A few years ago, I read a novel by PD James, The Children of Men. It was a futuristic account of what would happen if the pattern of increasing sterility among both men and women came to its logical conclusion. [...]

Geoffrey Kirk wonders if the Rochester Commission can ever hope for agreement. What are bishops for? The question is one which many a reader of New Directions will have asked herself, probably in a moment of exasperation with a particular [...]

Raymond Chapman looks at the language of Common Worship 'I am the man that has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath' (Lamentations 3.1). Generations of worshippers have heard these words, especially in Passiontide, and have related them to [...]

September 2002 This month New Directions publishes the third major article on the comprehensive ‘Mind of Anglicans’ survey (pp 17–20). The information was gathered by Christian Research, the leading organization in this field, from a wide-ranging group of clergy and [...]