“DISTURBING” reports of mass graves in Gaza, in which Palestinian victims are said to have been found naked with their hands tied, has renewed the possibility of war crimes amid ongoing Israeli air ...

6 Works out from legendary Greek figure earth’s rhythmic path? (5) 7 End’s nothing great (5) 8 Abbreviated prophetic work before church performance (5) 10 Court jester’s outside with tambur endlessly ...

C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King; and “The Dream of the Rood” (anonymous) THE events of Good Friday are so seminal, so foundational for a ...

PEOPLE often talk of holy places as “thin”, where the boundary between this world and the heavenly realm is so porous it’s barely there. These are usually ancient sites of prayer and pilgrimage, or of ...

THERE are two approaches to thinking about the meaning of Jesus’s death. One focuses on the effect of his death on the individual believer. The other asks what has been achieved by that death, even ...

BURNETT. The Revd Caroline Burnett, NS Assistant Priest of Guilsborough and Hollowell and Cold Ashby and Cottesbrooke with Great Creaton and Thornby and Ravensthorpe and Spratton (Peterborough): 30 ...

ALICE CARTER’s road to displaying her seven-work series “Ashes to Fire” in Chichester Cathedral, offering a meditation on key moments in Easter, began on the tarmac of Fulham Broadway in 2011, when ...

IN 1994, the BBC was at its most imaginative and creative. Starting on the Eve of Palm Sunday, it broadcast the première of Sir James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross over seven nights. To ...

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THE 19th-century French economist Claude-Frédéric Bastiat distinguished between “seen” (obvious and visible consequences of an action or policy) and “unseen” consequences (invisible, and often ...

THE suffering of Christ reminds Christians to stand with “those living amid war and violence and with “the churches of the Holy Land, bearing faithful witness under immense strain”, the Archbishop of ...

MORE than 1000 Christians and people of other faiths marched against so-called Christian nationalism in a demonstration through London on Saturday organised by the Together Alliance. The Bishop of ...