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…
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This paper was delivered at the Centre of Theology and Philosophy conference on ‘The Soul’ in 2013, and filmed in Oxford on 30th June 2013 (a little over a year before he passed away). Today, his family are sharing this video in…
The night you died there was a thunderstorm. I lay in bed and trembled at the release of your laugh, electric against the sky
Stratford Caldecott, the co-founder of Second Spring, died of cancer 10 years ago on the 17th July. In the run-up to his 10th anniversary, some of his friends and collaborators from all over the world are sharing short “letters” to Strat.
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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