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Leader: Bishops should do their dutyAND SO it begins. The 2008 Lambeth Conference starts, appropriately enough, with a three-day retreat in Canterbury |
100 years ago: The hope of a season’s fameWHEN we were at school we were taught that Greek national history began with the date — if our memory still serves — 776, b.c. |
The vote did not foster ‘mutual flourishing’“Consonant” is how we describe the way Anglicans relate to scripture and tradition, reason and experience. |
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Simon Parke: Zing! went my heartTHE DOCTOR was a locum from Poland, and pleasingly thorough. But she was worried about my heart. |
Children should be heard in churchWHEN JESUS pointed at the children whom the disciples were excluding, and said that the Kingdom of God belonged to such as these, he did not have the... |
Farce devalues the party system‘Democracy demands responsibility from politicians and voters alike’ |
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Paul Vallely: When justice and peace collideThe phrase “justice and peace” tends to roll easily from the modern tongue. |
Giles Fraser: Can there be compromise on women bishops?I was delighted with the decision of the General Synod to reject the formation of new dioceses that would cater for those who do not believe that a woman... |
No second-class citizens in churchSince women were first ordained as priests in the Church of England in 1994, the issue of female bishops has not been far from the surface. |
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