Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – 4 June 2025

The 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

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Opinion – 31 May 2025

Church 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

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Opinion – 28 May 2025

Martyn 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?

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Opinion – 21 May 2025

Martyn 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?

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Opinion – 17 May 2025

Andrew 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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Opinion – 14 May 2025

Martine 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

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Opinion – 10 May 2025

Andrew 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”

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Opinion – 3 May 2025

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?

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Opinion – 30 April 2025

Andrew 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

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Opinion – 26 April 2025

Mark 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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Opinion – 23 April 2025

Giles Fraser UnHerd Happy Easter, losers

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Church of England campaign group attitudes to trans, intersex and non-binary people

Ian Gomersall A Retired Rector’s Reflections Putting Chrism at the centre

Mark Clavier Well-Tempered Beyond the Scaffolding
“What the Church in Wales’s Harries Report Missed and Why It Still Matters”

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Opinion – 16 April 2025

Ian Gomersall A Retired Rector’s Reflections What do you do with your palm cross?

Martine Oborne Women and the Church Making the pain of our exclusion present

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love What kind of God do we believe in – Supernatural or Metaphysical?

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Opinion – 9 April 2025

Michael Hampson ViaMedia.News Common Worship and our Gender-neutral God

Martyn Percy Surviving Church The Church of England in Secular Cycles: A Case of Corporate Long-Covid?

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Rumours of angels and reports of abuse

Andrew Brown The slow deep hover Here Eye goes again

Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News Consensus, Compassion, Truth, and Grace

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Opinion – 5 April 2025

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Trusting our epiphany experiences

Abigail King Church Times Growing up in a vicarage stays with you

Bosco Peters Liturgy Passion, Palms, Passover, and other Problems

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Opinion – 2 April 2025

Helen King ViaMedia.News Share and Share Alike? Living in Love and Faith and Funding the Church of England

Rachel Starr ViaMedia.News Behold the Men: Identifying Risks, Reconsidering Relationships

Mark Clavier Well-Tempered Can Something Good Emerge from the Crisis of Clergy Burnout?

Johanna Stiebert ViaMedia.News Marriage and the Bible: It’s Complicated

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Opinion – 29 March 2025

Jo Winn-Smith OneBodyOneFaith Lent

Andrew Goddard Psephizo What is going wrong with the Canterbury appointment process?

Tim Wyatt The Critical Friend Beyond reproach
“The torturously complicated process to choose the new Archbishop of Canterbury is losing the faith of one half of the church”

Mark Clavier Well-Tempered Clergy Burnout and the Cure of Souls

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Is Truth Dead?

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Opinion – 22 March 2025

Ian Paul Psephizo Is Church of England ministry sustainable?

Andrew Goddard Psephizo Is there progress on the appointment of a new Archbishop?

John Smith Psephizo The Hidden Limits of Class in the Church

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Living by intuitive, experiential, emotional faith

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Opinion – 15 March 2025

Fergus Butler-Gallie Engelsberg Ideas Nicaea: the council that shaped the West

Church Times Lent faith series: Upending Church and family
Neil MacGregor begins a series of uncomfortable images for Lent with Christ Discovered in the Temple by Simone Martini.

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Opinion – 12 March 2025

Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News On Being Conservative

Jonathan Clatworthy The point of it all 1700 years of the Nicene Creed: why?

Ian Gomersall A Retired Rector’s Reflections At Home: Ash Cross

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Opinion – 8 March 2025

Georgia Ashwell Women and the Church The Theology of Taint and other misogyny in the Church of England

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church George Carey and the Safeguarding CDM. Time for a Fresh Look?

Duncan Dormor USPG The Church at a Crossroads

Bosco Peters Liturgy A Common Easter

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