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HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD There is nothing like a holiday to help put one's thoughts into perspective. And I think that the same goes for the problems of a great institution like the Church of England. I am composing this [...]
HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD There is nothing like a holiday to help put one's thoughts into perspective. And I think that the same goes for the problems of a great institution like the Church of England. I am composing this [...]
DINING WITH TIGERS It was on the very day that the nation was numbed by the death of Red Rum that I met them. I suppose I had known for some time that somewhere they must exist; but still it [...]
SPIRITED DEFENCE A former Bedfordshire policeman, Anthony Cooper, 43 has denied charges of impersonating a police officer and making indecent phone calls. In an unusual defence, Dr Alan Sanderson (Consultant Psychiatrist at Fairfield Hospital) told Watford magistrates that the calls [...]
The composition of Liturgical Prayer Thirty years ago in the Church of England the nearest approach most clergy would make towards composing prayers for use in liturgical worship was in the use of introductory biddings before set prayers. Since 1966, [...]
THE BISHOP OF MYRA Such is the vegetative state that envelopes the average clergy brain on the morning of the day off that I don’t suppose I would have noticed it. Fortunately, Simeon, my eldest, while performing his daily task [...]
THE GRAVE MISTAKES OF A FOOL What an appalling story this is, prompted by a family feud over an inheritance. No wonder the Book of Common Prayer bids Anglican clergy to encourage people to make sure that they have made [...]
New Directions for General Synod? By the time you read this, the new General Synod will have met in London for the first time, informed, we trust, by the free copy of New Directions which each member received last month [...]
Andy Hawes on the Atonement and the Incarnation Last Christmas Eve a parishioner presented the parish church with a new stable for the Christmas crib. He had beautifully made it of oak. He was rather anxious about it because without [...]
Andrew Burnham revisits the concelebration debate The debate at the Forward in Faith assembly about Concelebration led to a very close vote. The problem was clear. At the traditional anglo-catholic rallies, particularly at the Walsingham National Pilgrimage (each Spring Bank [...]
Liturgy, says Arthur Middleton, is never a means to an end Canon Clifford Wright described the 1989 New Year's Eve jazzed-up version of Songs of Praise as an advert for media faith instead of an encounter with God. "It was [...]