Charles Card-Reynolds explores Black Portraits In her kalendar of saints the Church of England commemorates on 30 July Olaudah Equiano (1745-97) as an anti-slavery campaigner with the collect: God our deliverer, who sent your Son Jesus Christ to set your [...]
From Fr Michael Blackman Sir, I found it ironic that you mentioned the treatment meted out to BAME people and the Windrush generation in your editorial (July/August edition) as you extolled the virtue of hope in response to the challenges [...]
art Andy Warhol Tate until 15th November, 2020 Covid-19 makes a fool of writing to deadlines. With any luck by the time you’re reading this museums and galleries won’t have been closed by the ‘Second Spike.’ If that’s so, go [...]
Christopher Smith is fed up with the politics of fear The last time I put pen to paper to write this column was in mid June, when it was still illegal for you to go to mass. We missed all [...]
We are grateful to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for putting into place provision for the consecration of bishops in order that all might flourish in the Church of England. As they acknowledged in their statement: “These new arrangements [...]
Stephen Wilson continues his considerations of Theology and the Art of the Possible We saw in Part I (New Directions June 2020) how the philosopher Gilbert Ryle identified a whole class of expressions (such as working, playing, or farming) as [...]
Spiritual Exercise Andy Hawes Readers can take comfort from the fact that although the ‘lockdown’ ended for golf courses before churches at least churches seemed to higher up the league table than gyms and spas. Never having been in a [...]
William Davage considers the adage that “the past is another country: they do things differently there.” In retrospect, amidst the pandemic and its tragic consequences for so many, two instances may have been defining. One, which may have seemed at [...]
Paul Bagott remembers Father Bill Scott “but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.” Chapter Fifteen of St John’s Gospel is an extraordinary passage which would [...]
Tom Sutcliffe considers the plight of Sheffield Cathedral Choir In 1983 when Meredith and I moved with our children and her mother to Streatham, the new vicar of St Peter’s, Leigham Court Road had just sacked the organist and choirmaster. [...]