Exeter Cathedral School was founded some time in the 12th century, and boasts an almost unbroken existence from that day to this. I went there as a boarder in 1966, aged 7, with a scholarship linked to my place in the Choir. We sang…
The ritual purifications of the law were only ever meant to be symbolic. They were an outward sign of the human need to be clean before God, to be reconciled with him, to be in communion with him. The Old Testament is…