HeyJaredCary's Almanac
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The Strange Death of the Harvest Festival (opens the original)
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Welcome to Cary’s Almanac!Are Harvest services dying out in the Church of England? I think they are. Why is that?It might be because these services are not mandated. Harvest Sunday is not an official day in the Church calendar. Some churches hold these services in an attempt to engage with the local community, luring non-regular worshippers into church. Who can blame them? ‘Harvest Sunday’ is an easier sell than ‘Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity’. Plus, they are offering a bit of nostalgia from
Who is the First Englishman? (opens the original)
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Who was the first Englishman? It’s a good question, especially for an Englishman like me. As a Christian, I know the first man is Adam. That’s important. Isn’t it also important to know who the first Englishman is?In The English Soul, Peter Ackroyd suggests this title could be claimed by the Venerable Bede. He was a Northumbrian monk and scholar born around 672 AD who spent his life writing books at the twin monasteries of Wearmouth and Jarrow until he died in 731 AD.I can relate. Like Bede, I j
The Unthinkable English Almanac (opens the original)
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Do you have a box under your desk or in a cupboard that you’ve been meaning to get rid of for ages? Maybe, it’s been such a long time, you can’t quite remember what’s in the box. It might even be one of those boxes that you didn’t even open when you moved into your previous house and out again.That box is from your former self. It is a gift to your future self. You are assuming it is the gift of clutter.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rv
The Strange Case of the Missing English Almanac (opens the original)
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I was in a local bookshop yesterday, surrounded by almanacs and seasonal guides. There was a table laden with books about folklore, festivals, landscape, ancient customs and the turning of the year. Some offered an explicitly pagan interpretation of the seasons; others presented a more general spirituality, carefully detached from any particular creed. What was largely missing was Christianity.That is bizarre because Christianity is not some late addition to the English calendar. It’s ground zer
A Terrifying World, but a A Terrible Novel (opens the original)
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Can we all just agree that Brave New World is a pretty terrible novel?It was refreshing to hear that viewpoint given an airing in a recent episode of The Book Club podcast (below) in which Dominic Sandbrook was happy to point out the glaring inadequacies of the book.<so
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