Ryan N. Danker introduces the Eucharistic hymns of John and Charles Wesley I would be loath to call John and Charles Wesley Thomists, but I once insinuated something along those lines during a meeting of the United States Methodist and [...]
New Directions reports on the state of the Scottish Episcopal Church The Scottish Episcopal Church (SEC) in its current form has a noble history, dating back to the 1690 Revolution Settlement. Early Celtic missionary saints like Ninian, Columba, Kentigern [...]
In the year 1000, fear of an impending end of the world associated Last Judgement receded, and a great church-building campaign began, especially in Italy and in France. In the lapidary expression of Raoul Glaber, an early 11th c. Cluniac [...]
I am not a scientist, but I do try to listen to scientists. When they make Genesis seem a sober account of how the universe began, I lose the Victorian idea of science as certainty, religion as speculation. Take this [...]
Why are parrots so prone to sickness? Apparently, so correspondents tell us, it was because parrots were becoming (like liberals?) popular but exotic imports to this country in the Seventies. Colourful, fascinating, different, they were notoriously prone to such viral [...]
Lost Property (1) Please be advised that a batch of mail to the London WC1 area due for delivery on 27th April 2005, including that for Forward in Faith and all other addressees at The Cloisters went ‘missing’. If you [...]
Heaven meets earth Abbey Dore in Herefordshire The border between England and Wales has known some exciting times, but you cannot meet anywhere much more pastoral nowadays than the area to the southwest of Hereford, where the village of Kilpeck [...]
Alan Edwards is in holiday mood Our local airport has recently become host to a budget airline. The local press soon began carrying adverts for the new venture. One in particular intrigued me. ‘Fly to Dublin. One way ticket 50. [...]
David Chislett announces his removal from his parish in Australia Letter from David Chislett Dear brothers and sisters, Find below Archbishop Aspinall’s ad clerum which went out around the Diocese of Brisbane today… It is clear that the Archbishop’s action [...]
theatre THOMAS MORE RSC, Stratford upon Avon It is a fairly rare experience in 2005 to see the first major production of a Shakespearean play, or at least of a play of which Shakespeare was one of the revisers. It [...]