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Albert Schweitzer’s scholarship led to service
IT IS 60 years since the death of Albert Schweitzer (4 September 1965), the much admired missionary doctor, whose clinic in Lambaréné pioneered treatment and research into tropical diseases in what was then French Equatorial…
In the mountains, there is life-giving emptiness
THE climb up to our cabin in the mountains somewhere east of Bergen was grim — at least I found it so — even with ski poles. It took some time to get the rucksack properly balanced on my hips, and, until then, the weight on…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
IT TAKES years to become really rooted and embedded in a new place after you’ve moved from another county. It has been four years since Maggie and I “retired” to north Norfolk (6 August 2021) (I write “retired” with some…
Before embracing Faragism, try this. . .
POLITICAL scientists use the “Overton window” to measure how ideas move in and out of fashion. At its centre is the current political consensus. Outside the window, either to the left or the right, policies move through a…
No wonder Chris Brain did not care for sin
THE early- to mid-1990s were not an easy time to discern the way forward for the Church of England. The Decade of Evangelism was almost at the halfway point, and yet there was no obvious sign of growth. Synodical provision…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
THERE’s something to be said for old poetry anthologies rather than new ones. To read them is to be freed from the confinements and narrow perspectives of contemporary taste, and to wonder a little in the larger and more…
Young people reject parents’ atheism
THERE has been much discussion of the Bible Society’s report of a “quiet revival” of churchgoing, particularly among young men (Features, 15 August). James Marriott, in The Times on Saturday, is one of a number of…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
I WRITE this on 15 August, a day on which the hopes and fears of Ukraine, and many nations beyond it, are met in Anchorage, and in the conversations of the two “strong men” meeting there.And yet this is also one of those days…
Is Sir Thomas More a man for all eras?
LADY Margaret Roper was arraigned before the King’s Council, after the execution of her father, Sir Thomas More. She admitted taking his head from a spike on London Bridge before it was cast into the water to make way for the…
Malcolm Guite: Poet’s Corner
I HAVE returned, at last, from my Arthurian and other peregrinations, and have been reunited with my little boat on the Norfolk Broads. Slipping her from her moorings and floating out on Ranworth Broad is always balm to my…
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