Musings of an occasional preacher, frequent listener I refer to the birds of the air. These creatures, you recall, are not so much feathered friends as airborne enemies. In the parable of parables, they snatch the seed from the wayside [...]

Highways and byways of Hymns Of Perils and Personalities BUT just suppose all hymns were ‘anon'? We continue our theme of anonymity, held over from November for the unavoidability of Christmas – which has produced its own fair crop of [...]

Fr Gregory CSWG Most people are aware of the world being in a state of conflict, and recent acts of terrorism have heightened this awareness. As Scripture puts it, we see ‘men fainting with fear and foreboding of what is [...]

Dear Michael, It was only as I was drafting the Forward in Faith submission to your Commission on Theology and Women in the Episcopate that I got round to thinking what an absurd process we are all engaged in. We [...]

In the Notes for the Guidance of Candidates issued by the current Trustees, the Fund is described as ‘founded within the Catholic tradition of Anglicanism, and successful candidates will have shown that their own understanding and practice of the faith [...]

Media interest in the Church of England is running at an all-time low. Religious correspondents struggle to get anything in most weeks and even the revelation, in the publication of the bishops' expenses, that the Archbishop of Canterbury is a [...]