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The art of preaching Old Testament poetry by Steven D. Mathewson
IT IS all too rare to hear a sermon based on the Hebrew Scriptures. So, any book encouraging such preaching is to be welcomed. Having tackled Old Testament narrative in a 2005 book. Steven D. Mathewson now turns to poetry.…
Celebrating the great classics of children’s literature, edited by Daniel Hahn
In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s story Le Petit Prince, “This boy who fell to Earth is not an avatar of Jesus. His view, story, and effect are, however, consonant with the Christian thread in Western culture,” says Worlds of…
A history of Britain through its geology by Jon Cannon
A BOY of 11, brought from inner London to live in Devon, saw a church on a rock and was enraptured. It was Brentor on Dartmoor: one of a string in honour of St Michael on hilltops that lead down to his Cornish Mount. The…
Along the edge of Britain by Alistair Moffat
I LIVE on the North Sea coast, in East Anglia, and am familiar with its shifting colours, from aquamarine to brown Windsor soup. The writer and historian Alistair Moffat is perched in Kelso, in the Scottish borders, within a…
Competing with joy and godliness by Graham Daniels and Jonny Reid
GRAHAM DANIELS was a professional football player with Cambridge United in the 1980s. He was also a Christian. The pastoral advice that he received at that time was either to give up his football because of the perceived or…
How it felt then, why it matters now by Jamie Camplin
TELEVISION documentaries on the Victorians return again and again to certain images that have come to define the age for the modern viewer: Turner’s Rain, Steam and Speed: The Great Western Railway, the Great Exhibition, the…
Facing our future when the signs look bad by S. J. Beard
IN 2012, a philosopher, a cosmologist, and a philanthropist established the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, in Cambridge, to work on a serious response to a question that the cosmologist had presented to humanity as…
Stained Glass Revivals, edited by Mark Kirby
WRITING in 1893, Thomas Hardy drew on his own experience as a trainee architect when composing a poem, “The Young Glass-Stainer”: “These Gothic windows, how they wear me out With cusp and foil, and nothing straight or square,…
A eulogy for Anglo-Catholics 1845-1965 by Aidan Nichols
I GREATLY enjoyed reading Aidan Nichols’s After Newman: A eulogy for Anglo-Catholics 1845-1965. But I slightly felt, like Mark Twain, that the report of my death was an exaggeration.Nichols introduces his work with…
The new Pope and Catholic reform by Christopher R. Altieri
TWENTY years ago, I faced the hard task of writing a Life of the new pope within a few months of his election. My challenge was softened by Benedict XVI’s puzzling profile. Besides being a conservative culture warrior, he had…
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