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The story of the Jesuits — how the Society of Jesus charted the world

The Gospel of Thomas: casting a new light on Early Christianity

The salvation of Spinoza

The joy of suffering

The Gospel according to Judas

Reassessing Christian history

EI Weekly Listen — The story of the Jesuits: how the Society of Jesus charted the world by M.Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J

Reclaiming Christian freedom for the modern age

Christianity in a cold climate – Jesuit encounters with Japan

An Easter elegy

The passion of Bach

New Year’s Christian origins

Why Jihadis are drawn to Khorasan

Fantasy in Middle Eastern nation-making

On betrayal

How ideology transformed the early modern individual

The gods in love

The Passion of Hilma af Klint

Notre-Dame’s resurrection

Rodin’s eternal peace

Stuck in Herbert’s Temple

How the idea of America changed Britain

Christmas warmth illuminates dark times

Laughing with the Face of God

Finding Turkey in Narnia

Ghospelling and ghossiping

God is back

Life in Venice

How Russia and Iran have united in antipathy towards the West

Did nationalism exist in the classical world?

Between Westernisers and Slavophiles – the search for Russia’s soul

Crisis and the creation of great art

From the Silk Road to the information superhighway

Thomas Gage – a man of unintended consequences

For the love of wine

In defence of the city-state

The enduring spirit of Christmas

Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana — singular and strikingly modern composer

The Future of Europe: secular but not secularist, diverse but not divided

Inside the Collective Unconscious

Star Wars — the mythos of our times

Jacobus Clemens non Papa – absolutely not the Pope

Rising from the ruins of war, Coventry Cathedral shows the power of reconciliation

Human nature and European civilisation

John Hughes and the making and unmaking of the American dream

Football’s rhetoric of suffering

Spies as agents of peace

Gareth Evans — philosophy’s lost prodigy

The road to Auschwitz

Great Books: Jaroslav Hašek’s The Good Soldier Švejk

The Anonymous Canon

Amis the Unadaptable

Noel Coward’s too brief encounter with the silver screen

The Gospel according to DH Lawrence

J.M. Coetzee’s absence without leave

Books of the Year 2023

Flights of fantasy

The British Empire’s Indian odyssey

Matisse’s second life

At the crossroads of religion and science

Evelyn Waugh and Anthony Powell – visions of a vanished Britain

Spies, lies and empires

The medieval roots of modern antisemitism

The struggle for Saudi Arabia’s buried past

Heavenly ambitions and earthly ruin: the lessons of the Taiping Rebellion

Jimmy Carter, orphan of the American Century

Kate Bush, English lionheart

The curious history of imaginary libraries

In search of the Sylvan Commonwealth

The pardon paradox

Remembering the true spirit of Christmas

Charles Lamb’s literary alter ego

The spiritual world of The White Lotus

Nicaea: the council that shaped the West

EI Weekly Listen — The joy of suffering by Candida Moss

Rewriting Spanish history, one song at a time