Tuesday, 20 March 2012

Blog closed

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With many thanks to all those who have read and commented over the past few years, I've taken the decision to close this blog. All posts...
Tuesday, 22 November 2011

The visual arts in the Church of England, 1935-56

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I'm very pleased to be able to say that my article for Studies in Church History 44 (2008) on this topic is now available online in SAS...
Tuesday, 1 November 2011

A new life of Pevsner

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This blog can't really ignore a new biography of Pevsner by Susie Harries: a figure both peripheral to its central concern, but to be fo...
Thursday, 8 September 2011

Puritanism and the ethics of representation

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A happy juxtaposition of two reviews in the same day. Roger Scruton reviews Martin Kemp's From Christ to Coke in Prospect . Not availab...
Monday, 5 September 2011

James Wood on the New Atheism

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James Wood has been one of the most consistently interesting critics writing about religious themes in contemporary fiction, and I note anot...
Monday, 29 August 2011

The Compassion Teepee

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Interesting report in the Observer about an art installation in Liverpool, in which the public can leave messages, including many relating ...
Wednesday, 24 August 2011

How to memorialise 9/11 ?

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Interesting article of a few weeks back from Rowan Moore, the Observer's architecture critic, on what it is that is being built at Groun...

Church music and evangelical identity

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I'm very pleased to be able to say that Ian Jones' and my article on 'pop' church music and Anglican evangelical identity si...
Monday, 11 April 2011

New miracle plays

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I note with interest a series of contemporary interpretations of the themes of the medieval miracle plays, all this week on Radio 3. Last ni...
Sunday, 10 April 2011

The Rainbow

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I note an interesting essay by Rachel Cusk on D.H. Lawrence's Women and Love and The Rainbow , around the same time as the BBC were sc...