The City and the City

expands on the themes of his letter to the Guardian from a few posts back, in his usual audacious way.

“—and the locus of a free-range aestheticism. Careful explanations are not enough to breathe life into the cultural expressions of a belief system. Christian art, a handmaiden to liturgical action, loses its transformative power when it is removed from the acts of worship—prayer or ritual performance—it was made to complement. The leveling process of aesthetic […]

The Anglican Continuum blog asks about evangelism in a Continuing Anglican context:

I would personally love to see a discussion on evangelism, specifically, on how we, who are so devoted to traditional Anglicanism, can articulate our faith to the great unwashed, as well as unchurched Christians, who know little or nothing about the Anglican Way, to […]

John Milbank sounds a bit Crunchy Con-ish: “Jackie Ashley … reveals the bizarre bankruptcy of the current British left. By every traditional radical criterion New Labour has failed… But never mind all that, says Jackie Ashley and her ilk: on what crucially matters - the extending of supposed biosexual freedom and the licensing of Faustian […]

I wish I could be in Rome at the beginning of September…