Careying On "The new advertising campaign for Easter hopes to harness the spiritual longing which followed the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. The Churches' Advertising Network's posters depict a pile of floral tributes and cuddly toys beneath the slogan: [...]

What do you want, for goodness sake? ‘SINCE ALL THE CHILDREN share the same human nature, he too shared equally in it so that by his death he could set aside him who held the power of death, namely the [...]

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT, Raymond E. Brown, Doubleday 1997, hbk, 840 pp. ISBN 0-385-24767-2 THE NAME of Raymond Brown looms large in the field of New Testament scholarship. Across the denominational and wider boundaries, he has earned the [...]

A Place for Everything: Rev. 4:1-5, 14 THE DILEMMA facing the reader at the end of the ‘Letters to the Churches’ in Rev 2-3 is how this messy church can fulfil the mandate of Rev 1, to be a kingdom [...]

Terra Nullius Australis "WE HAVE ALL decided that we don’t want to have church any more. It seems now that even the church has let us down." With these words the rector of a bush parish in the rural New [...]

Early Promise A RICH MAN on his death bed hoped that he could take it with him and called his doctor, banker, and priest. He gave each an envelope containing $1 million and asked them to put the envelope in [...]

THOSE IN THE Church of England, and in the Orthodox Constituency, who have been persuaded to shelve their anxieties about the implications of the Human Rights Bill, should take note of recent events in the diocese of Gothenburg (Church of [...]