John Bingham has interviewed William Nye for The Telegraph: The ‘silencing of Christians’ in the public sector.
Bob Morris The Constitution Unit ‘Living with Difference’: The Butler-Sloss Commission’s report reflects the interests of its members rather than the public interest
[also online at Law & Religion UK]
Giles Fraser The Guardian Doesn’t Bishop George Bell deserve the presumption of innocence?
Miranda Threlfall-Holmes Pope Gregory and #Primates2016 – diversity, sex, and church order
Jayne Ozanne Church of England Newspaper Resolutely passionate
Hannah Cleugh Church Times No need to patronise men with toughness
14 CommentsPeter Wehner New York Times The Christmas Revolution
Howard Jacobson BBC News Magazine A Point of View: Why the world needs more sermons
Archdruid Eileen Feast of Holy Innocents – Power Under Pressure
Sarah Coakley ABC Religion and Ethics Angels and Dreams: Second Naivete and the Christian Imagination
Andrew Brown The Guardian If Nicky Morgan wants Christianity to flourish, humanism should be taught in schools
Archbishop of Canterbury’s New Year Message
Giles Fraser The Guardian Karl Barth taught us not to use religion to mask the stench of war
10 CommentsNatasha Moore The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) In defence of the nativity play
Rowan Williams ABC Religion and Ethics Where Faith is Born: Seeing Ourselves Honestly, Seeing the World Differently
Giles Fraser The Guardian The story of the virgin birth runs against the grain of Christianity
Archdruid Eileen A Canon Backfires
Some (arch)bishops’ Christmas Messages
Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of York
Presiding Bishop Michael Curry
Archbishop Fred Hiltz, Primate of Canada – Archbishop Hiltz has also recorded this video jointly with the Lutheran National Bishop of Canada
Bishop David Chillingworth, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church (video)
Bishop of Chelmsford
Bishop of Gloucester, Bishop of Western Tanganyika and Bishop of El Camino Real
Bishop of Gibraltar in Europe
Bishop of Leeds
Bishop of Lincoln
Bishop of Liverpool – The bishop also has a separate video message.
Bishop of Sheffield
Bishop of St Asaph
Bishop of Bangor
Bishop of Swansea and Brecon
Anglican and Roman Catholic Primates of Ireland
Archbishop Philip Freier, Primate of Australia
Archbishop Stanley Ntagali, Primate of Uganda
And some sermons
Bishop of Bath and Wells
Bishop of Chichester
Bishop of Durham
Bishop of Guildford
Bishop of Leeds
Bishop of Southwark
Bishop of Taunton
Kelvin Holdsworth, Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral Glasgow Midnight Mass Christmas morning
23 CommentsMark Hart Church Times Evangelism: maybe talk less, but do more?
Richard Moy Men Only? A charismatic crisis in New Wine/HTB leadership
Tim Wyatt Church Times Fill the hungry with good things
Paul Bayes, the Bishop of Liverpool, Huffington Post UK Peace From the Middle East
Jody Stowell Independent As a vicar, here’s what I think when you all pile in at Christmas after a year of church avoidance
Kelvin Holdsworth 12 tips to get people to come to Christmas Services
David Walker, the Bishop of Manchester, Church Times O come, all ye (occasionally) faithful
29 CommentsRose Grigg Dear Church of England: from a gay ordinand
Nancy Rockwell Patheos No More Lying About Mary
‘The tide is turning’: Justin Welby interviewed by Michael Gove in The Spectator
Kelvin Holdsworth The next five questions the Archbishop needs to be asked
Andrew McGowan Bible History Daily How December 25 Became Christmas
Lee Coley Law & Religion UK A call to cull collective worship in schools?
The National Gallery is producing a series of short videos on angels featuring paintings in its collection. Here are the first two.
What are angels?
Messenger angels
From darkness to light: A four minute time-lapse video of Liverpool Cathedral’s Advent Darkness to Light service
Tallie Proud 10 of the best Christmas videos 2015
6 CommentsRichard Beck Owning Your Protestantism: We Follow Our Conscience, Not the Bible
Peter Ormerod The Guardian We need the Church of England more than ever. That’s why we need it to die
Frank Cranmer Law & Religion UK The end of banns in England?
