Unhappy Anniversary LIFE SAID MR WILDE (deftly anticipating Mr Stephen Fry) imitates art. But Wilde knew more of the truth than ever he said. He knew, his own life being what it was, that life is art. We make a [...]

SILLY SEASON EVERY SUMMER the silly season comes round again, just like the first cuckoo in the Spring and the falling leaves in Autumn. We got off to an early start this year with John Spong's twelve theses. If you [...]

Jack Spong ONE OF THE KEYS to great comedy is timing. The same may be said of some aspects of journalism. Just as last week’s scoop is today’s chip wrapper so there can be a danger that last month's pertinent [...]

George Austin gathers that all was not well with the press team at Lambeth '98 THE LAMBETH bishops had hardly unpacked their mitres when 1 began to have anguished telephone calls from resident journalists, not for rent-a-quotes but usually simply [...]

by Archdeacon Armitage Shanks AFTER THE EXHAUSTION of Lambeth - rest! And I have to say looking out over the vineyards and olive groves of Chiantishire, that Lambeth '98 seems very far away. Bobby and I needed the rest, and [...]

Rodney Schofield reflects on the language we use about God and Jesus THE CORRECT order is to believe the deep things of the Christian faith before undertaking to discuss them by reason. But we are negligent if, having come to [...]

Jonathan Redvers Harris on the continuing need to pass all three resolutions TO RETURN to the need for PCCs to pass the Resolutions may sound wearisome and tedious. But, time and again, parishes are painfully discovering the cost of NOT [...]

Francis Gardom considers that Natural Justice is not just natural NATURAL JUSTICE is being appealed to with increasing frequency nowadays as the principle upon which certain decisions, some of which have wide-ranging implications, should be taken. It has been used [...]

Bishop John Richards reflects on the job he is about to relinquish IT WAS A FEW DAYS before Pentecost. I woke up to a glorious sunny morning and went 100 yards to the local parish church to say the Divine [...]

John Turner reflects on the operation of ‘two integrities’ in Japan THE OUTCOME was unpredictable when in November 1992 the Church of England's General Synod came to vote on the ordination of women to the priesthood: till almost the very [...]