By Jeremy Moodey About a year ago a newspaper headline caught my eye. It read something like “Rowan Williams and Annie Lennox fight forest privatisation”. I wondered at the time what had prompted our scholarly primate and the former Eurythmics singer to combine to challenge government policy on the future of the Forestry Commission. In [...]
Anglican Life Latimer Trust By Margaret Hobbs What is an ‘ethical investment’? A year or two ago when the financial crisis was just breaking, I heard of an Investment manager asking his clients whether they were willing to invest in a fund consisting of “distressed assets”. But I am told that that sounds much more [...]
The Queen is inviting the entire nation to join the Big Jubilee Lunch on Sunday 3 June. Millions of people will eat together with neighbours and friends as part of the official Diamond Jubilee celebrations marking the Queen’s 60 years of service. A specially-written Grace – a prayer of thanks – starts the lunch. Churches [...]
By Julian Mann The agreed biblical agenda in the diocese of Jos, Nigeria, was the most inspiring and humbling feature for a visiting English Anglican. That is not to say that Jos Diocese does not face internal problems in addition to the constant threat to its churches from Islamist terrorism. During my visit to the [...]
Bishop Graham Cray, Archbishops’ Missioner and leader of the Fresh Expressions team, looks at how a fresh expression of church can both continue and develop after its founders move on – and that the gift of pioneering has little to do with age GraceSpace in Bradford is ‘a church for people who don’t go to [...]
This is the text of the sermon preached by the Rt Rev Timothy Dudley Smith at the memorial service for the Rev Dr John RW Stott at St Paul’s Cathedral on January 13 Lord, may the entrance of your word give us light. ‘Jesus is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with [...]
By Ian Gregory We all make mistakes. If we are top football referees, though, it matters rather more than if we are just Joe or Jenny Bloggs. Top-flight football programmes seem now to be followed in the media by tirades of fury as these highly trained, fit, and carefully-selected officials are castigated in the media [...]
Britain has a long tradition of producing successful chocolate companies whose founders were motivated by their faith. Cadbury, Fox and Rowntree are our best-known examples. David Marshall, founder of The Meaningful Chocolate Company has a modern twist on this great British tradition When I was a child, I never expected to be the owner of [...]
By Mark Russell Sacrificial love and service are at the heart of a disciple’s life. To follow Jesus is to continue the whole of his mission. Not only do we want our words to clearly communicate the gospel message, we are also called to “love our neighbours” so sacrificially that it will astonish people and [...]
Hospital Chaplaincy in the Twenty-first Century: The Crisis of Spiritual Care on the NHS Christopher Swift Ashgate, 2009 ISBN 978-0-7546-6416-1; hb.; 191 pp.; £45.00 What are chaplains for, and how does their work outside the institutional Church relate to the mission and ministry of the Church? These are key questions raised by this very useful [...]
