Christian Journal

Articles

Virginia Hoffman: Base Communities

Peter Price: UK and beyond

Margaret Walsh: Hope Community

Timothy Biles: Journey. A window on the Sudan

Ianthe Pratt: God talk and the community

Poetry

Prabhu S Guptara: Autumn

Marjorie Idle: The Murraymint

Liturgy on the theme of Listening

Book review

‘The Church in the midst of creation’ by Vincent J Donovan.

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.

Articles
Baz Wielenga: The Idol of Speed and the God of Life
Transport correspondent: The Sane Alternative
Jo Jennings: Sheffield Transport
Nigel Coates: Transport Policy in Oxford
Alan Storkie: A Christian Economics of Transport
Sophia Marriage: Oxleas wood
BR employee: The story of the Settle to Carlisle Line
Philip Insall: Sustrans builds road to freedom
Timothy Gorringe: Pilgrimage
 
Poetry
Margaret J Cooke: Epiphany
Virginia Rounding: Nunc Dimittis
Michael Perks: God in winter
 
Liturgy Prayers for a journey. Kathy Galloway
Book reviews
‘With burning hearts’ by Henri Nousen
‘Capital and the Kingdom’ by Timothy Gorringe
‘Christian mission in the twentieth century’ by Timothy Yates.

Articles
John Pobee: Daring to dream a new heaven and a new earth in Africa
Jeremy Pemberton: Bound for the Word of God
Julienne Munyaneza: Miracles do still happen
Denise Ackerman: Witness in South Africa
J A Azumah: Islam and Christianity in Africa
George Bebawi: Witness in Egypt
Carol Bebawi: Dialogue in Egypt
Jennifer Chiwela: The effect of Structural Adjustment Programmes on women in Zambia
 
Poetry
Makerere School of Fine Art: Garbage Birds
Margaret Connor: Gordon’s Garden Tomb
Margaret McAllister: Fruit harvest
Dinah Köjö: I saw No One
 
Liturgy for the Healing of the Nations in Africa. Devised by Janet Hodgson
Book reviews
‘Faces of Jesus in Africa’ ed Robert J Schreiter
‘The interpretation of the New Testament, 1861-1986. Stephen Neill & Tom Wright.

Articles
David Adam: The Rhythm of the Seasons
Ronald Blythe: A Sacred Calendar
Hugh Monefiore: Gaia
Anthony Russell: The Church of England in the Contemporary Countryside
Terry Miller: Rural Reality
Patrick J Riley: A glance at what is happening at Glastonbury
William Denning: God’s dream
Tim Gorringe: Reflection
 
Poetry
Geoff Smith: Prayer Walk
Bernard Saint: Touch
Margaret Cooke: Destinations
 
Liturgy Celebration of the Abundance of Creation. Jane Horton & Mary Robins
Film review Priest
Book review ‘Celebrating Women’ ed Hannah Ward, Jennifer Wild, Janet Morley.

Articles
Bill Peters: Jubilee 2000
Ulrich Duchrow: Alternatives to the capitalist world market
Alison Barrett: Shared Interest
Paul Mills: An interest-free financial system
Economic correspondent: LETS create a new economy
Ashok Khosla: The kiss of death?
Julia Powell: Fairtrade
C Myers: The Kingdom of God, redistributive justice and ‘The Great Economy’
 
Poetry
A J Lewis: Harvest Medley
Jean Barker: Spirit of Lindisfarne
Nigel Gower: To every stone its story
 
Jubilee Liturgy compiled by Kate Partridge
Book reviews ‘The Psychology of Religious Knowing’ Fraser Watts & Mark Williams
‘Bad Samaritans’ by Paul Vallely.

