Christopher Smith There was a funny little story in the press just before Easter about the University of Stirling having dropped Jane Austen from the curriculum of their English faculty. In order to ‘decolonise’ the said curriculum, she was [...]
Thurifer Copy deadlines meant that events in the second half of May could not be reported until July,: events in the second half of June must wait until September. The sun shone on the Society of Mary’s May Devotion, [...]
Tony Robinson Wakefield has been in the limelight recent for a fairly historic by-election. The constituency turned blue in 2019 but the MP had to resign this year when he was sent to prison for past criminal offences. There [...]
A report to the FiF General Assembly in May The main theme for this New Directions report is thanks. First of all, an enormous thank you to Fr Philip Corbett for his stewardship of the magazine for so long [...]
John Gayford considers the life of Henry Manning who moved from Anglican Chichester to Roman Westminster With recent attention on the canonisation of John Henry Newman, the other Victorian Anglican convert who became a cardinal, Henry Manning, receded from [...]
The Society released the following statement at the end of June: ‘Now that the proposed revival of the See of Oswestry has received the approval of both the Dioceses Commission and the Lichfield Diocesan Synod, The Society’s Council of Bishops [...]
Hallowed liturgy and care for the bereaved make our funerals special, argues Edward Dowler ‘It shall be the duty of every minister to bury, according to the rites of the Church of England, the corpse or ashes of any [...]
Nicholas Sagovsky reports on ‘Sorores in Spe’: A Fresh Response to the Condemnation of Anglican Orders (1896) At the Malines Conversations (1921-6), for the first time since the Reformation a handful of Anglican and Roman Catholic theologians engaged in [...]
Martin Draper explores the prayer of prayer in hymnody PRAYER is the soul’s sincere desire; Uttered or unexpressed; The motion of a hidden fire That trembles in the breast. 2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, The [...]
Nicholas Johnson introduces Lord Hope’s celebratory sermon Upon my appointment as Vicar of Tuebrook, I was immediately aware that a very significant anniversary was coming up—the sesquicentennial of the consecration of our church, a jewel of Victorian architecture. Yet, [...]