Touching place
S MARY, WESTON ZOYLAND, SOMERSET Being Somerset, Weston Zoyland has one of those splendid Perp. towers with niches for statues of saints and pierced stone in the windows. Built of steel-blue lias, this one is a bit taller than [...]
S MARY, WESTON ZOYLAND, SOMERSET Being Somerset, Weston Zoyland has one of those splendid Perp. towers with niches for statues of saints and pierced stone in the windows. Built of steel-blue lias, this one is a bit taller than [...]
Arthur Middleton on the signs of identity crisis The Loss of Root and Idiom A creeping Anglican identity crisis has been evident in various ways for some time.In 1949 Henry McAdoo(1 H. R. McAdoo, The Structuzre of Caroline Moral [...]
Eleanor Relle on Mrs Scudamore and the Green Altar Cloth Knitting, sewing and the care of textiles were the element – or one of the elements - in which Frances Scudamore lived and moved, and this diary entry of [...]
Jack Allen answers your theological queries Our very first ever question comes from Tim in Rutland, who asks ‘It says in Genesis that the Garden of Eden had plants that were good to eat, as well as look at. And [...]
Thurifer considers private lives “Very flat, Norfolk.” Driving through the fenland of North Norfolk do not miss The Walpoles, villages between King’s Lynn and Peterborough. Especially see Walpole St Peter. For once a popular soubriquet is correct; the Cathedral [...]
A time for fasting? Andy Hawes One thing I learned from the excellent Prayer Book Society Conference talks (available online) was that the Church of England, or to be exact Parliament, did not order any national days of [...]
Art Young Rembrandt Ashmolean Museum, until 1st November, 2020 This show was originally due to close on the 7th June. Thanks to covid-19 it will now close at the beginning of November. It is an unusually demanding show, [...]
Christopher Smith is social-distancing on Venus Just when I thought that 2020 had given all the hilarity it could possibly offer, I found my eye drawn to a headline declaring, ‘Signs of alien life detected on Venus’. Ah, yes, [...]
In a recent blogpost on the ‘All Things Lawful and Honest’, Fr Barry Orford highlighted the need for more of a focus on theological education for our clergy (and indeed our laity): ‘I am not proposing dumbing-down in ordination training. [...]
Tom Sutcliffe on open places It is six months now since I was at a performance, a bit less since I was at a church service (which it would now be possible for me to attend - though not [...]