Christianity
Dostovesky and Putin’s useful idiots
When I was 17 I heard the name Dostovesky, and was enthralled. Just the name felt so glamorously intellectual, so…
True devotion
The 20th century was an amazing time for Russian pianists, and the worse things got, politically and militarily, the more…
Grapes of wrath
Don’t deny me my communion wine
Letters
Beyond the party Sir: Rod Liddle is spot-on in arguing that the attitudes revealed by ‘partygate’ extend to senior civil…
High life
A few weeks after Friedrich Nietzsche bragged to an admirer that he had completed a ruthless attack on our Lord,…
Prophesying doom
Janine di Giovanni’s book begins in a Paris apartment during the first lockdown. She’s at a friend’s home, which she…
From nomads to emperors
This is the best of times to be writing history, since so much of what has been taken for granted,…
How’s your father?
I was turned on to Midnight Mass by Ricky Gervais who raved about it in one of his social media…
‘A change of mind and heart’
Michael Nazir-Ali on his decision to join the Catholic church
Smudged with human stories
Nothing captures medieval life more vividly than a manuscript that has passed through many hands, says Jonathan Sumption
An inner pilgrimage
When E. Nesbit published Wet Magic in 1913 (a charming novel in which the children encounter a mermaid), she took…
Power to the parish
The demise of the Church’s heritage is not inevitable
Can we talk about Emma Raducanu’s Christianity?
I’ve just been looking at photographs of Emma Raducanu again, this time focusing on her upper chest. She usually wears…
High life
Gstaad Good manners aside, what I miss nowadays is a new, intelligent, finely acted movie. Never have I seen…
Blurred vision
The fight for the future of the Church of England
The doors of St Aidan’s were locked
The end of summer 2021, the end of the great British staycation. I sat on the grass outside the post…
For Afghan Christians, the Taliban takeover is a nightmare
Christians in Afghanistan have been paralyzed with fear at the news that the Taliban has taken control of the country.…
Breaking faith
Is this the last chance to save the Church of England
The plot against religious education
Faith is not the declining force that some secularists believe or indeed desire it to be. Even here in the UK,…
In praise of Kate Forbes’s Christian faith
Politics tends to attract people who consider themselves and their every mundane word and deed an example of great bravery.…
Saint or sinner?
The verdict is still out on Thomas Becket, says Dan Hitchens, but there’s no doubting the brilliance of the art he inspired
Stone deaf
In the wake of a pandemic, why is the C of E obsessing about statues?
Bad faith
The C of E has fallen for anti-Christian theories of race
Starmer will regret his submission to liberal intolerance
Keir Starmer obviously regrets visiting Jesus House last week because of the furore it has caused in his own party.…
Believe it or not
The problems with ‘Spiritual but not Religious’
