Christopher Smith   This time three years ago, I put in a rather jolly column using characters from Molesworth to take the mickey out of certain types on General Synod. The following month, my April column, written in mid-March, commented [...]

The sermon preached by Fr Barry Orford at the consecration of Bishop Paul Thomas   We come joyfully to Fr Paul’s Consecration as a Bishop in Christ’s One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. And what better than to present him [...]

Thurifer   A degree of schoolboy amusement was to be had considering a list of Habsburg emperors. Werner the Pious, Albert the Rich, Rudolf the Kind, Albert the Wise were fairly staid but were followed by Rudolf the Tight Lipped, [...]

The time since I retired in 2019 has been in stark contrast to my life and ministry pre-retirement. I have swapped the dry and dusty landscape and high temperatures of South Australia for the verdant green pastures and unpredictable weather [...]

Nick Spencer introduces his new book ‘Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion’   John William Draper was an eminent American chemist who also fancied himself as an intellectual historian. Son of a Methodist convert, he left Britain aged [...]

Leslie Nathaniel reflects on how God can turn the cry of despair into a prayer of thanksgiving   It is a full year that Ukraine finds itself defending its territory. Since then, open war is waging within its borders with [...]

Archbishop Emeritus David Moxon offers an Anglican view of the Pope’s first ten years   ‘Joy, Mission, conversion, diversity; Poor, inclusive, decentralize’ – these were the main words on the cover illustration from a copy of The Tablet, derived from [...]

Douglas Knight reflects on the life and work of his friend Metropolitan John Zizioulas   John Zizioulas, who died recently, brought modern philosophical thought into conversation with the experience and teaching of the early Church. Though this may sound like [...]

The First Station: Jesus is condemned to die How often are we like Pilate, how often do we wash our hands of a situation when to engage would mean meeting Christ in our midst? Those times we have washed our [...]

The crowning is surely worth a Mass, says Michael Brydon     In a few months we look forward to the Coronation where we will hallow King Charles with prayer. At that service we have historically done everything the Church can [...]