Thinking Anglicans

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Ian 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

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Jonathan 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.

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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

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Church 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

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Madeleine 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

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Michael 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.

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Ian Paul looks at the articles by John Hayward that I linked to a fortnight ago: When will the C of E be extinct? and The Extinction of the C of E: Two Issues.

Vic Van Den Bergh No Communion for you! – the woes of trying to go to church on holiday and failing!

Giles Fraser The Guardian At a Christian funeral all are equal before God – even Cilla Black

Sarah Puryear has been talking to the Revd Anders Litzell (prior of the Community of St Anselm at Lambeth Palace) for The Living Church Lambeth’s Benedict Option

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Margaret Duggan looks back on her time reporting on life in the parishes for Church Times The salt and the sweetness

Maggi Dawn “There are no women on my theology bookshelf…”

Christopher Howse The Telegraph Clothes designed for the kingdom of heaven

Patrick Strudwick has been talking to Vicky Beeching for Buzzfeed This Is What It’s Like Being A Gay Christian Rock Star

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John Hayward Anglican Church Decline in the West – The Data
Anglican Church Decline in the West – Possible Reasons

Christopher Whitby Church Times Smug and weird — no wonder it’s a turn-off

Carey Lodge interviews Archbishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon for Christian Today Meet the man who’s in charge of leading 85 million Christians

Andrew Brown The Guardian Signs of hope in a ‘secular’ land

Giles Fraser The Guardian The migrants’ church in Calais is a place of raw prayer and defiant hope

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The Bishop of Stepney’s sermon at the consecration of Rachel Treweek and Sarah Mullally

Robert Chalmers Newsweek Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby Interview: ‘I Have No Right to Be Here’

Eleanor Course Christ, comic books and popular culture

Philip Jones Ecclesiastical Law Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticum: Of Martyrs and Mice

Giles Fraser The Guardian I believe in an authority greater than David Cameron’s. Am I an extremist?

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Krish Kandiah Christian Today 5 good reasons not to go to church on holiday and 5 good reasons to go to church on holiday

At Liverpool John Moores University on Monday, Archbishop Justin Welby delivered a Roscoe Lecture entitled ‘The Abolition of the Global – Learning to Live in the World in One City’. The text of the lecture and a video are here, and there is an audio recording here.

Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool, preached this sermon when the Open Table LGBTIQ Christian community celebrated its seventh anniversary at St Bride’s Church.

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Jemima Thackray The Telegraph Women bishops first anniversary: Why the Church needs ‘gobby’ women more than ever

Ruth Gledhill and Carey Lodge Christian Today Women Bishops one year on: The women who have broken the stained glass ceiling

St Hilda’s Church, Marden with Preston Grange Eight impossible things the C of E will never do

Mark Greaves The Spectator God’s management consultants: the Church of England turns to bankers for salvation

The Archbishop of Canterbury has written this article for The Times Archbishop of Canterbury on religious freedom.
[The article on The Times website is titled “Faith must be strong enough to take offence”.]

Barnabas Piper Christianity Today 10 Social Media Posts Only the Best Pastors Send

Andrew Brown The Guardian Does the Bible really say that global warming will make the Earth ‘vomit us out’?

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David Runcorn Church of England Newspaper And how would I know when I am wrong? Evangelical faith and the Bible –

Cole Moreton The Independent Why the Church of England faces a dilemma as it comes under pressure to back gay marriage

Graham Tomlin Church Times Neither wild prophets nor boring managers

Giles Fraser The Guardian Money is the only god the Tories want us to worship on a Sunday
To which Archdruid Eileen responds Clothed in the Last Shreds of Christendom

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Jonathan Elliott The Guardian I’m gay, liberal, open-minded – and a convert to Christianity

Archdruid Eileen Growing for Growth Strategy

Andy Griffiths Being Titus: a new model for incumbent ministry

Linda Woodhead gave a lecture on What’s wrong with the Church of England – and can anything be done? at St Bride’s church in Liverpool on Monday evening. There is a recording here.

Emma Jacobs Financial Times The reverend on a showbiz mission

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Ian Paul asks What did Jesus look like?

The Patriarch of Constantinople and the Archbishop of Canterbury New York Times Climate Change and Moral Responsibility

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Giles Fraser The Guardian Pope Francis is a bit like Naomi Klein in a cassock

Margaret Pritchard Houston The body of Christ, given for you

Ian Meredith Church Times How to regain funerals from civil celebrants

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Pete Wilcox A Response to Richard Moy’s ‘Dear Deans’ challenge
Michael Sadgrove ‘Dear Deans’: a response from the north

Michael Nazir-Ali The Telegraph We need to embrace our history and reach out to the “spiritual” if we want to halt declining Anglican numbers

Canon J John Huffington Post An Open Letter to Britain

Joel J Miller Why Bonhoeffer made the sign of the cross

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Andrew Brown The Guardian We shouldn’t focus on assisted dying, but rather help others find value in life

Caroline Spelman, the Second Church Estates Commissioner (“2CEC”), writes about A voice for the Church in Parliament.

Rowan Williams New Statesman Blasphemy can provoke violence – and be a progressive force within religion

Giles Fraser The Guardian Thieves may have stolen my optimism, but not my defiance

Richard Moy Dear Deans
Kelvin Holdsworth Dear Deans – a Scottish Response

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Adrian Chiles BBC What I learnt from 46 consecutive days in church

Mark Woods Christian Today 10 bad preaching habits which must be stopped

Ruth Gledhill Christian Today The wonderful world of the Christian Resources Exhibition

Stephen Heard Archbishop Cranmer The way the Church does politics is largely ineffective
David Pocklington Law & Religion UK Politics and the CofE

Church Times Leader: A reality check

Rachel Dixon The Guardian Holy nights: camping in a church

Archdruid Eileen Holy, Holy, Holy

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Kate Bottley The Guardian I’m the vicar on Gogglebox, but that’s not the only funny thing about me

In Church Times Michael Palin writes about churches that have meant the most to him in my seven of the best, and there is this leading article: A church definition.

Robert Ellsberg The Tablet Raised to the altars: one who fell for the poor
John Dear Huffington Post Honoring Oscar Romero of El Salvador

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