Ember Days for all

One of the best things about Advent is the presence of John the Baptist, that hair-shirt-wearing, locust-eating, wild-man prophet, the “voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”

Issues on the eve of General Synod

Attention has focused entirely on the bishops' report on sexuality, but there are a variety of substantive issues coming before the General Synod.