Christopher Smith   Lent is upon us again, and we can sing ‘forty days and forty nights’ publically and lustily now, after the silence of last year. And we can be together again for a Lent course, or meet in [...]

Thurifer   Marina Frolova-Walker is a Cambridge Don and musicologist. She frequently can be heard on Radio 3, notably on Saturday mornings reviewing new releases or contributing to Building a Library on CD Review. She is also currently Professor of [...]

Robert Ladds   Church of the Holy Trinity, Hempton. An intimate, mystical and little known church in North Norfolk. Pevsner refers to two lost medieval churches in the parish, but Holy Trinity is redolent of its Tractarian origin in architecture [...]

Adam Gaunt recounts his brickie moment at Cleveland’s ironstone mining museum   As a parish priest I have often found myself called upon to undertake all manner of tasks which I could never have envisioned or prepared for, and on [...]

John Gayford looks at how the Stations of the Cross help us to enter with devotion into the  sufferings of Our Lord   Early Christians of the first century went on Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, visited Jerusalem and followed [...]

being celebrated by Society bishops   Bishop of Wakefield - 11.30am on Wednesday 6 April at Lichfield  Cathedral - 6pm on Sunday 10 April at S. Peter, Horbury - 7pm on Tuesday 12 April at S. Aidan,  Sunderland - 12pm [...]

For March, Martin Draper selects two religious community texts: ‘Enter our hearts, O holy Lord’ and ‘With joy and by the Spirit led’   The English Hymnal, was not the first hymn book to contain translations of the ancient Latin [...]

Nigel Aston makes an impassioned plea for Catholics in the countryside   Catholic mission and ministry initiatives tend to be found in urban centres, often places of deprivation, hardship, and poverty, places where our movement has ministered since it came [...]

John-Francis Friendship introduces his new book exploring the wisdom offered to the world by the Religious Life as it has been lived, and in particular by Anglicans   ‘When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek [...]

Jonathan Baker maps temple theology by way of the Uxbridge Road   When this parish was first established in 1872, it would have been one of a number created in response to the rapid urbanisation of this part of London [...]