Ben Bradshaw introduces the 2022 Jubilee Year Events   On 6th July 1922, Fr Hope Patten, who had only been inducted as Vicar of Walsingham the previous year, set up the Image of Our Lady of Walsingham in the Guild [...]

Tom Middleton reports on the farewell events for Glyn Webster   In one of the largest gatherings many of us have attended since the start of the pandemic, York Minster hosted a fond farewell to Bishop Glyn Webster on Saturday [...]

Rosemary Nutt of McCabe greets the return of foreign travel and reflects on pilgrimage   As I write, we have just been advised that the United Kingdom is about to come off Israel’s ‘red list’. We have been on that [...]

Martyn Draper introduces the Revised English Hymnal and our new monthly series for 2022   ‘The Revised English Hymnal is anchored firmly in the tradition of the English Hymnal, first published in 1906. Like its predecessor’, say the editors in [...]

 For Stephen Conway, the tent is large enough for all and church buildings really matter   Our Evangelical sisters and brothers are always talking about widening the tent horizontally, which is fine. But when the Prophet Isaiah encourages the faithful [...]

Frank Keating was inspired by a gentle giant   Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s day tributes and accolades, as expected, flooded in from all walks of life. President Cyril Ramaphosa, for example, said in his eulogy at the funeral that Tutu was [...]

7 October 1931-26 December 2021   The 26th December, when Archbishop Desmond Tutu died, is the feast of St Stephen and is surely a fitting date for a man who had given his life in the service of God, the [...]

Nicolas Stebbing CR remembers a remarkable Mirfield Man   With Desmond Tutu’s passing, we lose one of the great Christians of our time. Desmond was a great priest, a hard working bishop and a very brave man. From the 1970’s [...]

The Director’s Cut   To mark the start of the new calendar year, there has been an outpouring of advertisements for new diets and lifestyles, holidays in the sun, financial planning products and so much more. It seems like a [...]