Book Review of “Good Faith” by Angela Tilby

In her review of Angela Tilby's new book 'Good Faith - Why England needs its Church'; Rosemary Hart writes: In this highly readable and insightful book Angela Tilby covers the great sweep of English history from the earliest seeds of Christianity to the present day as it has formed and influenced the English national church making sense of the complexities and controversies that have affected it over the centuries. ... It is a timely contribution when adherence to the Christian faith (and more particularly the Church of England) has been hijacked by some political factions as a tool for nationalistic agendas and ethnic identity. ... CLICK ON PICTURE TO CONTINUE

2026-04-29T20:53:09+00:00By |Tags: |
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Straight talking. Editorial, Easter 4, Good Shepherd Sunday

In his Easter 4 Editorial, the Editor, The Rev'd Dr. Nicholas Henderson writes: The ongoing war centred around the Strait of Hormuz and related much-wider conflicts in the Middle East have been described to me by my Lebanese contacts who are suffering severe collateral damage, as the Trump/Netanyahu Wars. The conflict is of course has many more players, but the newish Pope Leo XIV courageously pointed during a visit to Cameroon out that the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants." This appears to have been prompted by Donld Trump’s threat “that a whole civilisation will die” if Iran did not agree to US demands to end the war and open the Strait of Hormuz. The Pope subsequently stated that his ‘tyrants’ speech was not aimed at Trump as he explained further the background to the narrative. Such are the unfortunate complications associated with a powerful and unpredictable American President where traditional forms of diplomacy are redundant. ... CLICK ON PICTURE TO CONTINUE

2026-04-22T22:16:44+00:00By |Tags: , |
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The Pattern of God – David Jenkins’ Theology in Church and in Public Space by Richard Truss (Review)

In her Review of 'The Pattern of God' Dr. Priscilla Chadwick writes: ‘Why does the Bishop of Durham say that Christianity requires you to believe three impossible things before breakfast?’ This question from a parishioner used to be posed to prospective Anglican ordinands and understandably generated a wide range of responses. David Jenkins had a reputation for radical thinking, engaging his theological thinking in the public arena and thereby attracting much media attention. Not many bishops featured in Private Eye or had their own Spitting Image puppet. However Richard Truss, the author of this thoughtful and well written book, realised that, although Jenkins’ legacy was not so well known to the current generation, his theological ideas were still highly relevant to contemporary society. ... CLICK ON PICTURE TO CONTINUE

2026-03-23T23:38:11+00:00By |Tags: |
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Is the Iran War actually a religious one?

The Rev'd Dr. Nicholas Henderson (Editor) write in his Lenten Editorial: The Trumpian concept of regime change is more or less evidenced as a reason for the recent and ongoing unleashing of a huge onslaught on Iran. This rapidly expanding confrontation, which has already resulted in hundreds, if not thousands, of extra deaths following the recent bloody Iranian suppression of demonstrations against the current regime, seems to be running out of control. ... CLICK ON PICTURE TO CONTINUE

2026-03-13T13:42:03+00:00By |Tags: |
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A new Archbishop and a new agenda?

In his Editorial for the beginning of Lent, the Editor, The Rev'd Dr. Nicholas Henderson writes: So, thus far the new Archbishop of Canterbury has been through three of the four stages of appointment. ... Sarah Mullaly is therefore already legally Archbishop of Canterbury despite not yet having been enthroned. Thus, there is no longer any hiding of views and/or direction of leadership. ... CLICK ON PICTURE TO CONTINUE

2026-03-13T13:42:27+00:00By |Tags: |
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GADFLY Paul Oestreicher reflects on being a gadfly

The Rev'd Canon Paul Oestreicher reflects on being a 'gadfly' ... In 1984 my election as Bishop of Wellington in New Zealand made the English newspapers. A day or two later a postcard arrived from Francis House, whom I’d never met. It simply said “Don’t go. You are the gadfly our Church cannot do without.” I was puzzled. Who was this Francis and what is a gadfly? A gadfly, I soon learned, was a troublemaker who, more popularly, puts a cat among the pigeons ... CLICK ON PICTURE TO CONTINUE

2026-01-27T22:22:07+00:00By |Tags: |
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Loving the prophet… or maybe not? Mark Rudall explores how pastoral concern for a congregation may actually silence a prophetic voice

Loving the prophet… or maybe not? The Rev'd Mark Rudall reflects ... The Church of England has received many refugees from other traditions and I became an Anglican at the end of the 20th century when the idea of Christian life as an ongoing journey of discovery, truly a pilgrimage, took ever deeper root. Unable to espouse the ‘saved, and that’s it’ static condition so often portrayed by traditional evangelicalism, there was also an awareness after 23 years in non-conformist ministry of being in a scene that was teetering towards an unappealing and dangerous conservatism. ... CLICK ON PICTURE TO VIEW FULL ARTICLE

2026-01-08T17:51:36+00:00By |Tags: |
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Editorial: A truth universally acknowledged … too many dictators

The Editor - The Rev'd Dr. Nicholas Henderson writes in his Advent Editorial - To plagiarise Jane Austen’s opening remark in her Pride & Prejudice: “It is a truth universally acknowledged …”. It is then a fact, reluctantly acknowledged by the Church, that the Christmas Season nowadays starts somewhere around the Feast of the Transfiguration 6th August and is over just after Christmas dinner....However, near universal popular sentiment does not necessarily equate to any outcome that might reflect the views of the people. CLICK ON PICTURE TO CONTINUE ...

2025-12-08T18:14:27+00:00By |Tags: |
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Book review: True Evangelical: the changing face of Anglican Evangelicalism by John Went

Reviewer Fr. Keith Mascord writes of John Went's 'True Evangelical': The title of Bishop John Went’s book is, I suspect, deliberately provocative. Is Went saying that he himself is a ‘true evangelical’ in contrast to others? He is certainly comfortable, even proud, to identify as an evangelical, in large part because he believes that evangelicalism has the necessary resources to accommodate a rapidly changing world... I wondered if the title might have become even more provocative, given changes now up-ending Anglicanism in all of its forms? The Gafcon initiated schism had not yet happened when True Evangelical was published ... CLICK ON PICTURE TO CONTINUE

2025-11-04T21:24:13+00:00By |Tags: |
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More tea Archbishop? – Editorial a new Archbishop of Canterbury

The Editor: The Rev'd Dr. Nicholas Henderson writes: The appointment of a woman as the 106th Archbishop of Canterbury is to be welcomed. Apart from those in the more conservative wings of the Church, the choice of someone with two copies of the X chromosome is nowadays of little or no consequence. The Rt Rev’d and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally the current Bishop of London fits the bill. ... She has, of course, an impossible job specification. ... “How is it that the Roman Catholics can elect a Pope in two days of conclave, whilst it has taken the Church of England almost a year?” A fair question asked of this author, who was bound to reply “… but the Archbishop of Canterbury isn’t a Pope.” Indeed far from it, the post-Reformation settlement that led eventually to the wider Anglican Communion with the Church of England having the monarch as its Supreme Governor was as a result of Protestants looking carefully at their bibles and being unconvinced of a Petrine succession. ... CLICK ON PICTURE TO CONTINUE

2025-10-05T19:11:44+00:00By |Tags: |
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