Thought

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In fact all the Easter services went rather well apart from a confusion about hymn numbers on Sunday ('I feel like a bingo caller', ...
Saturday, 4 April 2026

Near the Finish Line

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'Everywhere the glint of brass', as Howard Carter didn't say. Brass polishing is a Holy Week job which is not my province alone ...
Thursday, 2 April 2026

Holy Week Weary

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Holy Week at Swanvale Halt wouldn't happen without lots of people doing and arranging things, and discussions with colleagues makes the ...
Friday, 27 March 2026

Disappearing Act

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Over the months since it came out, I was the very least important person pouring scepticism on last year's Bible Society report 'The...
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I realised I actually enjoyed reading my friends' blogs, and so have made my own, with an oblique nod to 4th-century theologian Theodore of Mopsuestia. Christian and Gothic matters will probably predominate. Names are changed to protect the furtive.
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