Funeral thoughts by Christopher Idle AND HAVING listened and talked with the family and covered hymns, psalms, music and much else, I find in my hand a small piece of paper, torn or cut from something, often another funeral service [...]
Beams and Logs IF JUDGEMENT is to begin with the House of God how do we stand? In every household it is far easier to note and condemn the blemishes of others than to acknowledge and remedy our own shortcomings. [...]
The Judgement of God and the security of the saints (Rev.6:1–8:1) THE PREVIOUS PART of John’s vision concluded on a high note of praise to the Redeeming Lamb. But we live in the period preceding this final redemption, and so [...]
Rodney Schofield examines an unsolved - and intractable - mystery of clerical life. THROUGHOUT THE course of my ministry, in attending receptions after baptisms, weddings or funerals, people often seem to have asked: What happens when a vicar wants to [...]
David Dale reflects on some traditional aspects of a Church of England Easter THE POOR OLD Church of England had an odd press over the East week-end. On Easter Monday there were dark mutterings from Bishop Turnbull of Durham and [...]
John Habgood maintains that the Preface lacked depth and was simply wrong about Crown Appointments WHEN GARRY BENNETT wrote his Crockford Preface he was a member of the Standing Committee of the General Synod during one of its most miserable [...]
WINTER OF DISCONTENT AUSTRALIA FACES a winter of discontent on a number of fronts. Industrial strife on the waterfront, the Prospect of a race influenced general election, the increasing impact of a burgeoning gambling culture, continued unemployment and division and [...]
GOOD-BYE TO THE FATHER I THINK THE SITUATION is somewhat different in England, but here the official liturgical body is a group in whose works the Christian faith is slowly erased — subtly and quietly and often indirectly, but effectively [...]
SAINT GEORGE’S House, Windsor (Chairman, the Dean of Windsor; Vice-Chairman, the Duke of Edinburgh) which is a ‘residential centre to provide opportunity of study and discussion by clergy and laity’ (‘ecumenical and inter-faith stances enjoined by the Trust deed’) has [...]