Gaza

september sees the feast of the exaltation of the cross, and as the newly elected prior (much to my astonishment) and new parish priest of h...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

a damaged icon of the transfiguration laid out near the wreckage of transfiguration cathedral in odesa after a missile strike on july 23, 20...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

the month of july finds us firmly in ordinary time, and our gospel readings are from matthew. our second readings, however, are from the let...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

‘there was a certain man from ramathaim, a zuphite from the hill country of ephraim, whose name was elkanah son of jeroham, the son of ...

Andrew Roberts

when was the last time you saw a book on greek orthodoxy with encomiums from jamie oliver and claudia roden on the cover? well, this is what...

Gertrude Clarke

the church of england bishops, we are told, are going to debate whether god should be gender neutral, and thus not referred to as "he" or "f...

Katherine Bennett

as it is often noted, christmas seems to begin earlier and earlier every year: certain newspapers can be almost guaranteed to have a letter ...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

we are back to year a in the lectionary, which means that for most of the year we shall be reading from st matthew’s gospel on sundays. the ...

Fr Richard Ounsworth OP

after three years of painstaking work, piero della francesca’s famous nativity, from the early 1480s, returned to public display in the nati...

Hugh Kerr

the coercive power of the state is found from the start of the story of our salvation; it’s in the nativity story itself and the feasts that...

Piers Paul Read