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LEAD STORY Reception and memory	Dame Mary Tanner reminds us that the notion of open reception can be traced back to the New Testament, has an honourable history and was taken very seriously by earlier Lambeth Conferences and should not be lightly set aside by General Synod
FEATURES
A man sent from God	Bishop Robert Mercer CR on Pope Benedict
Grump stays put	Alan Edwards on the roleof grumpy old men (and women) in the CofE
The answer is No	Jonathan Beswick on why he believes the Anglicanorum Coetibus proposals should not be accepted
Evangelical option	Mike Kuulemans argues that GAFCON still provides a real framework for tradional Anglicans
Friend's appeal	Joanna Bogle looks to a bright future in the wake of a difficulty year for Roman Catholics
Seeds of confusion	Margaret Laird outlines CofE lay people's confusions over the women bishops debate
Georgian Lincolnshire	A look at the results of eighteenth-century rebuilding
Master Hooker	Paul Griffin wonders how the theologian would tackle problems in the CofE today
Lead Kindly Light	Celebrating John Henry Newman
Cur Deus vir?	Mark Stevens insists it was neither a mistake nor an irrelevance that God was incarnate as a male
Unchurching Jesus	Digby Anderson addresses the claim that the Church has misinterpreted the life of Jesus
From elsewhere	USA – Former bishop returns; SINGAPORE Anglican opporunity; GERMANY – Sexual abuse allegations; ZIMBABWE – Anglican Church suffers; USA – Women bishops consecrated
Views, reviews and previews	ART: Fran Angelico to Leonardo; Anthony Caro; BOOKS: Christianity and Jerusalem; Jesus our priest
Hidden secrets	Readers sometimes complain that ND articles are too difficult and technical to keep them happy Simon Cotton discusses some chemical compositons
REGULARS
GHOSTLY COUNSEL	Andy Hawes on hidden work
DEVOTIONAL	Florence Allshorn on the importance of the eternal
HEARING THE WORD	Patrick Reardon on a model of prayer
SACRED VISION	Mark Stevens on Rubens
TRAWLING THE NET	Ed Tomlinson on the embryonic Ordinariate
FAITH OF OUR FATHERS	Arthur Middleton on devout, learned and useful priests
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW	Geoffrey Kirk on objective and subjective thought
SECULAR LITURGIES	Tom Sutcliffe on two operatic depictures of religion
TOUCHING PLACE	Simon Cotton on Notre-Dame, Louviers
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