Robbie Low recalls the Day of Decision 1992 Anniversaries mean different things to different people. The celebration of silver, ruby, gold and diamond wedding anniversaries are celebrated with joy in inverse proportion to their increasing rarity while, alongside, there are [...]
Patrick Reardon on the domestic career of David KING David made Abigail a happy woman, but she was the exception. Over the other women along his path, as far as we can tell, David invariably cast a shadow dark and [...]
A Clerical detective story by PDJ Aymes The famous sports Bugatti turned out of Waterloo Place and into Pall Mall. Commander Eve Melhuish had invited the thirty-eight Primates of the Anglican Communion to meet her at her club for what [...]
Anne Gardom writes about three current exhibitions Painting, Passion and Politics: Pictures currently on loan from the Walpole Collection in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. The elegant small Hermitage galleries in Somerset House are showing some pictures from the [...]
Peter Groves on Constantinople III, 680–1 One might be forgiven for thinking that the problems and controversies surrounding the Christian doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation were laid to rest after the Council of Chalcedon in AD451. Students of [...]
The nonchalant arrogance of the current proprietors of ECUSA Inc is a prodigy to behold. Two examples have recently come to light, both of them involving so-called ‘inclusive’ language. The Presiding Bishop (Frank Tracey Griswold III*) cites the great Thomas [...]
From the Communion of the Sick in the Prayer Book, we read this rubric: But if a man, by reason of extremity of sickness … do not receive the Sacrament of Christ’s Body and Blood: the Curate shall instruct him [...]
Ann Turner offers some personal reflections on remaining a deacon I sometimes think I must be the only person who does not remember where they were on the day that President Kennedy was shot; but I certainly do remember the [...]
John Hunwicke wonders when Hell will freeze over Shall we end up looking decidedly silly? Will the next Pope, or the one after him, cheerfully introduce the ordination of women? Of course, he would have to cancel or get round [...]
Marvels of the Silver Screen WHEN the birthday of our eldest came on a Sunday, we joined his church that morning. We did the same the last time it happened. It's good to see how things are done down the [...]