Robbie Low Rude Health MANY YEARS AGO, on one of our regular summer pilgrimages home to Cornwall, we arranged to meet my parents on the beach. Needless to say, being a family outing, it could not be at the beach [...]

THE TENSION WHICH has wracked a great nation has at last been released! Now we know!! The AbC is to pray in the Dome!!! At precisely 11.15 (a time manfully and skilfully negotiated by Spin-Dr Beaver himself - not so [...]

At the regional consultations on the document 'The Case for a Free Province of the Church of England' Sam Philpott preached about mission and hope. As he stepped ashore he saw a large crowd; and he took pity on them [...]

Geoffrey Kirk looks at the conflicting ecclesiologies underlying some recent statements IF MY MEMORY serves me, Robert Runcie once remarked, apropos disagreements over the ordination of women, that differences which were tolerable between parties whom the ocean divides might not [...]

Lionel Atherton reflects on some familiar words COULD IT BE that the bride's promise "to obey" needs to be thought about in the context of the obedience of the Church to Jesus Christ ? Earlier in the Marriage Service there [...]

The second in John Richardson's series on contemporary homiletics TOWARDS THE END of my title-post in the 1970s, I faced an interregnum in a parish of some seventeen thousand people. Even for a quite-cocky curate, this was a daunting prospect, [...]

THE PICTURE AND THE FRAME THERE IS NO such thing as pure text. Such an observation is pre-ancient rather than post-modern. But it certainly matters to hymns. A hymn in a book has a different feel to it from one [...]

Bishop Michael Houghton, the Bishop of Ebbsfleet continues our series of twelve meditations in preparation for the Millennium Celebration 'Christ Our Future' at the London Arena, Docklands on June 10, 2000. CONCEIVED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. ... Because she has [...]

Mary Judkins on the vocation of the Holy Common People of God It was somewhat confusing to be addressed by the Bishop of St Albans during the debate on `A Learning Church for a Learning Age' at the recent York [...]

From Glory to Glory "BE YE PERFECT". On the one hand the command is entirely unrealistic. On the other, our Lord may be demanding but he does not ask the impossible. The problem is that people think of perfection in [...]