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Out in the cold?

Terry Buckingham summarizes the insights provided by a recent survey of the beliefs and views of over 1,000 committed Christians from a broad Anglican spectrum Supporters of the legislation enabling women to be consecrated to the episcopate wrote to the [...]

Sundays after Trinity

The frenzy is over and now The English religion proceeds Quiet and un-miraculous, Without embarrassments. We think of being kind and ‘Do as you would be done by’ Restraint and the pastoral sense. But as you gaze into this green, [...]

Extreme Unction

Prayers, money and hope needed – to save an important painting, with a rare insight to the solemnity of death, and the power of the Christian hope. Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) was one of the great painters of the seventeenth century. [...]

A question of doctrine

Rod Thomas explains the long-term theological and practical damage to the CofE that will be caused by the approval of the draft Measure The forthcoming vote by General Synod on the draft Women Bishops Measure will be a watershed for [...]

What can I do?

Tony Delves offers practical advice as the important meeting of the General Synod approaches As the Synod vote approaches it is tempting to think that most of us can do nothing, that we are now only spectators. Not so. The [...]

Sacramental assurance

A reader offers some thoughts on the difficult issue of the reconfirmation and re-ordination of Anglicans who become Roman Catholic As you enter the Sacrament Chapel you notice a host lying on the ground beneath the tabernacle: what do you [...]

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