Dorothy Day, the great American Christian activist, was fond of repeating the words of a wise and aged monk from a 19th C Russian novel: “Love in practice”, says the…
If last Sunday’s vision of Jesus cleansing the temple in Jerusalem and, by analogy, cleansing the temple of our souls, were not enough of a contrast to the seasonal cheer…
In 1944, as the end of the Second World War drew near, an assassination attempt on Hitler’s life prompted a crack-down on dissident voices. Among the many arrested was the…
There is a tendency to consider divine judgment, in Andrew Louth’s words, in rational and anthropomorphic terms. Rational, in that we apply human reasoning to mysteries which lie fundamentally outside…
Sixty years ago, at the end of the Second World War as Europe was struggling to find its feet again after the darkest and most violent years of its history,…