The Author of the Ecclesiastical History of the English People By Roy Peachey In 1899 an English historian was declared a doctor of the Church. A man who had never had political influence or held high office in the Church was now…
The Centre is Everywhere By Adrian J. Walker The task I’ve been assigned is no easy one. How to do justice in just a few paragraphs to the life and work of a great friend who also happened to be a great…
Aliens, Bach, and the Voyager 1 Space Probe By Philip Zaleski Next month—August, 2017—marks the fifth anniversary of the Voyager 1 spacecraft’s entry into interstellar space. At this time, Voyager 1 remains the first and only man-made object to escape the solar…
The Way of Wisdom in Stratford Caldecott’s The Radiance of Being (Angelico Press, 2013) By Fr Dominic White, o.p. According to the Book of Proverbs, Wisdom calls and raises her voice. But do we hear her? Perhaps her voice seems hard to hear because…
We interview a new Second Spring House Artist We have been recruiting a team of house artists here at Second Spring, to bring another dimension to our online offerings, and to showcase works of art that we think our readers will enjoy. We…
Introducing our new website By Léonie Caldecott “Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.” Henry David Thoreau In 2016 the winner of the Royal Television Society award for best Science and Natural History programme was…
Experience the England of Tolkien, Chesterton, and Newman “A student who loves J.R.R. Tolkien or C.S. Lewis, or Cardinal Newman or G.K. Chesterton, would naturally wish at some point to visit England, and come to Oxford, and see the places where these…
Artist Rose-Marie Caldecott describes how her father inspired her work From the beginning of my relationship with paint, I have been interested in how a painting might communicate the fact that everything in nature—including ourselves—exists in a state of flux. To be…
Charlotte Ostermann’s interview with Stratford Caldecott about Beauty in the Word and Beauty for Truth’s Sake. The following interview took place in 2012 and is re-posted from Stratford Caldecott’s blog, Beauty in Education. 1. Fr. Giussani speaks of the “risk of education”….
A Historian’s Perspective By Martin Knight The publication in March 2017 of Rod Dreher’s long-awaited The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation has prompted some serious debate over the question of the Church’s obligations to conservation and evangelisation…
