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John Cornwell reviews Climate, Catastrophe and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheavals by Philip Jenkins
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John Cornwell reviews Climate, Catastrophe and Faith: How Changes in Climate Drive Religious Upheavals by Philip Jenkins
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Read MoreOf the first-rank composers within the generally accepted pantheon, three took holy orders in the Roman Catholic Church: Monteverdi, Vivaldi and – more incongruously perhaps – Franz Liszt, the 210th anniversary of whose birth falls this October. Celebrated as a young man for his brilliant technique and showmanship at piano recitals (a form of concert
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 2): 1938-43by Chips Channonedited by Simon Heffer Hutchinson, £35, 1,120 pages ________ This doorstop of a book is the second of Henry Channon’s long and much-anticipated uncensored diaries, and it’s well worth the wait. For many decades his heirs withheld permission of publication, fearing Channon’s more stinging comments on
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Silverviewby John le Carré Penguin Viking, £20.00, 208 pages ________ Posthumous novels are rarely a good idea. A great writer’s literary executors find a discarded, unfinished manuscript in the bottom drawer, polish it up a bit and send it out into the world hoping to make some money before anybody notices that the book isn’t
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Leaders The Synod needs you Mass appeal should be for everyone Vocations need not be consigned to the past Diary – Adam Dant Columns Long Division – In an age of medical apartheid, it’s time for some acts of love, Constance Watson Reading runes – Revelling in the theology of George Mackay Brown, Serenhedd James Compulsory Church
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 13, 2021 | Education, Features, Learning difficulties, Magazine, News, October 2021 | 0 |
Elisa Segrave looks at how the past 18 months has affected children with learning difficulties and the lives of their parents, teachers and carers
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Despite implacable opposition to emancipation, the king held his Roman Catholic subjects in high esteem
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 13, 2021 | Afghanistan, Column, Diary, Gardening, Life & Soul, Magazine, News, October 2021, Refugees | 0 |
Anna Somers Cocks on the plight of those left behind in Afghanistan, the apps offering a window on that country, and the challenges of her Italian garden
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Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout Viking Penguin, £14.99, 256 pages ________ The best-known and certainly the most dramatic novel about a former spouse is probably Rebecca. Not every story about an ex features murder, infidelity, madness and arson (much as we may wish it to). Nonetheless, exes engender lasting feelings, irritation, resentment and occasional bursts
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 7, 2021 | Arts, Life & Soul, Magazine, News, October 2021, Poetry, St Robert Southwell | 0 |
You might think poets make natural martyrs. Passionate, idealistic, enraptured by visions of artistic immortality; throughout history, barricades and prisons have been crammed full of poetic talent. But the best poets are, by necessity, listeners and observers, detached from the action where martyrs are found. When they strive for heroic death, more often than not
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 3, 2021 | Faith, Features, Life & Soul, Liturgy, Magazine, News, October 2021 | 0 |
As we grow closer to the poor, little by little we gain their confidence and can advise them in the most terrible moments of this earthly pilgrimage. We can give them the comforting words of faith and we often succeed, not by our own merit, in putting on the right path people who have strayed
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