Interview by Benjamin Wayman for Christianity Today
Rowan Williams: Theological Education Is for Everyone
“To do theology is to rediscover the strangeness of the Christian framework.”
Anna And Noah Sutterisch Earth & Altar Becoming Humble Skeptics: Rejecting Anglican Identity
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Thinking about bullying in the Church
71 CommentsAll Things Lawful And Honest We don’t need no education
“Angela Tilby asks challenging questions about the capacity of the Church of England’s theological institutions to prepare adequately ministers who love, know and understand both the Scriptures they preach, and the Church they serve.”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Time for Disclosure instead of Silence- Jonathan Fletcher
Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Further Discussions on Redress
28 CommentsChurch Times Lambeth Conference: Early steps on the path to unity
“One hundred years ago, Anglican bishops made a bold ecumenical move. Mark Chapman describes its impact”
Ben Thompson Earth & Altar The Church of England as a model of pluralistic unity for the “One Holy Catholic Church”
Laudable Practice Thoughts on Mitregate
57 CommentsJonathan Bish All Things Lawful And Honest Tune in, or Turn Off
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The Peter Principle. Incompetence and the Church
9 CommentsArchdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Not Going into a Church for Private Prayer
Giles Fraser UnHerd The neoliberal revolution within the Church
“The ancient institution has been asset-stripped by an expanding bureaucracy of management-speak types”
Paul Bradbury His Light Material Is pioneer ministry a ‘neoliberal destruction’ of the parish system?
Janet Fife Surviving Church Bethel Sozo Part 2 Being Sozoed
Part 1 is here.
Kelvin Holdsworth Every Eucharist is a Virtual Eucharist
Religion Media Centre Holiness and desire: how the C of E can keep the conversation open
38 CommentsGiles Fraser The Telegraph Is the Church of England determined to kill off the parish church?
There are some letters in response to this article in today’s Telegraph.
Silvia Gosnell Institute of Sacred Music Inside!
Andrew McGowan Journal of Anglican Studies Communion and Pandemic
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Human evil -individual and corporate
Ian Paul Psephizo Bishops should throw away their mitres
109 CommentsStephen Stavrou All Things Lawful And Honest Watch your language
Giles Fraser UnHerd Church philistines have got high culture all wrong
Janet Fife Surviving Church Bethel Sozo Part 1: Coming to a Church near You?
Laudable Practice Why I Support The Ordination Of Women: A High Church Reflection
14 CommentsAndrew McKinnon University of Aberdeen Questioning the evidence for rapid growth of ‘orthodox’ Anglican churches in sub Saharan Africa
[A preprint of the original journal article is online here.]
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The Clergy Discipline Measure – RIP?
Pam Bishop St Bride’s Liverpool The ‘New Normal’ in a Liverpool Anglican City Centre parish
John Gillibrand Ekklesia Equal marriage: time for full acceptance from all churches
1 CommentStephen Parsons Surviving Church Conflicts of Interest and Church Discipline
Chris Phillips All Things Lawful And Honest Listening to the Laity
Meg Warner The Tablet Worship behind closed doors?
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Peter Anthony All Things Lawful And Honest Sound Bite Theology
Archbishop Cranmer Archbishops go on consecration strike – they will make no more bishops
Jason Loch A Venerable Puzzle The Prime Minister’s Appointments Secretary And Episcopal Appointments
32 CommentsJanet Fife Surviving Church Deliverance Ministries: Do They Deliver?
Jessica Martin Church Times Sex and religion: When it all started to go wrong/right (delete as applicable)
“In fact, neither of the narratives about sex is right”
Jayne Ozanne ViaMedia.News We Can’t Go Back….But We Will, Unless…
Elizabeth Anderson Earth & Altar Purity and Danger: Eucharistic safety in a time of pandemic
7 CommentsStephen Cottrell Yorkshire Post Let’s head to a more caring ‘new normal’
The text of the article is also available on the Archbishop’s website.
Surviving Church ‘They’: A Talking Head
Peter Webster Webstory The pandemic and the idea of a national church
8 CommentsEmma Percy Modern Church Safeguarding, Vulnerable Adults or Adults at Risk? What’s in a Word?
Adrian Chiles The Guardian I’m glad to be back in church – even if there’s hand sanitiser instead of holy water
Andrew Brown Religion Media Centre Church Commissioners spend £24m to ‘create 50,000 disciples’
Giles Fraser UnHerd How HR is strangling the Church of England
Sarah Mullally ViaMedia.News We Can’t Go Back…So We Need to Take Care of Our Mental Health
Stephen Trott Church Times The C of E needs to be leaner and fitter
“There is too much control from the centre, and power should be returned to parishes”
Clare Williams All Things Lawful And Honest Young People: The Church of TODAY
Rogers Govender ViaMedia.News #BlackLivesMatter: Protest & Prayer
Marcus Walker The Spectator Don’t erase Jesus’s Jewish identity
2 CommentsFrancesco Aresco Medium Racism and the meaning of Christian Art
Giles Fraser UnHerd The Church shouldn’t hide its sordid past
“If you pretend everything is perfect, there will be no grounds for redemption”
John Perumbalath Church Times Racism should not be explained away
“The Church needs to address the roots of its ideologies and its understanding of history”
David Walker ViaMedia.News We Can’t Go Back…Even When We Do!
Clare Williams All Things Lawful And Honest Seen and not heard?
“What we can learn from the pandemic about ministry with children and young people.”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Why the Church needs to understand Spiritual Abuse better
Harriet Sherwood; photography by David Levene The Guardian picture essay Keeping the faith: religion in the UK amid coronavirus
28 CommentsSimon Weir Eastern Daily Press Bucket-list builder: churches and cathedrals
“Six stunning churches to visit after the Covid-19 lockdown”
Michael Sadgrove Woolgathering in North East England A Last Post
Rachel Jepson ViaMedia.News We Can’t Go Back…to 2020 Vision
Luke Irvine-Capel All Things Lawful And Honest Undone by doing
4 CommentsMarcus Walker The Critic Bishops’ different hymnsheet
The Church of England has worked to broaden its diversity of background, but its diversity of opinion has declined
Malcolm Chamberlain ViaMedia.News We Can’t Go Back…To Looking After No 1!
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The Church and failures of corporate memory
17 CommentsFergus Butler-Gallie The Critic Oxford is fallen
“What do they know of faith who only multi-faith spaces know?”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Has Trump made the word ‘Evangelical’ toxic?
Ruth Worsley ViaMedia.News We Can’t Go Back…to Ignoring Those We Do Not See
Daniel French The Spectator Could an underground church now emerge in Britain?
St Chrysostom’s Church News and Views Black Saints Matter
Peter Webster Webstory The churches and the future of theological research
11 CommentsPeter Anthony All Things Lawful And Honest Is there a Doctor in the House?
Peter Crumpler Christian Today When Christ stood in Trafalgar Square
K Augustine Tanner-Ihm Church Times Black lives really do matter
“But does the Church really believe this”
Ian Paul Psephizo The end of the road for C of E growth strategies?
Gavin Collins ViaMedia.News We Can’t Go Back…to Silence for the Sake of Unity
Stephen Stavrou All Things Lawful And Honest Erasing the Saints
48 CommentsPippa White The Westcott Blog Covid-19 & the Language of War
ViaMedia.News Lockdown Testimonies – Sue from Deaf Church
Augustine Tanner-Ihm ViaMedia.News #BlackLivesMatter: Living Between Malcolm X and Uncle Tom
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