Author: R. F. Ilson
R. F. Ilson, an honorary research fellow of University College London, is a poet and lexicographer with a wide range of interests.
Hallelujah! The Story of My Conversion
From time to time, people try to save my soul. I’m flattered by their interest in me (or is it interest in their own status with the Almighty?). Besides, they do tend to be awfully persistent, panting to meet me one-on-one if telephone evangelism has not worked. I want to let them down gently. I …
The Eden Two Were Innocent!
The Bible begins with the book of Genesis, in which we read that the first humans, Adam and Eve, were forbidden on pain of death to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Nevertheless, beguiled by the Serpent, they did so and were duly punished (by exile from Eden and …