George Westhaver discusses the sacramental world and the Tractarian understanding of renewal The September edition of New Directions featured an article by Bishop Philip North entitled ‘Hope for the Poor’. The article began with a series of stories of those [...]
Arthur Middleton reflects on a Transfigured World Donald Allchin comments, By the transformation of heart, through the realisation of God’s presence there at the centre of man’s being, it becomes possible to see that ‘heaven and earth are full of [...]
Ann George attends a very Anglican service, albeit with surprises in store How far is it to Bethlehem? Not very far…. Actually, not far away at all from Jerusalem – a short ride on the coach, following an official car [...]
Nicolas Stebbing CR considers a field for mission From time to time people make sneering remarks about the grey-haired people who fill our churches, particularly our country churches and churches in run-down areas. This is unjust and disrespectful to these [...]
From the archives: Geoffrey Kirk looks at Vatican statements on the ordination of women from the 1990s The tragedy of theological liberalism is that it was bound, sooner or later, to stub its toe on dogma. That, in the matter [...]
Thurifer finds quotations from Hazlitt an appropriate expression of the 2017 political scene For fellow political junkies this has been a vintage year. As if the Referendum in 2016 and the subsequent month of high jinks had not been enough [...]
Tom Sutcliffe considers opera as museum and performance Just as a “coffee table book” is designed to be looked through and not really read, so the V&A’s great Opera exhibition (with the not very persuasive come-on subtitle Passion, Power and [...]
If you’ve found it difficult to get a copy of an out-of-print Christian classic, it might be available soon. We talk to Charles Eastwood of Pendlebury Press Every year dozens of Christian books go out of print—their demand is too [...]
Art Dalí/Duchamp Royal Academy until 3rd January, 2018 Degas from the Burrell National Gallery until 7th May, 2018 These two shows ask questions about the nature of art and what makes an innovative artist. There are [...]
Christopher Smith on the real meaning of Christmas In case you’ve forgotten, an advent calendar is a picture with numbered doors cut into it designed to help prepare children for the coming festival of Christmas. The main scene will be [...]