LISTED BY LAMBETH It used to be said of the Road Traffic Act that, by the time you climb into your car and turn the key in the ignition, you will have committed at least one offence and probably more. [...]

For the Sake of the Gospel That is the title of the annual Reform Conference at Swanwick March 11th - 13th (details elsewhere). All our publicity talks about our main aim, winning the nation for Christ. That can be an [...]

Left with God All the orthodox organizations in the Episcopal Church, political or not, seem to be losing money, because fewer people are supporting them. I think there are three reasons for this, and that these reasons suggest that the [...]

A New Climate for Evangelism Missionaries are often warned that they will experience greater shock on coming back to their own culture at the end of their period of service than they did when they first moved overseas. Returning to [...]

Pensioned Off? Until 1954 clergy pensions were provided from a separate fund financed by contributions from the clergy together with grants from the Church Commissioners and the Church Assembly. The assets of this fund were then transferred to the Church [...]

WHERE OATHS DO NOT BIND It would be hard to dream up a more comprehensive mess than that into which the Church of England is drifting over the divorce of the Prince of Wales and his possible remarriage. The issues [...]

COMING APART AT THE EAMES Ponder the fate of the Revd. Richard Bradford, rector of All Saints, Ashmont, Boston. The entire diocese boasts some 9000 communicants on an average Sunday. Of these c. 1500 go to evangelical Trinity, Boston, while [...]

LENT WITH THE FATHERS For the Fathers, the ascetical discipline associated with Lent - fasting, almsgiving, prayer, self-denial - were an aid to enter more fully into the hope of the gospel. St. Paul proclaims, ‘There is one hope that [...]

THE SACRAMENT OF EASTER, Roger Greenacre and Jeremy Haselock, Gracewing, Leominster, 1989, second edition 1995, 178 pages. ISBN 0-85244-134-7. THIS excellent book, The Sacrament of Easter, Roger Greenacre tells us in his introduction, began life over 30 years ago as [...]

James Molyneaux MP A late January morning and a mist engulfed most of London and thickened by the banks of the Thames; not enough to merit the title “fog” but more than adequate for the discomfort of the growing legion [...]