When it was fashionable to decry Cranmer's liturgical rhetoric as overblown and repetitive, people often held up as typical the echoing sequences of which he and his colleagues were so fond.
21 March 2006
Faith schools are in the news again. Fresh government proposals have once again given opportunity for critics to repeat a variety of charges against faith-related education, reinforcing the complaint that public money ought not to support private conviction - especially when private conviction is responsible for promoting irrationality or violence or social division.
14 March 2006
The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a pastoral letter to the 38 Primates of the Anglican Communion and Moderators of the United Churches, setting out some thinking on the Lambeth Conference in 2008
09 March 2006
Greetings from the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) Delegates to the 50th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW).
08 March 2006
John Paterson, bishop of Auckland and chair of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), told the Executive Council of ECUSA that he hopes General Convention will rigorously debate the Windsor Report while keeping in mind the communion that Anglicans share.
07 March 2006
The World Food Programme and the Anglican Church worldwide deal with the needs - the primary needs-of millions of people everyday. And in this, as in so many areas, what we need is better and better resource partnership with the organisation.
06 March 2006
The 'Message' of the 9th Assembly is an invitation to prayer. In proposing the document for adoption, message committee moderator Wendy Evans explained that the message is neither a report nor an exhaustive listing of concerns, but that 'the message reflects the heart of the Assembly.
01 March 2006
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has said that the claims of both Christianity and Islam to be religions of peace need to be demonstrated through practical trust.
28 February 2006
More than 100 delegates to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW) from the Episcopal Church and 36 other provinces throughout the Anglican Communion gathered February 24 to begin two weeks of focused attention on issues that face women around the world
28 February 2006
At the end of the Ash Wednesday liturgy, I'd be at the back door with a big washrag. As people left the church, I'd wipe the ashes off their forehead and remind them of the words of our Lord, 'Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them' (Matthew 6:1).
28 February 2006