by April Heavisides Hi! I'm April and for the next twelve exciting months, as we prepare for the Millennium Experience, I will be sharing this column with you. Now I know what you are thinking: Millennium (yawn, yawn, yawn); all [...]
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 [...]
Beginning a series of reflections on the meaning of the Lord's Prayer, Geoffrey Kirk asks: What's in a name? OUR FATHER who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. How are we to name God? In a Communion where liturgies [...]
Stephen Trott replies to last month's Reformer column. Employment safeguards for the clergy do not imply a new ecclesiology I would be pleased to send Reformer a copy of the paper which Chris Ball and I wrote recently on Employment [...]
Anthony Kilmister witnesses the battle over Churchwardens AS I MADE MY WAY to the large but somewhat dreary Moses Room at the House of Lords on 15th December 1 could not help comparing two depictions of the same scene. Above [...]
LIGHT IN MID-WINTER MUCH OF OUR CHRISTMAS celebration and its customs is interwoven with our country's pagan past. The Holly and the Ivy imitate the fecund art of the Celts, the celebration of the coming of light in the mid-winter [...]
The revised text of the document The Case for a Free Province of the Church of England which the Council of Forward in Faith is commending for discussion in the regions. THE FOLLOWING is the revised text (as at Dec [...]
Warwick Whelan details some of the implications, for Chaplains, of recent NHS restructuring. Hospital Chaplaincy, like other forms of 'Sector Ministry', has often been viewed with circumspection by parochial clergy. For many years it was seen as a convenient way [...]
HOT PURSUIT When the western liberal bishops limped away from the Lambeth Conference the air was rank with recriminations. The invincible arrogance of the benighted black bishops, the superstitious fundamentalism of the third worlders etc, etc. Unfortunately for the hubristic [...]
Last month in Southwark Cathedral was a marvellous day for our people, for Bishop Michael Houghton and his family and for Bishop Andy Radford and his family and supporters. Good will within and between the two integrities was shown forth [...]