Books
Christians will always be inspired – and divided – by music
Tim Dowley has managed to fit the entire history of Christian music into just 300 pages
Being a Puritan was never an easy life
The early modern Puritans belonged to a world, and a worldview, that we find hard to grasp, says Jonathan Wright
How Westminster Abbey suffered from no longer being Catholic
The shrine church of St Edward became a mausoleum for secular saints and was filled with incongruous artworks
Did Shakespeare hide subversive messages in his poems?
Simon Caldwell on a fruitful search for hidden meanings
Why the Soviet Union couldn’t replace Christianity
The Soviets’ effort to forge an atheistic state was an abject failure, argues Jack Carrigan
A unique yet universal journey into the Church
Tim Stanley admires a story of atheism, theocracy, postmodernism… and grace
Fellini’s films mingle piety with paganism
Fellini’s films captured Rome’s character, says Ian Thomson
The quest for the ‘historical Jesus’ started early in Asia
Jonathan Wright on how Asian authors re-imagined Christ
A troubled unbeliever walks to Jerusalem
A young man finds healing on the road. By Charlie Hegarty
