Save the book! Andy Hawes  There is no doubt that for many people digital and information technology have been a blessing in the past three months, for those able to access it. It has enabled families, friends and churches to [...]

Art Exhibitions in lockdown There aren’t any, except virtual shows and they’re not the same thing. But if we can’t see art in exhibitions we can think about art in churches. In the classic Ealing film, ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets,’ [...]

Christopher Smith is listening in trepidation for the Sound of the Shell There are times nowadays when I feel rather as though I’m living through a real-life adaptation of The Lord of the Flies.  Not only are we being governed [...]

On the 20th June, Pope Francis declared that three new titles of Our Lady should be added to the Litany of Loreto, which is often recited at the end of the Rosary. The three new titles are: ‘Mother of mercy’, [...]

Readers of this publication who served on the General Synod between its first iteration in 1970 and 1997 will have relied upon Sylvia Brantingham. She had, amongst other responsibilities, the task of managing the accommodation at the York sessions. And [...]

Roger Caswell remembers Beaumont Lauder Brandie, Priest, 21st October 1940-19th May 2020 How very Beau  - to have left instructions that ‘Ecce sacerdos magnus’ should be played at his cremation service.  Ecce sacerdos magnus  -  behold a great priest  -  [...]

Eleanor Relle introduces a catholic pioneer “Sissie and I to Mission Service/Mr Boys, at All Saints at 4. No canonical 3 hymns. 2 extempore prayers. Exposition on Union of Believers with Christ ignoring the Church’s means of Union.” This entry [...]

Michael Fisher considers his call The Parish Mass had ended, and the congregation were leaving. The priest stood by the door to chat to people or simply say goodbye. Among them was a thirty-one-year-old teacher who attempted to slip past [...]

When I applied for the role of Director of Forward in Faith – can it really have been as long as a year ago? – little did I imagine that, after six weeks of handover and just a month on [...]

Harri Williams offers a reflection for Corpus Christi I must admit to having been rather despondent about the celebration of Corpus Christi this year. At the beginning of lockdown I had imagined we would have returned to our church buildings [...]