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1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00Opinion – 16 March 2024
https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/opinion-16-march-2024/
2024-03-16T11:00:10ZAndrew Brown Church Times Press: Telegraph sketches Jekyll-and-Hyde C of E Madeleine Davies Church Times No churchwardens and vacant PCC posts: an investigation into the church volunteering crisis [Church Times has lifted its paywall for the whole of March.] Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Living in Love and Faith and Together for the Church of England […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/parish-finance-statistics-2022/
2024-03-14T20:54:48ZThe Church of England has recently published its Parish Finance Statistics 2022. These provide the latest financial information, including: Income Expenditure Giving Tables showing parish finances aggregated to diocese level are available as an excel file. Finance statistics for previous years, and other publications of the Research and Statistics Unit can be found on the […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/opinion-13-march-2024/
2024-03-13T11:00:55ZColin Coward Unadulterated Love Life in all its fullness Zac Koons The Living Church A Bronze Serpent Processional Cross
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/safeguarding-advert-for-wilkinson-jay-response-group-co-chair/
2024-03-12T11:49:18ZUpdated This advertisement has appeared on Guardian Jobs, originated by Charisma Recruitment. The full text is copied below the fold. Co-Chair Employer Church of England Location Remote Salary Unremunerated with reasonable expenses paid* Closing date 8 Apr 2024* Update The asterisked items above show the advert as originally published. The Salary line has been changed, […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/reparatory-justice-oversight-group-recommendations/
2024-03-09T17:50:46ZUpdated Tuesday The Fund for Healing, Repair and Justice describes itself this way: A seed for growth and change In 2023, the Church Commissioners for England published a report into its historic links to African chattel enslavement. In penitence and hope, the Church Commissioners proposed a fund to address a legacy of racialised inequality that […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/llf-re-formation-of-working-groups/
2024-03-08T17:11:41Zpress release New programme board to help steer LLF next steps 08/03/2024 Lead Bishop gives update to Synod members Following discussion at the February meeting of General Synod, further details of plans for a new Programme Board to oversee the ongoing work of Living in Love and Faith (LLF) have been shared with General Synod […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/opinion-6-march-2024/
2024-03-06T11:00:11ZAnon ViaMedia.News The Unbearable Lightness of Being General Synod David Goodhew The Living Church The Church of England After COVID: Quo Vadis? also online at Psephizo Marcus Walker The Critic Dumbing down the priesthood “Unless the Church reinstates rigorous college-based training for clerics, it will wither away”
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/february-general-synod-electronic-voting-results-2/
2024-03-03T22:19:43ZUpdated 7 March to add item 13 and 14 The electronic voting results from this month’s General Synod are now available online and are linked below, with links to the order papers containing the relevant texts. Electronic voting results Item 006 (Code of Conduct for PCCs – Order Paper II) Item 013 (Racial Justice – […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/bishop-of-glasgow-galloway-announces-retirement/
2024-03-02T22:55:28ZNews from the The Scottish Episcopal Church The Right Rev Kevin Pearson has announced today that he will retire as Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway on 31 August this year. Bishop Kevin became the 15th Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway in July 2020 upon his translation from the Diocese of Argyll and The Isles…
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/opinion-2-march-2024/
2024-03-02T11:47:43ZAlex Frost ViaMedia.News Estates Evangelism: Justice on the Margins Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News Finding a Way Through: February 2024 Tim Sumpter Church Times How Covid changed one vicar Church Times has lifted its paywall for the whole of March.
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/opinion-28-february-2024/
2024-02-28T12:00:19ZJeremy Pemberton From The Quire Inching Forwards? Helen King sharedconversations Next business, anyone? LLF, Synod, February 2024 Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Living in Love and Faith – a Church in crisis Introducing the team for Life in all its Fullness
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/opinion-24-february-2024/
2024-02-24T11:00:29ZHelen King sharedconversations Questions of fornication Lisa Oakley University of Chester Response from Professor Lisa Oakley to the ‘Future of Church Safeguarding’ report recommendation 10 the removal of spiritual abuse
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/general-synod-23-27-february-2024/
2024-02-22T18:36:10ZThis post will be updated as the meeting proceeds. The Church of England’s General Synod is meeting this weekend. The timetable is here, the agenda is here and the papers are here. House of Laity meeting In addition the House of Laity will meet on Sunday evening. Agenda Briefing paper Order Paper I Live video […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/safeguarding-pre-synod-news-and-comment/
2024-02-22T12:50:05ZUpdated Friday to add a second Church Times article Gavin Drake Church Abuse The end is Nye for the Archbishops’ Council’s safeguarding fiasco General Synod: Further safeguarding obfuscation by the Archbishops’ Council Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The Future of Church Safeguarding – A look at the Jay Report also online at Modern Church Ruth Peacock […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/general-synod-questions-16/
2024-02-21T16:48:34ZThe Questions (and answers) for this weekend’s meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod were issued today. They can be found online here: Questions Notice Paper February 2024. Questions will be taken in two groups; on Friday from 5.30pm to 7.00pm, and for about an hour on Saturday morning. There are 225 questions. Update […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/opinion-21-february-2024/
2024-02-21T11:13:12ZUnadulterated Love ‘Valuing all God’s children – including trans people! Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Freeing the Church of England from Mental Slavery Helen King ViaMedia.News Slouching Towards Synod
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/jay-report-on-church-of-england-safeguarding-published/
2024-02-21T00:10:56ZUPDATED This report was commissioned by the Church of England and first announced on 20 July 2023. Details followed in August: see Future of Church Safeguarding. The report is now published: The Future of Church Safeguarding (55 pages) There is also a press release: Report into the future of safeguarding in the Church of England And […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/bishop-of-leicester-writes-to-general-synod-members/
2024-02-19T11:31:26ZThe Bishop of Leicester has written to all members of the General Synod this morning, ahead of the LLF debate at Synod this coming weekend. The original is here and I haved copied the body of the letter below the fold. To all General Synod Members Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, I am taking the unusual […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/bishop-of-buckingham-dr-alan-wilson/
2024-02-17T20:26:39ZThe Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft, has announced with great sadness the unexpected death of his colleague, the Rt Revd Dr Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham. Paying tribute to Bishop Alan, Bishop Steven said: “Alan was a dear friend and colleague to many across the Diocese. Alan has deep friendships and […]
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https://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/the-wilkinson-files/
2024-02-17T12:04:35ZSarah Wilkinson’s report into the Church of England’s Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB) was published in December. A debate on Safeguarding Independence (GS 2336) is scheduled to take place on Saturday 24 February at General Synod. In advance of this debate six short documentary-style films (“The Wilkinson Files”) which highlight the key findings of Dr Wilkinson’s […]
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