It thought I’d review a few titles if you are present-hunting. Lo! The first:
If These Stones Could Talk: The History of Christianity in Britain and Ireland through Twenty Buildings by Peter Stanford
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I so loved this book I would save it for when I had an undisturbed half-hour. It’s a lucid, irenic, generous, walking-pace tour of British and Irish church history, stopping off, as it were, at twenty sites, each resonant of a century. Peter Stanford’s writing is longer on church history than on church architecture, which I liked, and like many others, I found it put in order for me the jumble of names –Augustine and Cuthbert and John Knox and Wesley– that had gathered in my head like an untidy sock drawer.
Lovely book.
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