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What’s right with Project Spire?

            In April 2024 I took part in the assembly of the Global Christian Forum (GCF) in Accra, in Ghana.  For those who don’t know anything about the GCF, it is a body which was originally sponsored by the World Council of Churches (WCC) as a way of inviting churches and Christian movements which couldContinue reading “What’s right with Project Spire?”

Revisiting Anglican Classics 10: Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond

Rose Macaulay’s Towers of Trebizond (1956) is generally regarded as her masterpiece, and almost certainly it is the most commonly read of her novels today.  It is also a sort of running tribute to Anglo-Catholicism, saturated with asides, often hilarious, about Anglo-Catholics and their peculiar habits and attitudes, and at the same time quietly appreciativeContinue reading “Revisiting Anglican Classics 10: Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond”