Articles
Dafne Plou: Global Communications Imbalance
Michael Durber: Looking for God in Babel
Graham Starling: Low-tech high-technology
Sophia Marriage and Dilip Sequeira: The Internet and the World-Wide Web
Peter Hall: A Church slowto speak
Simon Barrow: The Tabloid Pulpit
Ruth Page: The trouble with relatives
Elaine Kennedy: The Messenger
Claire Laland: Make your voice heard
Belinda Searle-Barnes: Healing beyond words
Kenneth Leech: Transforming , communicative silence
Updates from earlier issues of Christian
 
Poetry
Andrea Mitchell: The work Christmas involves
E Leat: Unto you is born
Andrea Mitchell: Who are you?
 
Liturgy  WACC World Congress, Mexico.

Articles
John Pobee: Daring to dream a new heaven and a new earth in Africa
Jeremy Pemberton: Bound for the Word of God
Julienne Munyaneza: Miracles do still happen
Denise Ackerman: Witness in South Africa
J A Azumah: Islam and Christianity in Africa
George Bebawi: Witness in Egypt
Carol Bebawi: Dialogue in Egypt
Jennifer Chiwela: The effect of Structural Adjustment Programmes on women in Zambia
 
Poetry
Makerere School of Fine Art: Garbage Birds
Margaret Connor: Gordon’s Garden Tomb
Margaret McAllister: Fruit harvest
Dinah Köjö: I saw No One
 
Liturgy for the Healing of the Nations in Africa. Devised by Janet Hodgson
Book reviews
‘Faces of Jesus in Africa’ ed Robert J Schreiter
‘The interpretation of the New Testament, 1861-1986. Stephen Neill & Tom Wright.

Articles
Baz Wielenga: The Idol of Speed and the God of Life
Transport correspondent: The Sane Alternative
Jo Jennings: Sheffield Transport
Nigel Coates: Transport Policy in Oxford
Alan Storkie: A Christian Economics of Transport
Sophia Marriage: Oxleas wood
BR employee: The story of the Settle to Carlisle Line
Philip Insall: Sustrans builds road to freedom
Timothy Gorringe: Pilgrimage
 
Poetry
Margaret J Cooke: Epiphany
Virginia Rounding: Nunc Dimittis
Michael Perks: God in winter
 
Liturgy Prayers for a journey. Kathy Galloway
Book reviews
‘With burning hearts’ by Henri Nousen
‘Capital and the Kingdom’ by Timothy Gorringe
‘Christian mission in the twentieth century’ by Timothy Yates.

Articles
John Davies: Nationalism
Clare Amos: Jerusalem and Emmaus
Bruce Kent: Building a Global Village
Patrick Thomas: Keeping house in a cloud of witnesses
Brian Brown: Old Nationalism for New
Bede Smith: Remembering 1492, on the underside of history
Sandra Pollerman: Storytelling and Stories
Nadir Dinshaw: The land we love the most
 
Poetry
Ku Song: Midday Prayer
Ku Song:  rice field
Joan Smith: Good Friday – How Steak Gorge
Elaine Miller: The Memory of Myrrh
Margaret N Newton: Old Altar Candles
Chuck Lathrop: Come and have breakfast
Kenneth C Steven: My you
 
Liturgy from ‘Bread for Tomorrow’
 
Book reviews
‘The voices of the victims’ ed Leonardo Boff & Virgil Elizondo
‘Barbed Lines’ ed Debjanis Chatterjee & Rashida Islam
‘Paradise News’ by David Lodge

Articles
Carmel Heaney: Old Truths/ New Lies
Nikki Arthy: Come join the dance for justice
Brian Phillips: Taizé
Maggie Smith: L’Arche
Carol Holliday: College House
Alison Gelder: Student Cross
Claire Wilton: New Roots, Hull
Gregory Briffa: The Youth Church
Patrick Clarke: At the edge
Stephen Verney: I AM
 
Poetry
Marshall Coombs: Early Autumn Sunlight
Robin Shirley: Quaker Apples
Geoffrey Daniel: The Diary of Anne Frank
Jack Clemo: Voyages
 
Liturgy  Hymn ‘We reach out hungry hands’ by Jeremy Davies
Reviews
Book of photography ‘Pillars of the Church’ by Jane Bown
Video ‘Barriers or Bridges’ by the Columban Fathers
CD ‘Meditation in sound’ Virgin Classics.

Articles
David Bleakley: Beyond work
Eileen Maybin: Weaving through debt
Ricarda Leask: Work
Geoffrey Brogden: Givers – not receivers. The potential of the unemployed
Robin Richardson” Quite an Agenda – jobs and racial justice
Chris Beedle: Overwork
Sr Eileen Mary: Who am I?
 
