Humpty Dumpty

I knew a vicar who was an organist. This is unusual. Quite often a vicar and his organist are at odds. At stake may be differing styles...

Fashion – surely the Church is above such ephemeral self-indulgence? Not at all. Thanks to the less restrained enthusiasts of the Oxford...

Let me venture a disclaimer. I am ill qualified for the task I am now taking on. I was once a teenage commuter in and out of Waterloo...

We are English people. We speak English. For good or for ill, we express ourselves in the tongue we have inherited. This shapes our...

Online worship has been an education. It has been possible to sample patterns of worship around the country and gain respect for those...

It’s very odd. But then so is every numeral that’s not even. That’s half our stock of numbers. Leaving that aside, we happily embrace a...

From time to time a word comes into being. We may wonder however we managed without it. Lockdown is one such word. Online is another....

When did you last say ‘Touch wood’? Less likely, when did you last see a horse complete with brasses to ward off the devil? Hardy’s...

The slings and arrows, as Shakespeare put it, add up to assaults by outrageous fortune. If all seems to be tranquil, we may find...

Things have moved on since Frankenstein’s monster made his debut in 1818. We know a lot more now than we did then about the problems...

‘A dialogue between two infants in the womb concerning the state of this world, might handsomely illustrate our ignorance of the next,’...

What you see depends on where you stand. Stand at Charing Cross. It may be a replacement of the original Eleanor Cross and repositioned...

As gunfire marks the passing of a Queen’s consort who still in his nineties had a back as stiff as a ramrod, we recognise the value of...