Kelvin Holdsworth Thurible To be an Episcopalian is not to be respectable
Zac Koons The Living Church Priests are not paid to do anything
Ben Witherington patheos St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Jonathan Swift
Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
Mark Woods Christian Today Does your church need a mission statement? Why you’re better off without one
Julian Francis Church Times Facing uncomfortable truths about race
Ruth Harley … because God is love “Jesus isn’t white” – 5 ways to make your children’s and youth ministry less racist
Andrew Lightbown Theore0 Speaking of faith, speaking of inclusion
37 CommentsPaul Bayes Huffington Post UK The Life And Death Divide Which Shames Our Nation
This refers to this research report North-South disparities in English mortality1965–2015: longitudinal population study by Iain E Buchan, Evangelos Kontopantelis, Matthew Sperrin, Tarani Chandola, Tim Doran.
Nicola Davis writes about the report for The Guardian ‘Alarming’ rise in early deaths of young adults in the north of England – study
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The growing conflict between Scripture, Tradition, Reason and Experience
27 CommentsFrancis Young Negotiating the ‘A’ word in historical writing about the Church of England
Tiffer Robinson Psephizo Is Philip North right about the Church and the poor?
Andrew Lightbown Theore0 Speaking of wealth and poverty; in praise of Philip North
Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley If Clergy Ads Told the Full Story
5 CommentsKelvin Holdsworth thurible Should straight people be allowed to get married – a sermon preached on 30 July 2017
Stanley Hauerwas ABC Religion and Ethics Why Bonhoeffer Matters: The Challenge for Christian Ministry at the End of Christendom
Paul Bayes The Bishop of Liverpool’s speech to marchers at Liverpool Pride last Saturday [four minute video]
Philip North Hope for the Poor – the Bishop of Burnley’s talk to the New Wine ‘United’ Conference 2017
Reports of the talk include:
Madeleine Davies Church Times There’s a future for the Church if Evangelicals put the poor first, Bishop North tells New Wine
Anglican Communion News Service Bishop says that the Church has forgotten the poor.
Olivia Rudgard The Telegraph Bishop: Church ‘abandons’ the poor because clergy won’t leave middle-class areas with trendy coffee shops.
Rachel Marszalek Church Times Don’t jump off the mother ship — there’s work to do
52 CommentsCharles Clapham pneuma Summer reading
“twelve of my favourite novels on or about religion, from the sublime to the ridiculous”
Jonathan Clatworthy Château Clâteau The Parable of the Mustard Shrub
Some responses to the Archbishops’ statement
Andrew Lightbown Theore0 Talking of sin
Michael Sadgrove Woolgathering in North East England After the Act – 50 Years On
George Reeves Faithful Sceptic 50 years legal: what the Archbishops should have said
Ian Paul Christian Today A lot of people are upset by the Archbishops’ latest on gays: Here’s why
Robin Ward Reaction The Church and gay marriage: a complicated relationship
Henry Ratter Church Times Wanted: clergy who can lead collaboratively
This isn’t new, but I’ve only just seen it.
James Alexander Cameron Stained Glass Attitudes Top 10 wrongs about parish churches
Karen Pollock The Queerness The General Synod and a curate’s egg of protection for LGBTQ+ people
“Whilst welcoming the agreement cis LGB people should be protected from the harms of conversion therapy, Karen Pollock questions why the Church of England does not extend the same protections to trans people.”
Richard Peers Quodcumque Amazing Grace: Sarah Coakley on women priests and same sex marriage
David Ison Inclusive Church 2017 Lecture “Including the Exclusive: How liberal Can you be?”
