Life

collected poems rowan williams carcanet, £15.99, 249 pages ________ the poetry of rowan williams is full of moments when the known world bec...

Susannah Herbert

as the wait begins for a decision in the  dobbs v. jackson women’s health organization  abortion case, close attention will be pai...

Jonah McKeown

"christmas won’t be christmas without any presents", grumbled jo, lying on the rug.” the opening of little women has had children nodding in...

Sophia Waugh

at the beginning of the first lockdown in march 2020, a government scheme called “everyone in” succeeded in getting almost every single pers...

Olenka Hamilton

'i will honour christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” what a striking promise scrooge makes to the spirit of christmas yet...

Niall Gooch

after the accession of elizabeth i in 1558, catholics were forced out of the ancient parish churches of england. by act of parliament, catho...

John Martin Robinson and Michael Hodges

a child is born for us, and a son is given to us (isaiah 9:5) the mass of christmas day begins with these joyful words of isaiah’s...

Bishop Mark Davies

in a pivotal scene in evelyn waugh’s novel  brideshead revisited , the agnostic narrator and main character charles ryder interrogates ...

Ken Craycraft

last year, my husband and i decided it would be best to stay in london and celebrate christmas at home. it was our daughter lily’s first chr...

lara prendergast

a campaign is to be launched to canonise a monk who dedicated his life to taking disabled people to lourdes. a mass celebrated at our lady o...

Simon Caldwell