Gill James was apprehensive about helping with SHEEPDIP. She came away with prayer and faith renewed WHAT IS IT you're helping on? Something called SHEEPDIP?? These comments rang in my ears as I rushed to Birmingham from London on Friday [...]
Richard Seabrook describes the first FiF Alternative POT Conference and looks forward to the next THE FIRST Post Ordination Training Conference, organised by a group from Forward in Faith, took place at the beginning of October. You will have seen [...]
William Paley reflects on the underlying assumptions of the Turnbull Report HE ARCHBISHOPS' Commission on the Organisation of the Church of England, chaired by the Bishop of Durham, the Rt. Revd Michael Turnbull has issued a report recommending widespread changes [...]
Bede's History of the English Church and People One of the great pleasures of being a Flying Bishop is getting invited to patronal festivals. This stirs up the grey matter no end, when we are called on to preach on [...]
The National Secretary of FiF reports to the Assembly, and outlines plans for the future MR. CHAIRMAN, Rt. Revd Fathers, Revd Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is with great pleasure, and not a little pride in the increasing seriousness and [...]
Taking a Look: Deuteronomy 8 Deuteronomy is largely made up of pep talks Moses gave the children of Israel before he left them and they crossed the Jordan into the Promised Land with Joshua as their general. It is not [...]
Linda Woodhead offers further reflections on the Church of England and the Nine O'clock Service I FEEL INCREASINGLY Trollopian in my attitude to the Church of England. Like Trollope I love this church, my church, and believe that at its [...]
Andrew Burnham shares some thoughts with the Catholic Group in Synod THE QUESTION of women bishops, on the agenda of the General Synod in November 1996, inevitably requires a revisiting, if briefly, of some old arguments. The challenge women bishops [...]
HOW LONG, they proverbially ask, is a piece of string? And how long, one imagines the proponents of women’s ordination must daily ask themselves, is a ‘period of reception’? What the proponents of women’s ordination wanted was control of the [...]