Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – 21 December 2024

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.

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Opinion – 18 December 2024

Paul Carlyle Rylands Blog Charles Wesley’s ‘Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending’

Gilo Surviving Church A Culture of Fear

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Opinion – 14 December 2024

Andrew 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”

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Opinion – 7 December 2024

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.”

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Opinion – 4 December 2024

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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Opinion – 30 November 2024

Martine Oborne Women and the Church Why the next big safeguarding scandal in the Church is likely to be the abuse of women

Gavin Drake Church Abuse An open letter to the State Office Holders who are Church Commissioners

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Opinion – 27 November 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Knowing and Not Wanting to Know the Truth

David Goodhew The Living Church TEC’s Latest Numbers: The Good News and the Bad News

Christine Polhill Women and the Church ‘Stop making bishops for specific groups’

Gavin Drake Church Abuse All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God – except bishops, obviously

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Opinion – 23 November 2024

Philip North Church of England Newspaper Three dangers and priorities for the C of E after the Welby crisis

Helen Yaxley Surviving Church Navigating the Church’s Complaints System – Not Fit for Purpose?

Giles Fraser UnHerd Burn down the Church Machine

Martine Oborne ViaMedia.News Safeguarding and Patriarchy in the Church of England

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love What kind of God do we believe in?

George Pitcher A Word to the Wise Nationalise the Church of England

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Opinion – 20 November 2024

Updated to add St Ebbe’s article

Helen King The Observer Cover-up of child abuse in Church of England tried to ‘protect the work’ of twisted theology

Andrew Anthony The Observer The Church of England is beset by shame and division. Can it survive?

Gavin Drake Church Abuse Open letter to William Nye, Archbishops’ Council’s Secretary General

Adrian Thatcher Modern Church No Lessons Learned? Makin, Welby and Theology

Martine Oborne Women and the Church Our church will not be safe while spiritual abuse remains unchecked

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Makin, substitutionary atonement and the distortion of homosexual desire

Bernard N Howard sixty guilders St Ebbe’s and the Smyth Scandal: An Inadequate Response

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Opinion – 16 November 2024

Several articles have appeared in the last few days describing the process for appointing the next Archbishoop of Canterbury.

Martine Oborne Women and the Church Coercion and gaslighting also need to be addressed

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The Podcast, the Archbishop, Makin, Resignation, and the Future

Jeremy Pemberton From The Quire Iwerne: The Anglican Trojan Horse

David Aaronovitch Prospect Justin Welby is a scapegoat for establishment failures

Harriet Sherwood The Guardian John Smyth abuse report triggers ‘existential crisis’ in Church of England

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Opinion – 13 November 2024

Madeleine Davies Church Times ‘In church-going terms, we have failed’
“Are lessons from the mixed results of church-growth programmes being learned”

Augustine Tanner-Ihm ViaMedia.News The Sovereignty of God and Pastoral Responsibility in Political Turmoil

Neil Patterson ViaMedia.News What Have the Bishops Done?

Pippa Bailey The New Statesman The race for Lambeth Palace
“Can the next archbishop of Canterbury unite a divided Church?”

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Opinion – 9 November 2024

Andrew Graystone The Tablet Canterbury: who next?

Philip Welsh Church Times Language matters when talking about vocation
“The Church’s calling matters more than an individual’s sense of whether it is the right course of action”

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Opinion – 6 November 2024

Anglican Futures Call My Bluff

Jon Price Earth & Altar All Things Bright and Beautiful

Jonathan Clatworthy The point of it all Sacrifices, meat and celebration

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Opinion – 2 November 2024

Theo Hobson The Spectator

Miranda Threlfall-Holmes Modern Church (How) Can the Church Change Doctrine?

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The divine relationship; an audacious transformation

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Justin Welby interview

The Archbishop of Canterbury was recently interviewed for The Rest is Politics podcast. The wide-ranging interview is also available on YouTube. The topics covered are listed below with links to where they start in the YouTube video.

The section “Is LGBT love sinful?” has attracted much comment. The Church Times has covered the interview and there has been a statement from Lambeth Palace.

Links to YouTube video

00:00 Intro
00:20 The Archbishop’s dad
03:50 The Archbishop’s mum
06:43 Alcoholism in his house
09:10 How he found his faith
10:00 How he found being a teenager
11:48 What did he want to do with his life
14:05 How he decided he wanted to be a priest
19:00 Archbishop’s relationship with politics
23:40 His experience of the war on terror
30:30 Israel and Palestine
36:47 How to feel hopeful
39:05 Peace building
41:05 The death of Queen Elizabeth II
45:50 The Coronation of Charles III
48:35 Is LGBT love sinful?
52:50 The Church as a broad coalition
54:50 The Church is growing
55:25 Mental health
59:40 What Christ brought to the world
1:01:35 Trump
1:04:37 Politics and power
1:07:10 Is he going to criticise keir starmer
1:07:41 Debrief

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Opinion – 26 October 2024

Nic Tall ViaMedia.News Smoke and Mirrors and the Alliance

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love We are all implicated in the corporate, systemic, abusive, unhealthy, persistently homophobic culture of the Church of England

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Opinion – 23 October 2024

Philip Jones Ecclesiastical Law Bishops in Foreign Countries: Jurisdiction, Schism and Ecumenism

Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News The “Failure of the Church”: Why Waiting is Not Neutral

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Revising Christian fundamentals

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Opinion – 19 October 2024

Helen King sharedconversations Yet another autumn of Living in Love and Faith

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Sounds like bog-standard Anglicanism to me

Bosco Peters Liturgy Which Bible is Inspired?

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Opinion – 16 October 2024

The Church Mouse Is the Church of England getting out of the marriage business?

‘Graham’ ViaMedia.News Should We Expect Archbishops to Tell the Truth?

David Runcorn Inclusive Evangelicals When Doctrine meets Dinosaurs

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Opinion – 12 October 2024

Marcus Walker The Spectator Why C of E bishops are so bland

Kelvin Holdsworth What in Kelvin’s Head Finding a place to be

Luke Bretherton Comment The Conversion of Public Intellectuals

Al Barrett This estate we’re in When ‘being interrupted’ is not enough

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