Volume 16 Spring 1987

The new editor, Rev Graeme Longmuir, invites contributions and offers a reflection on Lent, together with two Lenten collects.

Rev David Beckett draws attention to the Society’s library, and suggests more use should be made of it. He also speaks of the importance of keeping the library up to date.

The Reverend John Heron, NA, BD, STM, DD 1913-1987

Some current trends in society and church are observed, including a more experimental approach to worship. The Society seeks a balance between the new ways and the best of tradition. He asks how, at this period of transition, how the originators of the Society sought to bring life to the ‘simple forms’ of the time… Read More

Chairman at Annual Meeting 1878 bemoans contentment with routine in worship and the wearisome monotony of repetition in the absence of forms.

The author gives the history of the emergence and development of the Grove booklets on liturgy, intended originally as an evangelical alternative to publications from the Liturgical Commission and how it expanded into a series on ethics, pastoral ministry and spirituality. Later the project gave rise to News of Liturgy and other publications. In due… Read More

Preaching on Favourite Hymns, Frank Colquhoun, Mowbray, reviewed by Rev William G Young New Songs of Praise, OUP/BBC Publications, reviewed by Rev John L Bell