The campaign to legalize euthanasia is driven by a lack of respect for the sanctity of human life, writes Janet Backman When I was at university, I avoided abortion like the plague. Perhaps I should rephrase that: I avoided campaigns [...]
Each evening during the York sessions of the General Synod, the Catholic Group meets after the close of business at 10 pm to say Compline. On Sunday 13 July, the eve of the Synod's debate on Final Approval of the [...]
The House of Bishops' Declaration: 1 In May Colin Podmore outlined the new provisions for those who cannot receive the ministry of women as priests and bishops. In June he looked at the Resolution of Disputes Procedure. This article begins [...]
Prayer opens windows I was standing on the train to London packed with commuters when a signal problem stopped us in our tracks. The carriage steamed up and we opened the windows. Things got that bit more bearable. It got [...]
In a passage in the second book of the Kings Jezebel tells the gathered band to cheer up r This time of year and in our ecclesiastical situation it can seem difficult to be of good cheer. And yet we [...]
ST MARY THE VIRGIN, ASTLEY, WARKS Astley is a small settlement, with just a few houses — and the former castle — around the church. At one's first sight of the church, the exterior has the typical sequence of west [...]
Ian McCormack welcomes two volumes of local history which brought back memories of his youth ANGLICANS ON HIGH The Anglo-Catholic Revival in Suffolk and the Surrounding Area Roy TrickerThe Fitzwalter Press, 232pp, pbk 978 1901470210, £30 + £5 p&p; available [...]
Christopher Smith considers the Holy Spirit I have something of a love-hate relationship with the Today programme which fills the Radio 4 schedule on weekday mornings. It is a convenient way to ingest the news at the beginning of the [...]
Python at the ENO Tom Sutcliffe praises a new production of Benvenuto Cellini, directed by Terry Gilliam Almost everybody, even his fellow French, can now recognize the genius of Berlioz as a composer. But of course as an opera composer, [...]
The Trinity Michael Ramsey The God to whom we pray is the Triune God, the blessed Trinity, the Three in One and One in Three, not because theologians have invented a kind of mathematical puzzle to entertain us — because [...]