The majestic mundane

Marilynne Robinson’s newly-published Lila compels us to look afresh at the commonplace.

Crossing the Culture Angeline Liles

‘The world is charged with the grandeur of God’, Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote. In those rare, clear moments when our eyes are unveiled, we might sometimes have a sense of this grandeur. We know it best when we behold a mountainscape or sunset, a new-born baby or a perfectly formed rose. The psalms are brimfull of wonder at the beauty of creation, and return to God praises for making it so.