In each diocese the Bishop of The Society has a Bishop’s Representative. For their names and contact details, see the Dioceses pages on the Society website: www.sswsh.com/dioceses.php THE SOCIETY IN THE DIOCESES Diocese Bishop Representative Bath & Wells [...]
New Talent Tom Sutcliffe on the bleak vision presented by Alistair McDowall’s Pomona Alistair McDowall is a new 27-year-old playwright whose Pomona at the Orange Tree in Richmond-on-Thames has really scored a hit. I read that he has [...]
Art GIOVANNI BATTISTA MORONI Royal Academy 25 October 2014–25 January 2015 Admission £12, concessions available This is the first large-scale exhibition of the work of Moroni outside of Italy. The majority of the works come from Bergamo, though [...]
Christopher Smith rattles off an A level in Sociology Regular readers will know that I am not a great football fan, preferring a day in the sun with one eye on a cricket match and the other eye on [...]
As this issue of New Directions goes to print, a remarkable Church of England row is gathering steam. The row is not about women in the episcopate or blessing same-sex partnerships. It is about leadership: specifically, it is about the [...]
Fr Peter CSWG on an initiative designed to give people a hands-on experience of religious life The posters, adverts and flyers brandishing photos of religious in traditional monastic garb had been asking through the summer: ‘Ever wondered what it‘s [...]
Philip North identifies some opportunities for community ministry for smaller churches Our past can inspire. But it can also imprison and restrict. One aspect of our past that we love to recall as Anglo-Catholics is the stories of the [...]
Gifts By now most people will have consumed, exchanged or read the gifts received at Christmas. Receiving gifts is not always easy. It can be humbling, embarrassing, and sometimes we cannot understand why someone would want to give us [...]
Light Arthur Middleton Some years ago, in the Mendip caves, all the lights went out and left us in total darkness. Nobody could pick up any light within that darkness. So it was also an experience of blindness, [...]
Arthur Middleton on the Anglican quest for unity In January another week of prayer for Christian unity is promoted, and we are urged to pray for the unity of the universal Church. Previous generations of Anglican divines had a [...]