By a narrow vote, the Bishop of Sodor and Man has retained his place as an ex-officio member of Tynwald’s Legislative Council. Tynwald (the parliament of the Isle of Man, or Manx) voted 18-14 to continue a tradition that dates from the beginning of parliamentary rule. Opponents forced a vote despite a report from a government select committee recommending that the bishop … [Read more...] about Manx Bishop Stays in Parliament
Archives for February 27, 2018
An Enduring Anglican Classic
By Richard J. Mammana In the first half of 1974, a book about a Canadian Anglican priest spent 19 weeks on The New York Times’s best-seller list, in company with John LeCarré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Richard Adams’s Watership Down. The book was Margaret Craven’s I Heard the Owl Call My Name, first published in Canada in 1967, but catapulted to fame by a … [Read more...] about An Enduring Anglican Classic
‘Use Hope to Heal the Future’
Britain today suffers from loss of the common values that “have deep roots in our nation’s Christian history,” the Archbishop of Canterbury has declared. “We must use hope to heal the future,” he wrote in The Mail on Sunday ahead of the March 8 publication of Reimagining Britain: Foundations for Hope, a book on the state of the nation. “We must be a warm, welcoming nation. … [Read more...] about ‘Use Hope to Heal the Future’