SEARCH Journal

Autumn 2022

THE LATE summer was dominated for many church people, in and beyond the Anglican Communion, by the question, “Will this Lambeth Conference see the break-up of the Anglican Communion?” Breakaway threats from the traditionalist side of the Communion against the Churches which are more open to new insights had become increasingly intense since the foundation of Gafcon and the Anglican Church of North America.

Summer 2022

BOTH the wide and the narrow views concern us just now. On the wide angle, we ask what the Churches can do for peace-making and justice in Europe and beyond; Bryan Kelly of TCD guides us through the challenges and opportunities. With a narrower focus, we ponder our vision for our own Church of Ireland, for “without a vision the people perish,” as Proverbs 29 warned us long ago.

Spring 2022

MORE and more, it is our future that worries us - the future of our planet and its communities, the future of our children, and indeed the future of our Church and the life of faith. “Will our children have faith?” has been a key worry for some time. Now “Will our children have life?” is even more pertinent.