September 1997 ANGLICANS AND TRADITION AND THE ORDINATION OF WOMEN, H.R. McAdoo, Canterbury Press, Norwich, 1997, 138 + ix pp, pbk, ISBN l-85311- 172-4, £11.99 ALL ANGLICANS owe a debt of gratitude to the former Archbishop of Dublin and Co-Chairman [...]
A Tale of Heads and Tails by Gerry O'Brien "My personal impression," said Alan McLintock, Chairman of the Central Board of Finance, "is that outside the confines of this Synod, Millbank and Church House, there is only a very limited [...]
Jonathan Redvers Harris reflects on the evils of the 'day-off' mentality A PARISH MAGAZINE which recently fell into my hands contained an announcement of such importance that it needs to be reproduced in full: "AN IMPORTANT REQUEST. Will everyone please [...]
Ivan Clutterbuck argues for a more informed and active laity SINCE THE ‘60S AT LEAST there has been a great cry from the laity. We want sound teaching and now this has been answered by an outbreak of study courses [...]
Keeping the Issues Open IN HIS PREFACE to the 1991 edition of Issues in Human Sexuality the Archbishop of Canterbury wrote, "we do not pretend [this] to be the last word on the subject", adding, "We encourage clergy chapters and [...]
God of Many Names by David Mills JUDGING FROM WHAT they have said, the organisers of General Convention believe that “God” will be present before anyone arrives, during all the proceedings and after all have packed up and gone. Further, [...]
LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA SEPTEMBER 1997 BY PAUL RICHARDSON THE BATTLE OVER the place of gays and lesbians in the church wages just as fast and furious in Australia as it does in England or N. America. The Uniting Church is [...]
Ignatius of Antioch YOUR OBEDIENCE to your bishop, as though he were Jesus Christ, shows me plainly enough that yours is no worldly manner of life, but that of Jesus Christ himself, who gave his life for us so that [...]
Michael Smith considers a subtle shift in the perception of the place of the parish clergy [This article originally appeared in PARSON AND PARISH, the journal of the English Clergy Association, of which Michael Smith is the Editor] ENJOYING HIMSELF [...]
SPLASHING OUT Further to the report (30 Days, August) on Canterbury Diocesan Conference, several readers have contacted us with descriptions of the uplifting final worship. Armed with buckets of water the Bishops and Archbishop went about liberally asperging their unsuspecting [...]