Edward Morrison reports on a festival of faith held at Durham Cathedral on 4 September Every year in early September Anglo-Catholics from the north-east organize a festival to commemorate the event when St Cuthbert’s body was taken to its final [...]
Pilgrimage for Healing and Renewal to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham Stephen Keeble is Vicar of St George’s, Headstone, Harrow, where the Parish Mass is celebrated according to the Book of Common Prayer, 1549 Canon David Richardson, Dean [...]
On the edge From Mr Anthony Saville We have just come back from the Northern Festival at York Minster. What a wonderful place! It doesn’t matter how many times one has been before, it still takes one’s breath away. It [...]
The House of Bishops met in Oxford in September to revise the much debated amendment 5(1)c to the legislation to ordain women to the episcopate. The Bishops decided to retain the amendment but to change its wording so that it [...]
Fishy Liturgy? Many thanks to a 30DAYs reader from Scotland for sending us a pew sheet from S.Peter’s Episcopal Church in Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. His attention had at first been arrested by the [...]
You get some pleasant surprises in deepest Suffolk, and Westhorpe church is right up there with the best of them. When you think Suffolk Perpendicular, churches like Lavenham and Long Melford tend to come to mind, but compared with the [...]
King Lear at the Almeida Theatre starts well but loses its way, writes Tom Sutcliffe My Magdalen, Oxford Eng. Lit. tutor Emrys Jones died in June, much regretted. He got his Fellowship almost immediately on graduating in his mid-20s as [...]
THE LION’S WORLD A Journey into the Heart of Narnia Rowan Williams SPCK, 128pp, pbk 978 0281068951, £8.99 I am always afraid when adults, particularly theologians and psychologists, interfere with children’s fiction – a theology of Winnie the Pooh or [...]
Christopher Smith considers whether Christianity is in danger of being regarded simply as an obscure cult from the Middle East I cannot claim to be a great aficionado of University Challenge, but how I wish I had seen the episode [...]
Andy Hawes is Warden of Edenham Regional Retreat House Here are ten practical tips for the Prayer of Adoration (as found in the crypt of the Abbey of Vézelay on holiday, and translated by myself and my friend Dorothee Whissell). [...]