A most revealing patrimony As the attempt to define Anglican patrimony continues to occupy the blogosphere, Ed Tomlinson has a radical suggestion for redefining the parameters I am willing to bet that no member of Forward in Faith placed the [...]
St Catherine - 15th century Having just cast my vote in the current election for a new General Synod, I return to a theme that continues to fascinate me: the integrity and self-assurance so powerfully conveyed in medieval pictures of [...]
The nature of faith Faith is elicited through hearing the message of Christ being preached Patrick Henry Reardon, senior editor of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity In addition to being the gift of God, faith is also an act [...]
Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House Spiritual education I may be a ‘slow learner’ but I still ponder on the advice and the teaching of previous spiritual directors who helped me in the past. Some of these [...]
Lead kindly light... I say, then, Theology is the fundamental and regulating principle of the whole Church system. It is commensurate with Revelation, and Revelation is the initial and essential idea of Christianity. It is the subject-matter, the formal cause, [...]
ALBERT AND VICTORIA ART AND LOVE Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace 19 March–31 October Admission £8.50 (ticket can be reused for one year at the gallery) ONE OF the problems of writing for a monthly magazine is that copy deadlines don’t [...]
America New Church Body to be Formed for Lutherans More than 1,000 Lutherans from throughout North America will gather Aug. 26-27 in suburban Columbus, Ohio, to form a new church body for confessional Lutherans. The annual Convocation of Lutheran CORE [...]
Julian Mann on an important Australian contribution to British conservative evangelicalism which shook up its complacent tendencies The brothers Jensen – Peter, Archbishop of Sydney and Phillip, Dean of St Andrew’s Cathedral – continue to exercise an influential ministry within [...]
Paul Griffin shows a love of country and the Queen ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,’ Boswell quotes Dr Johnson as saying. On the face of it, that is a bit of a body blow for patriotism; but [...]
John Fenwick argues that a free province of the CofE already exists, like a shell company ripe for a takeover Robert Van Der Weyer [‘The law as friend’, ND August] states that ‘traditionalists have the right to form their own [...]