Hints and tips:
...We could get quite a lot of this, of course, by simply going to a church, mosque, temple or synagogue. There is overwhelming evidence that religious faith bolsters mental health....
...At the birth of Christ, two groups are present — shepherds and kings....
...Asceticism is a way to imitate Christ’s life, to take up the cross with him....
...What does sexual abuse in the US Catholic church have to do with the collapsed German payments company Wirecard?...
...Church art offered a tease and a consolation: here’s a picture of what you don’t have, but you wouldn’t want it anyway. Deprivation was reinterpreted as virtue....
...Long hours sitting in discomfort on a pew during an interminable church service is a religious experience of a sort....
...The Gentle Author’s tours start and finish on the steps at Christ Church, Nicholas Hawksmoor’s masterpiece of English baroque, completed in 1729....
...The church of Mater Misericordiae (1956-57) in the Milan suburb of Baranzate is a translucent box of ethereal beauty....
...“People have given up on the church.” guy.chazan@ft.com...
...More bishops accrued greater authority and attempted to impose their orthodoxy. Pagan rituals were in many places outlawed and temples destroyed. But there were challenges....
...Others believe there should be greater oversight of the relationship....
...Beyond Temple Church, a small styrax tree with its distinctive snowflake flowers is the focal point of the Inn’s newest feature, a stylish vegetable garden housed in four asymmetrical black metal beds....
...One Sunday, I attended a local church opposite an apartment I briefly lived in, even though I had no chance of understanding the service....
...The tree-lined St Pancras Old Church Gardens, for instance, provides a tranquil picnic spot. The church is tiny and medieval, with remnants of paint peeping from beneath the plaster....
...Today’s clientele include City workers and lawyers from the nearby legal temples, as well as students from King’s College up the road....
...The last few are parachuting down on to the ordered beds of Christ Church and I feel conflicted....
...I’ll emerge from a clump of trees, and the spires of Christ Church in Hampstead and St Michael’s in Highgate will seem to have swapped places....
...But Paul Almeida, the school’s dean, says the curriculum for the school’s core MBA programme has long revolved around teaching about having a greater purpose in one’s work....
...The Aztecs, when they attributed the collapse of Teotihuacán to forces greater than they could understand, were not so wrong....
...There is not space for a great many chairs in the socially distanced layout at Christ Church Spitalfields, but there was still a sense of occasion for the festival’s opening night....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Recycled (hot) air?...
...The archbishop handled the news with notable calm: he called it a “complete surprise”, but added that his identity in Christ “never changes”....
...The designer Michael Anastassiades is already at work, collaborating with Studio Mumbai on the reinvention of a historic church garden....
...Giotto’s “Navicella” mosaic showed Christ walking on the water and St Peter leaving his boat to join him....
...Here is a group of beautifully designed buildings that really work together: the parish church is framed and enhanced by Montevetro (which continues the line of the pediment and pitch of the church), and...
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