Three articles by Martyn Percy for Modern Church
Embrace the “Tutufication” of the Church of England Part 3
Coda
Some Critical Comment on “Bishops and Ministry Fit for a New Context”
Rebecca Chapman Church Times Synod is falling victim to process
“Rebecca Chapman expresses her unease at procedural moves and general discontent”
Phil Groves ViaMedia.News MI5, Exclusion & The Church of England
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The Independent Learning Lessons Case Review – Graham Gregory. Some comments
34 CommentsRobert Springett ‘Save the Parish’: A response from Bishop Robert
Paul Bayes Thinking in Liverpool Farewell sermon, February 2022
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love NSG declines to define radical new Christian inclusion
Jeremy Marks ViaMedia.News Banning Prayer?
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church How Evil is to be found in our Institutions, including the Churches
3 CommentsWATCH A Report on the Developments in Women’s Ministry in 2021
Readers may find the tables in the downloadable pdf file easier to read.
Martyn Percy Modern Church Embrace the “Tutufication” of the Church of England Part 2
Giles Fraser UnHerd The Church’s war on the clergy
Ian Paul Psephizo Once again: should clergy be paid more?
Surviving Church A Maze with no Exit. Justice Denied in the Church of England
Eeva John Church Times A more excellent way to handle conflict
“The Church would deal with disagreement better if it were free from fear and full of love, says Eeva John, in a sermon preached in Great St Mary’s, the University Church, Cambridge, on 30 January”
Sorrel Shamel-Wood ViaMedia.News Another Injustice in the Church of England? Surely not!
123 CommentsDavid Mitchell The Guardian Having a laugh in church? God forbid
“A cathedral’s plan to host standup comedy has been criticised, but if it keeps places of worship relevant I’m a believer”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Unfinished Business at Christ Church Oxford
Archbishop Cranmer Christ Church’s magic £millions make the Dean’s safeguarding risk disappear
Andrew Lightbown ViaMedia.News Why I’m ‘Crossing the Severn’…
8 CommentsMartyn Percy Modern Church Twenty-Tutu (2022) is the Year for Leaving Oz Behind – Embrace the “Tutufication” of the Church of England
The first of a series of reflections in the lead up to Lent
Laudable Practice The Prayer Book’s theology of eucharistic consecration: Why individual cups should be rejected
Alan Wilson and Rosie Harper ViaMedia.News Who is Joe Rogan, Anyway?
Church Times In my end is my beginning
Fergus Butler-Gallie conducted a funeral with unexpected resonances
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Emotional Atrophy – a problem for the Church?
This has been overtaken by events, but may still be of some interest.
Angela Tilby The Tablet Christ Church, Oxford – scandal at the cathedral
Rosalind Hughes The Episcopal Café A Song of Anna
Alice Goodman Prospect Magazine Clerical life: Curing clergy burnout
“After Christmas, the things I’d been holding together in the parish had all come loose”
Church of England press release Statement from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York for LGBT+ History Month
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Departure of Tim Dakin from Winchester. Some thoughts
Ozanne Foundation Safeguarding survey shows only a third of UK adult LGBT+ Christians say they feel ‘safe to be out’ in their local church
Jayne Ozanne ViaMedia.News Collateral Damage – Do Church Leaders Care?
Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Lament for the Filling-in of Statistics for Mission
19 CommentsMeg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Annual Report 2021 National Safeguarding Panel
Andrew Goddard Psephizo Can the C of E ever bridge its differences on sexuality?
Pete Broadbent Mixed Ecology
“2030 Vision: People Strategy: Models of Church and Models of Ministry”
Janet Fife Surviving Church The Liberty: A meditation on Romans 8:19-21
‘One day the whole creation will know the glorious liberty of the children of God.’
James Walters Church Times Anglican Communion requires a rotating presidency
“Abandoning a colonial paradigm requires more than tinkering the CNC’s composition”
Clare Hayns Consider the Lilies Naomi: bittersweet
Ric Thorpe Premier Christianity Reports of the Church of England’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Here’s where it is thriving
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Wymondham Abbey – Stalemate?
Tim Wyatt Religion Media Centre Factsheet: Sexuality timeline in the Church of England
72 CommentsTrevor Cooper Law & Religion UK Contested heritage – A review of the Church of England guidance
Richard Burridge Church Times Is a Zoom rite a valid form of communion?
