REGULARS
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contents
GHOSTLY COUNSEL
Vol 11 No 156 May 2008
An d y HA w e s on global prayer
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DEVOTIONAL
Selections from St Ambrose LEAD STORIES
on Corpus Christi
FEATURES
4 Confused debate
12
PATrICk rEArDON
Richard Rolands
Faith and history
gives a blow by blow
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account of the key debate
12 Refusing invitations
in the Church of Wales
SACrED VISION
Th e RT Re v d GR a h a m Ja m e s and its unexpected
MA r k st e v e n s on warns that the refusal of outcome, the result of
Sebastiano del Piombo some bishops to attend the
folly or arrogance.
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Lambeth Conference will
surely cause damage to
FAITH OF OUr FATHErS
5 Are they serious?
the unity of the church
Ar t H u r Mi d d l e t o n on pastoral burnout
John Shepley
8 wonders why the Church in Wales bishops were so
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determined not to provide adequate provision for
THE WAY WE LIVE NOW
Christianity Lite
the orthodox that they torpedoed their own motion.
G
di G b y an d e R s o n
e o f f r e y ki r k on the world
When a House of Bishops shoots its own proposal in
of Shannon Matthews
calls for a return to
full-bodied religion, and
the foot, you have to ask why.
31 a rejection of the contemporary
TOUCHING PLACE watered-down and insipid
si M o n Co t t o n on St Etheldreda’s, Horley
versions of the real thing
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Pension reactions
30 DAYS 14
Continents and isles
Ge o R G e au s T i n
Le e Ke n y o n revisits the current developments
FiF UPDATE 30
on how the Church of England
in clergy pensions, in light of
LAST CHrONICLE 35
can avoid the tempting trap
responses to his previous treatment
of becoming isolated from
of the debate , and letters from
LETTErS 23 the rest of the Church
the Pensions Board itself
PEVs’ DIArIES 35 10
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Gamaliel principle
Guide me gently
ow e n hi G G s
ni G e L eL b o u R n e
COrrESPONDENTS
explains existing Synod legislation
asks us to reconsider the church
20 ITALY
relevant to the forthcoming
guide as a means of explaining
MA G d i Cr i s t i A n o Al l A M on his
debate on women bishops
the symbolism present in church
conversion to Christianity
in the Church of England
design to those who have
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no experience of its history
WALES
J
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o H n ri C H A r d s o n on synodical process
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and the Church in Wales
Cheerful givers
a
Cleansing fire
L a n ed w a R d s
22 AUSTrALIA
Pe T e R Ly o n
The news of the election of the
wonders how to encourage more
first woman bishop in Australia
realistic giving by church-goers
acknowledges his own fear of the
purifying fire of God’s cleansing,
rEVIEWS
13 even as he knows his need of it
24 ArT
Easter triumph
29
Cranach at the Royal Academy of Arts
aR T h u R mi d d L e T o n
Using new brooms
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looks at the teaching of two bishops
bOOkS
What God hath Wrought
on the subject of ‘Holy Dying’
Pa u L GR i f f i n
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
and finds theological unity
argues that a new appointment
Daily Eucharistic Lectionary
in their outlook, spanning
is not an opportunity for
The Realm
the seventeenth and
sweeping aside all that has gone before,
In the Eye of the Storm
twenty-first centuries
and that the past can be respected
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