Mad-dgalen College

Apr 23, 2024 by

by Jack Watson, The New Conservative: Magdalen College, the wealthiest constitutional college of the University of Oxford, has come under fire for scrapping a traditional St George’s Day celebration, which falls every year on 23 April and...

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Why are the English embarrassed about St George’s Day?

Apr 23, 2024 by

by Eliot Wilson, Spectator: How should the English celebrate St George’s Day? England is a country with plenty to boast about, but doing so is somehow not particularly English. The result is that 23 April is usually a day that passes most...

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William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints

Mar 25, 2024 by

by Beatrice Scudeler, Artillery Row: The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten. On 25 March 1807, Parliament passed an act to abolish the British slave trade. The Society for...

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Patrick of Ireland: The Unlikely Hero of Church History

Mar 19, 2024 by

By Bradley Bell, TGC. Patrick had a faith, not born or developed in the study, but forged on the anvil of hardship and disaster and tested by pain and disappointment. “I’m not a smart man, but I know what love is.” I can still hear those...

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Paul’s reminder to the Synod on sexual morality

Feb 25, 2024 by

by Julian Mann, TCW: THE challenging teaching on sexual morality in today’s Prayer Book Epistle reading is as counter-cultural in the post-1960s West as it was in the Roman Empire of the 1st Century AD. The reading for the 2nd Sunday in...

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Love Among the Ashes

Feb 14, 2024 by

by Brian A. Graebe, First Things: February 14 this year brings the rare convergence of Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day. Rarer still is that it will happen in 2029 as well, twice in one decade. The two observances will not meet again...

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