Arthur Middleton on the way of our salvation In his Confessions, Augustine explains why only the Incarnation satisfies. During his spiritual journey, he was greatly attracted by the philosophy of the Platonists. There he found much that was close in [...]
Anthony Kilmister on the origins and history of the Association and its determination to support orthodoxy in Anglican thinking 012 promises to be quite a year! The Queen and nation will be marking her sixty years as our monarch, the [...]
Bishop Robert Ladds looks back on the events of the 80th Anniversary Year pilgrimage made by members of the Society of Mary The Society of Mary was founded in 1931 by the bringing together of two earlier devotional societies. Soon [...]
Geoff van der Weegen OCist explains the recent establishment of the Order of Anglican Cistercians The unique Cistercian charism and the contemplative life that has been present in the Church since 1098 was diminished and ultimately lost at the time [...]
LEONARDO DA VINCI Painter at the Court of Milan National Gallery 9 November 2011–5 February 2012 Admission £16, concessions available WHAT THEY say is true. This is probably the one chance you’ll get to see so many of Leonardo’s paintings [...]
Birthday Greetings for New Directions from the Archbishop of Canterbury I realise that it is practically impossible to say anything about the future of the Catholic witness within the Church of England at the moment without touching on the major [...]
Within a stone’s throw of the cathedral of Poitiers stands the mid-4th c. Baptistère Saint-Jean (1), very likely the oldest Christian building in France. There is nowhere as old as this in England, but parts of Brixworth (Northants) are believed [...]
The Bishop of Chichester on how St Paul addressed the disputes of the Corinthians and how we should treat those who disagree with us It has often been said that the first casualty of war is truth. I do not [...]
The Bishop of Ebbsfleet The first in a series of interviews; this month with The Right Revd Jonathan Baker, Bishop of Ebbsfleet ND New Directions: Now that the dioceses have voted on the Measure and considered the following motions, how [...]
Martin Hislop muses from the South Bank A colleague from across the Thames said to me earlier this year, ‘You must be relieved with the new regime in Southwark?’ I suppose he assumed that anything was an improvement on the [...]