Church
Earworms — some Profane, mostly Sacred
Hymns can be as catchy as popular music
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
Treasure-houses of the nation
Britain needs to decide on the future of our great churches — and what we want them to be
Glowing, noble and assured
A tribute to Victorian churches
Country church monuments
The hidden treasures of English churches
In Betjeman’s footsteps
Admiring the sheer imaginative power of Wren
Such sweet sorrow
Lent is an ideal time to take pleasure in a gentle, contemplative and very English strand of musical melancholia
The Rev Colin Godley: Media vicar
A man for all airwaves
Priest holes and priest hunters
By excluding the unvaccinated from the Eucharist, the church sets its face against the faithful
Save the Parish!
The Church of England has plans, and the clergy aren’t happy. David Scullion discusses with Alison Milbank and Marcus Walker
Is public religion the new heresy?
It makes no sense to argue that faith should not inform ethical decisions
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Disaster zone
It’s a big job says Keir Starmer, and it’s not our mess we’ll be clearing up
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
St. Vincent
The acclaim is excessive but the talent undeniable
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
Impressive yet unmoving
Franz Schmidt: 4 symphonies (Naxos)
The new equality bar
Is the Bar Standards Council really fit to enforce a proposed raft of new equality rules?
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
