Have you heard the angels sing? Walter Hilton The Angels' Song was written by Walter Hilton in the fourteenth century for a brother in Christ who asked his guidance. `What is the angels' song?' the brother asked. Walter Hilton replied, [...]

Andrew Starkie on the misuse of language LANGUAGE is a battleground because it is used to transmit ideas. The recent centenary of George Orwell's death has brought before the public imagination again the spectre of the official language of Newspeak. [...]

Hugh Baker looks to the Courtroom beyond IF YOU have read the Book of Job from one end to the other without pause, you have my admiration. Perhaps one should not say this about the Word of God, but the [...]

IN 1565 a huge Turkish army and fleet laid siege to Malta. Had the siege been successful, the ships of Islam would have gained free movement in the Mediterranean and their armies a route through Sicily and southern Italy to [...]

Andy Hawes goes back to square one THE Anglican Communion was dogged last century by the question `what is a bishop for?' It raised its head in the field of ecumenism with Catholic concerns about the Church of South India, [...]

Archbishop Rowan Williams considers our accountability to one another AS I write, I'm waiting to hear the outcome of the US General Convention's debates; it's an interesting tine (to put it mildly) to be reflecting on the nature of Anglicanism. [...]

New Directions is a publication which it is easy to misunderstand. The most fundamental, though understandable, misunderstanding is to think of it as the `In House Magazine' of Forward in Faith. Though the Council of FiF pays for the magazine [...]

Last year Cost of Conscience, the traditionalist think-tank, commissioned the leading religious research body, Christian Research, to conduct a wide-ranging survey of the Church of England. That survey, `The Mind of Anglicans', independently conducted and reported, received such an astonishingly [...]