Paul L. Bradshaw, Early Church Orders Revisited, Joint Liturgical Studies 80 (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2015). This little book was my Christmas present to myself this year. (Along with Günter Wand’s recording of Bruckner 8 in Lübeck Cathedral – magnificent.) I’d been wanting to read it for some months, and the
Ishmael, alone among the crew of the Pequod, worships the whale, and Ishmael alone is spared.
The dark and gloomy atmosphere of Majora’s Mask makes it beautiful, reflecting the brokenness of the real world.
He stared up at the spire, damaged in a storm by an electric warning from God and shoddily repaired with wood.
Money is the ultimate idol, and to love it is to worship the state.
Christ speaks in moments of contemplation, in moments of wandering and confusion, in the unspoken moments in which we do not allow ourselves to trust and fall.
There is no reason why the Christianity which built Chartres Cathedral and conquered the empires of the New World should be incapable of taking us to the stars.
I wish to begin this review by saying that The Magicians by Lev Grossman (2010, Penguin Books) ranks among my favourite books, so my criticism comes from the only place that truly good criticism can come from: fondness. Grossman’s work was first introduced to me by my closest friend, who
