The nature of time There are important differences in the two Greek words for ‘time’ used in the New Testament Patrick Henry Reardon, senior editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity Our English word ‘time’ bears a double burden, [...]
The Holy Spirit Florence Allshorn In the city of Jerusalem, at a particular moment, as real as this moment, there was given to a group of Jews something literally from Heaven. The secret of an unearthly Power, radiant, so bursting [...]
Nuptial prayer Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House This is especially for readers who are married or may be about to marry. The sacrament of marriage creates a new way of being. The joining of a man [...]
Mary Nagel urges others to stand for election Twenty years after I first came on to General Synod and I am still willing to stand for elections again! Why? There is a sense of duty to the Catholic cause; there [...]
PICASSO The Mediterranean Years (1945–1962) Gagosian Gallery 6–24 Britannia Street, London Until 28 August Admission free IN THE achingly trendy spaces alongside Grays Inn Road there is a gallery which will be forever New York. Its ceilings are high. Its [...]
Poland More Catholics staying out of pews Church attendance is dropping in Poland for the first time in decades, according to newly released data, following a sharp fall in priestly and monastic vocations in the predominantly Roman Catholic country. ‘Looking [...]
John Turnbull celebrates an equivocal song in favour of married life from one to whom it was something of an hidden enigma Everything is ready for the wedding, the choir has been rehearsing for a week, the minister is standing [...]
Paul Griffin asks whether people are too quick to take offence at humour based on Christianity and the Bible Each age is puritanical and licentious in its own ways. In our age, there seem to be many people who pride [...]
Lead kindly light... We must not indulge our imagination, we must not dream: we must look at things as they are... we must not indulge our imagination in the view we take of the National Establishment. If, indeed, we dress [...]
Geoffrey Kirk on an earnest quest for the forgotten feminine as a theme for a Sunday morning sermon delivered as serious theology Clericus anglicanus stupor mundi, as they used to say. And certainly, in their sermons at least, the clergy [...]