An old-fashioned liberal
Peter Mullen reflects on the decision by the Governing Body of the Church in Wales to allow the ordination of women to the episcopate Where Wales leads can England fail to follow? The Church in Wales has just voted in [...]
Another ‘cunning plan’?
Britain’s rising number of elderly is becoming a problem. Not only do they block access to services that otherwise could be used by Jamie Oliver’s kitchen brigades of work hungry East Europeans, but the elderly’s fits of muddle-headedness also cause [...]
Brightest and best
Grant Naylor encourages us to make a pilgrimage to Durham Cathedral ‘In those days whenever a clerk or priest visited a town, English folk always used to gather at his call to hear the Word, eager to hear his message’ [...]
Keep the faith!
Alan Rabjohns reports from the Governing Body in the Church in Wales In an interview on the Sunday programme before the last month’s debates in the Governing Body the Archbishop of Wales said that the Governing Body differed from the [...]
What’s the story?
Nicholas Turner considers some of the early implications of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 With unseemly haste the government has passed its Marriage (Same Sex Couple) Act 2013, and given it the Royal Assent. If you read it [...]
LEAD STORY
And so it continues Simon Killwick on where we are with the women bishops legislation The atmosphere at the July Synod was better than expected, given the fall-out over the failure of the previous Measure in November last year; some [...]
Thought of the day
Candles in the wind I don’t know if you’ve ever been to Lourdes. One of my favourite memories of a Lourdes pilgrimage is a torch-light procession in the wind. Thousands of us were walking with candles lit in cardboard containers. [...]
editorial
In recent years the ecumenical movement seems to have come on in leaps and bounds and there has been much fruitful dialogue. It is fair to assume that this dialogue will continue if women are ordained to the episcopate, but [...]
devotional
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God St Gregory of Nyssa Those who see God possess in this act of seeing everything at is good: everlasting life, eternal incorruption, unfailing ss. With these things we shall [...]
touching place
St Catherine, Ludham, Norfolk Ludham is a large Broadland village, with a 14–15th c. church at its centre to match. The church has one of the finest painted medieval roodscreens in East Anglia, and that is saying something. It must [...]