A SUCCESSOR FOR SIMEON? EVANGELICALS HAVE LONG admired the great 18th century preacher Charles Simeon. This is not only because of his dogged perseverance in preaching biblical truth but also because of the strategic action he took to promote evangelicalism [...]
The Case for a Free Province of the Church of England Over recent weeks, the Forward in Faith Council members charged with the task of consulting with the membership on the document "The Case for a Free Province of the [...]
Anthony Kilmister sees the Churchwardens Measure sunk WHEN THE GENERAL SYNOD meets at York early in July one burning topic to be discussed will be the fate of the Churchwardens Measure which was unanimously rejected by the Ecclesiastical Committee of [...]
BISHOP JOHN RICHARDS, formerly Bishop of Ebbsfleet, continues our series of twelve meditations in preparation for the Millennium Celebration 'Christ Our Future' at the London Arena, Docklands on June10, 2000. Bishop John asks us this month to reflect on the [...]
Peter Green muses on why he fundamentally disagrees with some thoroughly agreeable people AT LAST, after all these years, it has become plain to me. I have had a minor epiphany. Before I disclose it, I must explain something rather [...]
Geoffrey Kirk talks to Credo Cymru about the Free Province PEOPLE, IT SEEMS, crave a clear, neat, clean-cut ecclesiology. I can today exclusively reveal to you that in Cardinal Ratzinger's office there is a filing cabinet marked 'Top Secret'; and [...]
THE CANADIAN CHURCH IN CRISIS MY TOTAL MILEAGE in February was about 17,000 miles, in ten planes, two cars and two ferries, which took me on a lecture-tour to Canada. It was highly organised by Mr. Graham Eglinton, the National [...]
The revised text of the document The Case for a Free Province of the Church of England which the Council of Forward in Faith is commending for discussion in the regions. THE FOLLOWING is the revised text (as at Dec [...]
ECCENTRIC CENTRISM AS YOU will know, at its tenth anniversary meeting in early June, the Episcopal Synod of America become Forward in Faith/North America, adopting an Agreed Statement on Communion modelled on yours. The resolution to do so passed unanimously. [...]
PEACE ON EARTH One of our correspondents from a far flung diocese has written in to apprise us of one of the unlooked benefits of women's’ ordination. The chief diocesan property wallah recently let slip the fact that since 1993 [...]