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 ...

Far from feeling constrained by what the Bible says, the Middle Ages speculated boldly on whether God could have created an eternal cosmos On Private Passions (the Desert Island Discs for grown ...

Social media "lacks the eye contact, the tone of voice, the touch and the meanings that make us human," writes Tim Trenkle.

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) ...

P G Wodehouse was as much at home with the Authorised Version of the Bible as Bertie Wooster, winner of the Scripture Knowledge Prize at his first school. Wodehouse referred to passages in it ...

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 ...

For millions of devotees, the 2025 Maha Kumbh Mela is far more than just a gathering —  it is a sacred opportunity to take on ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognised as a legal person on Thursday after a ...