BYZANTIUM 330-1453 Royal Academy of Arts Till March, £12 Feeling rather delighted by the coincidence, I first went to this exhibition on the feast day of Saint John of Capist-rano. We should never forget how close Western Europe was, and [...]
America The Bishop of Fort Worth's address 15 November 2008 'Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.' As we all know, this 26th annual meeting of our Diocesan Convention is anything but 'business [...]
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Be sure to wear some flowers 'What better than a night out for trashy tales of sex and smut?' asks an article on the website of the Diocese of California. 'Where better to go for bawdy fare than St Mary [...]
HOLY TRINITY, STAUNTON HAROLD There is no village at Staunton Harold - just a splendid park, containing the Hall and a Gothic church. No ordinary church this; just read the inscription above the west door: 'In the yeare: 1653 When [...]
Geoffrey Kirk has been listening to Bishop Gene Robinson and finds him percipient in his understanding of the issues What would we do without Gene Robinson? He is the bellwether of the liberal agenda. Like God himself, if he did [...]
Arthur Middleton on a classical Anglican evangelical Charles Simeon (1759-1836) was renowned for his devotion to Christ, for his zeal for saving souls, for moral courage and endurance in the face of opposition and for absolute disinterestedness, self-sacrifice, and disregard [...]
Simon Bening The centrepiece of the Millennium Dome exhibition was to have been the simple figure of a mother and child. New Labour multiculturalism prohibited this, and substituted that indeterminate distortion that proved such an apt symbol of the whole [...]
In this season of Advent we may ask of whom the Psalms speak Patrick Henry Reardon is a Senior Editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity If a person attends to the thematic content of the Psalms, he can [...]
The naming and circumcision of Jesus Tony Gelston During the days between Christmas and Epiphany there is a festival of Our Lord which is not as widely observed as it ought to be. Its date (1 January) is fixed in [...]