I was disappointed to see Thurifer dismissing General Synod as a ‘talking shop….signifying nothing’. During the last Quinquennium a number of important measures were discussed in some depth, including lobbying HM Government to ban fixed-odds betting terminals, homelessness/housing and the [...]
Fr Clive Jones SSC whose service to the Church has been doubly recognised in recent weeks. He has received an award from the Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London for his sea cadet chaplaincy work and appointed Honorary Canon of Rochester Cathedral. [...]
Jonathan Baker reads ahead to the Easter Week gospels What feels like a hundred years ago, when I was the Vicar of Holy Trinity, Reading, a Solemn Mass was celebrated every day in the Christmas and Easter Octaves. My [...]
John Gayford looks at the Paschal Mystery in liturgy and concept Since the Second Vatican Council the concept of the Paschal Mystery has been revaluated and expanded to become a central concept of the Catholic Faith as the essential [...]
Abbot Xavier Perrin OSB of Quarr Abbey writes of Holy Week Gregorian Chant We may feel daunted when we arrive at Holy Week, even at the end of a reasonably serious Lent, by the mysteries of this most sacred [...]
Martin Draper writes on the Passiontide classic by William H. Vanstone MORNING glory, starlit sky, Soaring music, scholar’s truth, Flight of swallows, autumn leaves, Memory’s treasure, grace of youth: 2 Open are the gifts of God, Gifts of [...]
From Yorkshire, Hanna Hart writes about what it is to share in ministry to a changing landscape At the southern end of the Diocese of Leeds, by the eastern edge of West Yorkshire, on the last of the rolling [...]
Colin Podmore remembers faithful servant Sir William Fittall Before becoming Secretary General of the General Synod and Archbishops’ Council in 2002, William Fittall spent 27 years in the Home Office, Northern Ireland Office and Cabinet Office. Living in Paris [...]
Donald Easton evokes the life of a good and faithful servant Father John Vine, who has died at the age of 97, was one the last surviving incumbents to have been appointed under the old regulations which granted a [...]
Western theologian Nicholas Sagovsky expresses shock and sadness As a UK-based theologian, I have been trying to understand what lies behind the catastrophic Russian attack on Ukraine and ‘Putin’s War’, and pose the following theological questions. (1) What [...]