Van Gogh’s Ear V - RS Thomas, the Clint Eastwood of the Spirit
3:AM Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
RS Thomas was many things but a barrel of laughs was not one of them. An ordained Anglican priest, he tended to parishes in the dark interior and storm-lashed peninsulas of Wales. He was fond of bird-watching, much less so of human beings. He was an unapologetic Luddite, banning electrical appliances from his home and delivering rambling diatribes from his pulpit against such things as televisions,...