Articles
Clinton Bennett: Christians, Compromise and Interfaith dialogue
Caroline MacKenzie: Rama and Sugriva, and the Woman with the Found Coin
Catriona forbes: The Well. Bottomless Love
Nadir Dinshaw: … after loving God
Anne Davison: Multi-faith life in Newham
William Steele: Bradford, a city of many faiths
Martha Dart: Quakers and Hindus
Jacqueline Tabick: The Jewish concept of God
Sashi Bala: The Sikh understanding of God
Ataullah Siddiqui: God in Islam
Janet Lees: God is a quilt maker
Kenneth Cragg: Interfaith and Biblical Concern
 
Poetry
Paul Seabrook: Nunc Dimitis
 
Liturgy Prayers from different faith traditions, compiled by Kate Partridge
Book reviews ‘The People of God’ by Alwyn Marriage
‘One faith? Non-realism & the world of Faiths’ David Hart
‘Religion, Law and Society: A Christian-Muslim Discussion’ ed Tarek Mitri
‘Ultimate Visions. Reflections on the Religions we choose’ ed Martin Forward.

Articles
Chris Peck: deluded servants?
Janet Wootton: The Priesthood of all believers
David Thompson: Lay Presidency at the Eucharist
Christine Farrington: Priesthood in post-denominational China
Michael Roberts: Priesthood
Ian Fraser: Papermill Priest
Maggi Dawn: Diary of an Ordinand
David Barlow: moving out
Antoni Pospieszalski: A personal view of priesthood
Sr Annaliese: A response to the challenge of ‘The People of God’
 
Poetry
Jeremy Young: The Image and the Man
Jeremy Young: Surprised by angels
Geoff Smith: Prayer Walk
 
Liturgy I am the Resurrection. Compiled by Alwyn Marriage
Book reviews
‘The Candles are still Burning’ ed Mary Grey, Andrée Heaton & Danny Sullivan
‘Angel and me’ by Sara Maitland
Cassette review ‘Peace till the moon fails’ St Michael’s Convent, Ham Common.

Articles
Lynn Frances: Sacred Circle Dance. A means of renewal
Kate Gregg-King: Robert Cohan’s Stabat Mater
Ella Jane Barker: Humour in Dance
Sarah Adams: Moving against the grain
Sarah Dawson: Enabled, not disabled
Alwyn Marriage: the Tripudium
Annie Elkins: T’ai-Chi Ch’uan
Elizabeth Learner: The importance of dance in the rave culture
Francis Barboza, SVD: Religion and dance in India
Alwyn Marriage: Dancing into Church
 
Poetry
Simon Overton: Una hora
Cara Mary, SSC: Raspberry
 
Liturgy The Dance of the Holy Trinity. Una Kroll
Book review ‘Reaffirming the Church of England’ by Hugh Montefiore.

Articles
Brian Clarke: Water – under pressure
Simon Barrow: Water. Gift or Commodity?
Richard Fernandez: Meter madness
Ray Heslop: Thirsty cities and the sanitary crisis
John Gould: Harvesting the rain
Success stories: Pumps in Nepal; Pits in Ethiopia
Ama Annan: Water and Conflict in the Nile Basin
Stephen Verney: Rivers flowing through the desert
 
Poetry
Mike Perks: Granny is an Icon
Margaret Connor: Meeting place
 
Liturgy Water of Life, compiled by Michaela Morris
Reviews ‘Retrieving Fundamental Theology’ by Geoffrey O’Collins SJ
‘Human Rites’ ed Hannah Ward and Jennifer Wild
‘The Cured Arno’ by Jack Clemo.

Articles
Dafne Plou: Global Communications Imbalance
Michael Durber: Looking for God in Babel
Graham Starling: Low-tech high-technology
Sophia Marriage and Dilip Sequeira: The Internet and the World-Wide Web
Peter Hall: A Church slowto speak
Simon Barrow: The Tabloid Pulpit
Ruth Page: The trouble with relatives
Elaine Kennedy: The Messenger
Claire Laland: Make your voice heard
Belinda Searle-Barnes: Healing beyond words
Kenneth Leech: Transforming , communicative silence
Updates from earlier issues of Christian
 
Poetry
Andrea Mitchell: The work Christmas involves
E Leat: Unto you is born
Andrea Mitchell: Who are you?
 
Liturgy  WACC World Congress, Mexico.

