Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – 17 February 2024

Ben Phillips The Critic How can we pay for our cathedrals?
“Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches”

Bosco Peters Liturgy God is Immoral

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The danger of endowing Jesus and his followers with divine powers at the expense of humanity – theirs and ours

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Opinion – 14 February 2024

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Can we find Integrity and Accountability in the Leadership of the Church of England?

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters God loves statistics

Anon ViaMedia.News Mini-MBA Course for the Talent Pipeline in the Church of England: Safeguarding Strategy

Andrew Brown The slow deep hover Evangelical Pantaloons

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Bishop Martyn Strangelove to the rescue, or How I learnt to Stop Worrying and Love LLF

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Opinion – 10 February 2024

David Runcorn Inclusive Evangelicals Marriage in the Garden

Adrian Thatcher Modern Church A ‘Theological Vision’, or ‘Myopic Homophobia’?

Anne Richards Modern Church Spiritual Abuse

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Living as if . . .

Alex Frost ViaMedia.News Response to the ‘Letter from Seven Bishops’: A Theology of Inclusion

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Opinion – 7 February 2024

Janet Fife Surviving Church Putting My Name to My Story

The Guardian view on crumbling churches: a social vocation can save them for the nation

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Time to challenge toxic theology and poisoned prejudice in the Church

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Opinion – 3 February 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love This week’s events bring me close to despair

Phil Groves ViaMedia.News To be Evangelical is to Challenge ‘Orthodoxy’

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Can we ever rediscover the Trust we once had of the Institutions in our Society?

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Opinion – 31 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The difference between the unconditionally loving God of Jesus and today’s abusive, unhealthy omni-God

Helen King sharedconversations Resets, settlement, commitments and explorations… A further update on LLF

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Opinion – 27 January 2024

Martin Sewell Surviving Church From Culture Change to Winning Ways

Steven Shakespeare Redefining marriage? Opposition to same sex marriage and the limits of the claim to ‘biblical’ orthodoxy

Anon ViaMedia.News Mini-MBA Course for the Talent Pipeline in the Church of England: Revised Strategy Module

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Opinion – 24 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The tunic was seamless, woven in one piece throughout

Gavin Drake Church Abuse

Mark Bennet ViaMedia.News Marriage, but not LLF

Pete Ward ViaMedia.News The Magic Money Tree for Work with Children and Young People: Good News?

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Opinion – 20 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Healthy contemporary evolutionary Christian vision, theology and practice

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters Data: Less is more?

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Opinion – 17 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Abusive unhealthy traditional Christianity, theology and practice

Alex Fry ViaMedia.News More than Theology? How Beliefs About Women’s Ordination are Socially Rooted

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church More Scrutiny of the CofE and its Safeguarding Record. The Glasgow Report

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters New year: new data?

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Opinion – 13 January 2024

Gerry Lynch The Critic The failure of Anglican managerialism

Giles Fraser UnHerd Will the Church follow the Post Office?

Ian Paul Psephizo The crisis of episcopal leadership in the Church of England

Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head What’s really happening to the churches in Scotland

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Opinion – 10 January 2024

Helen King sharedconversations Keeping the church together?

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love God according to Harry Williams

David Goodhew The Living Church After COVID: The Deepening Decline of the Church of England

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Opinion – 6 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love CEEC plot to impose an abusive, prejudiced, discriminatory, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic culture on the Church of England

Andrew Goddard Psephizo Have evangelicals made secret plans to split the Church?

Claire Brader House of Lords Library Lords spiritual in the House of Lords explained

Polly Smythe New York Times It’s Christmas, and England’s Priests Have Had Enough
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Andrew Brown comments on this article in the Church Times: Press: New York Times probes unionisation of Anglican clergy

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Opinion – 3 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Changing attitudes towards life in all its fullness

Andrew Graystone ViaMedia.News When Good Reviews Go Bad

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Opinion – 30 December 2023

Nic Tall ViaMedia.News Plotting the Division of the Church of England

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church After Wilkinson. Towards a Trauma-Informed Church

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Opinion – 20 December 2023

Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head Coupled Together

Jonathan Clatworthy The point of it all Fear, emptiness and hope

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Opinion – 16 December 2023

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Does the CofE meet the Standards of the Nolan Principles in its Life?

The Church of England has a Redress Blog. It is “a blog for survivors and victims to express in their own words what “redress” means to them and to share their hopes for the National Redress Scheme. It is also a blog for Church officers and staff to provide regular updates on the progress the Church is making towards developing the Scheme.” Although the blog has been in place since October, it was only this week that there was a press release drawing attention to it. So far there have been these four posts.

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Opinion – 13 December 2023

Surviving Church The Catastrophic Failure of Governance

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love What kind of God?

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters Who’s coming for Christmas?

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Opinion – 6 December 2023

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love God is a revisionist

Martin Sewell Surviving Church Waiting for Wilkinson

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Opinion – 2 December 2023

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters Census taking – sacred and dangerous?

Bosco Peters Liturgy Are We Letting Worship Shape Us?

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