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‘Wales’s religious heritage is disappearing’ — what happens when churches close?
THE impact of the Tudors on Wales, England, and Europe is known to every school pupil in Britain: King Henry VIII and his succession of wives, his part in the Reformation that spilt the continent, and the Church of England…
Postcards from a northern land — cathedrals and churches in Scandinavia
A HERD of reindeer separates me from Sennalandet Chapel in Finnmark, in the northernmost, remote reaches of Norway. Despite the magnificent beasts, it’s the wooden church, amid an expanse of meadow below the Áisaroaivi…
Travel: Volunteering trips abroad
Support community health-care, Cape Town suburbs, South Africa HELP with the day-to-day running of a clinic in one of the most disadvantaged communities in suburban Cape Town. You might be helping serve up a hot meal to those…
Pilgrimage on the British Camino
BEFORE you read on, make a list in your head of all the British pilgrimage sites you can think of. I’m guessing that Canterbury was probably in there. Holy Island and Iona perhaps. Maybe Holywell and St Davids. But did you…
Retreats with an environmental theme or ethos
‘Meeting God in Creation’Abernethy Kilmalieu, ArgyllTHE Christian retreat house Kilmalieu, on the shores of Loch Linnhe, is a renovated 18th-century hunting lodge surrounded by spectacular scenery and wildlife. The “Meeting…
Thessaloniki is a city of myth and treasure
IN A broad, airy park, I gaze up at the statue of a young man poised on a rearing horse. It’s a dramatic portrayal of the legendary warrior Alexander the Great, who was born and bred in Macedon, the wild and lovely northern…
Journey through the Deep South of the United States
TRILLS of northern mockingbirds serenade my steps as I trudge from Dockery Plantation, perspiring and dusty, towards the cypress-fringed, rust-coloured crossroads, where legend has it that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the…
Dazzled by the riches of Granada
GRANADA shimmers in a mellow golden light as we make our way through the city in the warm morning air. The saying goes that if you see only one place in Spain, make it Granada, and we soon discover why. A spritely minibus…
How French Christians confronted the Holocaust
ANDRÉ TROCMÉ, the Calvinist pastor of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon during the Second World War, made this riposte when Marshal Pétain’s Vichy officials ordered him to reveal the Jews in his town: “We do not know what a Jew is. We…
A Scottish safari on the Isle of Aran
“WHY are we going on safari in Scotland?” my youngest daughter asks, as we roll off the ferry on the seventh largest island in Scotland — and perhaps its biggest wildlife secret. I explain that Arran is the only island where…
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