Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – 30 August 2025

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Are Charismatic Evangelical Anglican churches becoming more welcoming and open to LGBTQIA+ people?

Jonathan Surviving Church Three Years On after a NDA: Lessons Learnt

Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Re-envisioning the Midsomer Benefice

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Opinion – 27 August 2025

Ian Gomersall A Retired Rector’s Reflections Church of England’s major data breach

The Church Mouse The Quiet Revival under the microscope

Chine McDonald Theos Is this the end of Theology in Higher Education?

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Opinion – 23 August 2025

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church False Allegations, Rumours and Assumptions

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Opinion – 20 August 2025

Augustine Tanner-Ihm ViaMedia.News Bleeding While Leading: A Theological and Leadership Reflection

Martin Sewell Surviving Church Parting Shots

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Opinion – 16 August 2025

Martin Sewell Surviving Church Resigning from General Synod

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The Church of England’s absurd position on sex and marriage

Martyn Percy Meander Barnaclization in the Church of England

Helen King ViaMedia.News In the Beginning: Sex, AIDS, Judgment and the Church of England, 1986-1991

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Opinion – 13 August 2025

Jarel Robinson-Brown Modern Church Theologians in Real Life

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Russell T. Davies says Trump and Reform UK threaten gay rights

Marcus Walker The Critic First signs of an Anglican spring

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Opinion – 9 August 2025

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

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Opinion – 6 August 2025

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Questions for Christianity and the Church of England

Savitri (Savi) Hensman ViaVedia.News Sexuality Issues and the Church’s Theology Problem

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Opinion – 2 August 2025

Tim 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

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Opinion – 30 July 2025

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

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Opinion – 26 July 2025

Francis 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?

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Opinion – 23 July 2025

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

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Opinion – 19 July 2025

Martin 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

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Opinion – 16 July 2025

Ben 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

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Opinion – 9 July 2025

‘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

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Opinion – 5 July 2025

Ian 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.

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Opinion – 2 July 2025

Sally 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’

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Opinion – 28 June 2025

Anne Richards Modern Church The Death of Us

Helen King sharedconversations Ceasefire?

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Safeguarding and the Falsely Accused

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Opinion – 21 June 2025

Lizette 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

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Opinion – 14 June 2025

Timothy 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

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