Jenny Sturtevant recounts an action-packed weekend During the October half term holiday in 2018, 15 young people and 5 adults made their way to Carroty Wood in Kent. Carroty Wood is part of Rock UK, a Christian organization that [...]
S MARGARET, QUADRING, LINCS The marshland of southeast Lincolnshire stretches for mile after mile, punctuated by small settlements and the occasional town. And churches. Henry Thorold once described the route from Sleaford towards Kings Lynn as a via mirabilis, [...]
Stephen Conway recalls the life of his saintly namesake It is very apt to invite a Stephen to preach on St Stephen’s Day at St Stephen’s. I have been made very welcome and I am thrilled to be here. [...]
John Twisleton provides an eye-opener on the transformative power of the eucharist Going day by day to the eucharist makes me something of a consumer, and this fact is evidenced when I arrive at church and do not get [...]
Tom Sutcliffe visits a Royal Peculiar I remember Westminster Abbey when one could go into it without paying or praying (or pretending to pray as the huge entrance fee might tempt one to do—though what about “false” or “pretended” [...]
Ann George goes for a walk in the snow The temperature had dropped suddenly during the previous evening, so I had left a bar of my tiny heater on overnight. My barrel-vaulted room had held in the heat and [...]
Thurifer goes to Mass A lacuna in the Diary last year left no opportunity for a tip of the biretta to the centenary of suffrage for women. The exigencies of the publishing deadline meant that I was unable to [...]
Tim Pike remembers Father Michael Shields CMP SSC It’s obvious, isn’t it, why the gospel account of the disciples on the road to Emmaus was chosen for Fr Michael’s funeral. Like those disciples at Emmaus, Michael loved and recognised [...]
Art Russian Royalty ‘Russia, Royalty and the Romanovs’ and ‘Roger Fenton’s Photographs of the Crimea’ are at The Queen’s Gallery until 28 April, 2019 Readers of New Directions will have enjoyed any number of good exhibitions over Christmas [...]
Christopher Smith reflects on the naming of children and the meaning of baptism I recently turned up a cutting from a 2013 copy of Private Eye, specifically from ‘Pseuds Corner,’ a ‘pseud’ being, in the jargon of that magazine, [...]