Everyone faces decisions in life. For the Christian the process of decision making must be framed within the broader question ‘What does God will for me?’ It is times of making complex and life-changing judgements that individuals will look for [...]

Geoffrey Kirk on which way to turn With the priests Ordination of Women Measure 1993 and its attendant Act of Synod, the Church of England entered upon what its own documents describe as an ‘open period of reception’ of the [...]

Francis Gardom examines the implications of Inclusive Church A circular urged me to sign-up for Inclusive Church. It pointed to the website http://www.inclusivechurch.net. There I found A Declaration of Belief which read as follows: A Declaration of Belief We affirm [...]

Phyllis Bowman on the growing power of the death lobby It is all of 20 years since the International Euthanasia Movement agreed at a world conference that the most likely way for them to achieve success would be through changing [...]

Hugh Baker in the Land of Wenceslas and Hus LEAVING the airport for the city, early impressions don’t augur well. Lines of elephantine apartment blocks tell you that the heavy hand of communism has rested on this land. Soon, however, [...]

American ‘traditionalists’ have drawn, at Plano Texas, another line in the sand. They have established the Network of Anglican Communion Parishes and Dioceses (see ‘Letter from America’, page 25). The foundation document of this new association (which claims to have [...]