books EARTHLY POWERS: RELIGION AND POLITICS IN EUROPE FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUT-ION TO THE GREAT WAR Michael Burleigh Harper Collins, 576pp, hbk 0 00 719572 9, £25 It is a rare privilege and an unalloyed pleasure to finish reading a [...]

Evangelical perspective From the Revd Jonathan Frais Thank you for ‘What is a bishop?’ by Dr Geoffrey Rowell [ND January] who was Father-in-God to me until I left Ukraine last year. Permit me to add some points that evangelicals can [...]

The religious affairs correspondents of the quality dailies were in a frenzy of excitement. News had emerged from a meeting of the House of Bishops that agreement had finally been reached about the way forward in the matter of women [...]

Good news that one cannot share? Ohio State University’s Centre for Human Resource Research, who have been tracking nearly 10,000 people since they were teenagers in 1979, have discovered that to be married and to stay married will almost double [...]

Forward in Hope Warmest thanks to everyone who made Forward in Hope such a great success at the end of last month. In particular, thanks to all who spoke: on video, we heard from Bishop Lindsay Urwin and Ben Rabjohns, [...]

Ecumenical News – from the Methodist Recorder 19 January, 2006: Superintendent minister of Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, the Rev Martin Turner has defended his decision to allow an Anglican organisation campaigning against women bishops to hold a major meeting at [...]

St Mary's, Isle Abbots, Somerset Isle Abbots has a remote moorland setting above the Somerset levels, a general absence of signposts adding to the feeling of solitude. Forget the chocolate box setting at the end of a lane, next to [...]

Converting Manasseh Patrick Henry Reardon is a Senior Editor of Touchstone: a Journal of Mere Christianity Holy Scripture gives us two views of King Manasseh (687–642, apparently with a co-regency from 697). In 2 Kings he was a thoroughly bad [...]

Arthur Middleton on John Cosin & bishops John Cosin preached at the consecration of Francis White, the Bishop of Carlisle (1626), on the action of consecrating a bishop as Christ’s own work [John 20.21, 22]: ‘the solemn deriving of a [...]

Opponents of the ordination of women have yet to receive a fair hearing. Geoffrey Kirk looks at the inadequate discussions and consultations This magazine has repeatedly and rightly drawn attention to the lack of consultation with those for whom provision [...]