Yes, it is a total mess. I can see why they are trying to do it, bu the fact this has been continuously postponed for years (MTD was meant to start in 2018!) shows what a bombzilla it is. And even no… (View Post)

Russian Orthodoxy for me. I love the ancient icons and smoky mysticism and the singing can be epic. That said, I love English churches and cathedrals and the Anglican choral tradition is unexampled s… (View Post)

Russians aren’t renowned for eschewing booze Indeed Orthodox clerics have a reputation for drinking I once spent a week in the quasi-independent monastic theocracy of Mount Athos (where no women are … (View Post)

I don’t need a structured church. I just go into churches (and other religious buildings) wherever I am in the world. Nothing beats an ancient Christian church for noom (unless we count stone circles… (View Post)

Yes I love London churches. I know the first of the ones you mention but not the second. Will check, ta Hawksmoor is possibly my favourite. My heart leaps every time I see Christ Church Spitalfields,… (View Post)