Nicholas Stebbing remembers this St Francis-like character, a great champion of the African poor Arthur Shearly Cripps is now not much known outside Zimbabwe, alhough his work was published and read in England where he numbered Charles Gore and Laurence [...]
Anne George witnesses an unusual transaction The beginning of a school year at an international school in Jerusalem is a bit untidy. Putting aside the general problem of returning to a very different student population than that of the previous [...]
Nigel Aston discusses the historical singificance of the non-jurors While Christians worldwide this year commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, it would be unfortunate if 2017 passed without recalling the 300th anniversary of an event that would prove devastating [...]
Edward Dowler offers some advice for resisting the ‘hyper-statistical mindset’ of our times During the course of my ministry, one of the things that I have been privileged to do is to be a school governor on two separate occasions. [...]
Saul approves of stoning. Crazed Hellenistic widows champion Stephen, received justice orthodox style after angering revered members of the Sanhedrin with a blasphemous tirade disputing the word of Moses himself. The deluded Stephen, a recent convert to the Christian cult, [...]
Paul Jones offers a different style of Bible Study A buzzword in the contemporary study of scripture is ‘Contextual Bible Study.’ This is where groups experience the word of God within their own context and community and are then challenged [...]
Thurifer recalls heady days, and goes to see the Queen Although the sweltering heat-wave of mid-June had abated, cooling zephyrs did not penetrate the walls of St Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, on the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of [...]
Audubon spills the beans Such is the power of advertising that, if asked to picture a tin of beans, what probably comes to mind is that green can with the white lettering. I obviously shan’t be giving them any more [...]
Tom Sutcliffe on truth in an age of revisionism I recently found myself having an argument on Facebook with my wife’s publisher about gender differences. Like me, he is now in his seventies, and he was maintaining almost as an [...]
Art Canaletto and the art of Venice Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, until 12th November, 2017 Timing is all when you buy contemporary art. The American Robber Barons had the good fortune to be at their height when the Impressionists’ paint [...]