CONTENTS 1 JANUARY 2011 COLUMNS


5 CHRISTOPHER JAMISON ‘Vital changes can be framed by silence as well as by fanfares’


11 SARA MAITLAND ‘It was very beautiful and peaceful and I did not have to play Monopoly’


18 LISTEN TO THE WORD 19 PARISH PRACTICE 20 NOTEBOOK 21 LETTERS 22 THE LIVING SPIRIT 23 PUZZLES


BOOKS


24 SEBASTIAN BARKER Faith, Hope and Poetry: theology and the poetic imagination Malcolm Guite


SUSAN DOWELL


Betjeman and the Anglican imagination Kevin J. Gardner


ANTHONY LEJEUNE The Attenbury Emeralds Jill Paton Walsh


ARTS


28 FEATURE Mark Lawson


London theatre in 2010


RADIO D.J. Taylor John Wyndham: No Place Like Earth


TELEVISION John Morrish When Harvey Met Bob


OPERA Robert Thicknesse Semiramide


14 Hands across the Tiber Paul Murray A leading ecumenist assesses what needs to happen if the Pope’s hopes for the Anglican ordinariate are to be fulfilled


16 Double standards in Dublin Conor Gearty The right to have an abortion will be enshrined in law following a recent European Court ruling


31 THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD World’s moral collapse ‘echoes Roman Empire’


35 LETTER FROM ROME


36 NEWS FROM BRITAIN AND IRELAND Cash-strapped dioceses combine to increase purchasing power COVER ILLUSTRATION: MARIE-HELENE JEEVES


1 January 2011 | THE TABLET | 3 FEATURES


4 Blame game in Haiti Edward Stourton A year after the earthquake, there is increasing discontent about the agencies – including Churches – involved in reconstruction


6 Politics of people power Luke Bretherton The Tea Party movement in the United States is only the latest manifestation of a tendency with deep roots: Populism


8 Towards a new reality Nicholas Boyle Virginia Woolf identified December 1910 as the moment when the human character changed. Is it happening again 100 years later?


10 Readiness for a happier ever after Isabel de Bertodano Two royal weddings in 2011 will focus attention on marriage. Preparation classes might help set a couple on course for happiness


12 God and the trouble with Harry Jonathan Tulloch A new book by a Benedictine monk argues that fears that J.K. Rowling’s books are an anti-Christian influence are badly misplaced


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