Thinking Anglicans

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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Opinion – 9 October 2024

Mark Vasey-Saunders ViaMedia.News Theological Colleges: Being a Community in the Midst of Disagreement

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church

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Opinion – 5 October 2024

Bosco Peters Liturgy Male and Female?

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Looking for the Qualities of Leadership in our Bishops

Save The Parish Bishop of Chelmsford challenges the Church’s ‘Vision and Strategy’
This is a transcript of the Bishop’s Church Times Podcast that I linked to here.

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Opinion – 2 October 2024

Church Times Podcast: Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani: Encouraging the weary with a word

Trevor Thurston-Smith The Pensive Pilgrim Clothes Maketh the Man : Do Vestments Maketh the Priest?

Richard Peers Oikodomeo Why is it so hard to talk about Walsingham?

Stuart Haynes Seen & Unseen How the curious react to creativity in a cathedral

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Holy Spirit failure to update Church operating systems

Anon & Friends Surviving Church Weighing Church of England Safeguarding on the Scales of Justice 5
[the last in the series]

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Opinion – 28 September 2024

Martyn Percy Surviving Church continuing the series “Weighing Church of England Safeguarding on the Scales of Justice”

Chris Polhill ViaMedia.News 30 Years, 40 Years: And Not Equal Yet

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Opinion – 21 September 2024

Top 1000 funds Church Commissioners: Managing historic real assets for the future

Rosalind Rutherford ViaMedia.News What do Others Think of Us?

Neil Patterson ViaMedia.News Can the Church of England be Mature about Love?

Martyn Percy Meander Crisis, What Crisis?

Bosco Peters Liturgy Do Churches Really Want More People?

Martyn Percy Surviving Church Weighing Church of England Safeguarding on the Scales of Justice: No. 1: Who Pays?

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Opinion – 14 September 2024

‘Graham’ ViaMedia.News Is the Failure to Act on a Safeguarding Disclosure a Disciplinary Offence or Not?

Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head The Beatitudes of Livestreaming

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Opinion – 11 September 2024

Gavin Drake Church Abuse Finally – a glimpse of some good news for Church of England safeguarding (Nazir Afzal)

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The church’s problem with sex according to Diarmaid

Eric Vanden Eykel Religion News Service What is the Shroud of Turin and why is there so much controversy around it?

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Opinion – 7 September 2024

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

The Church Mouse Why do priests in the Church of England wear robes?

Chantal Noppen ViaMedia.News Rounding up Sheep or Assembling Cats? Governance in the United Reformed Church and the Church of England

Martyn Percy Surviving Church Joining the Dots Christianity – Assessing Alpha

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The past, the present and the future Church of England

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