have recently revisited Hilfield Friary, tucked away now for over 80 years in the folds of Thomas Hardy's rural Dorset in England. They say ours was the 28 acres that the farmers couldn't use - too stony. Since 1921 there has been some visible Franciscan life in the Anglican Church.
04 October 2001
The key importance of mutual understanding and good relationships between members of major world faith communities was highlighted at the meeting of NIFCON (Network for Inter Faith Concerns of the Anglican Communion) . The meeting had a particular urgency in the light of the tragic events of September 11 2001.
03 October 2001
It is good to see members of the many faiths in this borough united in welcoming the opening of this new facility for the whole community.
24 September 2001
For the first time in over 25 years the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield, West Yorkshire has filled all its ordinand-training places for the coming academic year.
10 August 2001
On Sunday, 22nd July 2001, the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Dean of Canterbury will install Richard Marsh as a new Residentiary Canon of Canterbury during Evensong.
23 July 2001
Introducing a House of Lords debate in Parliament this evening (16th July), the Rt. Revd Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester, is expected to call on the leaders of Pakistan to stop selling the country out.
18 July 2001
May I begin in China? The story is told that Chou-en-Lai, the cultured and subtle-minded Prime Minister of that country from the 1950's into the 1970's, on being asked what he believed the results of the French Revolution had been, replied (after an immensely long pause for thought) that it was really too soon to be certain. Would that people would show the same reticence about far more recent events...
18 July 2001
Transformation is a theme which runs through the life of Ian Hutchinson Cervantes. Born in Washington of a New Zealand father and a Guatemalan mother, he has lived in a number of countries and has been transformed in some way by each of them.
18 July 2001
One of history's most celebrated Highways is Highway 80 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. In 1965, during the days of the civil rights movement, a protest march set off from Selma led by a Baptist Minister, and before they started he led them in prayer.
02 July 2001
At its best politics is about values, about what we consider most important. That is what faith is about too. Both go to the heart of the matter. In their different ways they affect fundamentally how we live together in God's creation.
25 May 2001