Tag Archives: #GunstoGrace

Stock

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Rosalind C Hughes

The tree had never dreamt to kill; that stuff, it thought, was for the birds,although it knew it, too, had grown rich on the sinew and marrow left at its feet by the hawks and the owls. Still, if anyone had thought to … Continue reading →

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Anglican rosary for the victims of gun violence

Posted on November 8, 2023 by Rosalind C Hughes

A rosary (Anglican prayer beads) for the victims of gun violence, using a rosary with beads and cross made from rifle stock wood and gun barrel metal. Continue reading →

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Radical

Posted on June 11, 2023 by Rosalind C Hughes

Yesterday morning, when the sun rose, this was a shotgun barrel, designed for hunting, for ending life. By lunchtime, it had become a garden tool, forged in fire and hammered out by my talented husband, designed to dig into the earth that God has made, out of which God formed the plants and the trees, out of which God crafted humanity, and breathed into it the spark of life. Radical transformation: a tool designed to kill had been converted into a tool to grow new life. Continue reading →

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Triduum

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Rosalind C Hughes

While the dough was doing its thing, I went out to the forge, made one more cross out of gun barrels. Continue reading →

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