EDMUND, SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK The later Middle Ages saw the small coastal ports of East Suffolk experience a degree of relative prosperity that they would not see again until they were ‘discovered’ by London emigrés in the 1980s. Their communities [...]
A Holy Week Festival online from London A group of young musicians from the See of Fulham have drawn up exciting plans for an online celebration of Holy Week using choirs, instrumentalists and churches from across London and Southwark [...]
John Gayford on the use of incense in church The statement the use of incense has been discussed in the Anglican Church with considerably more fervour than knowledge is as true today as it was over 100 years ago. [...]
Daniel Turner on an important anniversary for the Cathedral of North London St Augustine’s Church in Kilburn has long been famed as one of the grandest monuments to Anglo-Catholic worship and one of the finest churches to be built [...]
Harri Williams remembers the faithful example of Sister Mary Teresa SSM There are many people gathered in this Church who will know far more about Sr Teresa than I will. Having met her but briefly on several pilgrimages during [...]
Thurifer realizes that not much changes A problem of public discourse, highlighted and exacerbated during the pandemic and its febrile atmosphere was that reasoned disagreement was downed out by the mindless braying of slogans and clapped-out cliché. Being offended [...]
Nathan Mulcock examines the links between chess and the Catholic Church In an imagined meeting between Vladimir Lenin and Pope S John Paul II, I suspect common ground would be in meagre supply. However, they did both share a [...]
Music Church Music New Direction’s deadlines require articles a month in advance which means that this is being written while we are in deepest lockdown. I hope it is being read in greater and healthy freedom. In lockdown [...]
Christopher Smith wants to go out for tea This is a funny Lent, isn’t it? I did rather hint to the congregation here that this year might not be the time to impose the strictest disciplines on ourselves, given [...]
Now that the roadmap out of lockdown and Covid restrictions has been announced, there is a feeling of hope in the country; a feeling that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. This was, as many commented, [...]