“The pandemic has led to eucharistic experiments online. But where is the Bishops’ guidance”
Jeremy Morris Ad fontes Whither Church reform? 1: Problems of the de-centralization agenda
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church The Winchester College Review about John Smyth
There is a link to the Review here.
Helen King sharedconversations Bake a cake for Living in Love and Faith: how to make your response count
Paul Devonshire Surviving Church “The Patronising Predisposition of Unaccountable Power”. The Cost of Questioning Church Authority
1 CommentThe Guardian view on same-sex weddings in church: the zeitgeist is moving
“The Church of England should follow the example of Anglicans in Wales and Scotland, and give its blessing to gay and lesbian relationships”
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Changing Attitude England’s campaign for equality
Martyn Percy Modern Church A Progressive Union for a Precarious Church
David Power Church Times Time’s up for stipendiary ministry
“The C of E should follow St Paul’s example, not secular trends”
Surviving Church Gangsterism and the Church of England
“Gilo takes a hard critical look at the Safeguarding Culture and the Administration of the Church of England”
Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Past Cases Review 2 project
51 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church Tutufication of the Church: A Path for the Future?
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Sorting out the disagreements about homosexuality
Harry Williams – Life Abundant or Life Resisting?
Peter Collier Ecclesiastical Law Society 50 Years of Safeguarding – 950 Years of Clergy Discipline: Where do we go from here?
There are links to a YouTube video of a lecture given in December 2021 and to an extended version of the text of the lecture.
There is a summary of the lecture in the Church Times.
Theo Hobson The Spectator Divided we stand: Anglicans need to agree to disagree
Stewart Clem The Living Church Building for Humans: a primer on Christian Architecture
Mark Hill Law & Religion UK The Great Strasbourg Bake Off
Paul Hackwood Church Times Church faces a stark choice for the future
“The drive towards centralisation is not working. Power must be shifted downwards to parish clergy”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church CDM – A Case Study
Safeguarding. A follow-up account of Church discipline in operation
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Collegiality and Tutufication
Duncan Wilson Worship Words A letter to Melchior
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Passionate Church Leadership and the Cause of Justice and Integrity
1 CommentStephen Parsons Surviving Church Diocese of Winchester: Questions about the Future
Paul Hackwood Church Times C of E’s crisis is about more than money
“Behind financial problems lie existential questions about purpose and vision”
Simon Jenkins The Guardian Churches could double as banks, or even serve beer. We can’t leave them empty
“These mainly listed buildings sit at the heart of almost every community – we are squandering a precious legacy”
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The True Wilderness: Harry Williams’ guide to living from within the depth of experience
32 CommentsMichael Coren tvo For a priest, Christmas week is among the hardest of the year
Jeremy Morris Ad fontes Gold, frankincense – and myth
Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Christmas and Easter – A Proposed Revision
David Brown Surviving Church The Church of England and its Episcopal Leadership
Martyn Percy Modern Church Rickety Religion (Part Five: Post-Advent Values)
Martyn Percy Modern Church Time, Light, Truth and Christmas Hope
Janet Fife Surviving Church Vignette in the Vestry
42 CommentsMartyn Percy Modern Church Rickety Religion (Part Four: Post-Advent Structures)
Paul Bayes ViaMedia.News Drawing the Line?
44 CommentsMartyn Percy Modern Church Rickety Religion (Part Three: Advent, Time and Structures)
‘Graham’ Surviving Church Will anyone ever be held to account over John Smyth?
Giles Fraser UnHerd Secular Christmas is a lie
“Only the Christian understanding of the festival makes sense”
Jayne Ozanne ViaMedia.News Evangelical Alliance: “Loving & Orthodox” or “Damaging & Dangerous”?
Russell Sandberg Law & Religion UK Christmas: a subversive legal history
Emma Beddington The Guardian Schmaltzy, saccharine or sinister? A brief guide to the worst Christmas carols
There are some readers’ letters in response: No crying he makes? Let’s sing the truth in our Christmas carols
Martyn Percy Modern Church Rickety Religion (Part Two: The Advent of Structures)
Timothy Goode ViaMedia.News A Story of Transforming Love – and My Mother
Jeremy Marks ViaMedia.News The Thorny Question of Desire!
20 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church Thirtyone:Eight and the Culture of the Titus Trust
Zachary Guiliano The Living Church Inns and Stables
Church Times Leader comment: Why does HTB get it right (and everyone else get it wrong)?
Church Times Gospel translations: That openeth the window, to let in the light
Madeleine Davies explores theories behind translations of the Gospels