by Jonni Turner | Feb 28, 2021 | Quest & Journey
This earthly journey of mine takes a metaphorical measure from land and sea. It isn’t marked by day and night, but is always visible to the inner eye. If I look back over it from the perspective of decades though, it is striped by shadow and light. The light bands are...
by Jonni Turner | Jul 31, 2020 | Holy Words
Are you one of those blessed by the mystical? Perhaps you believe it’s beyond you or that it doesn’t exist at all. Mystical experience, or the sudden awareness of God’s presence, is a common phenomenon in the lives of human beings. Yet it’s almost completely missing...
by Jonni Turner | Oct 31, 2019 | Holy Words
When it comes to working or creating, I am a planner, a plodder, and too often a procrastinator. As a writer and radio producer with deadlines to meet, I could cut to the chase when necessary, but it wasn’t my preferred way of doing things. What happens, though, when...
by Jonni Turner | Sep 30, 2019 | Quest & Journey
September’s passing at this northern latitude is like a road followed east at sunset. Light is in the rear-view mirror, and where you are going there is only darkness. With small, sharp surprises the air brings unexpected hints of the cold to come. If you experience...
by Jonni Turner | Aug 31, 2019 | Arts & Letters
It may seem strange at the end of a long, hot, febrile summer to call to mind a piece of music from a chillier season half a year away. Written in the Middle Ages and traditionally sung in spring, the Hymn of Kassia is heard in public once in the church calendar,...
