Christopher Cocksworth (Bishop of Coventry) The Living Church Living in Love and Faith: Where do things stand? Where do we go from here?
Andrew Rumsey Down in The Effra Cold Snap
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love GSFA and CEEC persecute LGBTQIA+ people who contaminate the Church
131 CommentsA Monument of Fame (Lambeth Palace Library blog) Back to the future: the Church Commissioners’ first computer
Martin Sewell Surviving Church Independent Safeguarding in the CofE. ‘When you give, let go’.
Simon Richiardi Surviving Church I kissed dating goodbye. Surviving a Church that practised ‘Biblical Marriage.’
K-Anonymous Surviving Church Innocent until proved guilty, except in the Church of England
Maggi Dawn Church Times God has many names: a solution to the inclusive-language dilemma
Andrew Nunn Looking back [at eighteen years on the General Synod]
Savitri Hensman ViaMedia.News Being Invisible While Anglicans Debate Marrying Same-Sex Couples
20 CommentsMiranda Threlfall-Holmes No, the doctrine of marriage is not fixed
Andrew Goddard Psephizo What are the bishops claiming about marriage?
Helen King sharedconversations Would you Adam and Eve it?
Russell Dewhurst Law & Religion UK Canon B5 and the Prayers of Love and Faith
Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Annual Report 2022 National Safeguarding Panel
Giles Fraser UnHerd God has no gender
Frank Cranmer Religion Media Centre Factsheet: Establishment and the Church of England
24 CommentsCharlie Bell ViaMedia.News No More Delay: A Call to General Synod
Charlie Bell For whom the Bell tolls A response to ‘The Church of England’s Doctrine of Marriage’, +Fulham et al
Philip Jones Ecclesiastical Law Canon B5 and the Prayers of Love and Faith
Lorraine Cavanagh Modern Church What Price Unity?
Colin Coward‘s vlog – episode 2
Catherine Pepinster Religion News Service Church of England submits blessings for same-sex couples to fierce debate in Synod
Francis Martin Church Times MPs plan to put pressure on the C of E after Welby’s disestablishment remarks
Sarah Meyrick Church Times Fourteen bishops publish a defence of traditional marriage
Jayne Ozanne The Guardian One side of the C of E preaches LGBT+ acceptance, the other says I’m going to hell. This can’t go on
Andrew Davison Church Times We will bless couples, not just people
Church of England press: House of Bishops – Monday 20 January 2023
20 is clearly a misprint for 30.
A Monument of Fame (Lambeth Palace Library blog) Partners at the Palace: the story of the wives of the Archbishops of Canterbury
Peter Reiss Surviving Church Unheard and Un-noticed but not uncommon – Why are we so bad at listening?
12 CommentsDavid Voas British Religion in Numbers Christian decline: How it’s measured and what it means
Ted Harrison Church Times Most kind and gentle death
“Ted Harrison offers a reflection for Candlemas”
Colin Coward has started a new vlog – here is the first episode.
34 CommentsBosco Peters Liturgy Ordination Requirements
Rebecca Chapman Church Times General Synod should be more than a talking shop
“Its members need clarity about who is making decisions and what they are voting on”
Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel National Redress Scheme
7 CommentsStacey Rand ViaMedia.News Leadership for Change: A Response to ‘The Sexism Women Continue to Face in the Church of England’
Rebecca Glover ViaMedia.News Emerging Adults: A Priority for the Churches
Martine Oborne The Guardian Why are female clergy cheering for a bishop who doesn’t believe in female priests?
Rambling Rector Retired Atonement or fakery?
46 CommentsCharlie Bell ViaMedia.News Time to Step Up and Take the Heat: Allyship or Cowardice?
14 CommentsThe Telegraph Most Rev Stephen Cottrell: ‘My time at a girls’ school may have saved my life’
“The Archbishop of York recalls his days of truancy and the revelations of school life in Essex before he found faith as a teenager.”
Helen King ViaMedia.News Another Year Gone: What’s Wrong with the Church of England?
House of Survivors Round up of 2022
Adrian Hilton The Spectator In praise of the Church of England
Ian Paul Psephizo How can we overcome class divisions in the church?
201 CommentsFrancis Young The Spectator Is Christmas really a pagan festival?
Fergus Butler-Gallie Church Times So here it is, Merry Christmas. . . but not everybody’s having fun
“Fergus Butler-Gallie speaks up for those who struggle with Christmas cheer”
John Barton Church Times And the Word was made words
“John Barton considers new translations of the familiar Christmas texts”
Church of England War, hunger, cold … and hope – bishops share their Christmas messages
39 CommentsEleanor 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
55 CommentsNaomi 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?
41 CommentsBosco 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”
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
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
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
43 CommentsBenjamin 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
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)
27 CommentsMartyn 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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