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Jonathan Baker gives an overview and assessment of the two General Synod motions, and the accompanying debate, on women bishops and how to acquire them, and finds himself completely disoriented but not entirely disheartened

Consonant or no?

The Rt Revd Wallace Benn
Bishop of Lewes gives a
quick sketch of the scriptural
argument on the nature
of headship and suggests
that it is a theological
understanding too often
abused or dismissed but not
often adequately answered

Amendments in chief

Mark Stevens
takes apart the three amendments
that were passed in July Synod’s
second motion, to see how far
they have hijacked the main
motion and how far they
fulfilled the intentions
of their proposers

Theological argument

The Rt Revd John Saxbee
Bishop of Lincoln, asks
what it is that makes an argument
theological and what criteria
 we should use to weigh
the arguments of others

Chris Daubney
urges the church of his birth to be
fair and positive to those of his
generation who wish to hold
to the faith received

Chris Idle
is not so sure about car drivers

George Austin
former Archdeacon of York,
looks back at the July Synod from
the perspective of a Golden Jubilee

Paul Griffin
muses on a remembered example
of heroism and on the philosophical
nature of selfishness

The Rt Revd Michael Nazir-Ali
Bishop of Rochester, writing in
the Daily Telegraph, gives his
impressions of the Episcopal
Church’s General Convention

The new paganism

Hugh Baker
on the pick and choose world
of contemporary paganism, a
different god for every need

George Austin
continues his reflections on the
world of William Shakespeare

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REGULARS

GHOSTLY COUNSEL
Andy Hawes on coping with abortion

DEVOTIONAL
Bishop Noel Jones on St Dominic

Human nature can be changed by God

Geoffrey Kirk on the influence of museums

Simon Heans on the Wilton Diptych

Arthur Middleton on misconceived development

Simon Cotton on St John the Baptist, King’s Norton

30 days

America 1

The Bishop of Fort Worth:
on seeking alternative primatial oversight

Michael Heidt:
asks where was the Holy Spirit in the General Convention

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