Bishop John Gladwin sees Turnbull as "a window of opportunity for all of us to face up to change"   HERE ARE TWO inescapable realities. The first is the fundamental shift that is going on in our culture and in [...]

The Position of the Peace The Alternative Service Book is now being revised and, if the reports in the newspapers are accurate, we shall have another new prayer book by the year 2000. I wonder whether the revisers are considering [...]

Bishop Edwin Barnes THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND has done something very unusual. I do not refer to the ordination of women to the priesthood, but to the way it has said that it is incompetent to make a judgement. Although [...]

Nigel Atkinson EVER SINCE JANUARY 1993 when Directions first made its presence felt it was immediately recognised that a new voice was being raised in the rather stuffy, closed world of established ecclesiastical journalism. Many of those who first read [...]

Bishop Howell Davies shares with Credo Cymru some insights into basic biblical imagery THE ISSUE BEFORE US is the ordination of women to the priesthood/episcopate and I trust that we shall dig down to some theological foundations - Biblical theological [...]

Leslie Chadd believes that there has been an unfortunate change in attitude Last summer I had a gorgeous holiday in Sutherland, looking after three church centres of the Scottish Episcopal Church, each of them 25 miles from the next. It [...]

Geoffrey Kirk looks again at a crucial passage from St Paul and asks: Is the Lord's word the last word? AT THE END of a lengthy passage on prophecy and speaking in tongues (and before he goes on to his [...]

Stephen Parkinson explains why he will be on his knees in St Paul's Cathedral THE ANNOUNCEMENT of the appointment of Fr John Broadhurst, Team Rector of Wood Green and National Chairman of Forward in Faith, as the next Bishop of [...]