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Idle Curiosity

Name Dropping The month which begins with all the saints gives an opportunity to pay tribute to a sometimes neglected name among hymnwriters. This author's compositions are literally timeless; they display a vast range of scope, style and subject; they [...]

A Question of Gender

Gerry O’Brien looks at some tell-tale statistics People tend to agree that there is a gender imbalance in church congregations. True, there are congregations where men outnumber women, but the phenomenon is sufficiently unusual as to make it worth remarking [...]

Not Just For the Money

Jonathan Redvers Harris considers the report of the Clergy Stipends Review Group, ‘Generosity and Sacrifice’ The year is AD 2008. At last, after a hitch when the House of Bishops initially blocked it, the legislation enabling the admission of women [...]

COMMENT

The Rochester Commission on women in the episcopate will now be hard at work sifting all the submissions made to it before the deadline of October 31st. Rochester is, of course, a theological enquiry. It is not bound to be [...]

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