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Researchers probe feelings of the sublime in spiritual and historical sites
RESEARCHERS at Stanford University have created “acoustic models” of some of the world’s best-known spiritual and historical sites, to explore the experience of transcendence hundreds or thousands of years ago. They include…
Czechs put faith in 3D-printed church
THE designer of a church that is being built using 3D-printing technology in the Czech Republic has spoken about the decorative and acoustic possibilities of this method of construction. “At first, our team planned to print…
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Alabama cathedral loses student to campus gunmanAN EPISCOPALIAN, Ella Cook, active at the Cathedral of the Advent, Birmingham, Alabama, in the United States, has been identified as one of the two students killed in the…
Christmas is message is that all are welcome
“YOU put your Jesus in, you put your Jesus out.” That’s the summary of Christian discourse this Advent: a painfully perennial argument about the true meaning of the season, given extra bite this year by the efforts of…
Pilgrims can return to Palestine
ON 7 OCTOBER 2023, there were 35 pilgrims at St George’s College. Instead of visiting the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem that day, I informed them that, for safety reasons, we would be staying in the Cathedral Close in…
From Dear England to The Traitors
’TIS the season to be plotting, and Westminster is alive with speculation of a coup attempt against Sir Keir Starmer. After the scandals, infighting, and languishing economy of his miserable first year, Westminster pundits…
Pope Leo knows the value of cinema
JUST before Christmas, I took up the challenge that Pope Leo laid down when talking to a group of Hollywood stars and directors that he had invited to the Vatican. Cinemas are closing, he noted, screens are going dark, and…
Nicene faith is our hope this Christmas
OUR Christmas celebrations, if we had them at all, would have been very different had it not been for the Council of Nicaea in 325. This was the Council of more than 300 bishops which produced the Nicene Creed, commemorated…
The year Christianity became politically salient
IT IS almost a pity that Tommy Robinson’s carol service fizzled out, with, at most, 2000 in the congregation. Among the nationals, only the Daily Mail published a report from the scene. The reporter found a wonderful quote:…
What the Entertainer did next
THIS Christmas, the windows of the Entertainer are likely to look noticeably different. For many years, the toyshop chain was known for featuring a nativity scene in every festive shop window. At a time when most retailers…
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