Arthur Middleton on ‘what always and everywhere and by all was believed’ There are many church people who see updating the Church as accommodating it to secular culture and too often their arguments are grounded in sentiment rather than Church [...]
Prayer & mission Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House St Andrew’s Day which falls on the last day of this month. It is set aside as a day of prayer for the mission of the Church. [...]
BRONZE Royal Academy of Arts 15 September–9 December 2012 Admission £14, concessions available THIS IS a show like no other. It’s not curated to present a new theory or an overlooked artist. Instead it has been got up at short [...]
Terry Buckingham summarizes the insights provided by a recent survey of the beliefs and views of over 1,000 committed Christians from a broad Anglican spectrum Supporters of the legislation enabling women to be consecrated to the episcopate wrote to the [...]
The frenzy is over and now The English religion proceeds Quiet and un-miraculous, Without embarrassments. We think of being kind and ‘Do as you would be done by’ Restraint and the pastoral sense. But as you gaze into this green, [...]
Simon Killwick explains why the legislation is unfair, unstable and incoherent; that it does not command consensus; and why there is a better way forward There is no legally binding provision for minorities; instead a Code of Practice is proposed, [...]
Mark 6.3 and Matthew 13.55 refer to the brothers of Jesus. While the Eastern Church took them to be Joseph’s children by an earlier wife, the West recalled that ‘brethren’ can mean near relatives and believed them to be Jesus’ [...]
Prayers, money and hope needed – to save an important painting, with a rare insight to the solemnity of death, and the power of the Christian hope. Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) was one of the great painters of the seventeenth century. [...]
Rod Thomas explains the long-term theological and practical damage to the CofE that will be caused by the approval of the draft Measure The forthcoming vote by General Synod on the draft Women Bishops Measure will be a watershed for [...]
In the second of our interviews with Bishop Martyn Jarrett he looks towards the future ND You were much involved with an issue that you can’t avoid still in General Synod. Were you on General Synod before? I was elected [...]