VAT 2 JP A VAT(ican) Added Tours is being offered by Holiday giants Thomsons. For a mere extra £17 (note the similarity with the current rate of VAT) ecclesiastically minded rubbernecks get a ticket for the Pope’s weekly audience. A [...]

EASTER A SECOND CHRISTMAS Bishop Lancelot Andrewes speaks of Christmas, needing, "... the still greater mystery of death and resurrection, where we see the divine-human interchange in a new and still more striking perspective..." In a new birth from the [...]

GAVIN PEACOCK It was a July day in 1990 at the end of the Runcie era. I was emerging from the comforting cocoon of that early morning horizontal meditation that always precedes breakfast and the rigorous exertions of Prayer Book [...]

A Church that lost its way Gal 1: 6-9 Faced with a church in a mess, the Apostle Paul was no "cut and run" merchant. He proved himself to be a far more difficult character who stays and fights. Nothing [...]

Pentecost Launch for forward! Sunday, May 26th - Pentecost - sees the long awaited launch of our new weekly Pew Sheet forward! During Lent, some eighteen parishes have been using a trial run of five weeks’ sheets and initial reactions are so far [...]

Gerry O'Brien looks at the missionary facts of life ' and decides that it doesn't have to be like that At the end of February, I was involved in organising a buffet supper. A local curate was going to Russia [...]

The Church should have the courage of its convictions, argues John Broadhurst For the first time in my life I have found myself in a position where some supporters have joined opponents in asking ‘What on earth are you doing?’ [...]

Brother Martin takes Myers/Briggs on an exegetical excursion into new territory According to I Samuel 1, Hannah prayed at the shrine at Shiloh and she besought God to grant her a child, and the Lord heard her prayer. In due [...]

THE MONKEY'S PAW 'The Monkey’s Paw' by W.W. Jacobs tells of a poor couple who gain possession of a lucky charm with power to grant the possessor three wishes. Being poor they wish for money. Their wish is granted - [...]

John Richardson affirms the empty tomb as both a necessary testimony and a sufficient proof For Augustine of Hippo, one of the great difficulties in the way of belief in the Trinity was the apparent lack of any point of [...]