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Roger Hurding Formerly Visiting Lecturer in Pastoral Studies, Trinity College, Bristol
Five Pathways: Caring and Counselling in Today's Church

Roger Hurding examines five different Christian approaches to pastoral care: biblical counselling, the healing ministries, pastoral counselling, spiritual direction, and social change. By applying them to a specific case study he analyses their strengths and weaknesses.


John P Bowen Director of the Insititute of Evangelism, Wycliffe College, Toronto
Coming to Faith in the Gospel of John

John Bowen explores the way in which John's Gospel describes the process of coming to faith. Through considering the cases of the woman at the well, the crowd, the first disciples, Nicodemus and the blind man, Bowen argues that this gospel offers vital insights into people's journey to faith, shedding light on contemporary understandings of evangelism and apologetics.


Colin Buchanan Bishop of Woolwich
Surely we should disestablish?

Colin Buchanan takes issue with Timothy Yates' defence of establishment in Anvil 19.1. He challenges the assumption that there was a significant twentieth-century evangelical strand of influence in favour of retaining the status quo. He goes on to advance his own arguments for disestablishment, focusing on the role of Parliament and the method of appointment of bishops. Timothy Yates offers a short response.


Andrew Goddard Lecturer in Ethics, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford
Conference Report: The Future of Anglicanism

Report of an important conference at Wycliffe Hall in the summer of 2002.