Into the deep end Some years ago I was included in a seminar of Catholic priests from six European nations who met in a Madrid convent. They had all left their official Church to make contact with alienated fellow churchmen [...]

The Bishop of Beverley’s Northern Provincial Festival The Festival will be held in York Minster, beginning at 12 noon on Saturday, 15th September 2012. The theme will be A Living Hope. The pattern of the day will broadly follow that [...]

Assumptiontide Festival at Walsingham We congratulate our contributor and member of the Editorial Board, Fr Andy Hawes on his new role as editor of the Prayer Book Society Journal. The Revd Dr James Hawkey is Sacrist of Westminster Abbey. Gregory [...]

Bitter Together? From a concerned reader We are to assume, are we not, that the much-feted ‘Better Together’ campaign is in fact no more than a cunning political ploy on behalf of the Catholic Group in General Synod to secure [...]

New DIRECTIONS Founded 1993 The next issue of newdirections is published on 5th October This month the Bishops of the Church of England will meet to discuss the legislation that would allow women to be consecrated to the episcopate. They [...]

Reet Canny Innovations 30Days is delighted to see that much-overlooked corner of England, the north-east, which pioneered so much industrial innovation, is spearheading the twenty-first century re-writing of two thousand years of Christian faith and practice. For example, our roving [...]

St Margaret’s, Herefs St Margaret’s takes a bit of finding in the high ground behind Abbey Dore, but when you get there you can look round to the southern Herefordshire hills, or to the Black Mountains on the Welsh border. [...]

Serious money perhaps, but summer opera not seriously engaged Tom Sutcliffe reflects on the summer season and finds room for improvement Glyndebourne had been giving Mozart a rest for some years. Instead Wagner got a look in with Tristan und [...]

Nicholas Turner commends a beautifully written critique of the current atheist orthodoxy THE FACE OF GOD The Gifford Lectures 2010 Roger Scruton Cambridge University Press, 200pp, hbk 978-1847065247, £18.99 A smile holds warmth, and conveys warmth. It goes beyond words [...]

Christopher Smith on the Pope, John Hick, the Dodo, and the dictatorship of relativism The Olympics are over, and we have been reminded that the modern world cannot relativize everything. The competitors either won or they didn’t, although there were [...]