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Trushare Files No. 156
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NEW DIRECTIONS:
May 2008
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LEAD STORY Confused debate |
Richard Rolands gives a blow by blow account of the key debate in the Church of Wales and its unexpected outcome, the result of folly or arrogance. |
| Are they serious? | John Shepley wonders why the Church in Wales bishops were so determined not to provide adequate provision for the orthodox that they torpedoed their own motion. When a House of Bishops shoots its own proposal in the foot, you have to ask why. |
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FEATURES |
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| Refusing invitations | The Rt Revd Graham James warns that the refusal of some bishops to attend the Lambeth Conference will surely cause damage to the unity of the church |
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Christianity Lite |
Digby Anderson calls for a return to full-bodied religion, and a rejection of the contemporary watered-down and insipid versions of the real thing |
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Continents and isles |
Lee Kenyon on how the Church of England can avoid the tempting trap of becoming isolated from the rest of the Church |
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Gamaliel principle |
Owen Higgs explains existing Synod legislation relevant to the forthcoming debate on women bishops in the Church of England |
| Cheerful givers | Alan Edwards wonders how to encourage more realistic giving by church-goers |
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Easter
triumph |
Arthur Middleton looks at the teaching of two bishops on the subject of 'Holy Dying' and finds theological unity in their outlook, spanning the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries |
| Pension reactions | George Austin revisits the current developments in clergy pensions, in light of responses to his previous treatment of the debate , and letters from the Pensions Board itself |
| Guide me gently | Nigel Elbourne asks us to reconsider the church guide as a means of explaining the symbolism present in church design to those who have no experience of its history |
| Cleansing fire | Peter Lyon acknowledges his own fear of the purifying fire of God's cleansing, even as he knows his need of it |
| Using new brooms | Paul Griffin argues that a new appointment is not an opportunity for sweeping aside all that has gone before, and that the past can be respected |
| Water for Life | Victoria Rouse on how funds raised at the Glastonbury Pilgrimage are helping poor communities in Masindi in northern Uganda |
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REGULARS |
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| GHOSTLY COUNSEL |
Andy Hawes on global prayer |
| DEVOTIONAL |
Selections from St Ambrose on Corpus Christi |
| PATRICK REARDON | Faith and history |
| SACRED VISION | Mark Stevens on Sebastiano del Piombo |
| FAITH OF OUR FATHERS | Arthur Middleton on pastoral burnout |
| THE WAY WE LIVE NOW | Geoffrey Kirk on the world of Shannon Matthews |
| TOUCHING PLACE | Simon Cotton on St Etheldreda's, Horley |
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ITALY WALES
AUSTRALIA
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ART Cranach at the Royal Academy of Arts
BOOKS What God hat Wrought The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Daily Eucharistic Lectionary The Realm In the Eye of the Storm |
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Sermon Salad: an Hors d'oeuvre of over three hundred homilies for many occasions
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