Patrick Henry Reardon on the patterning of Matthew’s Gospel Edgar Allen Poe, in his penetrating review of Bleak House, remarked that no reader can comprehend the real wealth of that work in a single reading. By way of demonstrating the [...]
Hergé and Dürer Hergé General de Gaulle once remarked that Tintin was his only serious international rival. The Maritime Museum in Greenwich has a 75th anniversary exhibition celebrating the work of Hergé, the French author and cartoonist who wrote the [...]
Church Thermometers are not what they were. I refer not to small glass tubes revealing how cold the vestry is, but to large exterior white boards with the temperature in red, showing how the tower appeal is going. Somewhere in [...]
Arthur Middleton looks at the Ecumenical Vocation of the Anglican Communion Lambeth 1930 defined Anglicanism while ‘praying for and eagerly awaiting … the ultimate reunion of all Christendom in one visibly united fellowship.’ Concern for unity is no recent phenomenon. [...]
About three years ago we started at Paignton Parish Church what we call The Alternative Service. It is always a Mass, accompanied by a music group and singing contemporary ‘worship songs’. During those three years I have learnt, and indeed [...]
Called out to be God’s People Ecclesia The insurer of most of our churches is a company which now happily accepts the title EIG. But what we gain in conciseness we lose in precision. For the word ecclesiastical is one [...]
John Edmondson plumbs into the leaky delivery of theological education Following the General Synod of July 2003, at which the recommendations of the Hind Report were largely accepted, the structure of ordination training serving the Church of England is being [...]
It is a natural response to a deeply felt need, in anyone with any Christian sensibility, to ask God to meet it through his mercy. It is need of self or others that opens up the emotional and mental life [...]
An insider’s view of the struggle with suicidal depression When I read Fr Nicholas’ article about suicide in a previous edition of New Directions [October 2003] I found myself getting angry. It is not so much that the theology was [...]
The consecration of Gene Robinson has provoked a crisis of communion across the Episcopal Church. A Network of parishes and dioceses has been set up, refusing to receive the ministry of Bishop Robinson, or of those bishops who consented to [...]