Lizzie Lowrie Saltwater and Honey The Mug
121 CommentsAlan Billings Church Times Social cohesion can defeat terror
Jayne Ozanne Church of England Newspaper Confession Time
The Bishop of Liverpool give this year’s Archbishop Blanch Memorial Lecture: The heartbeats of ecumenism: blood, sweat and tears. text (pdf) video
3 CommentsPeter Hitchens The Spectator The Church of England’s shameful betrayal of bishop George Bell
Church of England Newspaper editorial The rule of the lynch mob
His Honour Alan Pardoe QC Church Times The Church of England media statement about Bishop George Bell
Jeff K Clarke 2 Reasons NOT to Keep Christ in Christmas
Andrew Lightbown A focus of unity? Really?
21 CommentsAndrew Brown The Guardian ‘We need to talk about Jesus’: cue cringing embarrassment
David Keen Talking About Jesus – Would It Be Better If We Didn’t?
Sarah Pulliam Bailey The Washington Post The Episcopal Church’s first black leader — and its ‘tortuous’ path toward integration
1 CommentMichael Ainsworth Law & Religion UK Hymns (and other things) to avoid?
Giles Fraser Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4 On being called “Father”, Bishops in the Lords, & other clerical absurdities
Simon Rundell “Call No Man Father…”
Ian Paul Are we being honest about ordination training?
34 CommentsDavid Emmott went to Ken Leech’s funeral: Celebrating a prophet.
Carol Kuruvilla Huffington Post These 15 Tiny Churches Have Plenty Of Personality
Onora O’Neill, Baroness O’Neill of Bengarve, gave the Theos Annual Lecture on Monday 19 October 2015: Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Religion.
Paul Handley writes about the lecture in this week’s Church Times leader: Rights and duties.
Andrew Davison Church Times Do other planets have their own Christ?
9 CommentsThe Archbishop of Canterbury ‘To the Glory of God’ – Archbishop’s sermon at Virginia Theological Seminary
Andrew Atherstone and Andrew Goddard Church Times If we can’t make up, can we still kiss?
Robin Gill Church Times Yes, faith is good for your health
Philip DeVaul The Orange County Register Stop saying ‘There but for the grace of God’
10 CommentsAndrew Brown The Guardian Opposing gay bishops for the sake of church unity is stupid
Nicholas Holtam, Bishop of Salisbury, ‘Indifference is not an option’ – sustainable development and the Christian response to climate change
Christopher Howse The Telegraph English timber roofs where a host of angels roost
24 CommentsIan Paul Do we need male leaders?
Symon Hill Freeing sexuality from an either/or model
Kelvin Holdsworth Some Bisexuals are Christian (and there’s lots of them)
Rowan Williams Embracing Our Limits – The Lessons of Laudato Si’
Archbishop Thabo Makgoba Corruption entrenches inequality in South Africa, says Archbishop
19 CommentsJonathan Langley Christian Today Five reasons why Paula Gooder is going to influence your theology
Nigel Genders Church Times Education: A vision to transform the world
This is one of several feature articles on education in this week’s Church Times; the others are behind the paywall.
Kelvin Holdsworth Dear Straight People – Greenbelt Talk 2015
Tim Schenck 7 Habits of Highly Annoying Clergy on Social Media
The Bishop of Swindon Disruptive Learning
Archdruid Eileen Automating the Vicar
12 CommentsChurch Times leader Alan’s legacy
Sally Hitchiner Church Times Why the Synod is important
Philip Johanson Church of England Newspaper Does the C of E require radical emergency surgery or should it be allowed to continue its slow death?
Andrew Lightbown Beware the tinker men; thoughts on episcopal leadership
Tim Wyatt Why I was wrong about writing off Giles Fraser
Christopher Howse The Telegraph A hymn written for the bright dawn of socialism
3 CommentsMadeleine Davies Why are clergy wasting their time on social media?
Tom Lamont The Observer Mission impossible? Meet the new chaplains
[The Theos report mentioned in this article is available for purchase or free download here.]
Tinyiko Maluleke Mail & Guardian Desmond Tutu, archbishop of the world
4 CommentsMichael Spencer Internet Monk Thoughts on “Gear” [scroll down to find it]
Simon Jenkins Reform Jumble sales of the apocalypse: Typing in tongues
Paul Bayes The Barlow Stick [part of the Intimate:Inanimate project]
Jayne Ozanne Church of England Newspaper A Tale of Two Archbishops [image on Twitter]
There’s a better copy here.
