Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – 22 March 2025

Ian Paul Psephizo Is Church of England ministry sustainable?

Andrew Goddard Psephizo Is there progress on the appointment of a new Archbishop?

John Smith Psephizo The Hidden Limits of Class in the Church

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Living by intuitive, experiential, emotional faith

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Opinion – 15 March 2025

Fergus Butler-Gallie Engelsberg Ideas Nicaea: the council that shaped the West

Church Times Lent faith series: Upending Church and family
Neil MacGregor begins a series of uncomfortable images for Lent with Christ Discovered in the Temple by Simone Martini.

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Opinion – 12 March 2025

Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News On Being Conservative

Jonathan Clatworthy The point of it all 1700 years of the Nicene Creed: why?

Ian Gomersall A Retired Rector’s Reflections At Home: Ash Cross

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Opinion – 8 March 2025

Georgia Ashwell Women and the Church The Theology of Taint and other misogyny in the Church of England

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church George Carey and the Safeguarding CDM. Time for a Fresh Look?

Duncan Dormor USPG The Church at a Crossroads

Bosco Peters Liturgy A Common Easter

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Opinion – 26 February 2025

Charlie Bell The Wheel Journal Power Struggles and Proxy Wars at the Church of England’s General Synod

Andrew Goddard Psephizo How will the next Archbishop of Canterbury be chosen?

Liz Shercliff Women and the Church Not Equal Yet – and how we can tell

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Opinion – 22 February 2025

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

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Opinion – 19 February 2025

Gavin 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>

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Opinion – 8 February 2025

Update 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

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Opinion – 5 February 2025

Colin 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

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Opinion – 1 February 2025

Kelvin 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

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Opinion – 29 January 2025

Colin 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

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Opinion – 25 January 2025

Miles 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?

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Opinion – 22 January 2025

Theo 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

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Opinion – 18 January 2025

Anon 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.]

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Opinion – 15 January 2025

Gilo ViaMedia.News The Church is What We Do Next

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love God talk – the Church of England in crisis

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Opinion – 11 January 2025

Rupert Shortt UnHerd How Justin Welby hollowed out the Church

Bosco Peters Liturgy Preaching 101

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Opinion – 8 January 2025

Yazid 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

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Opinion – 4 January 2025

‘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

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Opinion – 28 December 2024

Jonathan 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

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Opinion – 23 December 2024

Andrew 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!

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