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Playwright, filmmaker, academic, and cultural critic exploring faith, culture, and meaning beyond the usual scripts.
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To Make Us Feel His Love (opens the original)
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Sometimes I wonder whether theologians have read the scriptures they claim to be theorising over. I have particular issues with some of the ways theologians mull over the meaning of the crucifixion. I think it is a lot simpler than their theories propose.The two that get me exercised are Ransom Theory and Penal Substitution. What are they, and why don’t I like them very much? (Cue stern faces grumbling, “It’s not a case of whether you like them...”)The Ransom Theory of Atonement has it that Jesu
Et in Arcadia ego (opens the original)
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Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia is one of the least disputed masterpieces of the past half-century. Its original National Theatre production had a long run, both on the South Bank and in the West End. It was esteemed and financially successful on Broadway. It has since been revived a couple of times in the West End, the second of those revivals now nearing the end of its run at the Duke of York’s Theatre. I finally got to see it, after thinking “I should really see it” about all of the previous productio
Becoming Sixty (opens the original)
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I turned sixty last month. I am not surprised to have made it here, although it’s been touch and go at times. But it is a shock to have got here so quickly. My mother retired at 60, that being, in the 1980s, the statutory retirement age for women. Perhaps more significantly, my father died at sixty.My father was Percy Charles Ernest Charlton, born in Dagenham in 1915. Everyone called him Charlie. My mother was his second wife, and he left his first - along with three children - to be with my Mum
Love in The Potting Shed (opens the original)
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A short while ago, I stumbled across a 1980 television production of Graham Greene’s play The Potting Shed on YouTube. In itself, its existence testifies to the extraordinary programming decisions being made at the time. A half-forgotten minor West End and Broadway hit, not a classic play, by someone not best known as a playwright, broadcast in a primetime slot. Its cast is starry and extraordinarily able – Paul Scofield, Celia Johnson and Anna Massey in the lead roles. The proscenium-arch quali
Reading Raspail (opens the original)
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A short while ago I read the infamous novel The Camp of the Saints by the French writer Jean Raspail. It has taken me a month or so to write about this dystopian satire, which has become associated with ethnonationalist movements in Europe and North America. When it was first published in 1973, the novel received serious literary attention in France and later appeared in English as a mass-market work of speculative fiction. But as immigration has become an increasingly contentious political issu
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