The sad decline of the Scottish Kirk
My memory is that October is cold in Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland. Come to think of it, my…
Spare us from performative piety
Lent did not, I confess, start well. Cheltenham fell in its first week, and the Gold Cup is hardly the…
Why is the C of E selling off Dick Whittington’s burial place?
The Church of England is flogging off Dick Whittington. No, this isn’t an innuendo or a twist from a pantomime,…
The problem with climate protesting clergy
Received wisdom suggests that you would not expect a vicar to disrupt Divine Worship. Now, anybody who’s worked with the…
Why Remembrance is a privilege as much as a duty
It was exceptionally cold, that strange Armistice day. I was used to spending the two minutes silence squinting into the…
The depressing rise of the cathedral gimmick
They say that shopping centres are the cathedrals of late capitalism. It is amusing sometimes to think of future generations…
What the Tory candidates’ logos say about them
There’s a particularly amusing picture from the 1997 Tory leadership contest of Ken Clarke and John Redwood awkwardly paired up…
In defence of meddlesome priests
The British constitution is best understood as a dinner party. Imagine the key institutions of national life personified and sat…
