I have been working with and exploring texts for 20 years. My PhD work is in Pauline ethics and war – I’m captivated by the poetic force of Scripture, but I wasn’t always. I was a war reporter back in Afghanistan, a war that I also served in. And so I’ve read as much of Michael Herr [Dispatches] as I have Seamus Heaney or Song of Solomon. Thanks to Malcolm Guite for helping me past war poetry …
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