Poetry
Mary Sheepshanks: Dust Storm
Geoffrey Daniel: Madonna of the Washing
Jean Harrison: That human hands have made
David Lethbridge: On a mantlepiece
 
Liturgy Some modern psalms
 
Film review Sister Act
Book reviews
‘What lies ahead – listening to refugees’ by Christians Aware
‘Still following Christ in a consumer society’ by John F Kavanagh
‘Celebrating Common Prayer’.

Articles
John S Spong: Monogamy
Susan Howatch: Clerical Casualties
Ann Lewin: Sex and the single Christian
Alwyn Marriage: In praise of Sexuality and Spirituality
Ruth H Sihlangu: Adolescent sexuality in Zimbabwe
Elizabeth Stuart: Bearing the marks of crucifixion – or resurrection
Richard Holloway: Can the Church lead the way towards a new sexual ethic?
 
Poetry
Margaret Connor: The First Time
Andrew Salmon: Helen
Andrew Salmon: Adultery
Rupert M Loydell: Touching Truth
 
Liturgy  Meditations by Jim Cotter
Book reviews
‘Daring to speak love’s name’ ed Elizabeth Stuart
‘Partners in Protests’ by Diana Collins
Exhibition review
Eric Gill, Barbican Gallery.

In the spring of 2026, a stunning exhibition of modern religious art was mounted in Guildford, displaying 25 works by such world-class artists as Graham Sutherland, Elisabeth Frink, Ceri Richards and Maggi Hambling. As part of this major event the poet, Alwyn Marriage, was commissioned to write poems to accompany each work of art at the exhibition, and these poems proved so popular that they have now been published as a collection, along with reproductions of the full-colour artworks to which they were a response.

If you would like to explore some of the art at a deeper level, there are also a dozen longer reflections on some of the paintings which can be reached through the Art UK website.

From Darkness to Light was published by Oversteps Books on behalf of St Mary's Church, Guildford, in February 2026.

Please click here to contact Alwyn.

Articles
Christine Roberts: Searching
Judith Lancaster: Prayer and the Preoccupied
Tim Jenkins: A Materialist Account of Prayer?
Sylvia Roberts: The People of God
Sheila Cassidy: Trust in Darkness
Walter Wink: Against perfectionism
 
Poetry
R Rabindranath Menon: Eden Revisited
June Maynard: New Birth
Pat Laycock: The Butterfly
Geoffrey Smith: Stop
 
Liturgy Come down to the tea run.
Book reviews
‘Towards the city’ Psalms by Jim Cotter
‘Gather the fragments’ Alan Ecclestone
‘The F-word’ by Caroline Bailey & Martin Davies.

Articles
Shakuntala Banaji: Universal justice. Utopia or reality?
David Haslam: The struggle against apartheid
Andrew Radford: Baby milk action
Dee Price: Light a candle, curse the darkness
Stephen Hancock: Swords into ploughshares
Edmond L Browning: Calling the Church to stewardship
Thomas Cullinan: When you eat this bread …
 
Poetry
Philip Allin: Ex libris
Virginia Rounding: Surrounded
Anne Richards: Solomon’s judgement
Jean Blanchard: A poem for Holy Week
Geoffrey Smith: Under the fell
 
Liturgy A liturgy for peace in a time of trouble. Doreen Hudson-Tobin
Book reviews
‘Witness against the Beast’ E P Thompson
‘Psalms of patience, protest and praise’. John Bell
‘Engaging the Powers’ by Walter Wink.

Articles 
Michael Austin: Theatre & Liturgy
Keith Ramsay: The postwar revival of the Mystery Plays
Fiona Shaw: Some weeks ago I flew to Ireland
Vicky Ireland: The place of live theatre in the emotional world of the child
Peri Aston: Things fall together
James Roose-Evans: a ritual grows as we grow
Anthony Masters: Community Acting
Kate Partridge: The Prodigal Daughter
 
Poetry
Sheila Cassidy: The Kingdom of God
 
Liturgy ‘The play’s the thing’, compiled by Michael Sadgrove
Film reviews Schindler’s List and Shadowlands.

Articles
Ruth McCurry interviews Archbishop Trevor Huddleston
Nadir Dinshaw: Interfaith ecumenism
Sr Denzil: Still point in a turning world
Eric James: One Sunday in Sophiatown
Jeremy Davies: Struggle and Contemplation
Sam Bickersteth: In the steps of Trevor Huddleston – Masasi 1991
Harry Matthews: The Huddleston Centre for Handicapped Children
Julian ScharfL Trevor Huddleston in East London
Desmond Tutu: Tribute to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston CR
 
Poetry
Jack Clemo: George Muller
Heather Spears: Household
 
Liturgy Love by Oswald Mtshali.