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NEW DIRECTIONS:
October 2005
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LEAD STORIES Discerning the form |
Responding to the Bishop of Guildford's remarks last month, Paul Benfield describes how it is part of the essential character of any new province that it should have permeable borders; and John Shepley takes one of the Rochester Report's options to show how a structural solution that falls short of a new province is unlikely to be satisfactory |
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Loyal opposition? |
Mark Stephens doubts whether it would be practicable or desirable to have traditionalists in General Synod post-women-Bishops |
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James Alder has been reading the statistical analysis in fragmented faith and finds much the same conclusions about the loss of faith among and C of E members as were revealed The Mind of Anglicans |
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Beauty in Creation |
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Aidan Nichols OP considers the nature of a uniate church, and how far it might be an appropriate response for those members of the Church of England who could not in conscience accept women bishops |
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George Austin moves into the Seventies and remembers the support given to African liberation movements and how that stride and activism has waned since then
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from The Complete Duty of Man by Henry Venn |
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Richard Simons |
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Sister Gerd Swensson on her experience translating Consecrated Women? into Swedish |
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Geoffrey Kirk: The Answer Depends on the Question |
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| Rochester Blundering |
Stewart Seton shows how many of the arguments employed in favour of women bishops in Chapter 5 of the Rochester Report are exactly the same as it has already rejected as "dubious" in Chapter 3
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| FAITH OF OUR FATHERS | The Pastoral teaching of Johann Sailer SJ |
| Pastors new |
Francis Gardom is invited to join a team of St Pastors as they patrol the streets of Lewisham late at night offering help to many in need |
| Unforeseen injustice |
John Pitchford reflects on the irony that in some cases the only people not welcome in their own Church of those who worshipped there all their life until a woman priest arrived |
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Canada
Michael Shier:
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theatre Billy Elliot |
video Beginning the Journey The Faith of the Church |
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art The Cambridge Illuminations |
books Truth and tolerance The Good Life Postville |
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music Arthur Bliss |
The Curate's Guide Ritual and the Rood
Endpiece
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Harold Dosser: St Mary at the Elms |
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