National Assembly Update Everyone agreed that it was a first-rate Assembly, full of determination, clarity of vision, good humour and every emotion imaginable. After a rousing welcome and call-to-arms from Fr Geoffrey Kirk, who addressed himself in plain Yorkshire terms [...]
In civility, thou seem’st so empty As You Like it George Austin and sado-masochism It worries me. I do it all the time, though I don’t like it. Is it becoming an addiction, an addiction indeed to sado-masochism? Surely not? [...]
Rodney Schofield considers debt and reparation The conference on Racism held in Durban last September attracted much media attention, particularly over the issue of Israel, but also on questions about land reform which certainly touch Malawi and other countries in [...]
THE MASS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS Mike Aquilina Our Sunday Visitor, 213pp, pbk 0 87973 942 8, £8.99 Mike Aquilina is an American Roman Catholic layman and writer and is well known in the United States, though he is less [...]
WHAT IS THEIR PLAN FOR US? The aftermath of the Australian General Synod is not giving members of Forward in Faith much joy. Our opponents are angry that the deals they thought had been struck fell apart, ensuring that even [...]
From the Rabbi Gamaliel Dear Bishop of Lincoln Designate, Congratulations on your election to a Christian bishopric. I am amazed, I have to say, that the threadbare bunch of enthusiasts whom I defended so long ago (in an off-the-cuff sort [...]
A Study in Understatement So where were the fireworks of previous years? And what happened to the resolutions denouncing unfaithfulness in our Church and immorality in our nation? Previous Reform conferences have had them in abundance, and some of the [...]
Vote fo(u)r what? Do you remember the good old days? You know, when the Church Commissioners doled out the largesse for the benefit of parish churches. They used to make large contributions towards the cost of paying the clergy until [...]
How low can a status Faull? It will surprise no one, I think, that as a result of the piece I wrote in New Directions in October (Faulling Status, p9) I received more than the usual quota of letters from [...]
PLANE DAFT The silly season of August saw 60 year old Revd George Brigham of Molesey Methodist Church conducting the wedding of Caroline and Justin Bunn strapped on the wing of a 1930s biplane. The flighty couple, on separate planes, [...]