Sarah Coakley Church Times Bring theology back to the parishes
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Full equality in ministry and relationships for LGBTQIA+ people — Unadulterated Love
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Gratification and Power – A Problem for the Church
Helen King Premier Christianity I’m celebrating the UK’s first female archbishop. I don’t care that she is in a civil partnership
44 CommentsColin Coward Unadulterated Love Questions for Christianity and the Church of England
Savitri (Savi) Hensman ViaVedia.News Sexuality Issues and the Church’s Theology Problem
5 CommentsTim Wyatt The Critical Friend Made in Sheffield
Also in this week’s newsletter is a piece on the Church in Wales and its new archbishop: Cleaning House
Theo Hobson What do liberal Anglicans want?
Ian Gomersall A Retired Rector’s Reflections Division at ordination
David Torrance House of Commons Library The relationship between church and state in the United Kingdom
A briefing paper on the relationship between church and state in the United Kingdom
David Voas The Conversation Is there really a religious revival in England? Why I’m sceptical of a new report
Mark Clavier Well-Tempered What the Heck Are Bishops For?
Michael Hampson ViaMedia.News No First Reading – Four Circumcisions Instead
9 CommentsFrancis Young Election of the 12th Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The Pearl of Great Price
Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Archdruid Eileen’s Sermon on AI
Anon Surviving Church Who is my Neighbour?
155 CommentsHelen 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
38 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
75 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
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