It was always likely that the General Convention of the Episcopal Church of the United States would precipitate further divisions in American Anglicanism. That unhappy, divided and increasingly apostate body (which, as Archbishop Carey told its assembled delegates, is picking [...]
John Richardson on Genesis 2:18 THEN THE LORD GOD SAID, `It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.’ (Genesis 2:18) In the present ferment about homosexuality, it is perhaps [...]
At this year's "Christ Our Future" Conference Peter Toon addressed the theme of Christology by considering prepositional imagery LITURGISTS AND LITURGIOLOGISTS have told us incessantly over the last thirty years that the public liturgy is the work of the people. [...]
Raymond Chapman considers the state of Anglican Liturgy as the Millennium approaches TO BEGIN WITH A DECLARATION of interest: the writer supports the Book of Common Prayer as the proper book for Anglican worship. At the same time, he affirms [...]
John Hunwicke has had a change of mind about women's ordination. He now wonders whether it is a heresy or an apostasy MAY ONE BE autobiographical? I never could understand the “theological” arguments against the ordination of women. Priest as [...]
Edwin Barnes visited the General Convention of ECUSA in Philadelphia as a guest of the Episcopal Synod If you hated General Synod, then you will just loathe General Convention. The only advantage the American system has over the English one [...]
AUGUST 1997 Forward in Faith Into Galilee Forward in Faith member Colin Niblett, a member of the congregation of St. Michael and All Angels, Abbey Wood, in the diocese of Southwark, has volunteered to take part in Biblical Bike Ride [...]
Robbie Low interviews Stephen Noll IT WAS A BAKING JULY DAY in Cambridge. The students had gone down, the tourists had come up. On the river idle gondoliers, in whites and boaters, plied the bridges for passing trade. From the [...]
MANAGING THE FUTURE by Geoffrey Kirk REGULAR READERS of this column, sensitive no doubt to nuance and suggestion, will have gathered that I have something of a problem with futurity. Not only is it for the most part undesirable in [...]