Charlemagne in Chartres: Looking at Stained Glass
Light coming through a stained-glass window is one of those effects unique to the church space—we can hardly witness it anywhere else. Despite, or…
Time and Faith within the Urban and the Rural, Part 2
After last week looking at the importance of the city in T. S. Eliot’s poetry, we now turn to the rural context. Eliot’s final…
Time and Faith within the Urban and the Rural, Part 1
Over the past year, my transition from the car horns and sirens of Philadelphia to the call of seagulls in St Andrews has put…
Waiting on the Word: George Herbert’s ‘Christmas (I)’
Editor’s Note: For our second Advent reflection on Malcolm Guite’s, Waiting on the Word (Canterbury Press, 2015), Nayeli Riano reflects upon George Herbert’s ‘Christian (I)’ and…
Movement and Location in the Church Space: Pieter Jansz Saenredam, his paintings, and an “ambulatory imagination”
It is fitting to write a reflection on the idiosyncratic artwork of Pieter Jansz Saenredam from the peculiar comfort of Martyrs Kirk library in…