Spiritual Friendship Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House At the Last Supper, Jesus said: ‘I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you’ (John 15.15). The relationship [...]

Does the Christian faith offer a clear answer to the question, ‘Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the EU?' Does Anglo-Catholicism? For those who want to emphasise the Church of England's connectedness with Christian Europe and (as a [...]

PAINTING THE MODERN GARDEN: MONET TO MATISSE Royal Academy until 20 April. When the critics previewed the 2016 exhibitions calendar, this show was derided. The reason? Impressionists and gardens are bound to be a winner with Middle England, the audience [...]

Our chef looks forward... Easter Day is on the horizon and a feast must be planned and prepared. Last year’s Lamb and Chocolate Hotpot was not an unqualified success, so I thought that this year I’d revert to serving the [...]

William Davage attends the latest meeting of the General Synod Bureaucratic Succession Anglo-Catholics have had an ambivalent relationship with the General Synod. John Henry Newman thought that the Oxford Movement began with the Assize Sermon of John Keble, in which [...]

Most English churches were rebuilt in the late Middle Ages. Here at Bressingham, in Norfolk, you can see the mark of an earlier roof against the east face of the tower (1), so the tower must have been built first, [...]

H. F. B. Mackay on love of God and love of neighbour In 1928 Fr H. F. B. Mackay, one of the leaders of the Catholic Movement in the 1920s, published Saints and Leaders, which included pen-portraits of six ‘Men [...]

Ash Wednesday in the diocese of Leicester, from the diocesan website and social media pages "On Ash Wednesday, 10th February, the day on which the Christian season of Lent starts, clergy and other staff from the Diocese of Leicester gave [...]

An edited version of the Bishop of London’s address at the Mansion House It is a privilege to second the Archbishop of Canterbury's response to the Lord Mayor. Sydney Smith, the witty nineteenth-century Canon of St Paul's, one remarked that [...]

Serenhedd James accepts an invitation to Hampton Court You know you've hit gold when the Protestant Truth Society shows up with a banner. This time it was at Hampton Court on the afternoon of Shrove Tuesday, and its four representatives [...]