Ian McCormack considers vocation   Thank you, Father, for the invitation to preach today. If I had been told, in the abstract, that I was to be given a pulpit and 30 minutes to speak—well, alright, 10 minutes—to speak about [...]

One of the satisfactory features about living in a leafy suburb (even in London) is the leaves. Our American cousins have it right when they call this season of autumn “the Fall.” Falling leaves and the turning of their colour [...]

Art   Food Bigger than the plate V&A until 20 October   Exhibitions are both a blessing and a curse for those galleries and museums which house a permanent collection. The blessing is that a successful exhibition will bring in [...]

Christopher Smith reflects on the Christian Mind   News travels slowly to my little patch without the city wall.  I have just discovered that Harry Blamires has died. Truth to tell, I was quite surprised to discover that he had [...]

It can be a little too easy sometimes for critics of the Catholic Movement to say that we are backward looking, and always harking after a time gone by; looking back to the church of the past with rose-tinted spectacles [...]

William Davage considers an extraordinary week in British politics   The morning of the prorogation of Parliament, I read these words of the prophet Habakkuk (1.3–4): ‘Outrage and violence, this is all I see, all is contention, and discord flourishes. [...]

Malcom McMahon OP explains the power of the eucharist   The eucharist: God living among his people. The eucharist is God’s reply to our human need for him by which he addresses our poverty and nothingness without him. At the [...]

Robert Ladds encourages us to slow down and look deeper   An article by Jonathan Watts, published in Tate Etc. is entitled ‘Slow Art in an Age of Speed.’ I was struck by it, for among other reasons, because at [...]

Denis Desert on Newman’s ability to use poetry to convey spiritual understanding   Matthew Arnold, the literary critic, in spite of not sharing John Henry Newman’s theological perspective, held him in considerable regard. While Arnold admired Newman from an early [...]

Steve Rice gives advice for forming a catholic parish   Based on average Sunday attendance, St Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina is one of the largest (and depending on how narrow you wish to define Anglo-Catholicism, it may [...]