Music   Church Music   New Direction’s deadlines require articles a month in advance which means that this is being written while we are in deepest lockdown. I hope it is being read in greater and healthy freedom. In lockdown [...]

Christopher Smith wants to go out for tea   This is a funny Lent, isn’t it?  I did rather hint to the congregation here that this year might not be the time to impose the strictest disciplines on ourselves, given [...]

Now that the roadmap out of lockdown and Covid restrictions has been announced, there is a feeling of hope in the country; a feeling that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. This was, as many commented, [...]

Ann George welcomes her brother to Jerusalem   Our mother used to recount with some detail how, when she and her two small sons were staying in a Hertfordshire village during the war, she used to take them to the [...]

Nigel Aston examines Bishop Geoffrey Rowell’s entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography   There can be no doubting the importance of Bishop Geoffrey Rowell as a scholar and a pastor not merely considered as an Anglo-Catholic but within [...]

Simon Walsh interviews the new Bishop of Lewes   Bishop Will Hazlewood is waiting patiently when I dial in to our scheduled Zoom call, as if for a liturgy about to start. His natural energy brings an immediate rapport. As [...]

Peter Anthony explores the mystery of the Transfiguration   If you were present on the mountain with Peter, James and John, would you have been able to see the Transfiguration? What I mean is this. Could just anyone see it? [...]

The Presence of God   Andy Hawes    One of my longstanding directees recently said, ‘ I know, of course, that God is everywhere, but it is only recently that I have realised that this means the presence of God [...]

Richard Norman considers the effects of the third national lockdown   To the surprise of many, including many churchmen, public worship in England has been able to continue during the third lockdown, subject to COVID-security measures. Public worship has thus [...]

I was deeply upset to hear of the damage caused to my friend Fr Paul’s church by a group of people holding an illegal rave party.  Apart from religious services, All Saints is also used as a vibrant centre for community [...]