It was raining in Maida Vale as Tom Whelan reviewed his meagre wardrobe. Did he possess a single garment which would be suitable for a detective sergeant conducting an investigation in a small town on the Equator? The answer, apart [...]
Patrick Reardon looks at a prophet on politics Besides surprised, Micaiah ben Imlah was feeling more than faintly puzzled. A messenger had just arrived from the palace in Samaria, summoning him to a large consultation of prophets that King Ahab [...]
Andy Hawes on rural ministry now Two weeks ago I stood in Swinstead Churchyard at Tom Pell’s grave. Thirteen years before I had taken the Blessed Sacrament to his sister before she died, subsequently I had officiated at June’s funeral. [...]
Robert Hart on inclusive language Lex Orandi Lex Credendi, ‘The law of prayer is the law of belief.’ New forms and versions of Christian liturgy become a danger to right belief to the extent that the language of such prayer [...]
Sister Joan Chittister, a keynote speaker at the recent conference of WOW (Women’s Ordination Worldwide), has written a ‘creed’. It is modelled on – but quite different from – the Apostles’ Creed. The Apostles’ Creed: 'I believe in God, the [...]
PRAYING THE PASSION The mind and heart recoils from the suffering of Jesus. There is a double cause to this shying away from its reality. The first is the common difficulty of being with someone in pain: the suffering of [...]
A great idea, says Nick Turner; but who will try it first? Parishes can be culled, merged, amalgamated, re-ordered. This practice has been going on for so long and become so normal, that in some parts of the country it [...]
Cost of Conscience seeks to inform people about the Drug Scene According to a recent article in The Economist (‘Bad Score’, January 12, 2002, p27) ‘Britain now has by far the worst drug problem in Western Europe … More people [...]
Even in the early Church there were complaints of racial unfairness It was from my grandparents that I learned that Mussolini may have been a pathetic dictator, but at least the trains ran on time. It was probably a myth, [...]
George Austin was uplifted by a festival in the North It was standing room only in York Minster as over 2,000 of the faithful gathered for the Northern Provincial Festival of Forward in Faith at noon on Saturday 9 February. [...]