Annika Mathews ViaMedia.News Young Adults – The Missing Generation?
Pete White Church Times Youth ministry needs long-term investment
“The C of E’s plans to ‘grow younger’ will falter without funding to train specialists”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Three Questions for Christ Church and the Diocese of Oxford
Sophie Grace Chappell ViaMedia.News Arguing with a Madman? Cranks, Trolls, Consistency, and ‘Come off it’
Jonathan Chaplin Law & Religion UK Should the Church of England be disestablished?
Nineveh Safeguarding in Nineveh
A Critique of the proposals of the Independent Safeguarding Board
Giles Fraser UnHerd The injustice of the Jubilee
Janet Fife Surviving Church Preaching Hell and Damnation
Jayne Ozanne ViaMedia.News Pageants, Progress & People – The End of an Era?
The Archbishop of York Sermon at St Paul’s Cathedral celebrating Her Majesty the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
102 CommentsJudith Maltby ViaMedia.News Hanging in Love and Faith
Anonymous Save The Parish A Forced Change to HTB
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Unknowing God
Ian Paul Psephizo The Church of England, money, people, and mission
112 CommentsAugustine Tanner-Ihm ViaMedia.News Sharing in Privilege: Black and Collared
Philip Goff Church Times Platinum Jubilee: The way we wore
Robert Thompson ViaMedia.News ‘Resource Churches’: When Planting Becomes Colonialism
45 CommentsMartyn Percy has written three articles which Modern Church has published.
“In three short articles, Martyn Percy looks at three words currently being given the full 1984 treatment: independent, ethical and trustworthy. Is the Church of England using these words as defined by most dictionaries in 2022? Or, are we now enmeshed in an Orwellian church in which little that is said corresponds to our normal frames of reference?”
Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Interim Support Scheme
Archbishop Cranmer
– The Sue Gray Report is about as independent as a Church of England independent inquiry
– Christ Church ‘victim’ Alannah Jeune inadvertently corroborates that Martyn Percy is the real victim of a gross injustice
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church
– Reflections on Leadership in the Church of England
– Independent/ Third-Party Investigations of Safeguarding in England and America
Kat Campion-Spall ViaMedia.News When is a Week not a Week?
Philip Jones Ecclesiastical Law A Decade of the Faculty Jurisdiction
Fergus Butler-Gallie Church Times My worship alongside a sexified fox
“Churches are toying with virtual-reality worship. Fergus Butler-Gallie tries it”
Ruth Harley ViaMedia.News Clericalist Individualism? Power, Abuse and Transformation
3 CommentsLloyd Llewellyn-Jones ViaMedia.News Being a Gay Christian and an Ordinand in the Church in Wales
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The dangerous theology of Ian Paul
LGBTQ Faith UK Party like it’s 1753. (The Power of Love)
Daniel French Save The Parish Let Bishops be Bishops
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Listening to Sermons. A critical perspective
70 CommentsApril Alexander ViaMedia.News Women Bishops: The Legacy of Baroness Howe of Idlicote (8 February 1932-22 March 2022)
Giles Fraser UnHerd How the Church attacks its own
“Bishops are presiding over a climate of fear”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Surviving Church and the World of Ecclesiastical Politics
Helen King sharedconversations Me and Christ Church: beauty and truth
Jeremy Morris Ad fontes On not leaving the Church of England
24 CommentsMartyn Percy Prospect Why I’m leaving the Church of England
“Mired in allegations of partisanship and incompetence, the Church is now incapable of running its own affairs. After a series of farcical “safeguarding” claims, the former dean of Christ Church, Oxford, no longer feels he belongs”
[This is covered as a news item in The Guardian and Church Times.]
Archbishop Cranmer Bishop of Oxford instructs lawyers to censor Archbishop Cranmer
Diocese of Oxford Dr Martyn Percy has announced he is to leave the Church of England
Felicity Cooke ViaMedia.News Leading, Following, or Forgetting? The Church and the World
75 CommentsChristopher Yoder The Living Church The Scouring of the White Horse
Andrew Graystone Church Times ‘Re-dressing’ victims’ wounds
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Post Traumatic Church Induced Stress (PTCIS) Is it a Problem?
8 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church Music in Worship: Questions that need to be asked.
Amy Kenny Earth & Altar Celebrating the Wheelchair: an excerpt from My Body is not a Prayer Request
Mark Chapman ViaMedia.News It’s Not Just About the Bible
Peter Webster Webstory Michael Ramsey and the Lambeth Conference
36 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church Safeguarding and the Search for Independence
Stephanie Pywell ViaMedia.News To Love and to Cherish… According to our Beliefs and Lifestyles
Richard Scorer The Free Thinker Child Protection and Religious Freedom
27 CommentsScot Peterson ViaMedia.News All Change: What Next for Living in Love and Faith?
Surviving Church The Kenneth Saga: End in sight?
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church House of Survivors. A New Resource for the Church of England
Stephen Cottrell William Temple Foundation An Easter Vision
ViaMedia.News Living in Love and Faith: The Ozanne Foundation Responds
22 CommentsSophie Grace Chappell ViaMedia.News Trans Figured: Experience Trumps Theory
Martin Sewell Surviving Church Bullying in the Church
Giles Fraser UnHerd Why Bishops should be political
James Crockford Church Times C of E prefers marble to people
“The Rustat judgment exposed flaws in the faculty process”
The Guardian In pictures: Good Friday around the world
Martyn Percy Modern Church Testing Trials and Egregious Errors: Some Good Friday Reflections
The Revolutionary Seeds of Easter
Hattie McInerney ViaMedia.News The Invisible Privilege of Being Voiceless in the Church: Creating a Platform for Bisexual Christians
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Radical New Christian Inclusion – the Silence of the Bishops
14 CommentsArchbishop Cranmer Maundy Thursday: there needs to be some foot-washing in Oxford
The Anglican Communion News Service has published several Easter messages from primates. You can find links to them (and messages from previous years) here.
Giles Fraser UnHerd Have I abandoned my flock?
Peter B Surviving Church A personal rethinking of the Passion and Easter story
12 CommentsGrace Davie ViaMedia.News In Search of the ‘Optimal’
Vicky Brett ViaMedia.News Is the Conversion Therapy Ban a Muddle? A Response to Angela Tilby
[This refers to this Church Times article.]
Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley I Have Measured Out My Life in Hallelujahs
Terry Louden ViaMedia.News No Sex, Please? Remembering the Higton Debate
Susannah Clark Dialogue between an evangelical Christian leader and a person who has transitioned
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