George Austin on the York Synod 2002 Whatever else the Synod is – especially at York – it is theatrical. And it is modern theatre, with audience participation, no curtains, an open stage where minor characters flit on and off [...]

An Anglican gap? ‘The Voice That Breathed O'er Eden', by John Keble, was published posthumously; wisely, one now feels. John Samuel Bewley 'Fight the good fight' Monsell also wrote 'The Passing Bell' but died from an accident at St Nicholas' [...]

Geoffrey Kirk looks at some very implausible assertions As the campaign for women bishops gets into its stride, some well-loved characters of fiction are predictably reappearing. In a recent WATCH publication Women and Episcopacy, ‘Theodora Episcopa’ is strutting her stuff [...]

Nicholas Turner considers which title we should use The disestablishment of the Church or the desacralization of the State? The heart of the debate is not about what will happen to the social status of Church of England clergy, nor [...]

On the very morning of our press deadline it has finally been announced, to no-one's very great surprise, that Dr Rowan Williams is to be the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury. Williams is a man of scholarship and prayer. He is [...]