Colin Podmore considers the threats to the sacraments Since 2015 the initials ‘DG’ and ‘FD’ on our coins have again become ‘DEI GRA’ and ‘FID DEF,’ giving the sense that these are words, not just initials. They are, of [...]
William Davage discusses the influence of John Henry Newman In Rome on 13 October Pope Francis canonized a 19th century Englishman, an academic theologian. For 45 years of his life he was an Anglican. He converted to Rome in [...]
Forward in Faith is delighted to announce the appointment of Tom Middleton as Director. He will succeed Dr Colin Podmore, who is to retire in February after seven years in office. As the Greater London Authority’s Assistant Director of Finance [...]
An interview with Rupert Shortt, author of Outgrowing Dawkins, or God For Grown-Ups Richard Dawkins’s new book Outgrowing God is fake news in the eyes of Rupert Shortt, religion editor of The Times Literary Supplement and a Research Associate [...]
Intended for All Souls, Requiem Masses and times of praying for and memorial of the dead When mortal eyes at last shall dim, When mortal hearts shall cease, We shall entrust our souls to Thee, Sweet Jesu, prince of [...]
SOUTHEASE, SUSSEX Its little round tower makes Southease church look like an émigré from East Anglia, it is one of three such towers in Sussex. A charter of King Edgar in 966 gave Southease church to Newminster Abbey (Hyde [...]
Keep the Sabbath Day Holy Andy Hawes Having spent 30 years immersed in rural parishes where Sunday by Sunday I barrelled along country roads from one church to another, I now find myself driving into a market town [...]
Arthur Middleton returns to Bishop Cosin’s Collection of Private Devotions The Devotions ‘in the practice of the ancient Church, called the Hours of Prayer’ were published in 1627 and are in Cosin’s Works, Vol. ii, in the Library of [...]
Alan Smith considers future increases in the state pension age From an economic viewpoint, for most of us there are three stages of life. Up to the age of about 20, we are supported by our families, with grants [...]
Tom Sutcliffe considers the Irish Question What is nationalism? It may seem a simple question and perhaps in many countries it is just that. But in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland we have had over [...]