Taking as many guises as his names, the Prince of Lies turned at times into a man-devouring ogre, a mutant medley of claws, horns and wings, or the brooding rebel that lit the imagination of Romantic painters, as Carla Passino discovers

Classical Greek and modern ideas of beauty

“One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb,” goes the old proverb. The meaning is simple: if you are going to be punished for a small crime, you may as well commit the bigger one. In the early

What the West owes to the ancient world

Shamanism across many cultures

THIS year I thought it would be a good idea to do a few sermons based on the Westminster Shorter Catechism. Written in England by an assembly of learned clergymen in the 1640s, this is a summary of Bi