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 God has been on so many people’s lips in recent months—on TV, on the radio, in newspapers, and periodicals, and even in the public square—that visitors from outer space might be forgiven for imagining the whole nation is caught up in the fervour of a full-scale religious revival. There’s no fear of that, however. . . . → Read More: Elections: Time for pols to take God out of the closet 
The title of the Venerable Bede’s History of the English Church and People is best understood as a compound noun of the type often encountered in German. Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän (trans. Danube Steamship Company Captain) is a classic example of the form. This is not simply an eccentric literary conceit. Bede and his 7th Century contemporaries regarded . . . → Read More: The English Church and people: Portrait of a unique relationship 
The vast array of foods Americans find ‘yucky’ never ceases to amaze me. An admittedly unscientific survey I recently conducted indicates that a sizeable number, given their druthers, would subsist solely on pizza–and cheese pizza at that, unsullied by ‘yucky stuff’ like pepperoni, sausage and mushrooms. There’s nothing new about this. It’s been going . . . → Read More: Oh what culinary delights picky eaters are missing! Many people are hot under the collar over the ugly reaction by some in politics and the media to the public officials, including presidential candidates, who declared they would be offering prayers for the victims of the recent Islamic terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California. Their anger is perfectly justified. No matter one’s opinion about . . . → Read More: Pray for those who won’t pray for the San Bernadino victims 
Video footage of students at some of the nation’s most highly regarded universities and colleges brow-beating and obscenely berating their professors and administrators was eerily reminiscent Chairman Mao’s ‘Cultural Revolution’. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, youthful Red Guards—many of them students—rampaged through China purging schools, universities, government, industry, the military, and the Communist Party . . . → Read More: There are perils in hiding from unfashionable realities 
by Sir John Betjeman (In England, ‘Thanksgiving’ is known as the ‘Harvest Festival’. In towns and villages throughout the country, churches are lavishly decorated with produce – sheaves of wheat, barley and oats; heaps of cabbages, turnips and parsnips; festoons of onions; and huge loaves of bread baked in the shape of wheat sheaves, . . . → Read More: Diary of a Church Mouse 
A century has passed since the First World War began, and 60 years since the Second World War ended, yet they are still the most important formative events in world history. None who lived through them were untouched by them. Indeed, they influenced and informed our thinking, even in the most mundane spheres . . . → Read More: Veterans Day reflections on War and Remembrance 
The Presidential Election is still a year away and, lamentably, albeit predictably, the political mud is already flying in all directions. But if you think the partisanship is already plumbing new depths, you’d be wise to think again. In fact, it’s hard to imagine anything that could equal a study of the psychological . . . → Read More: Watch out for mud as the election heats up 
People come from far and wide to hear St Stephen’s Choir of Men and Boys sing our monthly services of Evensong. Choral Evensong is the one of the great gifts the Anglican world has given the Church catholick, and it is cherished not only by Anglicans, but by music-lovers of many persuasions—including those with none . . . → Read More: The best kept musical secret in Baltimore 
Today Halloween in Britain is celebrated almost as extravagantly as it is in America. Witches, ghosts, goblins, and carved pumpkins now abound on both sides of the Atlantic, but things were quite different when I was a child. It was not really a time of celebration. In cities and towns, it passed virtually unnoticed. . . . → Read More: Halloween in Britain: It ain’t what it used to be |
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