Crispin Harrison CR looks at the significance of this well-known miracle The feeding of the five thousand is a very familiar story and it is difficult to think of anything fresh to say about it. Yet it does pose some [...]

Aidan Mayoss CR reflects on the parable of the sower There is a measure of dislocation in this Gospel. It is between the actual parable spoken by Jesus and then the latter part, the working out of the allegory which [...]

J. Alan Smith offers a personal reflection on the First World War I was born in December 1939. For my generation, the Second World War was the War and it had a dominant influence on our lives, certainly until the [...]

Recognizing donors – 1 Most of the time we are in the dark concerning people who paid for building medieval churches. Just occasionally, we get a clue from inscriptions. The tower at West Tofts (1, Norfolk) has ‘Alle the begyners [...]

Michael Fisher explains how parishes may face pressure to rescind the Resolutions, and suggests how they can resist it Until recent pastoral reorganization, two medieval churches – St Margaret’s and St Cecilia’s* – were part of a five-church Team Ministry. [...]

Mike Keulemans argues that the CofE now has more than enough ministers within the system to reclaim the parish Ever since 1964, when the Leslie Paul Report first identified a growing shortage of full-time clergy to staff England’s parishes, the [...]

John Turnbull enjoys the opportunity to get on with real work One of the first things that came to my mind after I heard the result of the General Synod vote was, to my surprise, a statement in an article [...]

Digby Anderson looks at why Christians engage in so many never-ending arguments I don’t know what the Christians in General Synod think they have been doing for the past twenty odd years or more on church order and authority but [...]

Colin Podmore begins to look at how the House of Bishops’ Declaration says the Five Guiding Principles will be applied in practice Simplicity, reciprocity and mutuality 6. The House believes that the outworking of these principles needs to be accompanied [...]

Nicolas Stebbing CR explains why we must study the Bible properly Several years ago, when I was a young monk I was sent to the Jesuits to do the Spiritual Exercises and to learn how to give them. It was [...]