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I WAS in Exeter, almost unexpectedly. That feeling of sacred time, of being exactly where one is meant to be, hit me like a quiet wave.I had come to visit my sister, fresh from completing her Ph.D. at the University of…

THE Victorian ideal of Christian manliness — so alien in today’s world — was at its height in the decade of John Buchan’s birth. The phrase had been brought into popular consciousness in a series of pamphlets published by the…

WHEN I travel on the waterways of England, its beauty seems inexhaustible — always different, always fresh. I reach for my mobile to capture each new prospect. It seems impossible to take a bad photo. As the phone storage…

PROFESSOR Panu Pihkala, of the University of Helsinki, has written that ecological grief is a “moral emotion” (in Eco-Anxiety, Tragedy, and Hope, Zygon, 2018). He finds that eco-anxiety is rarely clinical and is rather a…

I HAVE visited more than one church in East Anglia where a glass case holds some tiny bits of lead, and a note solemnly informs you that these were found embedded in the carved wooden angels in the roof, which “Cromwell’s…