The next meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council is a few months away, and one of its main items of business will be the proposals put forward by the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) to modify the definition and the governance of the Anglican Communion. The proposals, called the Nairobi-CairoContinue reading “When is Communion not Communion?”
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Revisiting Anglican Classics 12: Dorothy L. Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker
Some people might wonder why, if I’m going to choose something by Dorothy L. Sayers to call a ‘classic’, I haven’t gone for The Man Born to be King, her cycle of radio plays first broadcast in late 1941. They were controversial, but fabulously successful, and repeated and adapted many times since. I rememberContinue reading “Revisiting Anglican Classics 12: Dorothy L. Sayers’ The Mind of the Maker”
Encountering Pope Francis
As preparations are under way in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis, inevitably I’ve been thinking over my impressions of him. I met him a handful of times, mostly in the company of many others, a couple of times as part of a small group. This isn’t basis enough to say very muchContinue reading “Encountering Pope Francis”