England

Mary Beth Norton steers between the timeless and the time-lost in this all-too-slim book about the world’s first advice column.

Peter Ackroyd sees a special historical relationship between the development of a distinctively English sensibility and that of the English church.

Behind the resurgence of festivals and flags is a story of cultural change—and resistance to it.

The Londoners who come to Aylesford as pilgrims are an impressively polychrome microcosm of Christianity.

Others have given up on them, but not God.

The dialogue was good. The meal was even better.

Andrew Gant's lively book tells a history of sacred song.

Britain's House of Commons voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to legalize the creation of so-called "three-parent babies." Though advocates of the move say it will help prevent a debilitating and often lethal condition, many warn that the procedure, though well-intentioned, opens the door to ethical and safety questions that have yet to be sufficiently grappled with.

Paul Elie has lamented the absence of serious engagement with Christianity in contemporary fiction. He should read Stacia Brown.

“There needs to be a reason before the reasons began why you’d engage with an argument about God at all. This, I think, is where it makes sense to speak in the language of experience, of emotion.”