William Allen sees secular chaplains as a call to Christian soldiers Christian proselytism is by its nature a tricky business—and, it seems, is yet to grow trickier. Catholic Christians, indeed, may have cause of concern or anxiety, that the [...]
ALL SAINTS, ILE BREWERS, SOMERSET It is far from the Somerset norm; there is nothing else in Somerset like this church with a striking S porch tower and short octagonal spire. Given the clergyman who inspired it, that is [...]
Arthur Middleton on Holiness Bishop Paget, formerly of Oxford said: Surely, there is no power in the world so unerring or irrepressible as the power of personal holiness. All else goes wrong, blunders, loses proportion, falls disastrously short [...]
Andy Hawes God of the Harvest I do hope readers have managed to enjoy celebrating a Harvest Festival. The chances are that many haven’t. Even in rural parishes, Harvest is ‘not what it was’. I notice that in [...]
Elizabeth Jennings After the heaped piles and the corn sheaves waiting To be collected, gathered into barns, After all fruits have burst their skins, the sating Season cools and turns, And then I think of something that you said [...]
Thursday 4th November, St Stephen’s, Gloucester Road The Coronavirus pandemic has given rise to many tensions in our society. One which particularly impinged on church life and practice arose around the extent to which a concern to protect others [...]
John Gayford spends time with Alcuin: Master of Charlemagne’s Palace School at Aachen; Abbot of Tours. The life of Alcuin divides neatly into three phases: his beginning at York, his post with Charlemagne and finally becoming Abbot of Tours; [...]
William Davage has been ready for his close-up Last month I wrote about the writing of two books during the sustained period of lockdown. There was one other major preoccupation during that time: filming a video. One of the [...]
Fr John Underhill SSC offers new hymns from his own pen for the Liturgy of the Hours, with suggested well-known settings Office of Readings Within the watches of the night, Dear Saviour let us keep the fight Against the [...]
Robert Beaken remembers the late Cardinal Basil Hume OSB In 1987-88 when I was an Anglican ordinand, I had the great good fortune to study as an ecumenical exchange student at the Venerable English College and Pontifical Gregorian University [...]