Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – 21 December 2022

Eleanor Jackson British Library Medieval manuscripts blog Chi-rho pages for Christmas

Catriona Cannon and Irene-Marie Esser Law & Religion UK What has Religion got to do with “Corporate Purpose”?

LGBTQ Faith UK Rediscovering the purpose of church

Martine Oborne ViaMedia.News The Sexism Women Continue to Face in the Church of England

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Opinion – 17 December 2022

Naomi Nixon ViaMedia.News An Argument for an Honest Church

Steven Shakespeare Annunciation or Explanation? The Marian heart of liturgy

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love LLF, safeguarding, abuse and Radical New Christian Inclusion – where did that go?

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Opinion – 10 December 2022

Bosco Peters Liturgy Christian Decline?

Penelope Doe ViaMedia.News The ‘Trans’ Body of Jesus and Transgressive Theologies

Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head Reparations, the Churches and LGBT communities

Paul W Thomas Church Times All parishes need focal ministers — urgently
“Stipendiary priests overseeing multiple parishes require a secondary support system, argues Paul W Thomas”

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Opinion – 3 December 2022

April Alexander ViaMedia.News Mutual Flourishing or Repeating Our Mistakes? A Response to Together in Love and Faith

Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head The English Heresy

The first results for the religion question in the official census of population of England and Wales in 2021 were released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on 29 November 2022: Religion, England and Wales: Census 2021. Here are a few articles in response.
Archbishop of York ‘We are here for you’ – Archbishop responds to Census findings
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Faith in England – the 2021 census
Church Times Leader comment: Census reality
Andrew Brown Church Times Press: What the census tells us about faith

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Opinion – 30 November 2022

Jeremy Haselock Catholic Herald Own goal: the Church of England and the World Cup Final

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Will we ever find a Safe Church?

Simon Butler ViaMedia.News Dear Bishop Christopher… An Open Response to my Diocesan Bishop after his Address to Southwark Diocesan Synod
– written in response to this Presidential Address to Diocesan Synod, 19 November 2022

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Opinion – 26 November 2022

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Survivor/Victim -Looking at the meanings of words in the Safeguarding World

Jessica Martin ViaMedia.News Real Presence in Sex and Sacrament

Talique Taylor Earth & Altar What is Communion?

Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head Turning Up and Being Counted

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Opinion – 23 November 2022

Benjamin Wyatt Earth & Altar What is Fornication?

Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head 12 Things I’ve Learned About Preaching

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Being realistic about God

Jayne Ozanne ViaMedia.News ‘Hermetically Sealed Hermeneutics’ & an Inability to Own Up to Harm

Stephen Cottrell Archbishop of York Opening the Scriptures
The 25th, and final, Archbishop Blanch Memorial Lecture

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Opinion – 19 November 2022

Jody Stowell ViaMedia.News EvangelicAlly

Samuel Cripps The Living Church How to Internet

Rebecca Chapman Church Times There is an alternative to Vision and Strategy
“Chelmsford’s bishop is choosing not to impose plans on dioceses — will others follow this approach, asks Rebecca Chapman”

Rob Hudson Church Times Six ways to retain young people
“Teenagers often drift away, but that need not be the case, argues Rob Hudson”

Neil Patterson ViaMedia.News Ways and Means of Differentiation…

Helen King sharedconversations The wisdom of Solomon (or, that was the week, that was)

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Opinion – 12 November 2022

Martyn Percy Anglicanism.org Dear Heart-broken, Dear Confused – Agony Aunts and Problem Pages as Implicit Religion

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Thinking about God and the challenge of evolution

Martine Oborne ViaMedia.News Thirty Years On
The Guardian Where is discrimination against women still allowed in the UK? The church

Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head It was 30 years ago today…

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Opinion – 9 November 2022

Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Consultation on Learning Lessons Case Reviews

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Freedom from power, control and abuse in congregational life

Johanna Stiebert ViaMedia.News Toxic Theology, the Bible and LLF (Living in Love and Faith)

Mark Bennet Surviving Church What is the purpose of it all? Some reflections on Safeguarding

Tim Wyatt Religion Media Centre Made in Hull: bishops appointed for breakaway Anglican church against same sex marriage

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Opinion – 5 November 2022

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church When a Church becomes Cultic

