February 2 marks the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple. St Bede wrote of Christ as the Temple itself A sublime if slightly rubbed illumination stands at the start of the Gospels in the Codex ...

Dava Sobel, the author of that fascinating book Longitude, quoted Galileo: “The Bible teaches us how to go to heaven, not how ...

The trouble then is that a sacred text can lose its traditional references and interpretations. An extreme example is the weight that St Augustine in the 4th century gave to the phrase in idipsum ...

Anybody might think that the only words Lancelot Andrewes wrote were the ones that inspired T S Eliot’s The Journey of the Magi: “A cold coming they had of it at this time of the year, just ...

Detail of an Aramaic manuscript from the Chaldean Catholic diocese of Alqosh in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq - Narsai: Selected Sermons I was shocked when I started reading the sermons in poetry by ...

Meaning to help, Marie Curie, the charity for the dying, has listed 10 songs to listen to when the moment comes: Frank ...

The Akshayavat tree within Allahabad Fort, built by Mughal emperor Akbar in 1583, holds mythological significance as a sacred ...

I’ve seen people call the opera Dialogues des Carmélites a tragedy. To me it is a drama of suspense with a happy ending. Like the film Of Gods and Men (about Trappists in Algeria in our own century) ...

Anybody might think that the only words Lancelot Andrewes wrote were the ones that inspired T S Eliot’s The Journey of the Magi: “A cold coming they had of it at this time of the year, just the worst ...

Rev. Sidney Chambers from The Grantchester Mysteries novels isn’t the only cleric who dabbles in criminal investigations. There are a number of established book series in which a religious ...

Reintroducing Hawaii's sacred crow, how desert ants find their way, pterosaurs paddle-like tails, and how gophers rebuild ...

A full overview of all adventure games released in the Santa Fe Mysteries: Sacred Ground Series. These can be episodes, remakes/remasters or sequels, created by either one or several companies. As ...