It's good to talk

For most global Anglicans all roads lead to Canterbury next week as the thinly woven community gathers for the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference. Will it witness a traumatic rift, or will it be where the Communion can debate the issues - and listen?...

When pain is power

Israelis and Palestinians are only too well aware of their differences, but a new forum based in Britain is attempting to build dialogue based on what they have in common. And the first thing they have in common is grief...

'What we will see is the Holy Father, under a different sky'

By the time this article goes to print, our little group of pilgrims from Oxford and Soho will have shopped in Singapore, camped in the outback and watched the sun rise and set over Ayers Rock...

Synod: agonies of a broad church

Despite opposition from Anglo-Catholics and Evangelicals, the Church of England has moved closer to consecrating women bishops, leading to a possible influx of up to 500 Anglican clergy to Rome and a deepening ecumenical chill between the two Churches...

Radicals, reaction and evolution

Controversy is likely to dog the forthcoming Lambeth Conference. It was ever thus - from day one in 1867 when a reluctant Archbishop of Canterbury called Anglicans together from around the then British Empire following one of the Church's most theologically turbulent 10 years...

High price for justice

Case by case, the rule of open justice has been put aside with many defendants in Britain facing trial without being able to see the faces nor know the names of hostile witnesses. Now in a society made anxious by terrorism, the unthinkable could happen: the state may decide to endorse anonymity...

The Wright stuff

The new director of the BBC Proms, Roger Wright, tells Rick Jones what lies behind this year's 'world's greatest musical festival', which includes works by the organist, composer and devout Catholic Olivier Messiaen...

A tale of two charisms

If peter represents the unity and tradition of the Church, and Paul its missionary outreach, then history shows how the two impulses have sometimes pulled against each other. But the Catholic reappraisal of Paul we see today shows how creative is the tension in that relationship...

Food of sublime realities

In the Church the call to sanctity is universal. This is because Christ unites us to himself. In the Eucharist, Daniel McCarthy explains, he does not take on our form when we receive his body, but we become like him...

Vested in Christ

It is not often that a parish has the opportunity to journey alongside a man as he approaches ordination to the priesthood. When the opportunity arises, it should be seized, as it is a time when everyone's vocation can be examined and reaffirmed...

Smoke and gooseberries

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