Robert Wright Seen&Unseen Marsha de Cordova: the personal experiences driving her passionate politics
Lorraine Cavanagh Church Times Women in the Church: What do ‘micro-aggressions’ mean?
Kristin Breuss Women and the Church Why I Support the Not Equal Yet Campaign
21 CommentsGavin Drake Church Abuse In memory of Clive Billenness
Marcus Walker The Critic More than just a figurehead
“A new plan aims to strip the Archbishop of Canterbury of any real power or authority”
Helen King sharedconversations Living in parched places: February 2025 General Synod
Andrew Atherstone Law & Religion UK Wheat bread and fermented wine at Holy Communion? The origins of Canon B17
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Jesus and human flourishing or Trump, enemy of Christian humanism
Neil Patterson ViaMedia.News When Will the Bishops Think Properly About Same-Sex Marriage?3>
34 CommentsUpdate Sunday: Andrew Goddard has added a comment from the Bishop of Warrington to his blog. I have copied it below the fold.
Tim Wyatt New Statesman There is no solution to the Church of England permacrisis
Martyn Percy Meander
Andrew Goddard Psephizo The Bishop of Liverpool: outstanding questions that need answers
Gavin Drake Church Abuse An open letter to the Church of England’s Diocesan Bishops: General Synod and Safeguarding
Al Barrett This estate we’re in “Burn it down”: responses to/within the polycrisis in the CofE
44 CommentsColin Coward Unadulterated Love What is the relationship in the CofE today between parishes and the hierarchy?
Martin Sewell and Stephen Trott Surviving Church General Synod and Safeguarding Reform
15 CommentsKelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head Divine Dating – the Mysterious Art of Finding A New Cleric
Martine Oborne Women and the Church Are women safe in the Church of England?
Andrew Brown The slow deep hover A quick note on jargon
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love
55 CommentsColin Coward Unadulterated Love Accurate reporting versus fake news – how do we tell the difference between truth and lies?
Gavin Drake Church Abuse Too little, too late: Charity Commission reminds General Synod of charity trustee’s safeguarding duties
32 CommentsMiles Ellingham and Cormac Kehoe The Fence Speaking in Small Tongues
Mariann Edgar Budde The Guardian ‘Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’: here is the sermon that enraged Donald Trump
[There is a video of the sermon on YouTube.]
‘Graham’ ViaMedia.News Makin, Continued: Are They Being Investigated, or Not?
103 CommentsTheo Hobson The Tablet Middling along – renewing the C of E
“The ascendancy of the evangelicals is over – but what comes next?”
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Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Rethinking Christianity
76 CommentsAnon ViaMedia.News Recognising Grooming: Revisiting the David Tudor Case
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Grooming Adults. Is it Possible?
Gavin Drake Church Abuse Safeguarding: Second Church Estates Commissioner holds Church of England feet to the fire
[This refers to oral questions in the House of Commons to the Second Church Estates Commissioner; the Hansard record is here, and there is a video of the session on YouTube.]
Gilo ViaMedia.News The Church is What We Do Next
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love God talk – the Church of England in crisis
30 CommentsRupert Shortt UnHerd How Justin Welby hollowed out the Church
Bosco Peters Liturgy Preaching 101
68 CommentsYazid Said William Temple Foundation Church and State in a post-Welby era
Phil Groves ViaMedia.News The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Communion
Martyn Percy Meander Succession? What to Expect After Archbishop Welby
60 Comments‘Graham’ ViaMedia.News Justice and Moving On
Martyn Percy ViaMedia.News Halcyon Daze? Nostalgia in the Memory of the Church
Abigail Frymann Rouch Commonweal Why Welby Had to Go
115 CommentsJonathan Kennedy The Guardian The birth of Jesus would probably have been forgotten – if it wasn’t for a plague
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Living within the melancholy, long, withdrawing roar
Andrew Brown The slow deep hover There was a progressive of Riga
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Shame and the Church of England – a reflection
225 CommentsAndrew Brown The slow deep hover
Gavin Drake Church Abuse Church of England safeguarding: Children’s Society is wrong to refuse Justin Welby’s donation
Observer editorial The Observer view on the Church of England: how does it recover after its annus horribilis?
Ian Gomersall A Retired Rector’s Reflections Christians awake!
103 CommentsUpdated Christmas Day – more primates’ messages added
Andrew Davison Church Times In the beginning — or the end?
The Anglican Communion Office has published a few Christmas Messages from Anglican Primates, and from the Secretary General.
Paul Carlyle Rylands Blog Charles Wesley’s ‘Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending’
Gilo Surviving Church A Culture of Fear
78 CommentsAndrew Brown Prospect Anatomy of a Church of England abuse scandal
“The truth of who knew what about John Smyth has been lost in the hunt for further scapegoats”
Andrew Brown The slow deep hover What help are the police?
“The innocent would also have paid if Smyth had come to trial”
Ruth Layzell Church Times Safe Church needs safe clergy
“Pastoral supervision helps ministers to protect the vulnerable better”
Two related pieces from the This estate we’re in blog
Ian Gomersall A Retired Rector’s Reflections Kafka’s Church
Esme Partridge Civitas Restoring the Value of Parishes: The foundations of welfare, community, and spiritual belonging in England
Tim Wyatt Religion Unplugged Racism In The Church of England: ‘Microaggressions All The Time’
Stephen Cherry The New Statesman The Church of England has been my life’s work. What has it done to my soul?
“This Christmas is not going to be an easy one for the Church – but fundamentally, its mission and message have not changed.”
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love It’s the Church of England’s doctrine of God that requires our primary attention
Steve Reeves ISB 11 The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present
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