Arthur Middleton on the need for a new Oxford Movement Michael Ramsey saw the need for a new Oxford Movement. In North America, Anglicans have responded to the more recent challenge of Cardinal Kasper’s call in England for a new [...]
Margaret Laird writes of a conscientious but unconventional priest in nineteenth-century Cornwall The Christmas messages of both His Holiness Pope Francis and the Archbishop of Canterbury urged us to aim at overcoming poverty: a situation which, with determination and generosity, [...]
Anglican mission in Papua New Guinea has always been founded on preaching, teaching and healing, writes Bishop Peter Ramsden It was on St Lawrence’s Day 1891 when the pioneer Anglican missionaries landed on the huge island north of Australia, part [...]
TURNER AND THE SEA National Maritime Museum, Greenwich Until 21 April Admission £10, concessions available A LARGE part of criticism is to state the obvious, and what is obvious about this show is that it is full of sea paintings. [...]
In February 150 priests and Deacons met for a wonderful retreat at Walsingham. At the end of the week 7-8 February, a group of clergy met in at Walsingham to plan the relaunch of the Fan the Flame initiative. Well [...]
Ross Northing on the dangers of abandoning the concept of objective truth There is a story, whether apocryphal or true, concerning a man knocking on a presbytery door who informs the priest that he wants to become a Christian. The [...]
Denis Desert on the importance of the here and now Pope Julian II commissioned the Renaissance artist Raphael to paint a fresco in one of the magnificent apartments of the Vatican. The subject was to reflect the contribution of the [...]
J. Alan Smith offers some principles for a Christian approach to the solution of political, social and economic problems Man is the only creature known to be aware of his own existence and of the existence of the universe itself. [...]
Digby Anderson sets out the real reasons for the decline in church attendance There are some among the faithful clergy and committed laity who worry about the small number of their congregations. They know the Dominical command to teach the [...]