Andy Hawes    Being a Minority   It is official; Christians are now a minority in England and Wales. The number of those who practise their faith is a very small number indeed. In my experience, organisations that have a [...]

Leslie Griffiths writes on a day for remembering   I’m writing this on January 21st, on the fiftieth anniversary of my ordination, and find myself happy to spend the beginning of the day with my friends in the Forward in [...]

John Gayford gives a critical review of his life and his legend   Pope Pius X was venerated in his own life time and he was canonised in 1954 by Pope Pius XII when great crowds came to cheer for [...]

In examining snobbery, accent and education, Tony Hodgson wonders about the Church of England   In August the successful and acclaimed production of My Fair Lady reached the end of its London run at the Coliseum. Fittingly, the June edition [...]

Grace and Incarnation The Oxford Movement’s Shaping of the Character of Modern Anglicanism Bruce D. Griffith with Jason R. Radcliff James Clarke & Co, 2022 ISBN 9780227177884   If the Anglo-Catholic Movement is seen today as one of bells, smells, [...]

Festus   Martin Sargeant, who defrauded the Diocese of London of £5.2m whilst drawing a not insignificant £86,000 salary and taking extensive time off for ‘cancer treatment’, was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on 19 December to five years in [...]

Christopher Smith   It was a strange moment when my then curate looked over his computer at me on a February day ten years ago and said, ‘The Pope’s resigned’. We had one of those daft exchanges—‘What do you mean, [...]

An autumnal visit, amid the brown falling leaves, speckling the grass, to a parish church, set in an extensive graveyard, proved a revelation. The present building includes evidence of a church in the 12th century but there is written evidence [...]

Stephen Race   I didn’t look at my watch, but I reckon I became a bishop around about midday on St Andrew’s Day 2022 in York Minster. It was wonderful being surrounded by so many people in such a beautiful [...]

Congratulations to the Rt Revd Philip North who was announced on 10 January as the next Bishop of Blackburn. Currently serving as the Bishop of Burnley in the same diocese, he succeeds the Rt Revd Julian Henderson who retired earlier [...]