Jonathan Baker remembers The Revd Dr Geoffrey Kirk, theologian Geoffrey Kirk was a man of sharp mind and fierce intelligence. As a satirist and a polemicist, he was unafraid to wield either in exposing what he perceived to be woolly, [...]
Ailsa Temple remembers Geoffrey Kirk as a parish priest On reading Fr Davage’s history of the Parish of St Stephen’s it appears obvious that in 1981 Fr Geoffrey Kirk was parachuted into a time of dissention and general irritability, with [...]
Geoffrey Kirk 10 December 1945 - 10 April 2020 (Good Friday) Stephen Parkinson remembers his friend Geoffrey Kirk I first set eyes upon Geoffrey Kirk in 1993 – on May Day, to be precise – in a room hidden in [...]
Many religions have festivals which celebrate light overcoming darkness. Such occasions are often accompanied by the lighting of candles. They seem to speak to every culture, and appeal to people of all faiths, and of none. They are lit on [...]
Jack Allen on reading more than Thomas Aquinas If you are a Roman Catholic, odds are pretty good that you are a Thomist. Now, since this is New Directions, you’re probably an Anglo-Catholic, in which case odds are still pretty [...]
Simon Morris considers episcopal correspondence Docetism, you may recall, is the heresy that Jesus only appeared to be human but was not substantially so. The Archbishops and Bishops of the Church of England seem to have embraced a new twenty-first [...]
A statement from the Northern Bishops of The Society of Saint Wilfrid and Saint Hilda As the three Society Bishops based in the Province of York, we welcome the Time to Sow in the North report produced by St John’s College, [...]
Ian McCormack onsiders what we might learn from the past On 27th March 2020, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York wrote to the clergy of the Church of England. The letter included these words: ‘We are in a time of [...]