Bishops’ Representatives
Colin Podmore reports on a new development in the life of the Society and Forward in Faith The ordination of women as bishops will be a big change for the Church of England. We need to develop new ways of [...]
Ashes to Go
Simon Cuff recounts how clergy from the Diocese of London took to the streets on Ash Wednesday ‘Remember you are but dust and unto to dust you shall return. Repent and believe the Gospel’ – words the average commuter does [...]
Ashes to Go
Simon Cuff recounts how clergy from the Diocese of London took to the streets on Ash Wednesday ‘Remember you are but dust and unto to dust you shall return. Repent and believe the Gospel’ – words the average commuter does [...]
LEAD STORY
Holy matrimony? Janet Backman believes the Church of England should step away from the legal aspect of marriage altogether In a book review in the February edition of NEW DIRECTIONS, Bishop Martyn Jarrett explained clearly and elegantly that in the [...]
We got it wrong
As we address Lent’s invitation to search out more profoundly our need for forgiveness, that is made all the harder by our living in a culture that barely does penitence. Getting it wrong the way we do is more than [...]
editorial
Now is not the time to give up or to give in. As we move forward in the legislative process it is important that we as a constituency keep our nerve and keep together. It is only natural that there [...]
touching place
Ss Mary and Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill If you travel southwest from Nottingham on the A42, you espy Breedon on the Hill church from miles off, alone on its hilltop. It really does mean what it says on the [...]
The way we live now
Christopher Smith laments the onset of the non-apology apology Cli8DE3_Pic-1In 1995, preparing for ordination and about to move into the curate's house in Wantage, I bought a washing machine from the MEB. As I write, it is still with me, [...]
SECULAR LITURGIES
A little bit of Italian Tom Sutcliffe on disappointing productions of Rigoletto and Don Giovanni Both Rigoletto and Don Giovanni, central opera repertoire works given new productions at English National Opera and Covent Garden, were poorly executed, disappointingly cast, indifferently [...]
devotional
A prayer for all Arthur Middleton ‘Father forgive’ is a prayer for everyone in all ages, for all time. The first to respond was not some learned sage conversant with the Scriptures waiting on God. It was a hardened criminal, [...]