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Modern Believing
A quarterly academic journal for those in church ministry and academic theology.
Modern Believing is sent to Modern Church members on publication (membership details). Single issues are available while stocks last from the MC office.
Signs of the Times
The quarterly magazine for Modern Church members.
Signs of the Times provides a means for members to communicate with one another. It is able to respond more quickly than the journal and so to address more topical issues. Copies are also available for distribution in churches and elsewhere.
Occasional papers
- Church Times insert, October 2007.
- Modern Church's responses to the proposed Anglican Covenant.
Books & pamphlets
From time to time Modern Church publishes books and pamphlets on current issues of concern to the Church.
This includes a series of Forewords booklets:
Print copies are available, price £2.50 (*£3) post and packing included, from the MC Office.
Earlier publications
The following are still available - contact the MC office for details:
Anglo-Catholics and the myths of episcopacy
Mark Chapman
A Forewords publication, 2006, 16 pages, pamphlet
Based on a lecture given at an Affirming Catholicism symposium on women bishops in March 2006. It describes how the Tractarian movement gave bishops greater authority than before, and argues that Anglican Catholics today need different accounts of episcopacy.
The Windsor Report: A Liberal Response
Jonathan Clatworthy (ed.)
O Books, 2005. Paperback: 128 pages.
Liberals closely involved in the discussion say that the kind of status quo offered by the Windsor report is no answer. There is too much at stake to continue compromising with the spirit of fundamentalism. Foreword by John Spong. Contributors: Colin Slee, Gillian Cooke, David Bruce Taylor, Anthony Woollard, Jonathan Clatworthy.
We assume that human rights are part of what it means to be human, but what do we mean by them, and how do they relate to religious beliefs? This booklet analyses the concept and explains the different Christian accounts of them.
2002 MCU Annual Conference papers