Opinion – 21 September 2024
Top 1000 funds Church Commissioners: Managing historic real assets for the future Rosalind Rutherford ViaMedia.News What do Others Think of Us? Neil Patterson ViaMedia.News Can the Church of England be...
View ArticleShould the CNC procedures be changed?
Two previous articles dealing with this: Proposals to reform the CNC procedures Bishops back proposals to simplify nomination process for diocesan bishops Two Church Times articles (both linked...
View ArticleSoul Survivor Watford: review published
In November 2023 the Trustees of Soul Survivor festivals, Soul Survivor Watford, and Soul61 (collectively known as Soul Survivor) commissioned Fiona Scolding KC to conduct an Independent Review into...
View ArticleOpinion – 28 September 2024
Martyn Percy Surviving Church continuing the series “Weighing Church of England Safeguarding on the Scales of Justice” No. 2: Marking Their Own Homework Part 3 Lies and Damned Lies No. 4: Redefining...
View ArticleOpinion – 2 October 2024
Church Times Podcast: Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani: Encouraging the weary with a word Trevor Thurston-Smith The Pensive Pilgrim Clothes Maketh the Man : Do Vestments Maketh the Priest? Richard Peers...
View ArticleDean of Guildford
Press release from 10 Downing Street. Further information on the Guildford diocesan website. The King has approved the nomination of The Venerable Robert Gerard Cooper, Archdeacon of Sunderland, in the...
View ArticleOpinion – 5 October 2024
Bosco Peters Liturgy Male and Female? Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Looking for the Qualities of Leadership in our Bishops Save The Parish Bishop of Chelmsford challenges the Church’s ‘Vision and...
View ArticleAppointment of Second Church Estates Commissioner
Press release from the Prime Minister’s Office Appointment of Second Church Estates Commissioner: 7 October 2024 The King has approved the nomination of Marsha de Cordova, Member of Parliament for...
View ArticleBishop of Aberdeen & Orkney
The Scottish Episcopal Church has announced today that the disciplinary proceedings against the Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney have been dropped. The Rt Revd Anne Dyer was suspended in August 2022...
View ArticleOpinion – 9 October 2024
Mark Vasey-Saunders ViaMedia.News Theological Colleges: Being a Community in the Midst of Disagreement Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Exorcism Part One. Oxford Safe Churches Project Oxford Safe...
View ArticleOpinion – 12 October 2024
Marcus Walker The Spectator Why C of E bishops are so bland Kelvin Holdsworth What in Kelvin’s Head Finding a place to be Luke Bretherton Comment The Conversion of Public Intellectuals Al Barrett This...
View ArticleBishop Wambunya accepts CDM penalty
Updated We reported earlier on the non-canonical ordination conducted by Bishop Tim Wambunya in Berlin in April: Dr Tim Wambunya apologises for his role in a Berlin ordination service. Today, the...
View ArticleLLF: an explanatory video by Bishop Martyn Snow
The Diocese of St Albans has published this 8 minute video on YouTube: Diocesan Synod LLF October 2024. The post LLF: an explanatory video by Bishop Martyn Snow first appeared on Thinking Anglicans.
View ArticleOpinion – 16 October 2024
The Church Mouse Is the Church of England getting out of the marriage business? ‘Graham’ ViaMedia.News Should We Expect Archbishops to Tell the Truth? David Runcorn Inclusive Evangelicals When Doctrine...
View ArticleSoul Survivor: more follow-up on Scolding report
The Church Times reports: New working group to look at issues raised by Soul Survivor scandal AFTER the exposure of “appalling practices and a shocking abuse of power” at Soul Survivor, in reviews by...
View ArticleOpinion – 19 October 2024
Helen King sharedconversations Yet another autumn of Living in Love and Faith Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Sounds like bog-standard Anglicanism to me Bosco Peters Liturgy Which Bible is Inspired?...
View ArticleBishop of Aberdeen & Orkney: further developments
See our earlier report here. The bishop issued this statement on 9 October: Pastoral letter to the Diocese from the Bishop. The Church Times reported this on 17 October: Four Scottish bishops urge Dyer...
View ArticleSmyth independent review to be published on 13 November
The Church of England issued the following press release this morning. Smyth independent review publication plan 22/10/2024 The National Safeguarding Team, NST, has now received the independent review...
View ArticleOpinion – 23 October 2024
Philip Jones Ecclesiastical Law Bishops in Foreign Countries: Jurisdiction, Schism and Ecumenism Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News The “Failure of the Church”: Why Waiting is Not Neutral Colin Coward...
View ArticleLetters to the House of Bishops
The Church Times reports: Opponents and supporters of prayers for same-sex couples lobby bishops TWO Church of England pressure groups wrote to the House of Bishops before its meeting this week to...
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