by John S. Spong In the 16th century the Christian Church, which had been the source of much of the stability of the western world, entered a period of internal and violent upheaval. In time this upheaval came to be [...]
What do you want, for goodness sake? ‘SINCE ALL THE CHILDREN share the same human nature, he too shared equally in it so that by his death he could set aside him who held the power of death, namely the [...]
My Life-partner went to the Lambeth Conference and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt DON’T WAIT FOR IT - we can give it you now! The Lambeth Conference 1998 Official Souvenirs programme, that is. You bishops or Official Spice [...]
The Old Vicarage, Framley, Nr Barchester Re: The Archbishops' Council Dear George and David, You can’t imagine how delighted I was to see your advertisement and to realise that at long last you are taking the sensible - and inevitable [...]
Non-Executive Directors sought for well-known National Charity A rather thin envelope dropped through my letterbox the other day. It contained a splendid bit of marketing hype. "The Church of England", it trumpeted, "into the 21st century". Not quite a sentence, [...]
THE WORD ‘P’ ONE OF THE BESETTING problems of English evangelicals is that the best of them don’t believe in church politics. Simply ring-fencing your parish and preaching the gospel is held to be the way to transform (or at [...]
THOMAS TRAHERNE: A MAN FOR TODAY A NEW MILLENNIUM seems tinged with foreboding, our hearts are fearful about what might happen. Is this a Christian attitude? Probably not, but Jesus predicted that it would be so, and followed with these [...]
Peter Lilley considers the morality and the practical politics of Third World debt THE AIM OF THE JUBILEE 2000 campaign to encourage leaders to cancel the backlog of unpayable debts by the most impoverished nations is wholly admirable. The idea [...]
Michael Houghton TWO YEARS AGO, in the dead of night, a team of vicious and deluded thugs waited in the shadows of the north wall of the church, to bring their campaign of terror to a hideous climax. For several [...]
By Archdeacon Armitage-Shanks 'It has long been recognised in the Anglican Communion that polygamy in parts of Africa has features of both faithfulness and righteousness.' from 'Called to full Humanity: a Report for the Lambeth Conference, Section I', Chair, the [...]