Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – 31 August 2024

Helen King sharedconversations Farewell August: time for the Church of England to wake up?

Martyn Percy Surviving Church Alpha-Mater

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Doing some theology – a sermon about the boy Jesus in the temple

Sam Rylands The Gregory Centre for Church Multiplication Is church tradition an obstacle to growing young disciples?

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Opinion – 24 August 2024

Madeleine Davies The New Statesman The rise of cultural Christianity

George Pitcher A Word to the Wise Justin Welby: A case for his defence

‘Graham’ ViaMedia.News Safeguarding: Who is in Charge?

Lucy Winkett Church Times Inclusive Christians must not be silent
[This is a long extract from the sermon that I linked to two weeks ago.]

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Turning conservative evangelical dogma and doctrine in today’s C of E upside down

Gerry Lynch Church Times Star-gazing brings a new perspective

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Opinion – 21 August 2024

Helen King Independent Is the Church of England safe for children and young people?

The Church Mouse What is the Church’s of England’s doctrine?

Susan Hunt Surviving Church Blackburn and Kenneth -Safeguarding Failures in the Church

Steve Reeves ISB 11 I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.

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Opinion – 17 August 2024

Madeleine Davies Church Times

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Mapping the primary activities of today’s Church of England

Giles Fraser UnHerd Why can’t the Church say ‘church’?

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Opinion – 14 August 2024

Anon ViaMedia.News Clergy Summer Quiz: the Answers!

The Church Mouse How should we pick our bishops

Theo Hobson The Spectator What the Church of England should say to its conservative rebels

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Opinion – 10 August 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Being a “Nice” Priest or a “Nice” Church

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Thinking about those Involved in the Commissioning Event at Bishopsgate July 2024

Philip Jones Ecclesiastical law The Church Commissioners: England’s Ministry of Religion

David Goodhew The Living Church The Collapse of the Anglican Church of Canada

Lucy Winkett Faith in her future: Empowering women and girls to lead

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Opinion – 3 August 2024

Daniel Sandham Church Times Why churches should keep their doors open
“It is less risky than many people assume — and the benefits for mission are significant”

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love

Vivienne Tuffnell Surviving Church On the devastating life-long effects of Spiritual Abuse

Anon ViaMedia.News Clergy Summer Quiz

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Opinion – 27 July 2024

Helen King ViaMedia.News The Luxury of Marriage

House of Survivors Church of England Redress Scheme

Gavin Drake Church Abuse Archbishops’ Council lies about GMC in battle for secret clergy discipline tribunals

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Opinion – 20 July 2024

Morwenna Ludlow ViaMedia.News Celibacy and Conscience

Stephen Andrews The Living Church Wycliffe College and the Character of Anglicanism

Gavin Drake Church Abuse A look at Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell’s public “correction of the record”

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Opinion – 17 July 2024

Peter Carrell Anglican Down Under On Bible translations

Augustine Tanner-Ihm ViaMedia.News Where is the Colour? The CEEC Commissioning of Overseers: A Theological and Ecclesiological Critique

Joanne Woolway Grenfell Civil Society Safeguarding: How the Church of England is learning from past events
[This article is behind a paywall, but has been reproduced in full in a Church of England press release.]

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The desolation of the Church of England

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Opinion – 13 July 2024

Theo Hobson The Spectator The C of E needs to talk about sex

Helen King sharedconversations Milestone Day or Groundhog Day?

Nic Tall ViaMedia.News Cooking with Love and Faith

Hatty Calbus Surviving Church The Revitalise Trust and Safeguarding

Anon ViaMedia.News Persona non grata: an Unwelcoming Encounter at All Souls, Langham Place

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Opinion – 10 July 2024

Sean Doherty ViaMedia.News Trust and Training

Phil Groves ViaMedia.News The Alliance and the Bishop of Oxford

Lorraine Cavanagh On Forgiving The Church

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Opinion – 3 July 2024

Gilo ViaMedia.News Beyond Jay: Here’s What the Response Group and Synod Need to Do for a Safer Church

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Which God?

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Opinion – 29 June 2024

Martin Sewell Surviving Church The continuing Shambles of CofE Safeguarding

God Loves Women Guest Post: A Response to William Nye
[This refers to the two background papers GS 2361A and GS 2361B for a General Synod debate on reviewing abuse at Soul Survivor.]

Simon Friend ViaMedia.News Power Games: Redemptive Violence or Redemptive Love?

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Opinion – 26 June 2024

Helen King sharedconversations LLF: Moving Forward as One Church

Matthew Duckett Writing on the Walls of Nineveh Sermon for a Mass of Thanksgiving for a Civil Partnership

David W Congdon ViaMedia.News Essential Doctrines, Essential Hierarchies

David Runcorn Inclusive Evangelicals Is Genesis chapter 2 a definition of marriage?

Anon (on behalf of the Oxford Safe Churches team) ViaMedia.News Lovingly Hated

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Opinion – 22 June 2024

Helen King sharedconversations Removing the fiction: wrangling bishops

Susannah Clark ViaMedia.News The Whole of Who We Are

Giles Goddard ViaMedia.News Between Meaning and Despair: A Generous Faith

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Opinion – 15 June 2024

Helen King sharedconversations Transparency, trust and bishops

Neil Elliot NumbersMatter From Creation to Revelation: why seven is the most special number

Philip North Church Times It is time for a new deal for underpaid clergy
“A culture of low remuneration and overwork can be addressed only by more funding at a national level”

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Opinion – 12 June 2024

Catherine Bennett The Observer Your sermons on integrity are a bit rich, archbishop, given your faith in Paula Vennells

Richard Peers Oikodomeo The Five Guiding Principles and LLF – why the Church of England is immoral

Giles Fraser Save the Parish Only chaos can redeem the Church

Christopher Cocksworth The Living Church Sent to Coventry, Called to Windsor

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Opinion – 8 June 2024

David Monteith ViaMedia.News PRIDE: More than Sparkling Spandex

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church To Jay or not to Jay, that is the Question for C/E Safeguarding

Paul Middleton ViaMedia.News Church of Scotland Welcomes Trans Members and Ministers

Martyn Snow Church of England Newspaper LLF: unity matters – it really matters

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Opinion – 1 June 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The God I Never Believed In

Gavin Drake Church Abuse Who are Ecclesiastical? And why does it matter?

Fergus Butler-Gallie Church Times Preacher who triggered a riot
“On the tercentenary of the death of Henry Sacheverell, Fergus Butler-Gallie revisits the clergyman’s life and pulpit polemics”

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