Doctrine, Mission and Vocation in Samuel Wells’ “What Anglicans Believe”
I was recently given a copy of Samuel Wells’ excellent book What Anglicans Believe: An Introduction. It’s well worth a …
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A Question of Theology
As I wrote in my last piece, I’ve been looking back on the last couple of years of training for …
Things I didn’t know before I trained for ministry in the Church of England – “I’m not as radical as I thought I was”
I’ve had confirmation of passing training, I’ve been sent details of the service at the Minster, and so after a …
Sunday Morning in the Midlands
It’s a spring(ish) morning so the birds are making themselves known outside the window by the time I get up. …
Morality and Message: The Church of England, Young People, and LGBT Issues
The Church of England’s General Synod is meeting this week and – as many people have pointed out – many …
“the civility of my knee, my hat and hand”: Thomas Browne’s “Religio Medici”
Thomas Browne, the seventeenth-century doctor and speculative thinker, is one of the authors I’ve only begun to read in the …
A Church in Crisis: Anthony Trollope’s ‘Clergymen of the Church of England’
Last month the Erewash Press published Clergymen of the Church of England, Anthony Trollope’s collection of “clerical sketches”. In it …
Vada the Omi: On the Polari Evensong
I woke up to something of a controversy this morning, and it concerned the Church of England (a familiar feeling…) …
A Very Manly Christmas: On “Men-Friendly” Services
Yesterday the Diocese of Oxford published a blog post on creating a “man-friendly” service for Christmas Eve. It remarks on …
Cassock Rippers and Ecclesiastical Fiction: An Interview with Catherine Fox
Catherine Fox was educated at Durham and London Universities and has a degree in English and a PhD in Theology. …
