Tag: knee

At the name of Jesus, every knee should bow

THE Prayer Book Epistle reading for today, the Sunday before Easter, is one of the most evocative descriptions of the saving work of Jesus Christ in the New Testament. This ‘Hymn to Christ’, probably a creed or canticle already in use in the early Church, comes in the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Christians in […]

That Reminds Me: A naked woman on my knee

WHEN I started out in national newspapers 45 years ago it was still the custom not to publish on Good Friday. That left Maundy Thursday free for journalists and print workers to booze it up on an annual jolly known as the wayzgoose. This began as a treat given by a master printer to his […]