Darren Percival recalls his surprise and pleasure at the BEM   The last Saturday of April was just an ordinary morning. Poppy the dog had been for her walk and I had helped with the Community Litter Pick. When I [...]

David Ackerman shows how a London parish said ‘Thank you, for everything’   Platinum Jubilee celebrations for Her Majesty the Queen took place at St John’s Church, Kensal Green, as they did throughout the Commonwealth. At St John’s, Accession Day [...]

Jonathan Baker reports on the first – and possibly only – Platinum Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving   What a joy to be in St Paul’s Cathedral on 3rd June for the Platinum Jubilee Service, what a privilege: worth every moment [...]

Philip Corbett was out and about for the Platinum celebrations   When on the first day of the Jubilee long weekend my alarm went off at 5.30am I did consider turning it off and going back to sleep. After all, [...]

Heavenly Father, send Thy blessing   Christopher Wordsworth   Heav’nly Father, send Thy blessing On Thy children gathered here; May they all, Thy Name confessing, Be to Thee forever dear; May they be like Joseph, loving, Dutiful, and chaste, and [...]

Martin Warner reflects on how bishops can reveal the nature of Christian identity in others   The gathering of Anglican bishops in Canterbury for the Lambeth Conference understandably prompts us to ask what we expect a bishop to be and [...]

When the Lambeth Conference opens later this month, it will surely be some of relief to Archbishop Welby. The event had been scheduled for 2020 but was derailed by the Covid-19 pandemic. By rights, it should have followed the ten-year [...]

I suspect we have all heard the phrase ‘to know the price of everything but the value of nothing’. In our small corner of Christendom, those words have never seemed more apt than they do at this present time. Conversations [...]