Pico Iyer makes time for retreats at a Benedictine hermitage in California. In “Aflame: Learning From Silence,” he writes about finding clarity.

They tell us about stories they enjoy and parts they find difficult to understand. The Christian Bible is described: Made up of 66 books in two 'Testaments' (39 books in the Old Testament and 27 ...

St Magnus Way, on Orkney Mainland, is dedicated to Magnus Erlendsson, Earl of Orkney — an influential trading and military outpost of the Norse (Scandinavian) kingdom at the end of the 11th century.