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Trushare Files No. 145
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NEW DIRECTIONS:
June 2007
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Directory |
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Cardinal Kasper's address to the House of Bishops of the Church of England |
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Luke Pacioli out-lines some of the dilemmas facing the Church Commissioners, the Pensions Board and members of General Synod as the struggle for cash begins in earnest George Austin looks back at how Synod first established clergy pensions along with compulsory retirement, the undertakings they made then, the proposals now being presented and how they differ
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FEATURES |
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| Ownership and power |
Norman Russell Archdeacon of Berkshire, is concerned by the proposal to remove the ownership of parsonages from incumbents and give it to dioceses |
| Pentecost reflections |
Hugh Baker remembers when a sermon became the finest political manifesto for building a better society |
| Irenic and simple |
Forward in Faith publish in full their submission to the General Synod Legislative Drafting Group led by the Bishop of Manchester |
| Lengthy intolerance |
FiF Legal Working Party An abridgement of their response to the lengthy and intolerant Submission from Affirming Catholicism |
| New regulations |
Alan Edwards warns of further legislation to come |
| Directing change |
John Turnbull was surprised by the recent media interest in an apparent abortions crisis and the possibility that they may become increasingly rare |
| Sympathy and caring |
Paul Griffin muses on the nature of sympathy why we need more of it, its tendency towards sentimentality and its need of being taught by reason |
| Any reasons left? |
What are the supposed theological reasons for the introduction of women bishops? |
| Forming priest |
Ernest Skublics offers a contribution to the working party discussions, exhorting us to the importance residential training |
| Leaders for the new |
Paul Perkin gives a swift journey through some of the emerging forms of modern leadership |
| Compel them to come |
John Turner wants a much stronger understanding of how we should go about fostering vocations to the sacred ministry |
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REGULARS |
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| Ghostly counsel | Andy Hawes on Christian caring |
| Devotional | A Rempstone Sister on John Newton |
| Patrick Reardon | The prayerful parallels of Hebrew poetry |
| Sacred Vision | Anthony Saville on a late manuscript |
| The way we live now | Geoffrey Kirk offers a cautionary tale |
| Faith of our fathers | Arthur Middleton on a study by Thomas Oden |
| Touching Place | Simon Cotton on Holy Angels, Hoar Cross |
| America | A lengthy report with extensive quotations on The Episcopal Church's intentions of complying, or not, with the demands of the Primates' Communique from Dares Salaam, by the Anglican Communion Council |
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ART Anthony Saville on Sacred at the British Library
DANCE Barry Orford on Albert Roussel's Symphony no. 3
BOOKS The Noble Revolt In Search of the Lost Discovering Prayer with the Church Signs of Peace Bax: a composer and his times Quantum Physics and Theology
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Sermon Salad: an Hors d'oeuvre of over three hundred homilies for many occasions
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