About ten years ago, I returned to church after a long hiatus. What drove me back to church was not a recovery of earlier beliefs or listeners. Poetry was in the hymns and in the simple words people ...

Still fresh a century on, this is a very neat dramatisation of the clash between religion’s commands and human instinct As I was lying in my bed I heard the church-bell ring; Before one solemn word ...

Newman wrote “The Dream” in 1865 during a time when he was under great stress and had become worried about his own health and possible demise. Pope Leo XIV closed the Vatican’s recent Lenten spiritual ...

This compilation of Easter poems and songs for church services reflect on the terrible death of Christ and the miraculous triumph that secured our salvation.