ST MARY, HOUGHTON-ON-THE HILL, NORFOLK One thousand years ago, Norfolk was one of the most populous parts of England, containing hundreds of small parishes, each with its own little church. Houghton-on-the-Hill was one of these, close by Peddar’s Way, [...]
Ann George experiences a roof-top Easter A visitor entering our school would step into the foyer of the old mission hospital, and be immediately confronted by a lectern on which there was fastened an abbreviated form of the 10 [...]
Tom Sutcliffe is grateful he is an opera critic While working for the Guardian and before getting on General Synod, I voted for Margaret Thatcher three times as Conservative leader. I mention my liking for Maggie (who was not [...]
Thurifer dances to the music of time For almost thirty years I paid an annual visit to Edinburgh for the International Festival and the ever-burgeoning Fringe. One of my traditions was to visit the Scottish National Gallery to see [...]
Matthew Fisher on the life and impact of Robert Dolling Walking through a car park in Portsmouth that leads to a shopping centre built in the 1980s offers no clues to the atmosphere experienced by Fr Robert Dolling on [...]
Jonathan Baker offers an insight into the working of the Spirit in the Church ‘The Spirit of the Lord has been given to me, for he has anointed me.’ When St Augustine wrote to St Ambrose asking him [...]
Arthur Middleton on the connection between prayer and orthodoxy On the flyleaf of a modern translation of On the Incarnation it says ‘when it looked as if all the civilized world was slipping back from Christianity into the religion [...]
From Fr Alan Cooke Some of us old ‘uns find it hard to understand how people like Andrew Sabinsky and Endre Kormos (‘The Young Tractarians’, April issue) so gladly embrace new technology while at the same time being so [...]
Art Van Gogh and Britain Tate Britain until 11 August. Booking advisable. There are three reasons to see this show. The first is to see in one place some very fine paintings which have been lent by galleries [...]
Christopher Smith finds himself in a melancholy mood this Easter Easter is upon us, and we have busied ourselves with the Holy Week liturgies and done our best to engage with the journey from the Lord’s entry into Jerusalem, [...]