Mary Judkins asks some basic questions about Turnbull TURNBULL, TO BE, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer .... " (with apologies to W. Shakespeare) What a question! We are told [...]

Richard Turnbull reviews the current position of the National Institutions Measure, welcomes amendments, but calls us to vigilance AS THE NATIONAL Institutions Measure weaves and winds its way through the intricacies of the Synodical legislative process there is the danger [...]

THE ROMAN OPTION, Crisis and the Realignment of English-Speaking Christianity, William Oddie, HarperCollins, London 1997,xii+256pp, hbk, ISBN 000-628064-1, pbk, ISBN 000-628065-X, £16.99 (hbk) YOU GET what you would expect from The Roman Option. The author of What Will Happen to [...]

Why do we need bishops? I suppose that there are times when we ask that about anyone in authority. Why do we need the headteacher? Why do we need the vicar? Of course this question is all the more important [...]

Ernest Lucas ponders Richard Dawkins' "laws of nature' and the hypothesis of God DR. RICHARD DAWKINS is a very good communicator and populariser of science, particularly in the area of his own speciality, zoology. That is why he has recently [...]

The quality of Mercy "Leave off from wrath, and let go displeasure : fret not thyself, else shalt thou be moved to do evil." Psalm 37:8 According to Owen Chadwick, William Howley the early nineteenth century Archbishop of Canterbury used [...]

Bishops and the Fourth Estate IT IS A TRUISM to say that you can't believe what you read in the press. If you have ever read a press report about an event at which you were present, you will know [...]

Highways and Byways of Hymns A Tale of Two Ditties "Your love, O Lord, reaches to the heavens" - so sings Psalm 36 v.5. Notice the three four-letter words. The day this column was born, Marjorie (my wife) came home [...]

Trevor Jones on the sin of the soaps and the suburbs MY WIFE ONCE pointed out that I was not, by nature, very good at being married. My temperament and habits, she contended, are more suited to a celibate and [...]

A word in their Ear IT USED TO BE SAID that at the end of every traffic jam you'd find a policeman. Today, you are more likely to find the jam is part of that mysterious 'caterpillar-crawl' phenomenon which has [...]