Tag: land

Notes from the Sticks: Why do we kiss under the mistletoe?

Notes from the Sticks: The heart of our green and pleasant land

HERE’S a quiz question: Where is the centre of Great Britain? The answer is Whitendale Hanging Stones, about 13 miles from our Lancashire village, as calculated by the Ordnance Survey. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whitendale_Hanging_Stones_-_geograph.org.uk_-_2169690.jpg The nearest habitation is the hamlet of Dunsop Bridge, four and a half miles south. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dunsop_Bridge_-_geograph.org.uk_-_4435165.jpg It is at the entrance to the spectacular […]

April 7, 2024
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The Holy Land ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Holy Land ~ The Imaginative Conservative

For nearly two thousand years, the pilgrimage to the Holy Land has been the pinnacle of Christian religious experience and a byword for trust in divine providence. There is one place that captivates the pilgrim more than all the rest. Because in the most consequential of lands, it is the most consequential city this side […]

March 3, 2024
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The Land of the Living: Sunday Reflection – HotAir

The Land of the Living: Sunday Reflection – HotAir

This morning’s Gospel reading is Mark 9:2–10: Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them. Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were […]

February 25, 2024
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A stranger in my own land

A stranger in my own land

A RECENT journey into London was heartbreaking. As my train pulled into Stratford station I felt decidedly uneasy, surrounded by unfamiliarity and strangeness. I grew up in London during the 1980s, so have always felt comfortable living in a multi-ethnic urban centre, but this was different. The multiplicity of languages being spoken and the sartorial […]

January 9, 2024
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