Christopher Smith   Having been banned from having a social life for much of 2020 and 2021, I upped my rate of novel-reading, and at some point last year I read a book by an Australian author who is a [...]

Thurifer   A week is a long time in politics is a truism recently amply displayed. We might say that the new government has succeeded in reducing it to a few days, even hours, as policies are announced and in [...]

Peter Ramsden   On returning from Papua New Guinea, I was kindly invited by the Bishop of Carlisle to be an Honorary Assistant Bishop in his diocese. I chair the committee that keeps an eye on the diocese’s overseas companion [...]

David Banting commends Bishop Rod Thomas upon his retirement   Rod Thomas has retired as the Bishop of Maidstone after seven distinguished years of pioneering episcopacy. Traditional Catholics have had episcopal representation and cover since 1992 with three Provincial Episcopal [...]

Paul Thomas writes about when the Ecumenical Patriarch came to Evensong   His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira & Great Britain is a parishioner of St James’s, Sussex Gardens. He lives and works at Thyateira House on Craven Terrace, only [...]

For Martin Draper, the Kingdom of God is a powerful theme for hymns   Just as the first edition of the English Hymnal in 1906 showed itself to be rooted in the natural world, long before ‘environmentalism’ and ‘climate change’ [...]

Coral Ann Howells looks at James Joyce’s Ulysses and T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, published 100 years ago and which ushered in the Modernist Movement   ‘April is the cruellest month.’ These lines are instantly familiar to anyone who has [...]

We welcome the priority the Church of England has accorded in recent years to improving its record on safeguarding. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has produced its final report and it is clear that more needs to [...]

David Wetherell writes from Australia on the ordination of women debate, its progress, and universal questions for us all   As far as I can recollect, the precise question of the ordination of women and men is never addressed in [...]

It was announced on 12 October that the Revd Canon Stephen Race, Rector of the Benefice of Central Barnsley in the Anglican Diocese of Leeds and Area Dean of Barnsley, will be the next Bishop of Beverley. He will be [...]