JESUITS tend not to like the adjective Jesuitical, since, in popular usage, it conveys the sense of dissembling, equivocating, or deploying over-subtle casuistry. How ironic, then, to see it being ...
THE subtitle of Lower than the Angels: A history of sex and Christianity suggests that there are other possible histories and that this is not the final word on the Church’s tangled and often fraught ...
Sir Keir Starmer’s Government could lead the way in tackling the twin crises affecting the global South, argues David Walker TWENTY-FOUR years ago, a Labour government, in its first term in power ...
THE NOBLE ARMY is a short book describing the life and Christian faith of the ten “modern martyrs” whose statues, in 1998, were placed above the great west door of Westminster Abbey. This is not a ...
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IN RECENT years, Rupert Shortt has published a series of books on topics pertinent to the present profile of Christianity globally and locally. In this substantial volume, he distils the essence of ...
THREE hundred and fifty delegates gathered this week for the 2024 Festival of Preaching, in its first residential form since before the pandemic. A further 100 or so joined sessions via the live ...