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Lament

“Make a way” … for sorrow and hope

This album will catch your tears even as it catches your breath. It will give voice to your lament, hold you in its beauty, and gently, ever so gently, make a way in and through the sorrow.

by Brian Walsh

“Keening for the Dawn” … again

(further Advent reflections on Steve Bell’s title cut from his new album, Keening for the Dawn: Christmastide) by Brian Walsh I’m still struck by the keening.

by Brian Walsh

What Michael Ignatieff Should Have Said

by Brian Walsh Political discourse is almost never humble and gracious.

by Brian Walsh

Lament with a Purpose

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie And laments have a purpose, and laments have a cost A requiem playing that gathers the lost It sometimes tastes sour, this sweetness of hope When the blizzards are raging on this lovers slope Yet I don’t want to freeze, inside or out For it’s you that dissolves the cold walls of doubt – Martyn Joseph, “Turn Me Tender” from the album Deep Blue Tonight is a night for laments.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

A Christmas Lament

by Brian J. Walsh I know, I know, Christmas is all about good feelings, family, magnaminity towards the less fortunate, etc.,

by Brian Walsh

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