Martyn Jarrett offers an appreciation of David Morgan whose funeral and Requiem Mass took place on Tuesday 21st December, 2021, at St Mary the Virgin, Great Bardfield, Essex. I first encountered David just over 20 years ago, when I [...]
The sermon preached by Robbie Low at Fr Geoffrey Kirk's Requiem Mass in December 2021 Many years ago, in what now seems like another lifetime, Broadhurst and Kirk and I were sitting in the foyer of Church House when [...]
After a year in Sodor and Man, Michael Brydon offers a few thoughts When I announced that I was moving to the Diocese of Sodor and Man, as Bishop’s chaplain, most people had no idea where I was going. [...]
Ben Bradshaw introduces the 2022 Jubilee Year Events On 6th July 1922, Fr Hope Patten, who had only been inducted as Vicar of Walsingham the previous year, set up the Image of Our Lady of Walsingham in the Guild [...]
Tom Middleton reports on the farewell events for Glyn Webster In one of the largest gatherings many of us have attended since the start of the pandemic, York Minster hosted a fond farewell to Bishop Glyn Webster on Saturday [...]
Rosemary Nutt of McCabe greets the return of foreign travel and reflects on pilgrimage As I write, we have just been advised that the United Kingdom is about to come off Israel’s ‘red list’. We have been on that [...]
Martyn Draper introduces the Revised English Hymnal and our new monthly series for 2022 ‘The Revised English Hymnal is anchored firmly in the tradition of the English Hymnal, first published in 1906. Like its predecessor’, say the editors in [...]
For Stephen Conway, the tent is large enough for all and church buildings really matter Our Evangelical sisters and brothers are always talking about widening the tent horizontally, which is fine. But when the Prophet Isaiah encourages the faithful [...]
Frank Keating was inspired by a gentle giant Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s day tributes and accolades, as expected, flooded in from all walks of life. President Cyril Ramaphosa, for example, said in his eulogy at the funeral that Tutu was [...]
7 October 1931-26 December 2021 The 26th December, when Archbishop Desmond Tutu died, is the feast of St Stephen and is surely a fitting date for a man who had given his life in the service of God, the [...]