Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – 1 July 2023

Tim Chesterton Inclusive Evangelicals From Rejection to Affirmation: My Personal Journey

Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley “A Recipe for Red Tape” – the New Church of England Dioceses

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Opinion – 28 June 2023

Martine Oborne ViaMedia.News Thirty Years of Women Priests in the Church of England and Still Two Thirds of Paid Posts Are Held by Men

Mike Higton kai euthus Disagreement, Conscience, and Harm

Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News Trust and Transparency – it’s Time for Change

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Opinion – 24 June 2023

Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Revised Church of England Ministerial Training Curriculum

Fergus Butler-Gallie New Statesman Why vicars are revolting
“Front-line clergy are turning against an increasingly managerial Church of England.”

Huw Spanner Church Times Clergy retirement: Insights into the Church’s silver service
“There are dioceses in which retired priests preside at as many as half the eucharists celebrated. Huw Spanner hears about being relied on”

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Opinion – 17 June 2023

Richard Tuset Anglo Catholicism: Historical re-enactment society or a potent force for contemporary evangelism

Sam Maginnis Church Times Clergy need a stipend that alleviates hardship
“Rising inflation has left many clerics struggling to cover household bills and other essentials”

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Opinion – 14 June 2023

Erin K Wilson Religion and Global Society The changing nature of religion in today’s world

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Team Ministries and Minster Communities in the Church of England.

Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News Playing the Victim

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Opinion – 7 June 2023

Christopher Marshall Walking together with differences

Gilo Surviving Church Missing in Action?

Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Consultation on National Standards

Mike Higton kai euthus Power in the Church of England

Craig D’Alton Humane Catholic Church for Introverts?

Paul Avis The Living Church The Role of Bishops in the Governance of the Church

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Opinion – 27 May 2023

Ian Paul Psephizo The Church of England’s financial imbalance

Sophie Grace Chappell ViaMedia.News Two-Edged Scripture: Taking the Bible Seriously

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Opinion – 24 May 2023

David Runcorn Beginning now – praying in uncertainty and perplexity

Steven Shakespeare Mary: Woman of the Apocalypse

Rachel Muers ViaMedia.News Conscientious Objection
Questions of Conscience (5)

Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Survivor Engagement

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Opinion – 20 May 2023

David Runcorn

Martine Oborne ViaMedia.News In Conscience?
Questions of Conscience (4)

Christopher Landau Church Times Can Gen Z save a C of E it barely knows?
“The lack of attention to liturgy in some of the larger urban churches is a cause for concern, argues Christopher Landau”

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Opinion – 17 May 2023

Philip North ViaMedia.News On Conscience
Questions of Conscience (3)

Martin Sewell Surviving Church Why the Bishop of Oxford should be suspended

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Opinion – 13 May 2023

Rosie Harper Surviving Church The Thing under the Thing………

Women and the Church Inquiry by Independent Reviewer into the appointment of the Rt Revd Philip North as Bishop of Blackburn

Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News Killing Fear and Freeing Conscience: Charting the Way Forward for our Life Together
Questions of Conscience (2)

Alice Goodman Prospect Clerical life: Last days of the curates
“I hear more and more about gifted young clergy leaving the church–and it fills me with dread”

Andrew Lightbown Theore0 Speaking of ologies and economic theory

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Opinion – 10 May 2023

Matthew S C Olver The Living Church Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI

Giles Goddard ViaMedia.News Freedom of Conscience: Sauce for the Gander?
Questions of Conscience (1): opening a new series of posts offering reflections on this theme

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Opinion – 3 May 2023

Emma John The Guardian The church has at last welcomed us singletons into the fold. Hallelujah!

Anonymous Surviving Church New Dictionary Definitions for the Church of England. No 1: ‘Independent’

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Opinion – 29 April 2023

Stanley Monkhouse Rambling Rector Retired Struggle

Beth Keith Modern Church Is Liberal Theology Dead?

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Opinion – 26 April 2023

Bendor Grosvenor The Art Newspaper ‘Westminster Abbey charges £27 per ticket–even God might baulk at that price’
“If ever a ticket price reflected British history it is for this royal church, where the nation’s great and good are commemorated in profusion”

Karen O’Donnell ViaMedia.News Consent, Power, and BDSM in Theological Research

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Opinion – 22 April 2023

Martine Oborne Student Christian Movement blog Frustrated Vocations: Why We Need an Honest Church on Women’s Ministry

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The essence of the Christian message – the primacy of God’s unconditional, infinite, intimate love

Marianne Rozario Theos The death of traditional funerals

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Opinion – 15 April 2023

The Guardian has published several letters in response to the article by Simon Jenkins that I linked to a week ago.
Saving churches from decay should be a national responsibility
“Readers take issue with an article by Simon Jenkins in which he suggests that local authorities should step in to fund churches”

Kirk Petersen The Living Church GAFCON Meeting Could Reshape the Anglican Communion

Helen King sharedconversations Revenge of the Sticky Notes

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Opinion – 12 April 2023

Judith Maltby ViaMedia.News Equal Marriage – 1928 Style

Peter Stanford The Guardian Is the UK prepared to let its rural churches rot – or can they be saved?
“A tour of abandoned Norfolk churches prompts reflections on the future of these sacred buildings in an age of declining faith”

Mark Vasey-Saunders scm press Disagreeing about our disagreements

Stephen Cottrell The Archbishop of York Easter Sunday reminds us to celebrate, not fear, our differences

Fergus Butler-Gallie Engelsberg Ideas Laughing with the Face of God

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Opinion – 8 April 2023

Church of England bishops have highlighted the hope of the resurrection in a series of video and published messages ahead of Easter: Bishops speak of resurrection hope in troubled world

Christopher Howse The Spectator The surprising beauty of Mass in a burnt-out church

Calum Cockburn British Library Medieval manuscripts blog Picturing the Crucifixion

Simon Jenkins The Guardian The decline of churchgoing doesn’t have to mean the decline of churches – they can help us level up

Stephen Cottrell Archbishop of York Water is thicker than blood

Theo Hobson The Spectator Does the Church of England need evangelicals?

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Opinion – 5 April 2023

Helen King ViaMedia.News Pressing ‘PAUSE’

Jonathan Chaplin Law & Religion UK Lost in transmission – on not romanticising the Coronation

Rebecca Chapman The Church of England Newspaper Justin Welby: What Has Changed After 10 Tumultuous Years?

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