Fr Peter CSWG on the lessons of August for the religious life   August is often known as the “silly season”; but in recent years it has become the focus for several major Christian youth festivals. This year we saw [...]

Ripe Times   Last month the fields were white for harvest, and the farmers impatiently waited until the moisture in the grains of wheat or barley was low enough to send the combine harvesters ploughing into the rippling fields. By [...]

Nicolas Stebbing CR on the call to the religious life   Why do so few people enter the religious life these days? That is a question that has occupied many of us over the past few decades as religious communities [...]

Simon Evans on catechising the young in a changing culture   Do you ever wonder how much of the Christian story will be around in a generation or two’s time? I imagine that, like me, most parish priests wrestle with [...]

Come Lord, to a Soul, That waits in thy Ways, That stays at the Pool Expecting thy Grace: To see thy Salvation, And prove all thy Will, With sure Expectation I calmly stand still.   With Fasting and Prayer My [...]

Gary Waddington reflects on the Shared Conversations   At General Synod in York, back in July, two days – from Sunday afternoon to Tuesday morning – were given over to Shared Conversations. The Shared Conversations are about engaging people from [...]

Paul Benfield reflects on the latest meeting of the General Synod   For those newly elected to the General Synod in the autumn of 2015, the weekend of 8 – 12 July saw them experience Synod at York for the [...]

What do you do when the church roof needs replacing, along with the sound and lighting systems? Cycle to Walsingham, of course. Six members of the congregation from St Martin’s, Ruislip, cycled to Our Lady’s Shrine over two days in [...]

William Davage reflects on a summer of political unrest   “Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me,” shrieked Kenneth Williams in “Carry on Cleo”. In the wake of the result of the Referendum, for a few weeks political [...]

A message from the Chairman of Credo Cymru, Canon Jeffrey Gainer   Almost a century ago the new Province of Wales came into being, with its own system of governance and finance. At that time the Welsh Church expressly declared [...]