This week’s Spotify Sunday playlist has been selected by Archbishop Cranmer, whose blog on religion and politics is no
doubt familiar to many readers of this website. We’re grateful to him for contributing to the Spectator Arts Blog.
There is nothing which invigorates His Grace’s ashes more than the old battles of Church and State; the interminable clash of the sacred with the profane; the divine disapproval of all the deceits of the world, the flesh, and the devil. And so his mind and spirit (and blog) are perpetually preoccupied with that place where religion meets politics and politics becomes secular religion. Or, as Sir Humphrey might say, where the bishop’s religio-political agendas fuse with the politician’s politico-religious objectives.
This Playlist is unashamedly catholic and (chronologically) representative of His Grace’s favourite music on the theme of Salvation, both temporal and spiritual: pieces that give a taste of heaven and occasionally a glimpse of hell.
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