Articles

Charles Elliott: Ideals and Idols

Hugh Wybrew: The Orthodox Churches in Eastern Europe

Stephen Platten: Spirituality and Europe. A Christian dreaming

Irina Ratushinskaya: A Problem of Two Cities

Mary Garnet: Inner Room

Poetry

Jack Clemo: Sortridge Manor

John Butterfield: Euro-nightmare

Prabhu S Guptara: On seeing my first snowfall

Liturgy from ‘Women Included’

Book reviews

‘Women Included’ by the St Hilda Community

‘Patterns and examples. Quaker attitudes and European opportunities’ by Geoffrey Hubbard Swarthmore

Film review

‘Prospero’s Books’ by Peter Greenaway

Articles
John Davies: Nationalism
Clare Amos: Jerusalem and Emmaus
Bruce Kent: Building a Global Village
Patrick Thomas: Keeping house in a cloud of witnesses
Brian Brown: Old Nationalism for New
Bede Smith: Remembering 1492, on the underside of history
Sandra Pollerman: Storytelling and Stories
Nadir Dinshaw: The land we love the most
 
Poetry
Ku Song: Midday Prayer
Ku Song:  rice field
Joan Smith: Good Friday – How Steak Gorge
Elaine Miller: The Memory of Myrrh
Margaret N Newton: Old Altar Candles
Chuck Lathrop: Come and have breakfast
Kenneth C Steven: My you
 
Liturgy from ‘Bread for Tomorrow’
 
Book reviews
‘The voices of the victims’ ed Leonardo Boff & Virgil Elizondo
‘Barbed Lines’ ed Debjanis Chatterjee & Rashida Islam
‘Paradise News’ by David Lodge

Articles
Esther de Waal: Celtic Christianity
Sean O Duinn: Celtic Spirituality
Dafydd Elis Thomas: Re-emergence of Welsh Wales
Bob Holman: Away from the Highlands and Islands tourist route
Sally Hastings: Ireland at the Crossroads
John Bell: Post mortem
 
Poetry
R S Thomas: Afallon
R S Thomas: Retired
Davie Webster: Iona Mo Chridhe
Mary Sheepshanks: Transmission from Iona
 
Liturgy from Carmina Gadelica
 
Book reviews
‘George MacLeod’ by Ronald Ferguson
‘Sent by the Lord’ ed John Bell
‘A wide open heart’ compiled by Nadir Dinshaw.

Articles
Carmel Heaney: Old Truths/ New Lies
Nikki Arthy: Come join the dance for justice
Brian Phillips: Taizé
Maggie Smith: L’Arche
Carol Holliday: College House
Alison Gelder: Student Cross
Claire Wilton: New Roots, Hull
Gregory Briffa: The Youth Church
Patrick Clarke: At the edge
Stephen Verney: I AM
 
Poetry
Marshall Coombs: Early Autumn Sunlight
Robin Shirley: Quaker Apples
Geoffrey Daniel: The Diary of Anne Frank
Jack Clemo: Voyages
 
Liturgy  Hymn ‘We reach out hungry hands’ by Jeremy Davies
Reviews
Book of photography ‘Pillars of the Church’ by Jane Bown
Video ‘Barriers or Bridges’ by the Columban Fathers
CD ‘Meditation in sound’ Virgin Classics.

Articles
David Bleakley: Beyond work
Eileen Maybin: Weaving through debt
Ricarda Leask: Work
Geoffrey Brogden: Givers – not receivers. The potential of the unemployed
Robin Richardson” Quite an Agenda – jobs and racial justice
Chris Beedle: Overwork
Sr Eileen Mary: Who am I?
 
Poetry
Mary Sheepshanks: Dust Storm
Geoffrey Daniel: Madonna of the Washing
Jean Harrison: That human hands have made
David Lethbridge: On a mantlepiece
 
Liturgy Some modern psalms
 
Film review Sister Act
Book reviews
‘What lies ahead – listening to refugees’ by Christians Aware
‘Still following Christ in a consumer society’ by John F Kavanagh
‘Celebrating Common Prayer’.

Articles
John S Spong: Monogamy
Susan Howatch: Clerical Casualties
Ann Lewin: Sex and the single Christian
Alwyn Marriage: In praise of Sexuality and Spirituality
Ruth H Sihlangu: Adolescent sexuality in Zimbabwe
Elizabeth Stuart: Bearing the marks of crucifixion – or resurrection
Richard Holloway: Can the Church lead the way towards a new sexual ethic?
 
