Joann Bogle, the Catholic journalist, gives a personal view of the growing culture of intolerance that appears to make Christian teaching on marriage not merely unwelcome in many quarters but possibly illegal

The Rt Revd Jack Leo Iker, Bishop of Fort Worth, reports from the recent meeting of the American House of Bishops as they prepared their response to the Anglican Primates' ultimatum

John Shepley sees The Episcopal Church's appeal to the constraints of its own peculiar 'polity' as symptomatic of a fundamental difference of understanding about the nature of Christ's Church

Paul Griffin sees the virtues and advantages in the use of democratic decision making in the Church but only within strict limits

Arthur Middleton recalls the words of N.P. Williams in 1933 at the centenary of the Oxford Movement

Stephen Cope wants to make a mark on Ascension Day

Margaret Laird considers parallels between the 16th cent and the present-day ill-defined revolution

The Rt Revd James M. Stanton, Bishop of Dallas, takesThe Episcopal Church to task for not being serious in its own thinking

George Austin wonders whether establishment is still such a good idea

Alan Edwards remembers the role of faith in the life and music of Johnny Cash