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A daily companion for meditation by Laurence Freeman
THE subtitle is correct: this is a daily companion for meditation. Freeman is the director and spiritual guide of the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM), and he writes an online reflection, “Daily Wisdom”. The…
Churches of Bedfordshire by John Jackson
The angel roof at All Saints’, Leighton Buzzard, was donated by Alice de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk, who was the granddaughter of Chaucer; and its carved angels were included in the church refurbishment after the serious…
Celebrating Forty Years of “Faith in the City”, edited by Terry Drummond and Joseph Forde
LIKE all good titles, the four words Faith in the City (FitC)stimulated a range of reflections, questions, and disturbances far more fertile than the prosaic subtitle A Call to action by Church and nation, the report of the…
A journey into the soul of Northumbria by Jake Morris-Campbell
THE poet and writer Jake Morris-Campbell was born in South Shields in 1988. My family came from a couple of miles to the north of there, on the other side of the River Tyne. A lot of my parents’ generation were concerned to…
Towards a new teaching on sex and marriage, edited by Theo Hobson and John Inge
THE editors bemoan the lack of progress made over Living in Love and Faith (LLF) and offer these essays in an attempt to hasten it on. There are 12 chapters arranged (very loosely) in six parts. In part 1, “Bible”, Miranda…
The global Church from the print revolution to the digital era by David N. Hempton
DAVID HEMPTON is an Irish church historian who has taught for many years in the United States, most recently at Harvard. He is best known for books on the history of Methodism and Evangelical Christianity more generally. The…
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor by Simon Webb
SIMON WEBB’s Church of England primary school was just round the corner from the home of one of England’s finest composers. Yet he grew up totally unaware of his existence and never heard a note of his music. Was this, the…
Exploring Integrity in the Christian Church by Simon Robinson
HAVING trained in psychiatric social work, Simon Robinson has, since his ordination, spent most of his career at Leeds teaching applied and professional ethics, first as chaplain at Leeds University and then as a Professor in…
Engaging with nonviolent atonement theology by Andrew P. Campbell
He died that we might be forgiven,He died to make us good;That we might go at last to heaven,Saved by his precious Blood. IN THESE few lines, Mrs C. F. Alexander seems to have all bases covered when it comes to explaining the…
The rise, demise and survival of the news by Jenny Taylor
IN THE wide-ranging history that misinforms her polemic against the low standards of contemporary journalism, Jenny Taylor tells us there is a group of Indian Christians “whose only food is undigested grain husks, extracted…
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