Poetry
Margaret Connor: The First Time
Andrew Salmon: Helen
Andrew Salmon: Adultery
Rupert M Loydell: Touching Truth
 
Liturgy  Meditations by Jim Cotter
Book reviews
‘Daring to speak love’s name’ ed Elizabeth Stuart
‘Partners in Protests’ by Diana Collins
Exhibition review
Eric Gill, Barbican Gallery.

Articles
Jonathan Dove: Making a joyful noise
Terri Coyle: To face the music
Maggie Hamilton: Sing freedom!
Gabrielle Power: Quality versus participation?
Tony Jasper: Contemporaty Music and Protest
David Stancliffe: Tuning our lives
 
Poetry
Mary Grey: Meditation for Annunciation – Lady Day
Stephen Tunnicliffe: Bow in the Cloud
Alex Warner: Keeper of the Bees
Alex Warner: Oh Wisdom
 
Liturgy 4 new hymns by June Boyce-Tillman
Book reviews
‘In tune with heaven’, Report of Archbishops’ Commission on Church Music
‘Euros Bowen. Priest-poet’ ed Cynthia & Saunders Davies
‘Approach to Murano’ Jack Clemo
‘Mass for hard times’ R S Thomas
Band review  ‘Iona. Band on the Wall’.

Articles
Magali do Nascimento Cunha: Good news from the dispossessed
Lily Griffiths: East Timor’s struggle for self-determination
Eileen Barker: Armenia
Geoffrey Brogden: The cost of being different. Romany
Heather Spears: Children of the Intifada
Frank Turner, SJ: Theological Reflections
 
Poetry
Martyn Halsall: Advent
Margaret McAllister: The Woman in Blue
Verrier Elwin: The Child and the Rood
 
Liturgy by Janet Hodgson
Book review
‘Din Sevak, Verrier Elwin’s life of service in tribal India’
Exhibition review
Henry Moore and the sea. Pallant House, Chichester.

Articles
Christine Roberts: Searching
Judith Lancaster: Prayer and the Preoccupied
Tim Jenkins: A Materialist Account of Prayer?
Sylvia Roberts: The People of God
Sheila Cassidy: Trust in Darkness
Walter Wink: Against perfectionism
 
Poetry
R Rabindranath Menon: Eden Revisited
June Maynard: New Birth
Pat Laycock: The Butterfly
Geoffrey Smith: Stop
 
Liturgy Come down to the tea run.
Book reviews
‘Towards the city’ Psalms by Jim Cotter
‘Gather the fragments’ Alan Ecclestone
‘The F-word’ by Caroline Bailey & Martin Davies.

Articles
Shakuntala Banaji: Universal justice. Utopia or reality?
David Haslam: The struggle against apartheid
Andrew Radford: Baby milk action
Dee Price: Light a candle, curse the darkness
Stephen Hancock: Swords into ploughshares
Edmond L Browning: Calling the Church to stewardship
Thomas Cullinan: When you eat this bread …
 
Poetry
Philip Allin: Ex libris
Virginia Rounding: Surrounded
Anne Richards: Solomon’s judgement
Jean Blanchard: A poem for Holy Week
Geoffrey Smith: Under the fell
 
Liturgy A liturgy for peace in a time of trouble. Doreen Hudson-Tobin
Book reviews
‘Witness against the Beast’ E P Thompson
‘Psalms of patience, protest and praise’. John Bell
‘Engaging the Powers’ by Walter Wink.

Articles 
Michael Austin: Theatre & Liturgy
Keith Ramsay: The postwar revival of the Mystery Plays
Fiona Shaw: Some weeks ago I flew to Ireland
Vicky Ireland: The place of live theatre in the emotional world of the child
Peri Aston: Things fall together
James Roose-Evans: a ritual grows as we grow
Anthony Masters: Community Acting
Kate Partridge: The Prodigal Daughter
 
Poetry
Sheila Cassidy: The Kingdom of God
 
Liturgy ‘The play’s the thing’, compiled by Michael Sadgrove
Film reviews Schindler’s List and Shadowlands.

Articles
Ruth McCurry interviews Archbishop Trevor Huddleston
Nadir Dinshaw: Interfaith ecumenism
Sr Denzil: Still point in a turning world
Eric James: One Sunday in Sophiatown
Jeremy Davies: Struggle and Contemplation
Sam Bickersteth: In the steps of Trevor Huddleston – Masasi 1991
Harry Matthews: The Huddleston Centre for Handicapped Children
Julian ScharfL Trevor Huddleston in East London
Desmond Tutu: Tribute to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston CR
 
Poetry
Jack Clemo: George Muller
Heather Spears: Household
 
Liturgy Love by Oswald Mtshali.