The Hearth of Mopsus

"Gothic Isn't Just the Spiky Bits on Churches"

Thursday, 11 June 2026

Back to Painshill

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It is fully twenty-one years since I was last at Painshill Park, with Dr Bones on that occasion. That was blazing summer, but a rainy weekda...
Friday, 5 June 2026

Ave Verum, in Different Ways

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For Corpus Christi I made my way to St Nic's in Guildford for Mass and Benediction. The service started late for these things, at 8pm, a...
Monday, 1 June 2026

Speak For Us, Papa Leo

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Every ordained person knows the story of the medieval monastery whose report to their Bishop Visitor went ‘the community hears a sermon ever...
Thursday, 28 May 2026

Half Term Conversations

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It has been deathly quiet in Swanvale Halt over the last week. Not only is it half term so as usual everyone who can be absent is, but the h...
Sunday, 17 May 2026

"Escape to Danger"

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Well, if not danger, mild irritation, anyway. At the beginning of the Clergy Conference at Swanwick it is now the custom to ask everyone to ...
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Friday, 1 May 2026

Parsing Prejudices

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People seem to find it quite hard to distinguish between criticism of the actions of the state of Israel and antisemitic comment. I don’t th...
Monday, 27 April 2026

Misery Loves

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For every expression of Christianity that gives the impression believers ought to be bouncily cheerful at al times and anything else implies...
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I realised I actually enjoyed reading my friends' blogs, and so have made my own, with an oblique nod to 4th-century theologian Theodore of Mopsuestia. Christian and Gothic matters will probably predominate. Names are changed to protect the furtive.
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