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6 days ago | 
thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Joseph Epstein |Jude Russo |Paul Griffiths
In the blue afternoon the bird appeared, perched on a high roof in the capital of the world. It was a seagull, dancing in the sun. Perhaps it felt lonely, for it was soon joined by its mate and their hungry offspring. Indifferent to the cheers below them in the ruined circus and to the old men who lurked in the gilded ossuary chattering and marking bits of paper destined for oblivion, the mother spat out the corpse of a rodent, which the chick happily devoured.
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6 days ago | 
thelampmagazine.com | J. Vance |Joseph Epstein |Jude Russo |Paul Griffiths
America has finally joined the ranks of great Western civilizations and produced a pope, along with the Italians, the French, the Germans, the Greeks, the Dutch, the Jews, and, somewhat inexplicably, the Poles.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
theotherjournal.com | Kait Dugan |Paul Griffiths
Picture longing for an inaccessible, distant place. Call that longing farsickness. It is in form the same as homesickness, but it lacks the emphasis on memory. The homesick are exiles who remember somewhere they once were and would like to return to. They include Ovid at the Black Sea, Genji in Suma, and Vladimir Nabokov wandering the USA. They are nostalgic for paradise lost. They look back. The farsick differ only in being anticipatory rather than nostalgic.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
catholicoutlook.org | Paul Griffiths
Bodies without souls aren’t persons, but neither are souls without bodies. he Christian account of human death is a story of bodies and souls. Bodies are given the lives they have by their souls. Their souls are their lives, what animates them. Bodies, however, are mortal, and eventually die, resolving into corpses. When a body dies, its soul separates from it and continues to live, but now in discarnate form, without a body. Souls cannot die: they are immortal.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Paul Griffiths |Harrison Stetler |Anna Aslanyan |Amber Massie-Blomfield
Fantasy, folly and frolic: those tutelary deities of Offenbach’s operettas did not quit the scene when he turned to the heavier material of The Tales of Hoffmann. They stuck around to oversee atmospheres of irony and unlikelihood, as well as the occasional romping tune. Productions tend to make physical room for all these in the background, in crazy sets and choral shenanigans.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Baumann |Alejandra Oliva |Alice McDermott |Paul Griffiths
The Christian account of human death is a story of bodies and souls. Bodies are given the lives they have by their souls. Their souls are their lives, what animates them. Bodies, however, are mortal, and eventually die, resolving into corpses. When a body dies, its soul separates from it and continues to live, but now in discarnate form, without a body. Souls cannot die: they are immortal.
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Sep 4, 2024 | 
golwg.360.cymru | Paul Griffiths
Yn dilyn yr helynt yn Steddfod Pontypridd, mae cystadleuaeth Y Fedal Ddrama yn cael enw newydd a’r meini prawf yn cael eu haltro hefyd. Ac mae’r dramodydd Paul Griffiths yn amau gwerth y newid…Allwch chi ddadlau fod beirniaid Y Fedal Ddrama wedi gwobrwyo’n fwriadol y llais newydd amlwg yn hytrach na’r hen brofiadol gadarn eleni.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Griffiths |Peter Quinn |Alexander Stern |George Scialabba
At almost every moment of the Mass there is vocalization. Someone, or everyone, speaks or sings. There may be a few moments of silence, or of music without words. But mostly, the air vibrates with words, and those vibrations are heard. Sometimes they’re also listened to. Most of the words spoken or sung at Mass are also present in written form—in hymnals, missals, lectionaries, Bibles, and bulletins.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
golwg.360.cymru | Paul Griffiths
Dramodydd a beirniad yw Paul Griffiths, sydd wedi gweithio yn y diwydiant theatr a theledu ers dros 30 mlynedd. Enillodd Fedal Ddrama Eisteddfod Genedlaethol yr Urdd dair gwaith yn olynol, rhwng 1995 a 1997. Daeth hefyd yn ail am Fedal Ddrama’r Eisteddfod Genedlaethol ym Môn yn 1999. Mae’n gyn-feirniad yn y Genedlaethol a’r Urdd, yn gyn-adolygydd theatr i’r Cymro, ac wedi gweld dros 1,200 o gynyrchiadau theatr hyd yma. Mae’n byw ac yn gweithio yn Llundain ers dros dwy flynedd ar bymtheg.
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May 22, 2024 | 
dentistry.co.uk | Paul Griffiths
Specialist financial adviser Paul Griffiths, for Wesleyan Financial Services, highlights why it is so important for dentists to think about replacing their sickness benefits. I am often contacted by clients for support and guidance surrounding NHS employment benefits. Over the years it has become apparent to me during reviews and during general conversation with dentists that there is a lack of awareness regarding the NHS basket of benefits.
