Culture

Always Dinner and Never Breakfast: How to Tell You're in Narnia

you pass through a magical portal and are confronted in the woods by a deceitful horned creature who offers you sardines on toast. you accep...
MaryPezzulo

The Supreme Court, God and animals

on october 11th something unprecedented is happening in an amicus brief on file at the supreme court which invokes church and western theolo...
James MacGuire

Pamfir: A moral tale for our times

julia hamilton is gripped by ukrainian crime thriller pamfir. this stunning film is the feature-length debut of ukrainian director dmytro su...
Julia Hamilton

Glory above the altar: David Ekserdjian’s work on Italian Renaissance Altarpieces

given the sacramental primacy of the altar in the doctrinal and theological economy of the catholic church, altarpieces have necessarily dem...
Robert Beddard

It's the detail that is rewarding

less than a year after a major refurbishment, the courtauld gallery has already had exhibitions of two of the biggest names in early modern ...
Lucien de Guise

Lady Mabel's Gold: a refreshing sequel to Simon Caldwell's Beast of Bethulia Park

the northern mill town of wigan has an illustrious literary history as the setting for george orwell’s 1937 investigation/memoir  the r...
Elizabeth Thornton

Dickensian levels of poverty still exist today

there are few, if any, authors more firmly associated with christmas than charles dickens. he may not have been, as the movie suggests, the ...
Roy Peachey

Living in fear of an oppressive regime

the china nexus:  thirty years in and around the chinese communist party’s tyranny  benedict rogers  optimum publishing, £18....
Patrick Nash

Ten Commandments tablet sells for more than double estimate at over $5 million

a marble tablet bearing an ancient rendition of text related to the ten commandments has sold at sotheby’s in new york for $5.04 million, mo...
The Catholic Herald

On the Record: Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity Sunday

an ascension day procession in bavaria if you are near oxford, make haste to the bodleian library, where you will find on display the autogr...
Alex Hodgkinson