• A scene from the movie ‘Doonby’ (downloaded from media page at official website)
  • Detail from an icon of St John Chrysostom (seated) interpreting the Epistles of St Paul.
  • Salix x sepulchralis, the weeping willow. From Wikimedia Commons.
  • Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska. From Wikimedia Commons.
  • A self-portrait by Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), dated to 1747-1749. From Wikimedia Commons.
  • “You wonder where it’s going, but even if you know it’s a pro-life movie, you’re surprised, delighted, and moved by the way it ends.”

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  • Because he showed such great love toward Christ, he went up above the Heavens, and stood with the Angels.

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  • Ian Bostridge talks about "The English Songbook", a diverse collection of his favourite songs in the English language, and sings ‘Down by the Salley Gardens’.

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  • “People of faith and common decency just shrug and move on from the constant assault on their sensibilities; we don’t call for censorship – at least I don’t.”

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  • Our Maker, painting the portrait to resemble His own beauty, by the addition of virtues, as it were with colours, shows in us His own sovereignty.

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St John Chrysostom: Let us imitate St Paul’s love for Christ

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January 27, 2012
Detail from an icon of St John Chrysostom (seated) interpreting the Epistles of St Paul.

Because he showed such great love toward Christ, he went up above the Heavens, and stood with the Angels.
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St Gregory of Nyssa: How God paints his beauty upon us

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January 26, 2012
A self-portrait by Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792), dated to 1747-1749. From Wikimedia Commons.

Our Maker, painting the portrait to resemble His own beauty, by the addition of virtues, as it were with colours, shows in us His own sovereignty.
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All generations shall call her blessed

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January 26, 2012
Virgin and child depicted in stained glass (19th century) in Wymondham Abbey. © Evelyn Simak (Geograph), licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons licence.

Alone among women didst thou bear without seed God in the flesh, and as Virgin do we magnify thee, all generations of men.
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O Lord, remember me in thy kingdom

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January 24, 2012
The Divine Liturgy, celebrated on a feast honouring of the relics of St Seraphim of Sarov

O heal the incurable wounds of my heart, O Lord, for thou alone art Physician of soul and body.
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Doonby (Movie) — Official Trailer

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January 27, 2012

“You wonder where it’s going, but even if you know it’s a pro-life movie, you’re surprised, delighted, and moved...
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Sarah Palin: Must every reference to faith in God be censored?

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January 26, 2012

“People of faith and common decency just shrug and move on from the constant assault on their sensibilities; we...
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Tens of thousands Walk for Life in San Francisco

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January 24, 2012

Organizers said there were quite a number of Orthodox priests, as well as other bishops and priests from all...
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Markets don’t fail, they just don’t always deliver what policymakers want

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January 23, 2012

“In the current sovereign debt crisis, the financial system was actively steered into purchasing more government debt than they...
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Music

Salix x sepulchralis, the weeping willow. From Wikimedia Commons.

The English Songbook (Ian Bostridge)

Ian Bostridge talks about "The English Songbook", a diverse collection of his favourite songs in the English language, and sings ‘Down by the Salley Gardens’.

A forest path towards Shieldgreen near Peebles in the Scottish Borders. © Callum Black (Geograph), licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Licence.

Franz Schubert: Winterreise (interview with Ian Bostridge and Leif Ove Andsnes)

Ian Bostridge (tenor) and Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) talk about Franz Schubert's song cycle "Winterreise" (winter journey).

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Charles Ives: Fourth sonata for violin and piano, first movement (Hahn, Lisitsa)

Hilary Hahn and Valentina Lisitsa play the first movement from Charles Ives’s Fourth Sonata for Violin and Piano, “Children’s Day at the Camp Meeting (Allegro)”.

Piano and orchestra

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2: extracts and interview with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes

Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes and conductor Antonio Pappano talk about Rachmaninoff's wonderfully expressive and passionate concerto No. 2, with generous extracts.

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The Annual Walk for Life West Coast, in San Francisco (January 24, 2012).

Tens of thousands Walk for Life in San Francisco

Organizers said there were quite a number of Orthodox priests, as well as other...

A Greek Orthodox priest prevents a rioter from throwing a Molotov coktail.

Robert L. Woodson: The power of presence

These men are rebuilding civil society, demonstrating the concern and care for individuals at...

Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the UK 1979-1990

Margaret Thatcher on society and personal responsibility

There is a living tapestry of men and women and people, and its beauty...

Abolitionist William Wilberforce, by Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830).

The culture that created you is a Judeo-Christian culture

‘Western culture is just like most other civilizations in that it engaged in slavery,...