Leader: Israel is judged by what it destroyed

BARACK OBAMA owes his election to one emotion, hope, which he invoked successfully during the long presidential cam­paign trail.

100 year old: Dr Lang’s Confirmation

ATTEMPT was made on Wednesday to raise irrelevant objections to the Confirmation of the Archbishop-elect of York

Paul Vallely: Kaka’s lesson in economics and life

THE UNITED STATES may have a new President, and the banking world may be in meltdown, but up here in Manchester the story of the week has been rather...

Simon Parke: Only a mild criticism

ALL WAS going well, until the morn­ing weather-forecaster came on air.

Does a book make an oath binding?

‘We could look beyond our shock at what it symbolises’

Giles Fraser: Obama and the devil in the hole

In a recent interview, Barack Obama told The Las Vegas Sun that his favourite TV show was The Wire.

Week of prayer for Christian Unity: Prayers for unity, but what else?

Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury

Week of prayer for Christian Unity: ‘I can’t imagine life without partnerships’

Roberta Rominger, General Secretary of the United Reformed Church

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: ‘We wouldn’t start from here’

Jonathan Edwards, General Secretary of the Baptist Union

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: ‘My enthusiasm has grown’

Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: ‘Relationships are the key’

Martyn Atkins, General Secretary of the Methodist Church

Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: Commentary

IT IS EASY to talk theoretically about church unity, but these days it is more difficult to persuade people to listen.



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