The Annual Festival of The Additional Curates Society and Farewell Sermon by Father Anthony Prescott A wonderful, warm spring day, a beautiful church, a superb Mass setting (Gounod), and a truly catholic congregation. With a mix of ingredients such as [...]
A New Generation's Search for Faith At the tender age of twelve I remember watching Top of the Pops and thinking to myself how dull and boring we had all become. Bony M were prancing around in very big hair, [...]
That some men have a penchant for dominant, not to say aggressive, women is obvious from the advertisements which plaster telephone booths close to major London railway stations. There is an undeniable frisson to be had from the close proximity [...]
Stephen Trott reflects on the conclusions to be drawn from the MSF survey of parochial clergy The results of a detailed survey undertaken by the Clergy Section of MSF (the trade union for skilled and professional people) are revealing that [...]
Christopher Townsend argues that biblical judgements remain relevant in the debate about homosexuality Copyright Cambridge Papers 1994 SUMMARY Christians today hold divergent views on homosexuality. This article reviews the key biblical material on homosexual practice and considers scientific and theological [...]
June 19th - St Basil the Great Unlike St John the Baptist, St Basil never lost his head. He was neither burned alive like Joan of Arc nor crucified upside down in imitation of St Peter. Far from suffering a [...]
John Richardson is not going but staying; and that is a threat, not a promise I am a person who has for a long time sat light to church structures. I grew up in a traditional anglo-catholic congregation but was [...]
WILL REFORM need to use the lifeboats? Chairman Philip Hacking’s description of the task of the working party presently in session as “checking where the lifeboats are” does not hint at the complex and daunting task facing the movement if [...]
The announcement that David Hope is to be the next Archbishop of York should have been greeted by predictable caricature reactions. Liberals should have been crying in their beer. In the event it was left to a few of the [...]
Every incumbent, every churchwarden, and indeed every PCC member, ought to buy and read a copy of the CHURCH REPRESENTATION RULES, which were updated on 1 January 1995. (They can be ordered from Church House Bookshop for £4.95 + P&P). [...]