Leader: Gordon: be just, not flash

Gordon Brown, having waited politely for the Conservative Party to finish, will announce soon whether or not he is going to call a snap election.

Giles Fraser: Ambition: the spiritual battle in the dark

I write something a bit strong in the newspapers; I get a flurry of emails and letters informing me that I have flushed my career down the lavatory.

An unelected quango steps too far

Is it morally permissible to use animal eggs to create human embryos for research into illnesses such as Alzheimer’s and motor-neurone disease?

Paul Vallely: Cheer on this game of chess

It is striking how much chess you see played in cafés in the Middle East.

Simon Parke: A spiritual ice cream

BEN AND JERRY, the nice ice-cream men, have been in the UK promoting peace concerts.

Most Episcopalians just don’t care

I HAD a pastoral letter from our Bishop in the summer, folded into the diocesan newspaper.

New Orleans: the inside story

None of the members of the Joint Standing Committee of the Primates and of the Anglican Consultative Council thought the conversations would be easy.

Why a church might need an ‘interim vicar’

‘Part of the exercise is to avoid unhealthy dependency and to encourage responsible confidence’

100 Years Ago: A chance for M. Vilatte

YET another occupation has been found for the much travelled M. Joseph René Vilatte.



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