Questions Answered
Jack Allen answers your theological queries Our very first ever question comes from Tim in Rutland, who asks ‘It says in Genesis that the Garden of Eden had plants that were good to eat, as well as look at. And [...]
October Diary
Thurifer considers private lives “Very flat, Norfolk.” Driving through the fenland of North Norfolk do not miss The Walpoles, villages between King’s Lynn and Peterborough. Especially see Walpole St Peter. For once a popular soubriquet is correct; the Cathedral [...]
Ghostly Counsel
A time for fasting? Andy Hawes One thing I learned from the excellent Prayer Book Society Conference talks (available online) was that the Church of England, or to be exact Parliament, did not order any national days of [...]
Views, reviews and previews
Art Young Rembrandt Ashmolean Museum, until 1st November, 2020 This show was originally due to close on the 7th June. Thanks to covid-19 it will now close at the beginning of November. It is an unusually demanding show, [...]
The way we live now
Christopher Smith is social-distancing on Venus Just when I thought that 2020 had given all the hilarity it could possibly offer, I found my eye drawn to a headline declaring, ‘Signs of alien life detected on Venus’. Ah, yes, [...]
Editorial
In a recent blogpost on the ‘All Things Lawful and Honest’, Fr Barry Orford highlighted the need for more of a focus on theological education for our clergy (and indeed our laity): ‘I am not proposing dumbing-down in ordination training. [...]
Secular Liturgies
Tom Sutcliffe on open places It is six months now since I was at a performance, a bit less since I was at a church service (which it would now be possible for me to attend - though not [...]
No Time like the Present
George Spencer offers a look at these Covid-19 times in relation to de Caussade's 'Sacrament of the Present Moment' ‘Strange’ is the adjective used by many to describe the times we are living through. Strange times, not least, for [...]
Epiclesis: Eucharistic Invocation of the Holy Spirit
John Gayford explains a central tenet of our faith When the priest in the Western Church says the words of Eucharistic invocation to the Holy Spirit, he holds his hands outstretched with palms downwards over the offering of bread [...]
In places where they sing
Peter Dutton rejoices at the return of music to our churches On 6th September, choral singing (in the form of a professional quartet) returned to S. Silas, Kentish Town. S. Silas was built in 1912, and since that time [...]