VI Ordering of music in church The organist at our church insists on filling every moment in the liturgy with music and will not play anything written since 1958 (the death of Vaughan Williams). Supported by the choir, he says [...]

Poetry & prayer Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House Reading and reflecting on poetry is an excellent way to open up the mind and the imagination to the life of the spirit. Poetry makes connections between daily [...]

John Hunwicke urges his brother priests not to start printing new mass booklets for their parishes just yet I do hope and trust that Reverend Fathers have received their 2008 ORDO safe and sound, and have not spotted too many [...]

Hugh Baker inveighs against the Enlightenment doctrine of The Essential Goodness of Man and exhorts us to remember the naturalness of sin and the pervasive ease of its addiction 'I would be invidious to single out I the play of [...]

Giles Pinnock is dismayed at the lack of commitment to ecumenism displayed throughout much of the CofE, and calls for a fresh start At a recent ecumenical event, I, aged forty, was - bar one or two possible exceptions - [...]

Geoffrey Kirk reviews another of the key arguments in favour of women bishops The claim is often made by those who favour the ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopate that previous exclusion from those roles has been [...]

In the first of a new series on the Beatitudes, Hugh Bates identifies 'the poor' and explains why so much is promised to the seemingly undeserving The Greeks had a word for it. Sometimes they had two - as for [...]

Simon Heans continues his examination of the limitations and dangers of the idea of general divinity hat he finds expressed in Rowan Williams' Tokens of Trust The present article is a sequel to one that appeared in last months New [...]

After reading Rowan William's Silence and Honey Cakes, Paul Griffin considers the role of evangelism in the life of a Christian and disagrees with the apparent consensus 'The first duty of a Christian,' said our eminent Father in God, 'is [...]

When Mark 'Shirty' Shirtliff took on the Hare & Hounds on Church Street, Booty Bridge, the pub was in the doldrums. It had acquired a reputation as a drugs' den and was subject to several police raids during the 1990s. [...]