A Reflection on Mary By Fr John Nepil As alpenglow fades, the glowing hearth illuminates the hut from within. It has done this, every evening, for nearly twelve millennia. Since the dawn of the Neolithic age, the hearth has been the centre…
by Edward Hadas It might be easier to list the topics which left Stratford Caldecott indifferent than to count up his concerns, fascinations, and spiritual loves. Economics was certainly on the latter list, but he never quite got to the bottom of…
By Stratford Caldecott The following post first appeared on Stratford Caldecott’s blog, Beauty in Education, on 17 December 2012. The recent Census revealed that in England and Wales the number of professed Christians in 2011 fell to 33.2 million, or 59% of…
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…
