Making Wagnerian converts Tom Sutcliffe on Simon Callow’s model exposition In his new and marvellously engaging one-man show about Wagner at the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio, Simon Callow does not really have to act at all. He is a [...]
Arthur Middleton offers extracts from Newman’s letters regarding the Oxford Movement From a letter to John Bowden, a close friend of Newman from undergraduate days, and a lay supporter of the Oxford Movement, 31 August 1833 As to the state [...]
Remembrance Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House ‘Remember’ is a frequent command in Scripture. The people of Israel were commanded to remember that ‘you were once slaves in Egypt’ and to remember too that with ‘an outstretched [...]
John Twisleton reports on a week in Israel with a Greek mystic and 750 of Catholic tradition Eddie Hughes from Shepherds Bush was saying grace when he got utterly zapped by the love of God. To say grace on his [...]
Alice Christofi offers memories of the Anglican World Youth Encounter World Youth Day is an international gathering of young people, held every few years, aiming to draw people together from across borders, uniting hearts and minds in Christ. This summer [...]
CLUB TO CATWALK London Fashion in the 1980s Victoria and Albert Museum 10 July 2013–14 February 2014 Admission £5 OCTOBER IS the cruellest month for the exhibition reviewer. Copy is submitted by the 5th of the previous month and many [...]
The hills in August fall behind the stars And late light lightens nothing in the north coast village. Morning comes at last with fresh oranges And an agile clarinet K.581 The breakfast garden prepared but the clients delay; Starched white [...]
When warfare stalked the land, a fortified church offered security, as a troop of soldiers was likely to ignore it in search of easier pickings elsewhere. You can find fortified churches throughout France, with one fine cluster surrounding the city [...]
Nicolas Stebbing CR considers the future of religious life Our modern Catholic movement in the Anglican Church is reckoned to have begun in the early 1830s. As a direct response to that in the 1840s women began to form themselves [...]
The Warden of Ascot Priory, Paul McLaren-Cook, reflects on the history of the Priory and its continued service to the Church Set in in 40 acres of beautiful woodland and gardens Ascot Priory is one of the little known gems [...]