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Doubting Thomas was only following the best principles of journalism when he demanded proof for the biggest story of all time. But it's not just about believing the story, it's about how we tell it...
In the last week of Jesus's life, the true authority of the Christ emerges. But we'd do well to listen in the silences to what he doesn't say, as well as to what he does...
The BBC's latest version of the Passion story aims to be human and accessible. It succeeds. But, paradoxically, in doing so it reveals the greatest miracle of all...
The Festival of the Massacre of the Innocents, just after Christmas, serves to show us a God who is bound up bodily in the horrors of the world - which is the only way he can find to save human lives...
Laurence Binyon wrote some awful poetry, but he also wrote four lines that have achieved immortality in our liturgy of remembrance. They not only teach us to remember the dead, they show us how to live our lives...
Christianity is entwined with the traditions of paganism, superstition and the supernatural. But it is also uniquely different, grounded in our flesh-and-blood, human experience...
It's not always better to give than to receive. When it comes to the business of prophecy - interpreting the will of God - it is as well to pay attention to strangers and to see what they might have for you...
George Pitcher traces the extraordinary financial performance of the Church of England since its Commissioners were formed in 1948
Habbakuk by Donatello
"Justification by faith alone" was the principle on which the Reformation was fought. But some so-called reformers today want to ditch it in favour of a new "Covenant", a contract that Christians will be required to sign in order to be allowed into our Church. George Pitcher argues that these efforts fly in the face of Anglicanism, but are not supported by scripture....
The 50-word version: The doctrine of the Trinity is bloody hard. But let's not be literal. There's a dark side to humanity (obviously). What if Jesus Christ is the dark side of God? That puts nothing beyond the reach of the divine. Oh, and it makes us asylum-seekers in heaven. Trinity nerds, read on...
William Lewis
Editor, Daily Telegraph
Emily Bell
Editor, Guardian Unlimited
It's a common form of attack when people discover I'm an Anglican priest. But it's not always clear what form this leadership is meant to take.
