Anthony Bell on Medjugorje, the Rosary and the discipline of prayer I FIRST ENCOUNTERED the Rosary as a dynamic form of prayer at Medjugorje. Here the recitation of the whole fifteen mysteries form part of the daily evening liturgy incorporating [...]
John Boyers explains the role of a chaplain to a football team LET ME FIRST introduce myself. I am a Baptist Minister who, for some 15 years, was involved with normal local church ministry. In 1990 leaders of the denomination [...]
JUNE 1999 THE DANGER NOW, of course, after the undreamed of success of TOOL, and in the white heat of the run-up to the GREAT EVENT itself is BURN OUT! We have seen it happen before - the two Michaels [...]
Hugh Baker revisits the three-legged stool OVER THE LAST FEW months I've been reflecting on Professor Leslie Fairchild's article in January's New Directions on Quadrilaterals of the Lambeth Type. Interestingly, only three sides of the Quadrilateral, Scripture, Tradition and Reason, [...]
DO ALL GOOD PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN WELL, MANY GOOD people certainly do but not because they are good. It is made very clear in the letter to the Romans and in many other places in the New Testament that [...]
ORTHODOXY RESURGENT THERE SEEM TO BE several ways in which pressure is mounting for a return to doctrinal orthodoxy in the Church of England. For many years, evangelicals have sought to play an active part in the processes of synodical [...]
Belle Isle Consultation - URGENT INFORMATION Presumably not in attempt to scupper a worthwhile attendance at the LEEDS consultation, the authorities have taken it into their heads to renumber various roads and motorway junctions around the city. This is as [...]
Andrew Burnham looks forward to Judith Rose's motion in the Synod. ASKED BY the then chairman of the Catholic Group, Fr Robin Ellis, to write a position paper on Women Bishops for the Catholic Group in General Synod, I published [...]
Patrick Lauderdale gives a brief account of the restoration of the Shrine at Haddington in East Lothian I AM SOMETIMES asked how the idea of a Pilgrimage came to me. In the mid I950s, Fr. Patten, restorer of the Anglican [...]
Consecrated Sheilas AS A RESULT of Forward in Faith’s ongoing dialogue with those of our opponents who want women bishops, and more publicly, the skilful presentations of Bishop David Silk (Ballarat) and the Rev’d. Dr. Robert Doyle (Moore College, Sydney), [...]