New titles for Lent 2022   Back in 2019, I reviewed two titles for Lent that year (what a world away it seems) by Erik Varden and Henry Martin. Both authors have new books in this round-up for 2022, and [...]

Festus   Collectors of ecclesiastical property might be interested in Bishops Court, the former country residence of the Bishop of Exeter and just seven miles outside the cathedral city. It’s been on the market for £4.5m. With nine bedrooms, four [...]

Christopher Smith   It all seems a long time ago now, but I wonder what you got for Christmas. Something nice, I hope. I got Covid and ten days’ quite enjoyable isolation. I certainly don’t deserve any sympathy, as I [...]

Thurifer   A new General Synod of the Church of England met for the first time in November. It has become a remarkably forgettable institution. Doubtless much work and effort goes into its organization and the mechanics of its meetings [...]

Dear Sir, May I, through the pages of New Directions, express our great gratitude to those who have responded so generously to the article in which Fr. Adam Edwards described the work of the Lifeboat Project? The donations we have [...]

Will Hazlewood   Too often we seek to look forward and not back. Most of us are glad that 2021 is ended and we hope that 2022 will be a better year. However, if something occurs in a period that [...]

Physician, historian, artist, evangelist: John Gayford looks into Luke   St Luke is our evangelist-guide at Sunday Masses in Year C. This should allow us to become familiar with his gospel as he writes of the living heart of Jesus; [...]

Martyn Jarrett offers an appreciation of David Morgan whose funeral and Requiem Mass took place on Tuesday 21st December, 2021, at St Mary the Virgin, Great Bardfield, Essex.   I first encountered David just over 20 years ago, when I [...]

The sermon preached by Robbie Low at Fr Geoffrey Kirk's Requiem Mass in December 2021   Many years ago, in what now seems like another lifetime, Broadhurst and Kirk and I were sitting in the foyer of Church House when [...]

After a year in Sodor and Man, Michael Brydon offers a few thoughts   When I announced that I was moving to the Diocese of Sodor and Man, as Bishop’s chaplain, most people had no idea where I was going. [...]