THE LITTLE River Sal, which in mid-summer was a mere trickle at the bottom of the orchard, was now swollen by the lengthy autumn rains into a torrent which none could pass, tearing earth from the roots of ancient trees. [...]
a 3-part guide to Sanctity with Sanity Part Three: SO YOU WANT TO GIVE SOME BLOOD? HAVING COVERED, all too sketchily, the first two Ways to Goodness (Episcopacy and Evensong) we come now to the Third Way, which has no [...]
The language of the Roman liturgy in its English translation has long been criticised by Anglicans as banal and unhelpful. The ASB was in truth little better, and Common Worship, though an improvement, has its own inelegancies. With the publication [...]
I feel I should begin with either an apology or a health warning. I’ve been asked to review The Eucharist: Sacrament of Unity (henceforth TESU) from an Evangelical perspective. TESU is, of course, the response of our own bishops to [...]
As a typically truculent parish priest, I do not always greet diocesan encyclicals with the seriousness they seek. Initiatives for deanery synods, topics for PCC discussion, and (more recently) projects for a supposed worship group. There is parish work to [...]
Letter to a frequent communicant THERE has been much comment in the press recently about inter-communion between Roman Catholics and Anglicans, or rather the lack of it. I am sure we all know people who break the rules and I [...]
John Turner takes heart from the letters of a great lay theologian In retrospect it seems to us to day that sixty or seventy years ago the Church of England was in a reasonably flourishing condition. Yet one Anglican woman, [...]
Patrick Reardon considers an obscure witness to the hope of salvation After the Epistle to the Hebrews gives its initial definition of faith as "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (11:1), there follows the [...]
Highways and byways of hymns Cowards in the Choir, or What no-one told Mrs Worthington When he was a small boy, Noel Coward had long golden hair. He also had a sweet voice. And the third and final thing I [...]
Philip Davis concludes his investigation of goddess theology The Earth is our Mother; we must take care of her.' TMs line from a popular neopagan chorus captures much of the appeal of the Goddess movement. What could be more benign [...]