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 [...]
Anne Gardom visits a disturbing exhibition at the Imperial War Museum THE HOLOCAUST EXHIBITION – why another exhibition one might ask, when the subject has received so much attention already? There have been books, films, documentaries, of widely varying quality, [...]
An American Perspective PENTECOST 2000. By virtue of the calendar (a late Easter) the date of Pentecost fell about half way between the two dates considered as the start of the Millennium. The majority of people believe the new century [...]
MR NICE AND MR NASTY EASTER IS ABOUT amnesty. God offers a free pardon to rebels against His Son’s kingly rule, if they will lay down their weapons and join His army. The events of Good Friday are the price [...]
Roger Homan describes an exercise to determine the degree to which theological colleges teach the Book of Common Prayer THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND has in place procedures and standards to ensure that those entering its ordained ministry are properly grounded [...]
Clive Calver At the Evangelical Alliance Conference 150th Anniversary Celebration I had heard Clive Calver speak with passion and conviction about unity and christian social action. The man whose extraordinary energy and conviction had gone a long way to transforming [...]
Andrew Burnham draws some important conclusions from a curious interchange at question time in the General Synod EVERY SO OFTEN a book appears which, it seems, every black-suited clergyman in the land rushes out to buy. Such a book, I [...]