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Journeying Together

Chris Vipers introduces ‘For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, Mission’   In October 2023, Bishops of the worldwide Catholic Church will gather in Synod in Rome. The path towards this Synod began in October 2021, in a worldwide invitation from [...]

2022-05-23T14:34:41+00:00March 2022 Articles|

Care in the Communion

Tom Woolford offers a note of caution on proposals for electing the next Archbishop of Canterbury   Back in early February, I had one of the greatest honours of my life – as unexpected as it was wonderful. A pen-pal [...]

2022-05-23T14:33:48+00:00March 2022 Articles|

Fully human and loved by God

Keeping a Good Lent means welcoming in the desert, finds Rebecca Swyer   ‘Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit through the wilderness.’ (Luke 4.1). Whereas Mark says Jesus was ‘driven by [...]

2022-05-23T14:33:08+00:00March 2022 Articles|

The Director’s Cut

The recent emergence of plans for reform of the Church of England’s episcopate has caused alarm in some quarters and has even led to frontpage coverage from a national newspaper. Is there going to be a greater geographical focus for [...]

2022-05-23T14:29:16+00:00March 2022 Articles|

Ghostly Counsel

Andy Hawes    The Mission of Prayer   I believe it was Father Robert, a founder of the Community of the Servants of the Will of God, who said ‘the mission of the Church is weak because her prayer is [...]

2022-05-23T14:27:58+00:00February 2022 Articles|

AFTERWORD

From America, Victor Lee Austin sees the issue of abortion beyond politics   In the half-century since the U.S. Supreme Court thought it settled the abortion issue, the issue has not gone away. A few months hence the Court will [...]

2022-05-23T14:27:23+00:00February 2022 Articles|

TOUCHING PLACE

ALL SAINTS, WATERDEN, NORFOLK   Blink at the wrong moment as you drive along a by-road between Walsingham and South Creake, and you’ll miss Waterden. The tiny church stands a little way back from the road, down a slope. There [...]

2022-05-23T14:26:24+00:00February 2022 Articles|
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