Helen King ViaMedia.News Jagged Edges: Where Safeguarding Overlaps with the Trust Deficit
Martin Gorick The Observer By reforming its position on sexuality of clergy, Church of England welcomes everyone
Richard Scorer Surviving Church The Matt Drapper Settlement. Damages awarded to plaintiff in ‘exorcism’ case.
Helen King ViaMedia.News July 2025 General Synod: money talks
10 CommentsMartin Sewell and Linda Billenness Surviving Church Synod ignores Audit Warnings
Martine Oborne Women and the Church The Church of England’s fifty-year journey from open sexism to concealed sexism
68 CommentsBen Gibson Surviving Church Institutional Failure and the Case of the Leicester Stalker: An Open Letter to General Synod
Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head “Issues” is no more
12 Comments‘Graham’ Surviving Church Justin Welby, the Truth and Forgiveness
The Unanswered Questions. Attachment/Addendum to Graham’s Article
Giles Fraser UnHerd Anglicanism’s poisoned chalice Decent candidates run a mile
93 CommentsIan Gomersall A Retired Rector’s Reflections A curious event at an ordination
Nick Spencer, George Lapshynov and Hannah Rich Theos Should Chris Coghlan be denied the Eucharist?
In this week’s issue of The Critical Friend Tim Wyatt writes about the resignation/retirement of the Archbishop of Wales in The rot goes deep, and about The Leicester Stalker. For those who have not been following the Leicester case, the BBC investigation is here, and subsequent statements from the Diocese of Leicester are here. House of Survivors have also issued a statement.
Alexandra Zhirnova reads the Nicene Creed in Old English; the Church of England has a press release.
147 CommentsSally Hope ViaMedia.News There’s Another Church Abuse Crisis That’s in Every Congregation, and Very Much Closer to Home
Pat Ashworth Church Times Retired clergy ‘keeping the show on the road’
24 CommentsAnne Richards Modern Church The Death of Us
Helen King sharedconversations Ceasefire?
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Safeguarding and the Falsely Accused
41 CommentsLizette Miller Pray Tell Blog An Overview of Anglican Liturgical Music:
Part I
Part II
part III
Paula Blake Women and the Church Lay people should be consulted in decisions about alternative episcopal oversight
108 CommentsTimothy Goode ViaMedia.News The Body the Church Forgot: Reimagining Sacred Space from the Margins
Phil Groves ViaMedia.News Some Things You Never Forget
The Bishop of Hereford has responded to Monday’s announcement of the Church of England national spending plans, as reported here in the Church Times.
Shrink grants in favour of funding parish clergy, Bishop of Hereford urges Church Commissioners
Alice Goodman Prospect The strange ritual of confirmation
Helen King sharedconversations Another one bites the dust: resignation, LLF … and murder?
Trevor Thurston-Smith The Pensive Pilgrim Hymns : Entering the Minefield
123 CommentsThe Church Mouse Confessions of a Quiet Revival Sceptic
Anon Surviving Church Surviving Abuse and Institutional Betrayal
Mark Clavier Well-Tempered Hope for a Hurting Church
39 CommentsChurch in Wales Statement of the Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales on the Supreme Court ruling regarding the legal definition of a woman
Mark Clavier Well-Tempered Why I Love the Church Year (Even Lent)
Andrew Brown The slow deep hover The Bishop who didn’t believe a word of it
60 CommentsMartyn Percy Meander
Andrew Goddard Psephizo Who are the bishops in the Church of England?
Theo Hobson A new style
Helen King sharedconversations The Church of England as a WASGIJ: more than Myriad?
86 CommentsMartyn Percy Surviving Church Shades of Grey
Sharon Jagger Women and the Church A case of logocide
Mark Clavier Well-Tempered A Commonwealth of Grace
“Reimagining the Church’s Common Life”
Ian Paul Psephizo Is the Church of England growing?
61 CommentsAndrew Goddard Psephizo Canterbury tales: what happens next?
Neil Patterson and Helen King Together for the Church of England Together write to the House of Bishops
“concerns about those excluded from the discernment process and ordination training due to their marital status”
Marcus Walker The Critic Anglican churchgoers need the Real Thing
“The Church of England is falling behind because we’re serving such thin gruel”
Michael Hampson ViaMedia.News We used to Have Liturgy: Now we Have Bureaucracy
55 CommentsMartine Oborne Women and the Church A clarification on WATCH’s position regarding the Five Guiding Principles
Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News We Don’t Need More Theology: This is the Time for Action
39 CommentsAndrew Watson, the Bishop of Guildford, has published this paper: Living in Love and Faith: Discerning the Mind of the Church.
Tim Wyatt comments on the paper in his weekly newsletter: B2 or not B2, that is the question.
Sam Wells and Lucy Winkett Church Times Separate structures put the Church of England in danger
“To support same-sex relationships or women’s leadership is not to depart from orthodoxy”
Susannah Clark ViaMedia.News
Lizzie Taylor Women and the Church When will Bishops let ordinary churchgoers have a say about equality for women in the Church?
140 CommentsAndrew Goddard Psephizo How not to run an election: Canterbury Diocese Vacancy-in-See Elections
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Radically inclusive groups and networks in the Church of England pursuing Mutual Responsibility and Interdependence
83 CommentsMark Clavier Well-Tempered Giving Reform Its Proper Language
A follow-up to ‘Beyond the Scaffolding’
Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Faculty for the Creation of a Storage Room for all the Things we Can’t Face Raising Faculties For the Removal Of
Jeremy Morris Ad fontes Encountering Pope Francis
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