Britain has a poor record in regard to its overseas territories. Compared with France or the Netherlands, it is mean and penny-pinching. St Helena, Pitcairn, Bermuda and Tristan da Cunha may be too far away from anywhere to consider other [...]

John Richardson takes a less than sanguine approach to the final Reflections that emerged from the Lambeth Conference Is there somewhere on earth where the Sunday afternoons are so interminably long that ones life would be more enhanced by reading [...]

A Sister from Rempstone reflects on the spirituality of our present crisis and on how we can keep praying, stay joyful and always continue to give thanks Whenever there is division and disunity in the Church, there is pain, confusion [...]

The letter from the 14 bishops to the 1400 clergy contains wise advice lay people may wish to hear, of which this is the central extract: It is now clear that the majority in this General Synod, and probably in [...]

We are grateful to Christina Rees for sharing with us a very different perspective on the Synod vote in July and the hopes of Women and the Church for the CofE The result of the debate in General Synod on [...]

Martin Lewes considers the nature of Anglican loyalty and tries to express why so many feel hurt at this time Along with its Blackpool counterpart, Brighton Rock has the name written all the way through, and I suspect that this [...]

Anthony Saville finds that time and reflection show the Synod vote not to be quite so irredeemably awful as it first seemed, that there may still be generosity in the Church of England and the basis for a structural solution [...]

To understand Mary is to understand the Christian faith. The consideration of the ARCIC report Mary: Grace and Hope in Christ at next months session of General Synod is, therefore, of real importance. For a representative body more used to [...]