Andy Hawes Spiritual imagination ‘He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.’ The imagination is perhaps the most distinctive and powerful aspect of the human psyche. Humanity, created as an image of God out of [...]
For Andrew Gray, the solution to homelessness is within our reach In a world of bad news, it is easy to forget that good can emerge from evil. In 2015, on my way to Mass one Sunday, I came [...]
S JOHN BAPTIST, TIDESWELL, DERBYSHIRE Tideswell is the sort of large village that would once have had the status of a small town. To get there you traverse some splendid parts of the Peak District, and are greeted by [...]
The Annunciation Edwin Muir The angel and the girl are met. Earth was the only meeting place. For the embodied never yet Travelled beyond the shore of space. The eternal spirits in freedom go. See, they have come [...]
William Allen visits an exhibition of Polish aesthetics at the house of William Morris Młoda Polska! Such has London’s William Morris Gallery lately proclaimed, in an unexpected new collaboration with Krakow’s National Museum; thus have they championed all that [...]
ON THE CUSP: DAYS OF ’62 David Kynaston Bloomsbury, 2021 £18.99 239pp, ISBN 978-1-5266-3201 Life is a series of forgotten moments. Not if you are the historian David Kynaston in this the fourth instalment of his history of post-war [...]
Festus Martyn Percy appears in this column, then does a deal with Christ Church, Oxford. The claims have been settled and he will leave his £90,000-a-year role with a reported payoff of at least £1.5m, which is quite a [...]
Christopher Smith Lent is upon us again, and we can sing ‘forty days and forty nights’ publically and lustily now, after the silence of last year. And we can be together again for a Lent course, or meet in [...]
Thurifer Marina Frolova-Walker is a Cambridge Don and musicologist. She frequently can be heard on Radio 3, notably on Saturday mornings reviewing new releases or contributing to Building a Library on CD Review. She is also currently Professor of [...]
Robert Ladds Church of the Holy Trinity, Hempton. An intimate, mystical and little known church in North Norfolk. Pevsner refers to two lost medieval churches in the parish, but Holy Trinity is redolent of its Tractarian origin in architecture [...]