Christopher Smith realizes that he would have been regarded by some as having moved away from ‘Scriptural Truth and Primitive Rites’ For the amusement of visitors, there hangs in my downstairs loo a photocopy of a page from a [...]
Michael Fisher affirms that all baptized Christians are baptized in the same Spirit One of my favourite comedy actors of all time is the late and great Peter Sellers: very late in fact, because Sellers died as long ago [...]
Peter Russell Jones remembers Bishop David Thomas ‘The time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith’ 2 Tim.4.6-7. Thus wrote St. Paul to his younger [...]
A good death Having prepared a talk about pastoral care for the terminally ill I have been reminded that our life in Christ is ‘a living death.’ In a society where the prevailing view of death is negative and [...]
Serenhedd James gathers memories of this holy bishop Bishop Geoffrey Rowell died early on Sunday 11 June, aged 74, after a short illness. It has not gone unremarked that it was Trinity Sunday, and that while most of the [...]
Fr Peter CSWG on this priest, teacher of prayer, and prophet for the Church What importance for our divided world, has a priest who died 50 years ago this coming August? Perhaps only, that which concerns us all as [...]
Ian McCormack concludes his consideration of issues of class and gender in the revival of the Religious Life in the Church of England One feature of the early women’s communities which arouses much interest among modern historians is the [...]
Mark Vickers introduces his work on inter-war ecumenism A standard historical view is that there was no friendly contact between Roman Catholics and Anglicans from the Reformation in the sixteenth century until the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s [...]
Joanna Bogle on an exciting competition to encourage children to read the Bible For over a quarter of a century, an ecumenical group has been organising a popular and successful project for schools, in which pupils study the New [...]
Ian McCormack offers a parish priest’s perspective on how The Society and the Five Guiding Principles are working This diagram is something I prepared for a Lent course that I offered to Society parishes locally in order to present [...]