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Continuity 20 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
Down in darkest West Dorset, in what they will one day call PJ Harvey Country hem-hem, is a village with the lyrical name of Whitchurch Canonicorum, the White Church of the Canons. The church of St Ca...
Turton Villa 17 Aug 2013 | 02:02 am
Once in a while you find something so interesting in a familiar place that you boggle at not having spotted it before. On hols in Dorset last month we had a wander about Weymouth and between the car p...
St Dunstan's Well, Burstock 17 Aug 2013 | 01:49 am
It doesn't look like much, but this dribble of water running under a log round the side of a modern house in the hamlet of Horsey, Dorset, is (probably) the Well of St Dunstan at Burstock - that very,...
Perp Revival i'the North 17 Aug 2013 | 01:43 am
When I did some research into the history of the Anglo-Catholic movement some years ago I ended up lamenting the fact that so little information existed about the role of the movement in the North of ...
Beyond the Fringe 14 Aug 2013 | 02:06 am
Today I feel thoroughly ashamed of myself. A friend I hadn't heard from for ages sent me an email. After some awful experiences in his parish he's been bought off by his diocese and left the Church o...
Chant, or Shan't 14 Aug 2013 | 12:57 am
As I go on I become more convinced of the suggestion that the normative musical form of Christian worship is, at least in Western Christendom, plainchant. 'Normative', of course, doesn't mean 'normal'...
Saints Alive 6 Aug 2013 | 02:15 am
It's ages ago now, but we went to the National Gallery and quite by chance realised that Michael Landry's exceedingly odd but also exceedingly fun exhibition Saints Alive was on, as it still is (and i...
Readers and Their Doings 1 Aug 2013 | 05:36 pm
Our Reader is brilliant. She is an academic person but when she preaches manages to wear her learning very lightly at the same time as giving people plenty of good content. It’s a great gift. But wha...
Missionary Context 30 Jul 2013 | 06:10 pm
I'm reading at the moment into the life of someone with a connection to Swanvale Halt who spent much of her life as a missionary in India and was instrumental in the establishment of the Church of Sou...
Heartless 30 Jul 2013 | 03:17 am
The former incumbent of our next-door parish once made the more sensitive members of Chapter gulp with a statement that 'a parish priest needs to know when to be a bastard'. I suppose the corollary of...
