Of Self-esteem and Trojan Horses IF WE MEET our publication schedules this month, you may be reading this before Synod begins, in which case my comments may offer some timely observations about the questions Synod is to consider. However it [...]
MARRY ON DOCTOR I The gutter press has been rife with speculation about the marital outlook for Mrs Familiar Parker-Knoll, consort extraordinary to the Supreme Governor in waiting. More than anything they have been exercised by her clandestine meetings with [...]
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Rodney Schofield on keeping the faith once delivered to the saints EACH WEEK THAT PASSES, we learn a little more about the country that is for the time being our home. Wednesday afternoon is a particularly valuable time when I [...]
Disestablishment and Disintegration THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM meant that the Church of Sweden was disestablished. In about the same way as in England the King in the beginning of the 16th century took power in the church. With the [...]
John Twistleton shares some thoughts on June 10, 2000 SATURDAY 10 JUNE 2000 - a day that will always be etched on my heart, even if it somewhat wore me out as a participant in both Christ our Future and [...]
Geoffrey Kirk concludes that the Doctrine of Reception makes no practical political sense and suggests that the time has come to discuss a less fanciful alternative THE JULY 2000 MEETING of the General Synod of the Church of England will [...]
George Austin reflects on the expectations of polite society IN 1882, MARY ALICE BALDWIN started work in Lancashire cotton mill. She was five years old, and her job was to sweep out the cotton waste from under the huge noisy [...]
The Bronx is up and the Battery's down 'AS GOES MAINE, so goes the nation' runs an old American psephological saw. But better take the social pulse of the nation (perhaps of the Western World) from the success, or otherwise, [...]
A and M: Archetypal and Millennial? THIS COLUMN cannot keep track of every new hymn book, nor judiciously assess them all for its readership. Because each church is different, there is no such thing as a right hymnal or best [...]