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Agreed. When I say you have 'put yourself through this' I mean it in a technical sense, not apportioning blame. It is a technical fact that the turmoil comes from within you, not imposed by some external person or factor. As you say - something is happening, so you need help to resolve whether...

I am glad to hear it: you have put yourself through months of anxiety over this, and deserve a solution. Experience tells me that knowing the reality (which is probably nothing!) is always better than the nagging fear of not knowing, even if there is nothing to know. God bless you with peace...

When I was having chemo after my surgery there was a 16 year old having treatment at the same time. Don't let a dr tell you that you are too young: get the test. Colon cancer is extremely survivable, if caught early! God bless you: please report back how you get on.

Hi there D I! Sounds to me like you are suffering from 'accidie' or 'spiritual depression' (a slightly misleading title - it isn't related to the mental illness). This is running at epidemic levels in modern Western society, and requires help from a competent spiritual guide/counsellor to guide...

Noswaith dda i Gymru (o Ffrainc) Good evening TO Wales (from France)!

Hi and welcome, from sunny France (well it would be if it wasn't dark...!). Chris

I've just finished tutoring a student for a B.A. degree with London School of Theology: this is a good course, as are the courses of St John's College Nottingham. As a retired Director of Reader Training I can assure you that there is funding in place in each diocese (with participation fromthe...

What do you mean exactly by 'spiritual ministry'? If it is a distinct ministry based round 'the discerning of spirits' (cf 1 Cor 12, etc), then in Anglican terms it would be expressed in the Ministry of Deliverance. This is usually a highly specialised ministry under the direction of the Bishop...

Dear Magnus, I'm so sorry you are having such a rough time with the PTSD, and (especially at the moment?) the OCD. I'm no expert in these things, but I know they are serious psychiatric illnesses, not the kind of thing you can resolve through a straightforward 'mental fix' or self-help therapy...

It may be that you have found the help you need, but if not, I'm a 62 year-old retired Episcopal/Anglican Priest with a ministry of spiritual guidance /online pastoral care. I am on the autistic spectrum, as is my wife of 30+ years. I'll be pleased to help if I can: please pm me if you want to talk.

I think missing Sunday Mass is a sin, in the sense that it is a failure to do our duty towards God of prioritising worshipping Him on the Lord's Day. No, I don't agree with your attempt to lessen the reality of that duty by suggesting the Church made it a duty for unworthy reasons. But hey, I'm...

Just when and how did this 'territorial integrity' argument become so important? When I started training in a relatively small Anglican jurisdiction 40 years ago, the only use of the phrase I ever encountered was when ECUSA used it to justify introducing changes without seeking the consent of...

Sorry folks, but I think this 'territorial integrity' argument is a bit of an anglican 'shibboleth' being pushed to extreme. Are you really saying that if an anglican province fell into serious doctrinal error, or collapsed to a husk of its former size, it would be unanglican for other anglicans...

From a UK anglican perspective I think there is less incense around than there was. I can remember our parish priest telling the congregation: 'There are only two smells in the next world: incense or brimstone. Choose which you prefer!' On the other hand the neighbouring parish suffered from a...

Absolutely right, in that Christians worshipping in Arabic have always addressed God as 'Allah'. Objections to this in modern times have been put forward in modern times, but from the Islamic side rather than the Christian.

Jesus instituted Holy Communion and commanded us to do this to recall Him. Wherever this command is obeyed, His Church is thereby present. If you are there, you are 'at Church'. If you aren't there, one has to ask: what could you be doing which is better than obeying the straight command of...

There used to be a wonderful little book called 'The Church Traveller's Directory' which gave some of this stuff, but it is long defunct. Membership organisations like Forward in Faith offer directories of their affiliated parishes, but this would offer a very limited range of information...

The C of E requires its ministers to 'assent' to the 39 Articles: whatever that means, it seems to fall short of conviction that they must be whole-heartedly embraced and obeyed. (An old story tells of a priest challenged on this by someone after his induction to a parish. His reply? 'I assent...

As far as I can tell, only wearing the chasuble for the second half of the service was an odd idea that popped up in the earlier days of modern liturgical reforms. I seem to remember that it was popularised by the now defunct (here at least!) Society of the Sacred Mission, at Kelham in...

....There are 10 million textual variants in Bible manuscripts..... This seems an incredible figure - who came up with this figure, and how widely is it accepted? And of course textual variants differ widely in their significance...... I would also echo the advice to use an interlinear Bible...