ALPHA COURSE FOR CATHOLICS "THE MOST EXCITING PROJECT I'VE EVER RUN" "What on earth shall we do Tuesday nights when Alpha's over?" So many people were hooked on our first Alpha Course that they were showing withdrawal symptoms as the [...]

NCARNATION AND PILGRIMAGE YOUTH MINISTRY IN THE CATHOLIC TRADITION "I met a nun in the supermarket," and so began the pilgrimage of faith which led a young woman to be baptised and confirmed, along with forty others, at an Easter [...]

Youth Ministry in the Catholic Tradition "I met a nun in the supermarket," and so began the pilgrimage of faith which led a young woman to be baptised and confirmed, along with forty others, at an Easter Vigil this year. [...]

The Rev. Joseph D. Rowland, rector of All Saints, Grenada, Mississippi recently wrote: "When Christian people awake on Sunday morning they ought not to begin the day by debating the question of attendance at church, for if they have strength [...]

LIVING IN SIN? Tradition has it that there was a time when bishops talked about God. Now it seems that all they can talk about is sex. We have moved from theology to biology. Our interests have switched from God [...]

DOES IT MATTER THAT THE TOMB WAS EMPTY? The real question is this: Is Christianity simply a religion based on feelings and visions, which can be subjective and dependent upon one’s psychological state or even on one’s digestion (in the [...]

WHAT IS AN ARCHDEACON? What is an archdeacon? To explain is roughly the equivalent of describing the rules of cricket to a foreigner. And generally he will not be much wiser, except in the knowledge that here and there in [...]

Northern Endings There is a good deal of irony in the decision of the legislature of the Northern Territory to permit "mercy killing". Far from making the territory the "death capital" of Australia, it seems likely that the legislation will [...]

LETTER FROM THE BALTIC A candidate who doubts the ordination of women as priests will no longer be ordained in the Church of Sweden. In a motion to be moved at the General Assembly of the Church in August this [...]

According to a leader of the Episcopal Women's Caucus, the four dioceses that still do not ordain women "have become ghettos of discrimination and interpersonal violence against women". Yet she has remained an Episcopalian because "right defeated is stronger than [...]