|
|
Trushare Files No. 147
---ooOoo---
NEW DIRECTIONS:
August 2008
|
|
|
|
Directory |
|
|
Cardinal Kasper's address to the House of Bishops of the Church of England |
|
|
LEAD
|
Andrew Burnham, Bishop of Ebbsfleet, asks us to consider what for Anglicans may seem an unusual model, but one which has proved successful and practical in the Roman Catholic Church in Brazil – the personal apostolic administration, and what it might mean for Anglo-Catholics in the future |
|
FEATURES |
|
| House Covenant |
Mark Stevens is not impressed by the trivializing justification for the Anglican Covenant |
| Donner und Blitzen |
George Austin enjoyed the thunder at an otherwise rather dull York Synod while listening to the debates on the future reductions in clergy pensions, the Anglican Covenant and the Pilling Report on senior appointments |
| War and secession |
John Shepley considers the similarities between the American Civil War and that church’s current difficulties, and the differences |
| Re-organize now |
Scott Anderson finds lessons for Anglo-Catholics in the evangelical model of cell church and urges dramatic re-organization in parish structures |
| Face 'em down |
Julian Mann on a strong-minded pub landlord and the lesson learned from him |
| Seeking holiness |
Paul Griffin has been reading Rowan Williams’ Silence and Honey Cakes and considers the role of evangelism in the life of a Christian |
| The God we trust II |
Simon Heans continues his discussion of Rowan Williams’ book Tokens of Trust |
| Blessed are the poor |
Hugh Bates begins a series on the Beatitudes by considering the undeserving poor |
| II The flawed role argument |
Geoffrey Kirk summarizes another of the standard so-called arguments in favour of women bishops |
| Call the plumber! |
Giles Pinnock chairman of one of the FiF Working Parties, is dismayed at the lack of commitment to ecumenism in much of the CofE |
| What comes naturally |
Hugh Baker castigates the belief in man’s essential goodness and re-emphasizes the naturalness of sin |
| Don't revise yet |
John Hunwicke urges his brother priests not to start printing new Mass booklets for their parishes just yet |
|
REGULARS |
|
|
|
|
| Ghostly counsel |
Andy Hawes on poetry and prayer |
| To the point |
VI Ordering of music in church |
| Devotional |
Arthur Middleton on transfiguration |
| Patrick Reardon |
On the transfiguration in Matthew and Mark |
| Sacred Vision |
Rosie Razzall on Rubens’ Deposition |
| Faith of our fathers |
Arthur Middleton on Thomas Sikes |
| The way we live now |
Geoffrey Kirk on the Anglican Covenant |
| Touching Place |
Simon Cotton on the Lourdes grotto |
| Global South |
Text of the communiqué of the steering committee of the Global South Primates |
| Canada |
Michael Heidt on the new hobbyism |
|
ART Owen Higgs on Hockney on Turner
BOOKS Sacred Space Religion in Public Life A History of Modern Britain A Eucharistic Vision Dead or Alive Bible Manuscripts Love, Healing and Happiness Reverence my Sanctuary
|
|
Sermon Salad: an Hors d'oeuvre of over three hundred homilies for many occasions
|
---ooOoo---
