A Lenten Meditation For Lancelot Andrewes celebrating the Nativity is our first Christmas and Easter is a second Christmas. At Christmas he becomes ours from his mother’s side. At Easter we become his by his Father’s side. Christmas makes us [...]
Robbie Low looks at three sets of statistics Your numbers up? While the statistical bureau of the Church of England struggles to find new ways of presenting the figures to put a gloss on decline and we gird our loins [...]
A clerical detective story by PDJ Aymes Commander Eve Melhuilish awoke to the first four bars of the second movement of Bach’s Double Violin Concerto. It was her telephone. She skilfully disentangled herself from the hirsute arms of Ben, the [...]
Patrick Reardon on a crucial psalm It is arguable that Psalm 8, which begins ‘O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is your name in all the earth,’ is the theologically richest of all the psalms. Two parts of it receive [...]
Geoffrey Kirk looks at the patterning of Pauline thought At the end of a lengthy passage on prophecy and speaking in tongues (and before he goes on to his great hymn to the Resurrection of the Body in Chapter 15) [...]
Who am I to know, with no more than a couple of science O-levels, but it seems to me that the core ‘answer’ of Professor Stephen Hawking’s new book (superstrings and p-branes) is not enormously more important than the late [...]
The Roaring Lion of Compline Are you on your guard against the devil? He does not appear on earth because he is a spiritual being, the prince of the power of the air. He merely manipulates his agents, the demons, [...]
Anne Bell considers some home truths If you put your hand to the telephone and dial (020) 7222 5533, you will find yourself talking to a representative of the Mothers’ Union at Mary Sumner House in Westminster. She will affirm, [...]
A Perspective on the Sacrament of Orders At its annual assembly last month, the International Theological Commission of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith addressed the topic of the diaconate. In an interview with the German Catholic newspaper [...]
Hugh Baker asks if an Englishman’s home should be his castle. Early on in its life, Hollywood realized the value of having stars. The most mediocre production would pull the punters in if the right names topped the bill. The [...]