Peter Mullen deplores the use of jargon and management-speak in a CofE job advertisement You know all that money which your parish church pays in tax each year through the diocesan quota? Do you ever wonder what they spend it [...]

On a pilgrimage to Rome in the late 14th c., Roch of Montpellier became ill; hiding in a forest, he is said to have been fed by a dog bringing him bread and licking his wounds. Not surprisingly, he was [...]

Geoffrey Rowell reflects on the life and writing of the church historian Alf Härdelin The name of Alf Härdelin, the church historian who died in his native Sweden a few weeks ago, is not likely to be familiar to many [...]

Luke Miller looks at the Rt Revd Peter Wheatley’s achievements during his fifteen years as Bishop of Edmonton Whether it be a noisy congregation or a fractious PCC meeting, Bishop Peter has an extraordinary ability to dominate a room with [...]

Nicholas Turner considers the birth pangs of the new Diocese of Leeds What is happening in the new mega-diocese? Considering it is the prototype amalgamation for more to come in the following decades across the whole of the Church of [...]

Newly appointed Synod Elections Officer Anne Gray introduces herself Born in Leigh-on-Sea – a real Essex girl – I was fortunate that my parents took me from birth to St Clement’s church, soundly Catholic in those far-off days. Baptized and [...]

Simon Killwick, Chairman of the Catholic Group in General Synod, explains the post of Synod Elections Officer As part of the settlement over women bishops, we are invited not simply to continue, but to flourish within the life and structures [...]

4 – Conclusion Colin Podmore looks at the final section of the House of Bishops’ Declaration Cathedrals Arrangements in relation to other places of worship The cathedral is the seat of the bishop, who has the right to officiate there [...]

With General Synod poised to discuss abolishing the seal of confession, David Ackerman explores the legal background and context of confidentiality between priest and penitent The 1994 film Priest has as its main plot the harrowing dilemma of a priest [...]

The Bishop of Ebbsfleet reflects on the Cross as the visible token of a love that never abandons us This sermon was preached at Shrewsbury All Saints, 20 September 2014, at a Credo Cymru Festival of Faith. The Festival, an [...]