As usual, Bob Dylan put it best. ‘I’m a religious person,’ he recently told the New York journalist Jeff Slate. ‘I read the scriptures a lot, meditate and pray, light candles in church. I believe in damnation and salvation, as well as predestination.’
In the interview, published just before Christmas in the Wall Street Journal, Dylan went on to name-check the liturgical works he most enjoys poking his nose into these days: the Californian scholar Robert Alter’s lyrical interpretation of the Five Books of Moses, the Pauline epistles from the New Testament, and Anglo-Catholic theologian Darwell Stone’s ground-breaking 1909 meditation, Invocations...
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