Louis Brea: Adoration of the Child From the Mediterranean coast, between Nice and Genoa, there ran a number of short but steep salt roads to the southern Alpine communities of what was then the kingdom of Savoy and is now [...]

Jesus’ anger A biblical description of Jesus’ anger may surprise us but is not implausible Patrick Henry Reardon, senior editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity The narrative sequence of the Synoptic Gospels places the Lord’s healing of a [...]

The rhythm in which God has swung the world Florence Allshorn We have to find our way into that rhythm in which God has swung the world – and the moment is always the same. God’s calling – my response. [...]

RAW Summer Exhibition 2010 Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly 14 June–22 August 2010 Admission £8, concessions available This year’s Summer Exhibition must be the most critically savaged in recent memory, or at least since last year’s. But aided by an [...]

Iran Resignation letter This is the text of the letter of resignation from Bishop Azad Marshall of the Diocese of Iran to Archbishop Rowan Williams. After much prayerful consideration I hereby submit my resignation from the Standing Committee of the [...]

Digby Anderson reflects on the subtle and complex questions surrounding the truth and the telling of it especially in today’s delicate theological climate I heard recently of a priest who went to his diocesan bishop for a licence to officiate. [...]

Geoffrey Kirk on the newsworthiness of ecclesiastical leaks When he was a mere fledgling journalist on the Church of England Newspaper, I never thought I would write this: but what fun it must be to be Jonathan Wynne-Jones (religious affairs [...]

Paul Griffin asks whether people are too quick to take offence at humour based on Christianity and the Bible Each age is puritanical and licentious in its own ways. In our age, there seem to be many people who pride [...]

Paul Griffin on sanctuary and its limitations I suppose if the Church of England collapses like the pillar of Ozymandias, there will be those who remember the old Church; and afterwards, those who look back at our times, and say: [...]

George Austin reports on the women bishops debate in General Synod, an occasion characterized by the prioritization of political correctness over theology Having attended as a member of the General Synod from its initiation in 1970 until 1995, it came [...]