Neil Patterson ViaMedia.News General Synod: What Would Compromise Look Like?
[You can read the Hereford Diocesan Synod motion referred to in this article here.]
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Abuse of LGBTIQ+ people in Ghana and Living in Love and Faith
and Time to confront the crisis of a decadent Christianity
Ian Gomersall St Chrysostom’s Church News and Views Not a failed orange
Nikki Groarke ViaMedia.News General Synod – A Pragmatic View from the Middle Ground
Peter Leonard OneBodyOneFaith Informed Consent?
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Going Public: Reasons for Hope in the Aftermath of Julie Macfarlane’s book
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love CA England call for appointment of six members of LGBTIQ+ community to the House of Bishops
1 CommentArchdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Let’s Hear it for Zebedee
Rosie Harper ViaMedia.News General Synod: Over and Out!
8 CommentsColin Coward Unadulterated Love Living in Love and Faith in crisis: the latest manifestation of abuse in the Church
and The abusive toxic culture produced by the evangelical doctrine of penal substitution
Trevor Wyatt ViaMedia.News On Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali’s Move to Rome…
Rob Dyer Ministry Architects They’re Not Coming Back
77 CommentsHelen King sharedconversations Handing on the baton? Part 2
Simon Butler ViaMedia.News General Synod: Once More Unto the Breach?
Pete Hobson Psephizo Who needs a Trade Union for Faith?
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Living in Love and Faith: A Guide for Members of General Synod
[This refers to GS Misc 1306 which can be downloaded here.]
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Should the Church be spending money on reputational management?
2 CommentsThe Guardian editorial The Guardian view on the Church of England: the numbers are not adding up
The paper has published several letters in response to its editorial: Parish churches have been living on a prayer.
Theo Hobson The Spectator Why I’m paying my daughter to go to church
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Is it time to start discussing Bullying in the Church?
Phil Groves ViaMedia.News ‘The Bible is Clear’, Consent & ‘Conversion Therapy’
83 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church Are Clergy Teams the future? Some reflections
Miranda Threfall-Holmes Women and the Church How feminists can be nourished by the Bible
[53 minute video]
Madeleine Davies and Pat Ashworth Church Times High turnover in General Synod elections
Theos Room for the Soul
Pete Whitehead examines the importance of last rites and access to clergy for those close to death.
James Mustard ViaMedia.News Fr Alan Griffin – Unconscious Homophobia?
81 CommentsMark Ireland ViaMedia.News Now is Not The Time to Cut Clergy Posts!
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The Struggle to find Safeguarding Justice in the C of E.
Peter Ould Psephizo What will the new General Synod look like?
Victor Lee Austin The Living Church The Parish as a School of Friendship
66 CommentsGiles Fraser UnHerd God save us from trendy vicars
“Young people don’t want Jesus to be their best mate”
Church Times Compulsory worship in schools should end
“It is time to change a law that threatens to bring the C of E into serious disrepute, argues Richard Harries”
Helen King ViaMedia.News The Changing Face of General Synod
100 CommentsChurch Times The accused have their rights, too
“Remedying past failures should not mean repenting at others’ expense, says Peter Selby”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The Church of England and failures in the administration of justice
Church Times Campaign for equality in C of E is not yet over
“Being ordained deacon prompts Christina Rees to reflect on how women clergy are still perceived differently from men”
Martyn Percy Modern Church Churches and Cultural Climate-Change Denial (Part Three): Forecasting and Futurescape
Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News General Synod: The Importance of Compromise & Conscience
38 CommentsJon Kuhrt Psephizo The culture change we need in the light of abuse scandals
Helen King sharedconversations Counter-cultural Cranmer?
Martyn Percy Modern Church Churches and Cultural Climate-Change Denial (Part One): Learning from Canute
Churches and Cultural Climate-Change Denial (Part Two): Money, Sex and Power
Anne Foreman ViaMedia.News General Synod: Why I Can’t Support “Save the Parish” Campaign
Edmund Weiner Surviving Church Iwerne Camps and Conservative Evangelicalism. Memories and Reassessment
Angela Tilby Church Times Ministry that is lay-led is not Anglican
69 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church The Leicester Challenge to the Parish System?
Jayne Ozanne ViaMedia.News General Synod: the Abomination of Desolation
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The inability to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy Christianity
11 CommentsApril Alexander ViaMedia.News General Synod: The Challenge of Voting in Women Bishops
Christopher Landau Church Times Is the BBC committed to religious news?
“The corporation’s slowness to appoint a new Religion Editor does not inspire confidence”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Is the Iwerne Movement a Cult?
11 CommentsMartyn Percy Modern Church “Nuts and Bolts” (III): Reflecting on the Governance Review Group Report
[We linked to parts I and II here.]
Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News General Synod: Honest to God!
‘Angela’ Surviving Church Power abuse against Church Leaders. The Witness of a Parishioner
The Archbishop of York gave this lecture at St Martin in the Fields – The Dream for the Church
19 CommentsMartyn Percy Modern Church “Nuts and Bolts” (I): Reflecting on the Governance Review Group Report
“Nuts and Bolts” (II): Reflecting on the Governance Review Group Report
Church Times What the C of E can learn from the police
“Withdrawing resources from local communities results in loss of trust and confidence, argues Alan Billings”
Andrew Lightbown Theoro0 Speaking of character, culture, mixed economies / ecologies & parishes
written in response to the article by Alan Billings
Sam Norton Elizaphanian Synod: The dying of a church is not a management problem
Ian Paul Psephizo Why we should all be using printed Bibles
45 CommentsAndrew Lightbown Theore0 Speaking of character, speaking of culture
Kelvin Holdsworth Making the Real Presence, real.
Church Times Archbishop of Canterbury: ‘Daily fed and guided’ in sacrament
Archbishop Welby talks to Madeleine Davies about reform and the pandemic
Jenny Humphreys ViaMedia.News General Synod: Permitting Discrimination is Very Dangerous!
75 CommentsGiles Fraser UnHerd Only chaos can redeem the Church
“God save our parishes from people with MBAs”
Church Times The love affair with the parish — has it ended?
Madeleine Davies, in part two of her study, looks at the forces for its retention and abandonment
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Purposeful Sexuality – naive, dangerous ideas about LGBTIQ+ and straight identities
48 CommentsThe Economist The Church of England needs new members. How to get them?
A new scheme hopes to create a million new converts in a decade
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Hierarchy, Bishops and Leadership in the Church
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Radical New Christian Inclusion – Changing Attitude England writes to the Bishop of London
Archbishop Cranmer Anglican Conclave to ‘sift’ all candidates for vacancies to see if they are ‘appropriate’
23 CommentsColin Coward Unadulterated Love Whither the Church of England – London diocese an exemplar?
Church Times ‘Focal’. ‘Oversight’. The C of E of the future
Madeleine Davies begins a two-part examination of the Church’s future
Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley The Minister is Tired
Gilo and Tony Surviving Church Award for Investigative Journalist supporting Abuse Survivors: Issues for the Church of England
23 CommentsPaul Bickley Theos The Hundred: What Can Cricket Teach Religion?
Surviving Church Bleeding for Jesus. Martin Sewell reflects
Psephizo What does charismatic renewal bring to the Church?
Ian Paul interviews Christopher Landau, the new Director of ReSource.