Northumbria (Carlisle, Durham, Newcastle) Fr Beresford Skelton, S.Mary Magdalene's Vicarage, Millfield, Sunderland SR4 6HJ Tel: 0191 565 6318 The North West (Blackburn, Chester, Liverpool, Manchester, Sodor & Man) Fr Eric Lowe, 55 Wetherby Way. Little Sutton South Wirral. Cheshire CH66 [...]

Bishops Behaving Badly IT IS THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND itself, rather than the learning of its clergy which is now 'stupor mundi'. It is essentially a synodical church (as we are so often told); but one whose bishops, nevertheless, seem [...]

Middle Management RUMOURS are the stuff of life. Well informed rumours even more so. However the rumour I heard during the summer from my mole in the diocese of London turned out not to be very well informed at all. [...]

POOH UNCLEAN ...IT'S OFFICIAL THE REVIVAL of interest in Winnie the Pooh has not only put the bear of little brain back on the map but reminded academics and theologians of Pooh potential. In inter-faith terms Winnie Ille Pu appealed [...]

Hugh Otto found himself strangely warmed at the consecration of Andrew Burnham I was seated in the South Transept in St. Paul's on St. Andrew's Day and the Sermon had just begun; it promised to be a good sermon. I [...]

THERE WAS HARDLY a soul living who could remember a time when Derek Hemp had not been the Bishop of Salchester. Though learned papers on abstruse topics survived in University archives testifying to a time when he had been chaplain [...]

Christopher Idle reveals his nocturnal activities OUR NEAREST PUB is the Maismore Arms. Or rather, it used to be. To think that I never went inside! And now, it seems, I have lost my chance. We used to pass it [...]

WHAT'S IT WORTH? WHAT IS FORWARD IN FAITH worth to your parish? Across the three hundred-odd FiF Registered and Affiliated Parishes, there seems to be an enormous variation in the value which PCCs put upon our work. As most of [...]

The Colour is Pink THE BISHOP who happens to live nearest to me (and has devised a cunning route to our street avoiding all traffic lights) is fond of saying that the fixed and printed bits of the liturgy occupy [...]

Robbie Low concludes his investigation of appointments IN MY OCTOBER article on the Crown Appointments Commission (CAC) I outlined the importance of the Episcopal task and the process by which men were selected for it in the Church of England. [...]