Herbert Howells and Jerusalem
According to Fred Teardo at the Cathedral Church of the Advent , Herbert Howells (1892-1983) “was snowed-in while spending the new year in Cheltenham. Written...
Good Friday and Easter Sunday
Good Friday and Easter....
Greeks Doubt Eulogies
Athenian orations....
Christmas, Ghost
“Marley was dead: to begin with.” ...
Thanksgiving Notebook: Bing, Booze, Book of Common Prayer
Unlike the music of Christmas or Easter, the music of Thanksgiving is harder to pinpoint. Shuffling leaves? The drum-brush strokes of a knife carving the...
Christmas: Cocktails and Crime, Choirs and Cool
A few notes, as Christmas is upon us. First, what to drink? I don’t care for Bloody Marys; they’re too acid. The best Christmas drinks...
Christmas Movies and Serial Killers
Today is the first Sunday in the season of Advent, a time in which Christians traditionally prepare themselves by reflection and prayer for the Incarnation,...
White (Collar) Christmas: Gin, Crime, Theology and the Rat Pack
The hour is upon us, so herewith a few Christmas items. Cocktails Here from the archives is a recipe (via Garden & Gun magazine)...
Why We Should Ban Any New “Christmas Carol” and Re-Tune Victorian Hymns
The BBC’s classical music site published this article about the Victorians and Christmas stories. The Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol is among them, but so...
Crime, Cocktails, Fiction and Scripture: blogs, links and sources on white-collar crime, cocktails, crime fiction and theology
We have recently updated and supplemented our “Blogs | Links | Sources” page here. It might be the most useful page on the site, with multiple...