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POEM

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening   by Robert Frost   The American poet Robert Frost (1874–1963) was something of a laureate for the nation. The US Senate passed a resolution honouring his 75th birthday: ‘His poems have helped to [...]

2023-02-15T12:49:31+00:00December 2022 Articles|

BOOKS ARTS CULTURE

Next to Nature A Lifetime in the English Countryside  Ronald Blythe John Murray 2022 ISBN‎ 9781399804677   Ronald Blythe will need no introduction for readers of the Church Times. For more than twenty years he contributed a short weekly article, [...]

2023-02-15T12:49:02+00:00December 2022 Articles|

TREASURE IN CLAY JARS

Festus   2022 has been dominated by the Christ Church saga. The millionaire Martyn Percy has left the college, cathedral and Church of England itself but still blogs furiously for anyone willing to read his pearls of wisdom. He also [...]

2023-02-15T12:47:03+00:00December 2022 Articles|

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW

Christopher Smith   It’s nearly Christmas, and, by the time you read this, carol services will be in full swing and we will once again be bellowing those familiar verses. And, whilst we would ideally save all that until Christmastide [...]

2023-02-15T12:46:39+00:00December 2022 Articles|

DECEMBER/JANUARY DIARY

Thurifer   A correspondent writes, without comment: ‘Rosemary Hill, God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain [2008] p. 113: ‘ …with that Welby family talent of which Pugin himself was not devoid, for stating the uncomfortably obvious in [...]

2023-02-15T12:45:49+00:00December 2022 Articles|

WANDERING BISHOP

Glyn Webster   I retired in January this year with two farewell masses in Manchester and York. It was wonderful to see so many people at those services, in spite of the weather and distances. Although I have to admit [...]

2023-02-15T12:45:25+00:00December 2022 Articles|
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