Tom Sutcliffe reviews Mozart’s Idomeneo and calls for radical change in the world of British opera An hour’s drive south of Toulouse in the Ariège northern mountains of the Pyrenees, the Niaux cave contains a series of animal paintings from [...]
Christmas Cards Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House Readers will now be writing or receiving Christmas cards. This is a task that can be time-consuming and sometimes expensive but it is one that I particularly look forward [...]
Stewards of mysteries and the master touch Arthur Middleton Who would be a Priest? It was the title of a pamphlet published in 1953 by SPCK. It opens with a priest in hospital recovering from an operation. Sunday morning had [...]
Arthur Middleton on the divine institution of bishops Apostles or apostolic delegates in the New Testament and their successors in the bishops in the subsequent history of the Church is one way of exercising the divine authority committed to the [...]
J. Alan Smith considers the description of angels in the Summa Theologiae of St Thomas Aquinas In his books, The Physics of Christmas: From the Aerodynamics of Reindeer to the Thermodynamics of Turkey and Can Reindeer Fly?, Roger Highfield considers [...]
Peter Mullen on the importance of fundamental belief in the doctrines of Christianity What does it mean to believe the doctrines of Christianity, the articles of the Creed, the story of our redemption as told in the Bible and the [...]
CONSTABLE The Making of a Master Victoria and Albert Museum 20 September 2014–11 January 2015 Admission £14, concessions available This show is about how Constable mixed his innovative direct observation of nature with the great tradition of landscape painting. It [...]
Julian Browning reflects on the Prologue to St John’s Gospel and the presence of God in our lives At Christmas God comes to stay. God lives with us again, in a personal, straightforward way, as natural and as wonderful as [...]
Deep into southern Warwickshire, Warmington’s ironstone church is on the edge of a hill overlooking the village – Edgehill, in fact. It is another hilltop church dedicated in honour of St Michael. Its core is 12th century but most of [...]
Bishop’s Representative Paul Benfield outlines his work so far, and explains the process for dealing with complaints (continues on page 26) was appointed as Bishop’s Representative for Blackburn and Carlisle Dioceses by the Bishop of Beverley, and Fr Philip North [...]