Faith > Faith for Holy Places

IN 2010, I flew to the Solovetsky Islands (or Solovki), within the Arctic Circle in the White Sea, ice-bound for eight months of the year, but in summer often bathed in sunlight, even at midnight. To me, Solovki had a…

I HAVE known many places in my life that I would call holy. To pray in Bemerton Church, near to where George Herbert lies, to walk the Shropshire hills, to kneel in the cell where Maximilian Kolbe was imprisoned before his…