FiF Director and Secretary in Australia Stephen Parkinson, Forward in Faith ’s National Director, will be away from Faith House for seven weeks this summer – from Friday 15 June until Monday 6 August. He is visiting Australia, where he [...]

Corrie meets Scott-Joplin George Austin thinks that the General Synod could learn a lot from Coronation St LIKE a primary school classroom, the walls of our medieval churches were covered in paintings, often gory and explicit, of heaven, hell, bible [...]

Anne Gardom visits an exhibition of paintings by a priest member of Forward in Faith. I suspect that many people, when faced with a series of paintings that are non-figurative, switch off their minds and say to themselves "if I [...]

This is a most unsettling time for many Australian Anglicans. Not one, but two metropolitical sees are vacant, and the General Synod in which draft legislation providing for women bishops will be discussed, is less than two months away. Saint [...]

Sam in Maryland I arrived in Washington after the cherry blossom but during the azaleas. The meadows and woodlands around the charming seventeenth century brick Church in Accokeek, Maryland could not have looked better - rich in bird life and [...]

Mention to some people that your church has incense, and up go the shutters. "I could never go to a church like that. I wouldn’t know what to do. I’d feel awkward, embarrassed and out of place." Then out comes [...]

Facing Facts 'This long and distressing controversy over capital punishment' Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher once said, 'is very unfair to anyone meditating murder'. And as much could probably also be said about the debate over the Scott-Joynt proposals, with regard to [...]

AND STATISTICS. The biggest Anglican event of the millennium year was Christ Our Future. The newspapers did not queue up to report this traditionalist celebration but chose instead to publish a story that 80 per cent of Anglicans could scarcely [...]

Incarnation – Resurrection – Inspiration In living and moving through the Christian Year, a temptation to be avoided is to treat each celebration as a separate, and each doctrine celebrated as a fragment of the whole in itself, whereas what [...]

Robbie Low looks At the Perry Report on the appointment of Bishops. It was a dull Lenten midweek afternoon a couple of years back. One of those, mercifully rare, committee meetings that draws trustees to the capital had ended early [...]