A Pilgrim’s Progress: My Journey of Faith – Taylor Carey
Our next new regular contributor is Taylor Carey, a relatively new Christian. We have been following each other on Twitter for a while, and he responded to a tweet from Chris Fewings about Lay...
View ArticleAn Archbishop Ventures Into Narnia: Taylor Carey
‘The Lion’s World’ In his last literary endeavour while Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams explores the central themes of C.S. Lewis’s Narnia with characteristic eloquence, enthusiasm and...
View ArticleChristianity & Sexuality: Communication, Grace & Love – Taylor Carey
After reading several wonderful pieces by Chris Fewings – particularly ‘Love Divine, All Loves Embracing’ (15th July 2012) – and stumbling across an online reproduction of The Body’s Grace (1989),...
View Article“Something Good in Everything I See”: Taylor Carey
‘Abba’. No, not the cherished name of the God which Jesus Christ invites us so boldly to call out to in the institution of the Lord’s Prayer. No, I’m talking about Mamma Mia, Super Trooper and...
View ArticleSandy Hook and the Christian Vocation: Taylor Carey
We turn to God when we are sorely pressed; we pray for help, and ask for peace and bread; we seek release from illness, guilt, and death: all people do, in faith or unbelief. We turn to God when he...
View ArticleMen in Pink: The Church of England’s Gay Bishop Decision: Taylor Carey
One of the joys of the holidays is to wake up mid-way through the Today programme rather than at its opening six bleeps; the headline summary luxuriously accompanied by maternally-provided coffee...
View ArticlePolitics and the bomb: a Christian perspective on nuclear weapons – Taylor Carey
‘To plan a strategy around such weapons is to be defeated by them. To threaten such an outrage against humanity and its world is to begin to lose one’s moral and human dignity. To work for a world...
View ArticleA New Evangelisation: Taylor B. Carey
‘Be still for the presence of the Lord, the Holy One, is here’ To walk through the centre of St Andrews of a Sunday morning is to bear witness to the magnificent reality of those words, taken from...
View ArticleWoolwich, Language and Religious Lives: Taylor Carey
In 2011, the BBC’s Reith Lectures bore the title ‘Securing Freedom’.[1] Re-reading them recently, the theme struck a fresh chord in light of the horrifying murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, killed outside...
View ArticleEaster at Christmas: A Thought for Holy Week by Taylor Carey
The last time I heard Easter proclaimed triumphantly from the pulpit was actually on 25th December. Priests, you see, are exhausted for most of Advent, and leading the Christmas Day service is a bit...
View ArticleThought for the week: am I pointing towards God? – Taylor Carey
Throughout his writing life, one painting hung above the desk of the famous theologian Karl Barth. It was Matthias Grünewald’s Crucifixion, which, in its original form, made up part of the great...
View ArticleMusic at Midnight: Taylor Carey
There’s a story that the great Anglican poet and priest George Herbert once made himself late for an important rehearsal by stopping to help a poor man in distress. Herbert re-saddled the man’s horse,...
View Article‘Those Who Passed By’: a Good Friday Reflection by Taylor Carey
This image, which was originally posted to Flickr.com, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload bot on 20:01, 11 May 2014 (UTC) by Jonund (talk) Mark 15:29-32 In a culture which grasps rather...
View ArticleSt Aidan – A Model for Mission? – by Taylor Carey
Hagiography is not biography, and what we know of the ministry of St Aidan – principally through the Ecclesiastical History of Bede – must not be considered forensic material, so much as the rich echo...
View ArticleFeast of the Blessed Virgin Mary: Sermon by Taylor Carey
A 12th-century rendition of the Dormition by a Novgorod artist via Wikipedia Sermon Preached at Evensong, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Holy Island of Lindisfarne William Golding will be remembered...
View ArticleA Season in Hell by Taylor Carey
‘I am not sure’, writes George Steiner of the most haunting tragedy of the twentieth century, ‘whether anyone, however scrupulous, who spends time and imaginative resources on these dark places,...
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