Andy Hawes on broken laws and broken promises ‘Where God is dead, anything is possible’ is a cynical summary of ethics without a Christian conscience, or a religious basis. For over a hundred and fifty years generations of English and [...]
Simon Heans shares a blow by blow account of the setting up of a church plant in his own parish and wonders what it presages for cooperation between Catholic and Evangelical Anglicans Your enemy's enemy isn't necessarily your friend.' That [...]
The beginning of John Richardson's comments on the Archbishop of Canterbury's letter [p. 19] If thirty-plus years in ordained ministry in the Church of England has taught me anything, it is that everyone wants a lead from the bishops, until [...]
In February General Synod will discuss the ARCIC statement on Mary Thomas Seville takes a closer look at the contents of this document and finds it to be a positive and important step towards Christian unity The search for the [...]
In what looks like a rush to pre-empt the CofE, the Church in Wales has published a draft Bill to enable women to be ordained as bishops. It is a strange confection. It begins by claiming that it is 'now [...]
ST LAURENCE, LUDLOW, SALOP It's the tower that does it. The gateway to the Western Marches, Ludlow was an important frontier town, complete with castle, and your first sight of it from afar is drawn to the great mid-fifteenth-century central [...]
Tom Sutcliffe has had better nights at the theatre Alistair McDowall's play X, at the Royal Court, was supposed to be science fiction. The publicity went on about it taking place at a research base on Pluto that seemed to have [...]
WITHOUT PRECEDENT: SCRIPTURE, TRADITION AND THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN Geoffrey Kirk Wipf & Stock (Oregon, USA) 2016 Pbk 162pp, 978-1-4982-3081-0 That Geoffrey Kirk has written a sharp, lucid, and closely argued book that is unafraid to expose nonsense and [...]
Christopher Smith marvels at the transforming power of self-identification I have had mice in the vicarage. This hardly surprised me in central London, where it is commonly held that you are never more than three yards away from a rat; but, [...]
Arthur Middleton Thoughts from Charles Gore Our Lord concludes the Sermon on the Mount with three emphatic and striking warnings. We may describe them as the Two Ways in life; the easy way of self-pleasing and the hard way of self-denial. [...]