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Trushare Files No. 153
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NEW DIRECTIONS:
February 2008
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Paul Benfield applies his legal judgement to the draft legislation for the new clergy terms of service, and finds much of its provision ill thought through and fraught with confusion and unnecessary expense |
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FEATURES |
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| Stop the progress | Digby Anderson well-known Telegraph columnist, offers a robust response to the calls for the Church to update its evangelism techniques |
| Reading Scripture |
Peter Toon analyses the scriptural hermeneutic that allows the promotion of same-sex relations as a form of holiness and criticizes much of the evangelical response |
| Ardour in the laity | Philip North continues his passionate manifesto from last month with a plea for a more serious lay renewal |
| Costly bishops | George Austin calls for an investigation of bishops' rising expenses and housing costs |
| Equality | Paul Lyon questions the necessity of the demise of congregations being addressed as 'Dearly beloved brethren |
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Congregation growth |
Scott Anderson on the four types of behaviour found in every congregation, and their effect on parish growth or decline |
| Saved by hope | Fr Peter cswg looks at the contents of Pope Benedicts latest encyclical, Spe Salvi |
| Blessed peacemakers | Hugh Bates continues to examine the Beatitudes, and defines peace as an active breaking down of walls and barriers |
| VII The representative role argument | Geoffrey Kirk asks: since priests act in persona ecclesiae, should women have a part in that role? |
| Mission praise | Alan Edwards on the career and legacy of the nineteenth-century singer and composer, Ira D. Sankey |
| Grizelda's people | Francis Gardom on the sins that are admired |
| A spoonful of honey | Giles Pinnock offers a positive view of the problem of (re-)ordination into the Roman Catholic Church for former CofE clergy |
| Thomas Browne | Paul Griffin is greatly encouraged by a seventeenth-century Anglican |
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REGULARS |
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| GHOSTLY COUNSEL |
Andy Hawes on planning ahead |
| DEVOTIONAL |
Chris Collins on almsgiving |
| PATRICK REARDON | On the Cross and Scripture |
| SACRED VISION | Anthony Saville on The St Alban's Psalter |
| FAITH OF OUR FATHERS | Arthur Middleton on Mark Frank |
| THE WAY WE LIVE NOW | Geoffrey Kirk on the San Joaquin Diocese |
| TOUCHING PLACE | Simon Cotton on St Michael, Cascob |
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AMERICA Reports on the attempt to censure Robert Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh AMERICA A series of letters and
reports surrounding the inhibition of AMERICA Episcopalians hold an Indian Rite Mass with Hindus
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Sermon Salad: an Hors d'oeuvre of over three hundred homilies for many occasions
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