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LEAD STORIES: Back to square one	Back to square one Members of the editorial board offer a commentary on the two key motions that will come before General Synod this month. The debate and discussion of the past year appears to have been abandoned. We start again on a completely different process towards acquiring women bishops
FEATURES
Generation YNot?	Francis Gardom Honorary Curate of St Stephen’s, Lewisham, on the recent church report Making Sense of Generation Y
For understanding	The Rt Revd David Walker suffragan Bishop of Dudley, on why he is in favour of women bishops in the Church of England
Inventive prayer	Inventive prayer John Hunwicke in the Diocese of Exeter, on over-inventive prayers in contemporary liturgies
Just not cricket	John Shepley on the remarkable events at the All-England Lawn Tennis Club
Faithful capital	Martin Warner Canon Residentiary of St Paul’s, on the recent church report Faithful Cities which updates Faith in the City
On your knees	N. Patella on why kneeling together in worship is so important
Disciplining clerics	Malcolm Jones ssc Vicar of St Michael and All Angels, Swanmore, examines the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003 now coming into effect
Unhappy change	George Austin looks at the religious world into which Shakespeare was born
Anglicans and slavery	Simon Heans returns to the question of slavery and empire and our shared guilt
Pusey letter writer	Margaret Laird has been reading Dr Pusey’s letters to the Third Marquess of Salisbury
Some summer scandals	Alan Edwards considers some mid twentieth-century clerical scandals, and how they captured the zeitgeist

REGULARS

Ghostly counsel	Andy Hawes on sport and play
Devotional	Arthur Middleton on a call to holiness
Patrick Reardon	How faith and reason can go together
The way we live now	Geoffrey Kirk suggests that polygamy is not the worst option
Sacred Vision	Mark Stevens on Rogier van der Weyden
Faith of our fathers	Arthur Middleton on the bishop as focus of unity
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FiF Update
Last chronicle
Letters
CORRESPONDENTS
America	Michael Heidt: Parish priest in the Diocese of Pennsylvania, on the election of Katherine Jefferts Schori as Presiding Bishop
Central Africa	Rodney Hunter: Canon Emeritus and Assistant Priest of Lake Malawi Cathedral, on recent developments in the province
Council of Anglican Provinces in Africa	Excerpt of the communiqué issued on behalf of the Anglican provinces of Africa

REVIEWS

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ART Anne Gardom on Modernism at the V & A MUSIC Barry Orford on Ronald Corp books The Old Enemies The Message of Acts in Codex Bezae Contemporary Creed The Story of the Bible Robert Linklater ssc Women in the Episcopate Living Bread