Freeing the People's church IT IS SAID that the collision which sank the Titanic initially sent only a barely perceptible shudder throughout the ship. In the same way, the rejection by Tony Blair of the two names put forward for [...]

Incorporated, Unincorporated Disincorporated ABOUT two years ago, one of the Episcopal Synod of America bishop, William Wantland, found that the Episcopal Church had never incorporated itself by that name - the Church's legal name is the Domestic and Foreign Missionary [...]

In the second of a series to mark the tenth anniversary of the Preface George Austin considers the vexed question of Cronyism IN A REVEALING throwaway line to his biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, Archbishop Robert Runcie describes how as Bishop of [...]

Tom Chester concludes that in a world that is God's the market cannot be King WHEN THE Berlin Wall came down it was not just politics that began to look very different. The economic landscape has radically shifted too. Around [...]

SHE'S LEAVING HOME 30 Days, along with everyone else, was delighted with the happy outcome of Agony Aunt Anne Atkins daughter Bink's "Little Adventure". Bink, or Lara as she was christened, decided to leave home for a bit and thereby [...]

The Blessing and the Curse: Deuteronomy 30:6 AND THE LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, [...]

Ernie Stroud answers a question which perplexes many a member of a PCC - and may affect the future of the parish PATRONAGE HAS a long and in the main commendable history in the life of the Church. In theory [...]

From Surtees to Sassoon 'LET NIMROD the mighty hunter bind a leopard to the altar, and consecrate his spear to the Lord. Let Ishmael dedicate a Tyger, and give praise for the liberty in which the Lord has set him [...]

In the second of a series to mark the tenth anniversary of the Preface George Austin considers the vexed question of Cronyism IN A REVEALING throwaway line to his biographer, Humphrey Carpenter, Archbishop Robert Runcie describes how as Bishop of [...]

January 1998 Readers' Conference BACK IN SEPTEMBER, when most delegates were making their way in a leisurely fashion to the Camden Centre for the Forward in Faith National Assembly, Forward in Faith's Readers were already hard at work at the [...]