“Where there is great love,” he says, “there are always miracles. One might almost say that an apparition ishuman vision corrected by divine love.… The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near us from afar off...
to live and die as one of us. And we in turn may now share in thedivinelife. We are still works in progress no doubt, but we arebound for glory. St. Paul put this so beautifully: “All of us,” he said, “all of us, with our unveiled faces like mirrors reflecting...
TheEcce Homophotographs, unsurprisingly, created a furor in the last years of the 20thcentury. The fact that they were exhibited in churches rather than museums served to fuel the outrage. The propriety of untraditional visuals in sacred space is a particularly fraught question. Placing Wallin’sL...
which the CofE is live-streaming on its website and Facebook pages. The Church says these have attracted some 2m viewers, not counting those listening via local radio. Unsurprisingly the most polished services come from the well resourced, well organised churches such as Holy Trinity Brompton. O...
He even rebuilt historic churches and built new ones. The construction of churches had been turned over to the government during the French Revolution, and therefore churches, in addition to all other public buildings, were now under control of the state. Haussmann’s success depended on his ...
Many of us have encountered spiritless churches in our own day, and through the centuries far too many Christian communities have managed to extinguish the Pentecostal flame. But for God’s friends, “people of the Spirit” is who we must be. In the 17thcentury, Anglican bishop Lancelot Andre...
And someone playing the oud along a clear stream. But now it was “My country ’tis of thee” And I sang it out with all my heart… “Land where my fathers died,” I bellowed, And it was not too hard to imagine A host of my great uncles and -grandfathers ...
“The sun is high, at the zenith. Clear soft sound of a temple bell far down in the valley. Voices of children near the cottages above me on the mountainside. The sun is warm. Everything falls into place. Nothing is to be decided … There is nothing to be judged.”[vi] ...
privilege, we’re all in this together. The heroic dedication of health care workers, the kindness and generosity of neighbors and loved ones, the creative responses by churches and communities to unprecedented challenges inspire us daily with countless examples of love, courage, resilience and ...