Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – 31 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The difference between the unconditionally loving God of Jesus and today’s abusive, unhealthy omni-God

Helen King sharedconversations Resets, settlement, commitments and explorations… A further update on LLF

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Opinion – 27 January 2024

Martin Sewell Surviving Church From Culture Change to Winning Ways

Steven Shakespeare Redefining marriage? Opposition to same sex marriage and the limits of the claim to ‘biblical’ orthodoxy

Anon ViaMedia.News Mini-MBA Course for the Talent Pipeline in the Church of England: Revised Strategy Module

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Opinion – 24 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The tunic was seamless, woven in one piece throughout

Gavin Drake Church Abuse

Mark Bennet ViaMedia.News Marriage, but not LLF

Pete Ward ViaMedia.News The Magic Money Tree for Work with Children and Young People: Good News?

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Opinion – 20 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Healthy contemporary evolutionary Christian vision, theology and practice

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters Data: Less is more?

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Opinion – 17 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Abusive unhealthy traditional Christianity, theology and practice

Alex Fry ViaMedia.News More than Theology? How Beliefs About Women’s Ordination are Socially Rooted

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church More Scrutiny of the CofE and its Safeguarding Record. The Glasgow Report

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters New year: new data?

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Opinion – 13 January 2024

Gerry Lynch The Critic The failure of Anglican managerialism

Giles Fraser UnHerd Will the Church follow the Post Office?

Ian Paul Psephizo The crisis of episcopal leadership in the Church of England

Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head What’s really happening to the churches in Scotland

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Opinion – 10 January 2024

Helen King sharedconversations Keeping the church together?

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love God according to Harry Williams

David Goodhew The Living Church After COVID: The Deepening Decline of the Church of England

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Opinion – 6 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love CEEC plot to impose an abusive, prejudiced, discriminatory, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic culture on the Church of England

Andrew Goddard Psephizo Have evangelicals made secret plans to split the Church?

Claire Brader House of Lords Library Lords spiritual in the House of Lords explained

Polly Smythe New York Times It’s Christmas, and England’s Priests Have Had Enough
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Andrew Brown comments on this article in the Church Times: Press: New York Times probes unionisation of Anglican clergy

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Opinion – 3 January 2024

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Changing attitudes towards life in all its fullness

Andrew Graystone ViaMedia.News When Good Reviews Go Bad

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Opinion – 30 December 2023

Nic Tall ViaMedia.News Plotting the Division of the Church of England

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church After Wilkinson. Towards a Trauma-Informed Church

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Opinion – 20 December 2023

Kelvin Holdsworth What’s in Kelvin’s Head Coupled Together

Jonathan Clatworthy The point of it all Fear, emptiness and hope

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Opinion – 16 December 2023

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Does the CofE meet the Standards of the Nolan Principles in its Life?

The Church of England has a Redress Blog. It is “a blog for survivors and victims to express in their own words what “redress” means to them and to share their hopes for the National Redress Scheme. It is also a blog for Church officers and staff to provide regular updates on the progress the Church is making towards developing the Scheme.” Although the blog has been in place since October, it was only this week that there was a press release drawing attention to it. So far there have been these four posts.

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Opinion – 13 December 2023

Surviving Church The Catastrophic Failure of Governance

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love What kind of God?

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters Who’s coming for Christmas?

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Opinion – 6 December 2023

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love God is a revisionist

Martin Sewell Surviving Church Waiting for Wilkinson

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Opinion – 2 December 2023

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters Census taking – sacred and dangerous?

Bosco Peters Liturgy Are We Letting Worship Shape Us?

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Opinion – 29 November 2023

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Vile Bodies – Christian prejudice and abuse

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters Looking in the mirror?
“What happens to the statistics we carefully collect and collate. How are they used – if at all? In this edition we will look at myths, realities, and aspirations of using church stats”

Thomas Sharp ViaMedia.News Agree or Disagree: I’m Still in Communion with my Bishop

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Opinion – 18 November 2023

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters A question of position: CofE stats 2022

Adrian Thatcher ViaMedia.News Vile Bodies?

Ray Gaston ViaMedia.News Reclaiming Orthodoxy

The Guardian view on the C of E and same-sex relationships: love finds a way
“A decision by the church’s governing body to trial standalone blessings for couples is a significant moment”

Simon Parke Five questions to ask the prospective bishop

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Pre-Synod news and opinion

Paul Roberts Inclusive Evangelicals On the use and abuse of the term ‘orthodox’

Mandy Ford ViaMedia.News Polluted Ground or Holy Ground? Going Forward to the November Synod

Church Times General Synod same-sex debate on knife edge

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Opinion – 4 November 2023

Ruth Harley ViaMedia.News Collateral Damage: How Unjust Treatment of LGBTQIA+ People Harms the Church

Susan Hunt Surviving Church Searching for Truth. How ‘Kenneth’ has been failed by the Justice System of the Church of England

Neil Elliot NumbersMatters SMART or Organic?

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Opinion – 1 November 2023

Andrew Atherstone Law & Religion UK The House of Bishops of the Church of England and public transparency

Marcus Walker The Critic The road to Wigan’s tears

Evan McWilliams ViaMedia.News Same-sex Marriage and the Book of Common Prayer

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Are we heading for decisive Anglican indecision?

Jon Blanchard View from the Pew Why I am not a liberal

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