Kat Campion-Spall ViaMedia.News When is a Week not a Week?
Philip Jones Ecclesiastical Law A Decade of the Faculty Jurisdiction
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“Churches are toying with virtual-reality worship. Fergus Butler-Gallie tries it”
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3 CommentsLloyd Llewellyn-Jones ViaMedia.News Being a Gay Christian and an Ordinand in the Church in Wales
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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
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“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
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“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
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Andrew Graystone Church Times ‘Re-dressing’ victims’ wounds
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8 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church Music in Worship: Questions that need to be asked.
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Peter Webster Webstory Michael Ramsey and the Lambeth Conference
36 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church Safeguarding and the Search for Independence
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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
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22 CommentsSophie Grace Chappell ViaMedia.News Trans Figured: Experience Trumps Theory
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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
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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
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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
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Susannah Clark Dialogue between an evangelical Christian leader and a person who has transitioned
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Jayne Ozanne ViaMedia.News Truth – The First Casualty in War
7 CommentsSusanna Rust IPE magazine How we run our money: Church Commissioners for England
“Church Commissioners for England CIO, Tom Joy, tells Susanna Rust about the fund’s pursuit of genuine diversification and responsible investment.”
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“There’s nothing moral about a mother’s love”
Robin Dunbar The Guardian The big idea: do we still need religion?
“In a world of scientific miracles, what does faith have to offer us?”
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Richard Lamey ViaMedia.News What You Do Matters More Than You Can Know…
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“A Church that says it cares about evangelism should prioritise the occasional offices”
Giles Fraser UnHerd Atheists have an evil problem
“We can’t blame God for the war in Ukraine”
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“Marmite, mocha and blueberry: they may be commercially motivated, but they’re still a reminder of Easter’s importance”
Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Safer Recruitment and People Management
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Leslie Francis and Andrew Village Church Times Why lockdown drove some away from church
“If the quality of online worship was below par, people voted with their feet, or screens”
Antony MacRow-Wood (Archdeacon of Dorset) Diocese of Salisbury The History of the Stipend
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“Well funded and with a reserve of spectacular buildings, the Church of England has the resources to curb dwindling attendance–so long as it dares to re-imagine”
Laudable Practice To Swim the Tiber is to reject the Anglican Tradition
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Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The 2020 Micah Letter to the Charity Commission: Questioning CofE Safeguarding Procedures
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