Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Trans leaders ask Next Steps Group chair to ensure trans membership on new working group
Viamedia.News Annie’s Story – “I Did My Best to Conform, But…”
by Annie, a victim of abuse who found succour in the charismatic church – where she was subjected to even more abuse….
Laudable Practice What Anglicanism can learn from the Labour Party
2 CommentsTina Beardsley Unadulterated Love Living in Love & Faith (LLF) to reconsider gender identity and transition
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Further developments in the John Smyth Case
ViaMedia.News Peter’s Story – Conditioning Causes Shame & Self-Hatred
by Peter (a pseudonym), a survivor of conversion therapy
All Things Lawful And Honest A younger church?
The Rev’d Steven Hilton recalls the success of the Church of England’s youth initiatives in the 1990s, and asks whether the Church’s mission and growth might be better secured by employing not more clergy but more youth workers.
ViaMedia.News Kate’s Story
by Kate, a transgender woman from the north of England, who bravely shares her horrific experience of being prayed for in three different evangelical churches.
Manmit Bhambra and Austin Tiffany LSE blogs From the Sanctuary to the Sofa: What COVID-19 has Taught us about Sacred Space
17 CommentsAbigail Frymann Rouch Church Times Could interim ministry be the answer in tough times for the Church?
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The Church. Does it really serve Emerging Adults?
Tina Beardsley Unadulterated Love So-called conversion therapy, gender identity, and the dangers of coercion and consultation
ViaMedia.News Yve’s Story – “I Felt Set Up To Fail”
by Yve, who has experienced both the very worst and the very best of the Church of England
Charlie Bell For whom the Bell tolls Why marriage matters
ViaMedia.News Steven’s Story – “I felt I had no option but to make a formal complaint to the Garda”
Helen King sharedconversations Conversion therapy: faith without fear
7 CommentsColin Coward Unadulterated Love Victim of abuse failed by London bishops who perversely then pursue the victim’s defender
Charles Foster Surviving Church Growing up and away from the #Fletcherculture
Jaime Sommers ViaMedia.News Jaime’s Story – “They had absolutely no idea what to do with me”
by Jaime Sommers, a bisexual 50 year old woman whose story of abuse by the Church of England will shock many
Jon Stobart Church Times From the genteel to the exotic
“Auction catalogues provide a glimpse into the home lives of rural Georgian clergy”
Luke Dowding OneBodyOneFaith Service & Self
ViaMedia.News Rachel’s Story – I Don’t Want to Be Part of An Institution that Allows Abuse
by Rachel, a 30 something Christian, hockey player and lesbian whose experience in an HTB plant has seriously damaged her faith.
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Towards Healthier Power Dynamics in the Church
Andrew Lightbown Theore0 Speaking of culture; speaking of church
ViaMedia.News Revd Adams’ Story – Is It Wrong for Me to Tell the Truth?
by the Reverend Adams, a gay Methodist Minister
Jas ViaMedia.News Jas’ Story – Please. Be. Kind.
by Jas, a former drug addict, Bible College Student and now married lesbian
Jayne Ozanne ViaMedia.News Lesbians, Sex and the Church of England
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Responding well to Survivors. A Cautionary Tale from the Past
4 CommentsArchbishop Cranmer One Church of England diocese has spent £500,000 on 20 Non-Disclosure Agreements
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Bishop to the Archbishops opposed to equality of LGBTIQ+ people
David Wilbourne Church Times Bigger platoon at Bishopthorpe
“News of further appointments to the Archbishop of York’s staff has prompted David Wilbourne to recall his time as John Habgood’s chaplain”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Open Letter to +Emma of Penrith
47 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church Principles and Anti-Principles. Finding Nolan in Church Life
ViaMedia.News Lisa’s Story
by Lisa (a pseudonym), who is a trans woman from the North of England.
Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Implementing the IICSA recommendations
Cliff James Surviving Church Another review of Sex, Power, Control
ViaMedia.News Timothy’s Story
the first of a series of personal testimonies from LGBT Christians
Martin Warner Church Times An offer you can’t refuse? You can
“Moral judgements must be allowed to override financial ones”
Martyn Percy Meander Bread for the World
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Towards humility? Anglican conservatives after Jonathan Fletcher
Vaughan S Roberts Socrel Dead and Gone: does embodied storytelling have a post-pandemic future?
81 CommentsMeg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Annual Report 2020 National Safeguarding Panel
Rosalind Lund Modern Church How Covid-19 may have Changed the Church Forever!
Linda Woodhead reviews ‘Sex, Power, Control: Responding to Abuse in the Institutional Church’ for Surviving Church
Katy Canty Church Times Sector ministries: alongside parish and people
“Sector ministries are reaching places pastorally that others cannot”
LGBTQ Faith UK Reclaiming Lambeth I.10
7 CommentsDavid Ison ViaMedia.News Is God Inhuman?
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The Wimbledon/Fletcher understanding of Church. Training Camp or Hospital?
David Pocklington Law & Religion UK “Net zero” in 2030 – a courageous decision?
52 CommentsSavitri Hensman Ekklesia C of E: siding with power or choosing resurrection?
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Sex, Power, Control – Changing Attitude, LLF and the House of Bishops
Janet Fife Surviving Church Smyth, Fletcher and Fife
Anglican Communion News Service Primates’ Easter Messages 2021
Christopher Wells continues his reflections on hierarchy for The Living Church
The Evangelical Edge
Sursum Corda
Jayne Ozanne ViaMedia.News Why Don’t You Just Leave?!
Anonymous Surviving Church A Bloody Shambles: Surviving Church Between Good Friday and Easter
Christopher Wells The Living Church Church Order: neither nostalgic no progressive
La Repubblica interviews the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby: “What I learnt from Covid, the threat of cancel culture and the truth on Harry & Meghan’s wedding”
61 CommentsColin Coward Unadulterated Love Campaigning to create a Bigger Table: Building Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community
David Ford Church Times Dare to think boldly about funding ministry
“Stop the competition for scarce resources: stipendiary posts should be allocated according to need”
Richard Peers ViaMedia.News It’s A Sin: The Myth of Homogeneity
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The Patronage Legacy of Jonathan Fletcher
39 CommentsJames Hadley All Things Lawful And Honest Episcopal Soft Power
“The Rev’d Dr James Hadley finds the bishops’ protestations that there is no central plan to do away with the parish system disingenuous. Soft power, stealth, patronage and spin, allied with episcopal groupthink and the control of cash is just as powerful as a synodically agreed central policy.”
Emma Percy Modern Church Blog Queer Eye for a Fearful Church
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Towards a new Mission Statement for the Church of England
Timothy Goode ViaMedia.News ‘Oi Vicar, Why Don’t You Heal Yourself?’
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Refusing to play by House of Bishops’ rules
3 CommentsGiles Fraser UnHerd When conversion is abusive
“We all want others to change — but at what cost?”
Sarah Mullally ViaMedia.News We May be Winning the Fight Against the Virus, but We Risk Losing Something Else…
Andrew Village and Leslie Francis Church Times Eucharist in a time of lockdown
“Different practices have emerged”
The Spring 2021 issue of the Scottish Episcopal Institute Journal is devoted to articles on safeguarding. You can download a pdf copy here.
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