The presiding light in the 1630s was Archbishop William Laud. Thus a movement favoring railed altars and a polemical shift from anti-Puritanism to anti-Calvinism, is often called Laudianism.
John La Farge was a prolific artist. He created stained-glass windows for churches of every denomination, as well as for secular institutions and rich homeowners.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has maintained a busy schedule of ministry, teaching, dedication to the Episcopal Church, and taking care of her family.
In this erudite, accessible book, Philip C. Almond recounts the efforts of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim writers to “create a coherent narrative” from the account of Noah and the Flood.
The authors write: “Modern British Christianity has dramatically declined in many ways. But it has also shown striking resilience. British Christianity has both grown and shrunk, died and risen again.”
