Church of England
Iranian asylum seekers are finding hospitality in the Church of England
Saman’s parents disowned him. The church became a new sort of family.
Decline and revival in the Church of England
Future historians will identify the past quarter century as a time of real excitement and innovation.
Elegies without consolation
An anthology of poetry mourning the demise of the Church of England
Rejects in the center
Perhaps normal people no longer assume that church is part of what it means to be normal. Or perhaps the idea of a normal center was flawed all along.
by Samuel Wells
Business of the kingdom
The New Testament offers two compelling models for our relationship with money. When translated into a vision for a whole society, each is flawed.
by Samuel Wells
Faith in the Public Square, by Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams favors a kind of secularism that requires an honest broker to mediate and manage genuine difference, rather than one that aspires to little more than maximized choice.
reviewed by Samuel Wells
Rev.
I feared that Rev. would reprise the saccharine sweetness of The Vicar of Dibley. Episode one set me straight.
reviewed by Jason Byassee
Blessed and dangerous
The spate of books on John Henry Newman shows that there is little hope of settling arguments about him—or about Benedict's understanding of him.
Occupied holy ground
Church leaders can appreciate the challenges
that St. Paul's has faced. Yet there is something profoundly right about
a moral protest in a cathedral courtyard.