52 minute video
pdf of the text
David Walker ViaMedia.News Speak Clearly After the Tone…
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Radical Christian inclusion and transformation
Church Times Leader Comment No magic wand
Andrew Lightbown Theore0 Speaking of culture, speaking of tradition
Jamie McLoughlin Liverpool Echo OPINION: The Bishop of Liverpool’s patronage of Pride is HUGE for this city
Peter Selby Church Times Hearing the cries of the abused
22 CommentsAndrew Lightbown Theore0 Why I will continue to wear vestments
James Hadley Pray Tell #MitreGate: And the End of Vestments
Tina Beardsley The Guardian The church’s trans epiphany will ease the way for others like me
Paul Bayes Conversion therapy [speech to General Synod]
Christopher Lowson Bishop of Lincoln welcomes General Synod vote against conversion therapy
Susan Russell An Inch At A Time: Reflections on the Journey Celebrating with the CofE & Reprising “An Ontological Argument”
Kelvin Holdsworth thurible The Scottish Episcopal Church Option
This week, the Archbishops of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia released the interim report of the working group seeking structural arrangements to allow people who hold differing convictions about the blessing of same-sex relationships to remain within the church. These two articles look at the recommendations:
Bosco Peters Liturgy Blessing Same-Gender Couples
Peter Carrell Anglican Down Under Beautiful Anglican Accommodation – Down Under’s Way Forward
Bosco Peters Liturgy The Bishop’s Mitre
Jem Bloomfield quiteirregular Morality and Message: The Church of England, Young People, and LGBT Issues
18 CommentsColin Coward Unadulterated Love The Church of England – not fit for purpose
Ian Paul Psephizo Why bishops should throw away their mitres
35 CommentsPeter Edge Law & Religion UK Tynwald and the Bishop of Sodor & Man
David Pocklington Law & Religion UK “Misconduct in Public Office” revisited
The texts of two talks given at the recent Ken Leech conference in Liverpool are now available for download here.
Alison Milbank Subversive Orthodoxy
George Guiver CR True Prayer and the 21st-century Church
George Clifford Episcopal Café Further thoughts on an all-digital BCP
Andrew Lightbown Theore0 Teaching and teaching documents; some thoughts
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Bishops announce Next Steps on Human Sexuality
Jeremy Pemberton From the Choir Stalls Restoring Dignity in the Church of England
Paul Bayes ViaMedia.News The Elephant Orphanage
Michał Lubowicki Aleteia A cassock: Work clothes, not a dress uniform
The Guardian Editorial The Guardian view on abuse in the Church of England: a reputation deservedly damaged
Dame Moira Gibb’s remarkable report exposes a long and shameful pattern of sympathy for the wrong people
Stephen Kuhrt Resistance & Renewal Abuse, collusion and cover-up in the C of E
Justice, Peace, Joy On Ordination, Photos, and Communication
7 CommentsHayley Matthews ViaMedia.News For Grenfell – Where Were You?
Giles Fraser The Guardian After the Grenfell fire, the church got it right where the council failed
Andrew Brown The Guardian Collusion, cover-up and child abuse in the Church of England
Bosco Peters Liturgy Preaching – The Parable of the Internet
Church Projector Screens
Greg Goebel Anglican Pastor I Don’t Want a Celebration of Life, I Want a Burial Service
Luke T Harrington Christ and Pop Culture The History of Pews Is Just as Terrible and Embarrassing as You’d Imagine
Hannah A Blaze of Light Here’s To All The #NewRevs
6 CommentsAnne Richards writes about the Mystery Worshipper feature in Ship of Fools: Getting a visitors’ eye-view of church
“How can churches welcome people so they don’t end up feeling invisible and lonely?”
Ted Harrison reports for Church Times from a 100-year-old Anglican community in the tea plantations of Sri Lanka: The cost of a cup of tea
The Episcopal Café is up and running again so this article is now available: George Clifford For such a time as this… an electronic prayer book?
22 CommentsArchdruid Eileen of the Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley continues her series on attending church: Sermons
Paul Bayes Huffington Post UK Shaken And Unshaken
Jennifer Ross The Tablet A revival in pilgrimage is bringing the prospect of environmental and ecumenical opportunities to Canterbury and beyond
to which Marcus Holden adds this
Daniel H Martins The Living Church What the Camino Taught Me
0 CommentsArchdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Hymns
David Ison ViaMedia.News Bishops and Transforming Love
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Uncertainty and un-knowing are at the heart of faith
1 CommentGeorge Clifford The Episcopal Café For such a time as this… an electronic prayer book?
[not currently available as site is being rebuilt]
Jake Owensby Looking for God in Messy Places People Like Us
Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley
First Find Your Church
Knowing When to Turn Up
Actually Turning up at Church
The Welcomers
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love It was 50 years ago today … buildings and spirituality for introverts
[Colin refers to this article by Joe Moran in The Guardian: From Sgt Pepper to the sublime: in praise of Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral at 50.]
Andrew Lightbown Theore0 Scottish lessons for the English church (or at least the C of E)
Rowan Williams New Statesman The Benedict Option: a new monasticism for the 21st century
A new book by the conservative blogger Rob Dreher asks whether Christians should turn their back on society – is he right?
Revd Nathan Writes of the Church Letters to the Church Magazine – June 2017
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Making systemic homophobia in the Church of England more visible
Andrew Brown The Guardian Theresa May is like Jesus? Let’s examine this …
Eve Poole Church Times From Alpha to VUCA: the art of unknowing
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