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A crime is not a crime
One of the fundamentals of living in society is that you are entitled to know whether something you might do is legal or not. How do you know? One starting point for individuals is the legal maxim 'Everything which is not forbidden is allowed'. In modern criminal law,
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Contemplation 7: The Julian Meetings
The Julian Meetings is a national, UK-based organisation which fosters the teaching and practice of silent prayer. It works primarily through a network of local groups but its resources are available to individuals also. The Julian Meetings began in 1973 when an Anglican laywoman, Hilary Wakeman, wrote to a
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Auntie Claus and the moral imperative
Auntie Claus is one of my favourite children's books. Our heroine lives in a New York penthouse. She is stylish, she wears a red velvet gown with white ermine trimming, and she is mysteriously absent from November to February every year. She has a famous brother. She also
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Green Party: Zionism is racism
Disclaimer: I am not a member of any political party, although my position is closer to the Greens than to other parties in a range of policy areas. Last Sunday, the Green Party annual conference voted in favour of a motion whose two headline points were: 1. Zionism is a
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Lady Maisery
Lady Maisery are an all-female English folk trio from Sheffield. They’ve been together for at least 15 years while also maintaining their separate musical careers. Musically they are very talented: they all play a range of instruments and their singing is beautiful. They combine in a rich vocal
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How to be divisive
This is William Taylor, the rector of St Helen's Bishopsgate in the City of London. In a previous article entitled Love and hate, I described how his church had started work on setting up a separate province within the Anglican communion so as to preserve doctrinal purity in
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Contemplation 6: From singular to plural
When I first started to pray in silence, I did so on my own. It was my discovery and my response. It did not take long for me to realise that other people were praying in the same way. Not only that, they were praying in the same way as
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Mary Dawson Elwell
Mary Dawson Elwell (née Mary Dawson Bishop) was a talented female artist with a passion for music and travel. Born in Derbyshire in 1874, she was raised in Manchester and attended the progressive Ellerslie Ladies College where she studied art and music among other things. In 1896, she married the
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The definition of a gentleman
In 1852, the priest and future cardinal John Henry Newman delivered a series of lectures to a Catholic audience in Dublin. These were collected and published under the title The Idea of a University. Newman extolled the benefits of a liberal education, provided by a university dedicated to the teaching
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Not fade away
'Love is love and not fade away' is the chorus and defining theme of Not Fade Away, a cover of the Buddy Holly track which was released by the Rolling Stones in 1964. This love song communicates the enduring nature of love while noting that authentic love must
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Stella
How many Greek films can you name? By 'Greek film', I mean a film in the Greek language which was made by the Greek film industry. So, obviously not Mamma Mia, or The Guns of Navarone, or most recently The Odyssey, which fail on both counts. Until very
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The London Dyke Deck
What's in a name? In Stung with Love, I examined the difference between the terms sapphic and lesbian. These look back 2500 years to the poet Sappho who lived on the island of Lesbos. In contrast, the term dyke is relatively recent. First used about 100 years ago,
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