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Bad theology will not fix climate crisis
THE agenda for next month’s meeting of the General Synod lists two items of Liturgical Business. The first is to adjust the calendar to enable the commemoration as martyrs of the 21 construction workers who were viciously…
Trump is reviving American imperialism
DON’T say you weren’t warned. One headline this week declared: “Trump’s coup in Venezuela didn’t just break the rules — it showed there aren’t any.” That is wrong. There are rules — just not the ones that we assumed.It is…
How the bubble burst for a Trump disciple
ON THE first weekday after the American kidnapping of the President of Venezuela, the front page of the Daily Express warned readers of a looming crisis: “Fears Starmer is plotting ‘a full-blown Brexit betrayal’”. In other…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
A NEW year is not only for new things, but also an occasion, a prompt, to make old things new; and nothing needs that renewal more than the over-familiar words of old prayers. One of the oldest and best is, of course, the…
Charles Moseley: The joy of sacred encounters
TEN years ago, sheltering from a sudden summer storm in the welcome dry quiet of a Dorset church, I met by chance (what is chance?) a shabbily dressed woman with wet hair. After a conversation brief in minutes but eternal in…
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:…
Missing a parcel? You are not alone
I DELIVER my accounts to my accountant by hand, usually. But, on Tuesday of last week, I asked my local Post Office branch to send them by Royal Mail’s guaranteed-by-1 p.m.-next-day Special Delivery. Without asking me, the…
Advent is a season for penitence
AS ADVENT progresses, I have found myself lamenting the erosion of the more austere and penitential aspects of the season. The Advent Prose, Rorate Caeli (“Drop down, ye heavens, from above”), is a heartfelt prayer for relief…
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