One equals Two As the Church of England moves towards the formal debate about women in the episcopate there are a number of options for the way forward. This month we examine perhaps the most radical of those options: one [...]

Speaking Up It has almost become a cliché, but the saying is still true that the most unsafe place to be in Australia is the womb, given that with a population of 20 million there are 100,000 abortions each year. [...]

A corner of the Anglican Communion beyond the edge of empire One of the many adornments of St Martin’s Church in Brighton is a nave ceiling composed entirely of the arms of the dioceses of the Anglican Communion. It was [...]

Gerry O'Brien on sin, spin, and not caving in On the day that news of Jeffrey John’s appointment broke, I was speaking to a clergyman from a northern diocese. I was expressing concern, but he declared himself enthusiastic for the [...]

Last Supper Alas, A La Table du Curé is coming to an end. It has been for me a wonderful experience. The table has been filled by parties from Canada to the Cayman Islands; from Australia to Antibes. I have [...]

MONEY WELL SPENT Exciting times in Truro diocese. The first issue of the Cornish Cleric has landed on 30 Day's desk. A multi-colour glossy eight pager, 'by the clergy for the clergy', gets to grips with key issues! 'Low morale' [...]

Should the Lord’s Prayer (LP) be modernized? It is, of course, translations that we are considering; Common Worship and ICEL each offer (different) new versions of the original Greek, neither, incidentally, bold enough to satisfy modern, scholarly opinion about the [...]

Prayer in Julian of Norwich’s Revelations Feast Day 8th May Prayer is what removes the obstacles in us that obstruct and hinder the free operation of God’s grace. Julian has three chapters on prayer, 41– 43, but the spirit of [...]

Robbie Low on the compensation culture ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’ is often quoted as a shorthand summation of Old Testament of legal principles. The marginally literate are likely to add a reflection, variously [...]

I WAS travelling home after staying a couple of days with an old friend in a distant cathedral city. Both retired, we chewed the fat, raking over the ruins of the Anglican project trying to discern where any meaningful future [...]