Peter Ackroyd is a major figure in contemporary English letters, a fluent and pleasing writer with dozens of fascinating books to his name in numerous genres—history, biography, chorography, criticism, and fiction. So the prospect of his reflections on the long history of Christian England is . . . . Continue Reading »
In the literature of the First World War, full of the horrors of trench warfare that ravaged a generation even for the victorious Allies, a single heroic leader stands apart from the mass-murdering generals and clueless politicians who were responsible for the slaughter. Whereas their corroded names . . . . Continue Reading »
Alliance for Responsible Citizenship is perhaps intended to be a signal directed at conservatives with political power that they now have an expectant, well-resourced, and high-status movement at their backs. Continue Reading »
Newman's conversion to Catholicism was nothing short of a personal cataclysm, a white martyrdom. Continue Reading »
It is not that the clergy now believe in gay marriage; rather, it is that they no longer believe in marriage at all. Continue Reading »
Churches and Christians need to think about what hospitality looks like in our modern world as much as they think about other aspects of the faith. Continue Reading »
“Queerness as an interpretative tool” seems to be no more than the blunt assertion that today’s questions are the only ones worth asking and today’s categories the only ones worth applying. Continue Reading »
NatCon U.K. brought together many different types of speakers, some with irreconcilable differences, all representing that growing political faction, the Non-Left. Continue Reading »
There is one critical outcome that liberal individualism has completely failed to deliver and that is babies. Continue Reading »
At the heart of the coronation is a claim defiantly out of keeping with our time: that the continuing existence of the United Kingdom is a gift given by something above us and beyond our ability to control. Continue Reading »
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