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A Matter of Some Importance

Basil Last-Resort -
I have followed the Church of England’s General Synod elections with considerable interest. After under twenty-three years in ordained ministry, three diocesan committees, and one...
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A Place for All in the Choir: Christian Music, Sacred Space, and the Living Church

James Kilbane -
The cancelled Nathan Carter concert in St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Boyle, County Roscommon, has raised questions about music in churches. But the...
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Of Forms, Fudge, and the Faithful who Never Come to Church

Stephen Farrell -
Clergy are being asked to certify denominational identity for school admissions, but the Church of Ireland has no clear way to determine who belongs,...
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Just to Let You Know: Christ Just Joined My Political Movement

John Deane-O’Keeffe -
Christian Nationalism has given God a political makeover. I doubt he’s happy with the new look, says John Deane-O’Keeffe Recently, I was doing some whinging...
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What is Truth?

Conor O’Reilly -
Conor O’Reilly argues that belief in God as the source of truth offers a counterpoint to ideologies that reduce the person to something less...
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The Lindsay Clancy Effect: Mercy Begins Where Deserving Ends

John Deane-O’Keeffe -
Should Christians condemn terrible acts whilst still extending compassion to the person who committed them, asks John Deane-O’Keeffe It was once sung that ‘words don’t...
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What Does It Mean to be Anglican?

Basil Last-Resort -
This is a surprisingly difficult question, particularly because Anglicanism has always had a rather catholic capacity for accommodating people who disagree with one another....
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Dolly Parton’s Gospel of Grace

Stephen Farrell -
In September, I had the great pleasure of being invited to preach at the Patronal Festival of the ancient and beautiful Cathedral Church of...
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After the Tumult, Belonging

Scott Golden -
The tumult and the shouting dies;The Captains and the Kings depart:Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,An humble and a contrite heart. Kipling’s lines came back to...
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The Catholic Question

Stephen Farrell -
A Roman Catholic British Prime Minister exposes some curious constitutional anomalies in Church appointments, argues Stephen Farrell It is either a sign of increased religious...
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