A text for all times Texts Not all biblical texts win ready assent. As I write, Leviticus and 2 Corinthians are fine; Genesis always was and John 14.6 has had a rough ride of late. Others remain favourites, and alongside [...]

Scott Anderson on the possibilities for renewal and growth It took several centuries (in what historians used to call the Dark Ages) to convert Britain to Christianity, but it has taken less than forty years for the country to forsake [...]

Confession: there’s a guilt-wrenching, excuse-making word! Whatever has been said and written about sacramental confession (and much has) one thing is certain: more people ought to make a confession more often. There are reasons for such a bold statement – [...]

Paul Richardson offers some reflections on Christianity in modern As a natural rebel growing up in a non-Christian home I found myself attracted to the Christian faith. At school I was required to attend Anglican worship of a definite Evangelical [...]

Andrew Starkie reflects on confusion and crisis in education Education for what? The ongoing parliamentary struggle over ‘top-up fees’ has had the effect of putting education nearer the top of the political agenda. Commentators have argued whether money should be [...]

John Habgood on the dimensions of tolerance I have been asked to reflect on the working of the Act of Synod and on the advertisement published by the Group for Rescinding the Act of Synod (GRAS) published in the Church [...]

This is the full text of the GRAS advertisement which appeared in the Church Times on February 6th 2004 on which we invited Archbishop Habgood to comment GRAS says Act of Synod must go NOW The Group for Rescinding the [...]

Last month a Church newspaper accepted an advertisement from GRAS (Group for the Rescinding of the Act of Synod). Its content produced outraged responses from many and varied quarters and we are happy to reproduce the full text on Page [...]