Simon Evans finds inspiration on the High Street The people of St Martin’s Ruislip have been very long-suffering, putting up with me as their vicar for 25 years. By today’s standards, 25 years is lengthy for an incumbency, but [...]
James Walters finds that this new campaign takes us only so far Three-word slogans have proved powerfully effective in shaping the public imagination in recent years. So the campaign launched at the beginning of August to “Save the Parish” [...]
In the second of two articles Edward Dowler looks back at responses to the pandemic The theological virtues The use of fear to drive compliance has been well documented in the current crisis. The tone was set early on [...]
Tom Middleton meets Father David D’Silva Tom Middleton, Director of Forward Faith, recently visited Fr David D’Silva SSC in his parish to ask him a few questions about himself so that readers of New Directions can get to know [...]
PETER AND PAUL, LE NEUBOURG, FRANCE The le Neubourg plain is a part of France that few English people visit, and those that do have only a passing acquaintance, on the way somewhere else using the Route Nationale [...]
Arthur Middleton on Crisis of Identity A creeping Anglican identity crisis has been evident in various ways. In 1949 Henry McAdoo claimed that among theologians in the Church of England, there is something strangely unreal in the prevalent neglect [...]
John Gayford explores the spirituality of the Psalms For over three thousand years Psalms have inspired spiritually both Jews and later Christians. Psalms have a dimension of prayer for individuals and collectively. They speak to the soul and from [...]
Thurifer is looking forward to freedom Footnotes in books sometimes provided more entertainment than the books themselves. One of my favourites is in A. J. P. Taylor’s English History 1914-1945 where he notes that the creases in King George [...]
Barry A Orford on getting Evensong right I am no lover of streamed Church services, but since our cathedrals have opened again, I have gratefully taken advantage of the screened opportunity to share in their offering of Choral Evensong. [...]
This, the 302nd issue of New Directions, is Fr Philip Corbett’s last as Editor. Fr Philip took up the reins again (having served a previous stint in post) with the 262nd issue, back in July 2017. Forty issues and nearly [...]