“There are two powers in the World: one is the Sword and the other is the Pen!” Muhammad Ali Jinnah
New Direction!
I’ve recently decided to take my interests in a new direction, to focus on my academic interests and publications. I still love pens, and write with them often, and will maintain some pen information on my site, but my main focus is in the writing and publication domain.
My most recent publication is a book on the First World War chaplain, G.A. Studdert Kennedy, known to the British soldiers of the war as “Woodbine Willie.” I have a page dedicated solely to him. I was introduced to him by Dr. Stuart Bell at a conference in the United Kingdom, for which I am grateful. As a retired Navy chaplain, I could identify with Studdert Kennedy and his experiences in the war, particularly the “invisible wounds” that he carried the rest of his life, what we now know to be Moral Injury.
I also have a page devoted to Muhammad Iqbal, known as the “Spiritual Father of Pakistan.” He was the first Indian to call for a separate Muslim state, what came to be known as Pakistan. He was a poet, statesman, lawyer, and philosopher. My interest and expertise stems from the fact that I wrote my Ph.D. Dissertation on him.
I’ll also have a page for a Scottish author, Leslie Mitchell, also known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon. He wrote what’s been called the most important and popular book in Scotland, Sunset Song, the first installment in his Scot’s Quair.
I have written books on the first two, and articles on the third. Interestingly, all lived during the early Twentieth Century and were impacted by the First World War and the modernism that transformed the world after the traditional Victorian era.
New Direction!
I’ve recently decided to take my interests in a new direction, to focus on my academic interests and publications. I still love pens, and write with them often, and will maintain some pen information on my site, but my main focus is in the writing and publication domain.
My most recent publication is a book on the First World War chaplain, G.A. Studdert Kennedy, known to the British soldiers of the war as “Woodbine Willie.” I have a page dedicated solely to him. I was introduced to him by Dr. Stuart Bell at a conference in the United Kingdom, for which I am grateful. As a retired Navy chaplain, I could identify with Studdert Kennedy and his experiences in the war, particularly the “invisible wounds” that he carried the rest of his life, what we now know to be Moral Injury.
I also have a page devoted to Muhammad Iqbal, known as the “Spiritual Father of Pakistan.” He was the first Indian to call for a separate Muslim state, what came to be known as Pakistan. He was a poet, statesman, lawyer, and philosopher. My interest and expertise stems from the fact that I wrote my Ph.D. Dissertation on him.
I’ll also have a page for a Scottish author, Leslie Mitchell, also known as Lewis Grassic Gibbon. He wrote what’s been called the most important and popular book in Scotland, Sunset Song, the first installment in his Scot’s Quair.
I have written books on the first two, and articles on the third. Interestingly, all lived during the early Twentieth Century and were impacted by the First World War and the modernism that transformed the world after the traditional Victorian era.
Pico Says Hi! Our cat Pico photo-bombed my pic!! I could never have gotten him to pose like this, so the result is pure kitty luck ;)