Thurifer My March Diary comments on the Today programme and its presenters elicited a memory from a reader. John Timpson was a ‘loyal, efficient’ churchwarden in the parish of Wellingham, with ‘a great sense of fun... He used to [...]
Peter Wheatley Eve of Sunday (July). To St Alban’s, Holborn for the Golden Wedding Celebration of Simon and Diana Jones. Fr Keith Jones’ sermon pointed out how in some marriages one partner’s personality seems to have been submerged – [...]
If only for the sake of history, William Davage argues against cancellation One of the great portrait paintings is of Juan de Pareja by Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Pareja [...]
I have been away and only just managed to read your June edition and, especially, the account of the Easter sermon by the lady Dean of Sheffield. Here, in the benighted Scottish Episcopal Church, on Pentecost Sunday, we were treated [...]
For this month’s hymn, Martin Draper offers a Michaelmas classic ‘bright with splendour’ I have an unshakeable belief in the holy angels and the feast of St Michael and All Angels is probably my favourite feast, after Trinity Sunday. [...]
John Gayford reflects on Archangels as God’s Chief Messengers of Love Archangels are angels of the highest rank or chief angels. The Ancient Jews before they were taken into Babylonian captivity had the concept of angels. This was enhanced [...]
Peter Yates CSWG reflects on myths about the religious life ‘Why on earth would anyone do that?’ (i.e. consider religious life)… How strangely and oddly does religious life come across to us, and not least in its visible appearance, [...]
The third Pusey House Theological Conference was a great success, writes Guy Willis Walking along St Giles on an early July afternoon, I felt like an English tourist abroad who had unwisely chosen the heat of the day to [...]
Nicolas Stebbing CR makes an appeal on behalf of Tariro in Zimbabwe In the troubles we experience here in England today it is easy to forget that people in other parts of the world have a far worse time [...]
Steven Haws celebrates the life of the Community of the Resurrection, founded in 1892 Readers of New Directions will not recognise the illustration showing the Chapel of the Resurrection of Pusey House, Oxford. Long before Temple Moore’s design for [...]