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And so to rest
Posted by Simon Parke, 25 Feb 2020
i’m taking a blogging rest for lent
sometimes there’s just nothing to do, nothing to say, nothing to achieve
sometimes there’s no one to please, no standard to meet, no future to make
there’s only rest and rest’s mercy…
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Jean Vanier, a fall from grace
Posted by Simon Parke, 24 Feb 2020
Vanier was a giant of a man, physically and spiritually; or at least he appeared to be. Perhaps you have read his books, and know the L’Arche story.
He was a man who spoke eloquently about human dignity, especially the dignity of the disabled…and he was a fraud…
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Happy endings?
Posted by Simon Parke, 24 Feb 2020
Do happy endings exist?
There was once a young woman called Jeanette. She was taking her driving test, after failing the first time. When she passed the test, her friends and family were delighted.
‘Great news about you passing your driving test!’ they declared…
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On crime fiction and saviours
Posted by Simon Parke, 18 Feb 2020
Crime fiction…it inhabits the darkness.
It starts with fracture, ‘the zero hour’, as Agatha Christie called it; the chase, the fear, the scream, the killing and the cover-up.
And then into the darkness comes the detective - trying to make sense of things; trying to bring order to a disordered world.
There’s something redemptive here, something about a saviour…
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Normal crazy people
Posted by Simon Parke, 17 Feb 2020
‘Normal crazy people,’ we are sometimes called; it is a good description.
And ‘normal’ is not to be mistaken for healthy. If we are normal, it just means that we are accepting and obeying the norms around us; whatever those norms happen to be.
‘Crazy’ means we are not in control…
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Julian of Norwich, contemporary of both Chaucer and Langland, was the first woman to write a book in English. Yet remarkably, she disappeared from view for 600 years, before her rediscovery in the 20th century. My new novel is Julian’s own telling of her life.
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In the first of my Abbot Peter mysteries, in a prequel to the Abbot’s Stormhaven adventures, Peter takes us back to the monastery of St James-the-Less. There in the shadows of Mt Sinai, Abbot Peter faces a discomforting cocktail of deception, delusion and death.
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