Keith Elliott Church Times A revolutionary present
“Keith Elliott pleads for the Church to be bolder in talking about death, and life beyond”

Fergus Butler-Gallie Church Times Guy Fawkes reimagined: it was all about tolerance
“Fergus Butler-Gallie goes underground to recreate the Gunpowder Plot”

John Barton Church Times There are two ways to translate the Bible, and both are right
“Accuracy and literalness in biblical translation are not the same, says John Barton”

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Opinion – 2 November 2022

Updated to add Graham article

Martin Sewell Surviving Church “The sky is black with chickens coming home to roost”

Martin Barnes The Observer Let there be light: England’s Anglican cathedrals at dawn
“The late Magnum photographer Peter Marlow was granted the rare opportunity to capture 42 places of worship in the early hours, the results of which are now collected in an exhibition and book”

Nathanael Hayler ViaMedia.News Faith and Generosity in the Church: The Via Media, or Transphobia?

Graham Surviving Church A ‘Reflective Exercise’ on Proposed Change to Reviews

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Opinion – 29 October 2022

Updated to include a third article by Andrew Goddard

Helen King ViaMedia.News Marry Me a Little?

Madeleine Davies Church Times The communion of saints
“For All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days, Madeleine Davies reflects on expectations of life after death”

Andrew Goddard Psephizo a series of three articles
1: Discernment and decision following Living in Love and Faith
2: What are the options after Living in Love and Faith?
3: What are the practical implications following Living in Love and Faith?
The three pieces are available together in this PDF document: LLF Discerning and Deciding Psephizo Articles.

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Opinion – 26 October 2022

Guli Francis-Dehqani ViaMedia.News Just Housing: A Christian Vision

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Some reflections on the recently published Final IICSA Report

Mark Fox Reaction Will Rishi Sunak want to appoint the Bishops?

Rosie Harper Anglicanism.org Did we die without noticing it?

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Opinion – 22 October 2022

Savitri Hensman ViaMedia.News Increasing Inclusion and Respecting Conscience: Learning from Elsewhere

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church ‘The Victim must be believed’. Some reflections on the Henriques (2016) Report
Looking down the wrong end of a Telescope. Further thoughts on PCR2

Jonathan Romain Church Times Standing on common ground
“Jonathan Romain finds clerical parallels in different faith traditions”

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Opinion – 19 October 2022

Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Publication of Past Cases Review 2

William Lamb ViaMedia.News A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life: A Reprise

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Opinion – 15 October 2022

Jon Kuhrt Psephizo The Ecclesiastical Doughnut: is the Church of England ungovernable?

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Culture in the CofE according to Past Cases Review 2

Helen King sharedconversations Extending our search for the truth: reviewing Past Cases Review 2

Brenda Wallace ViaMedia.News A Peek under the Episcopal Carpet – Past Cases Review 2 and its Blind Spots

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Global South responsible for creating a homophobic and transphobic movement

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Opinion – 12 October 2022

Archbishop Cranmer Bishops in the House of Lords keep ‘pure religion’ in public life

LGBTQ Faith UK Ministry to the Heartstopper generation

Joshua Askwith ViaMedia.News Risking Reputations: The Process of Reconciliation and Belonging through the Lens of Ruth

Anonymous Surviving Church The Conservative Party at Prayer

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Opinion – 8 October 2022

Martyn Percy Prospect With the Church of England dying, how much longer can we justify having bishops in the House of Lords?
“The Church of England could be extinct by the 2060s. That threatens to trigger a constitutional, as well as an existential, crisis”

Andrew Goddard Psephizo After Lambeth: what next for the Church of England?

Stephen H Surviving Church My Experience of Bullying in the Church

a first-time incumbent Church Times Do parishes really need thick-skinned priests?
“If the Church want responsive pastors, someone needs to warn them about bumps in the road”

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Opinion – 5 October 2022

Stephen Kuhrt psephizo How to encourage bullying in the Church

The Guardian C of E must welcome gay people or face questions in parliament, says MP
“Labour’s Ben Bradshaw says church is ‘actively pursuing a campaign of discrimination’ against lesbian and gay people”

Paul Wheatley The Living Church Why Study Biblical Languages?

Laudable Practice ‘Thou hast crowned the year with thy goodness’: Thanksgiving for Harvest in the 18th Century Church of England

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