Articles
Paul Oestreicher: Reconciliation. A search for its meaning
David and Frances Hawkey: Small steps to reconciliation
Diana and John Lampen: The truth shall make you free
Shanthi Hettiarachchi: Reconciliation, a religious challenge
Nelson Kraybill: Conflict and Church Decision Making
Mary Jo Radcliffe: A reconciling symbol
Ian Johnson: Learning from Hebron
 
Poetry
Jean Blanchard: Bird of Passage
Eric Leat: The Last Supper
Margaret Connor: Spring
Updates from earlier issues of Christian
 
Liturgy for Reconciliation compiled by Ruth Harvey
Reviews
‘Peace in Ireland, Two States, One People’ by David Bleakley
‘Celebration. A story of suffering and joy’ by Margaret Spufford.

Articles
Jeanne Hinton: Little acorns grow
Gillian Maher: Social Action to Community
Alan J Riley: Is there a European community?
Jennifer Wild: Community after Community
Colin Evans: The value of soap
Brett Webb-Mitchell: Standing in need of prayer
Gemma Simmonds, IBVM: Religious community
Jean Mayland: Reconciling the broken community of women and men in the Church
Jean Vanier: Community, a place of healing and growth
 
Poetry
Ivy Russell: Eyes of Love
Andrea Mitchell: My cup is full
Sophie Moore: Cook me up a poem
Frances M Thomas: Prayer
 
Community Liturgy by Kate McIlhagga
Reviews
‘The Sign of Love’ by Tim Gorringe
‘I tell you a mystery’ by Johann Christoph Arnold
‘Theology and Sociology. A reader’ ed Robin Gill
‘Dictionary of Feminist Theologies’ ed Letty Russell and Shannon Clarkson.

Articles
Paul Cavadino: Purposes of Imprisonment
John R Cassayd-Smith: Thoughts on being inside
James Ozigi: Black people in prison – a cause for concern
Beverley A Lawrence Beech: Lock ‘em up – and take away the key
Peter Knapper: Shalom and Reconciliation
Hugh Marriage: Tagging -  the alternative for the Millenium
Marcel: Marcel’s story
Alison Cobb: Mental prison
 
Poetry
Linda Hunter: Tight-rope walker
Bernard Saint: Fountain
 
Liturgy Prayers for prisoners of conscience, from Amnesty International
Video review ‘The Life of Lindisfarne’, Pathway Productions
Music review ‘Elements’ by Maggi Dawn
Book reviews
‘Prejudice in Religion’, ed Peter Cornwall
‘Catholicism. Hard questions’ by John Redford.

Articles
 
Colin Greene: Rediscovering the Bible
Mona D Hooker: The words and the Word
Carlos Mesters: The Bible in the hands of the poor
Chris Peck: Razor blade or rubber hammer?
Ivana Dolejsova: The Bible as a tool for resistance
Robert Beckford: Prayer meeting hermeneutics
Kristin Ofstad: Assembling the picture
John Henson: Introducing One, version of the New Testament
 
Poetry
Louise Swanston: A Prayer for all Seasons
Audrey Smallpiece: New Song
 
Liturgy prepared by Graham Maule
Video review ‘The Story Keepers’, Mowbray
Book reviews
‘James, Brother of Jesus’ by Pierre-Antoine Bernheim
‘Grace and mortgage’ by Peter Selby.

Articles
David Cowling: From Encounter to Transformation
Jeanne Hinton: Experiencing the Church in movement
Margaret Opie-Smith: More than strangers on our doorstep
Sue Keegan von Allmen: Making mission meaningful
Mark Sanger and Heinz Hunke: Meeting in Cyberspace
Asha Cornelius: Partners in a time of change
Ann Dew: Turning the prayer wheels
Simon Barrow: Encountering otherness in Christ
 
Poetry
Ann Lewin: Unwelcome visitor (after breast cancer)
Ann Lewin: Marked for life
Ann Lewin: Vulnerable
Margaret Connor: Late Spring
 
Liturgy Encountered in God – A Meditation. Ernesto Cardenal
Book reviews
‘Dancing on the Edge’ by Richard Holloway
‘God and the web of creation’ by Ruth Page.