Geoffrey Kirk preached at the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham on the Feast of the Assumption WHEN MY EDWARDIAN predecessor erected in St Stephen’s Lewisham an elaborate tabernacle for the Blessed Sacrament he surrounded it, as you do, with [...]

John Richardson observes the House of Bishops at work with Occam's razor WHEN THE HOUSE OF BISHOPS was asked to respond to a Private Member’s motion on lay presidency with a statement about ‘the theology of the Eucharist and about [...]

Jeremy Sheehy reflects on the Bishops' Report AS A RESULT of a General Synod Private Member’s motion in 1994, which was passed in an amended form, the House of Bishops was asked to make a statement about the theology of [...]

This month marks the last appearance of New Directions in The Church of England Newspaper. No-one in the traditionalist constituency, the original integrity, should underestimate what this relationship has meant to us. In the wake of November 1992 the then [...]

News from the Forward in Faith Regions National Assembly - two weeks and counting? With the fourth annual Forward in Faith National Assembly just two weeks away, readers might expect the Director to be able to give some fairly firm [...]

FOOTBALL, as one of its more erudite pundits once remarked, is a game of two halves. London, as any Londoner will tell you, is much the same. Those born, raised, imported, adopted on opposing banks of England’s great waterway occupy [...]

An Indifferent Solution ON THE PRINCIPLE that most people eventually see that there are some activities better done from the inside of a tent looking out rather than from the outside of a tent looking in I had, I must [...]