Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The 40th anniversary of a feral priest’s priesting
Janet Fife Surviving Church The Gospel, Victims and Common Worship
Sarah Mullaly, the Bishop of London, preached this sermon at the annual Judges Service in Westminster Abbey yesterday.
“Justice in the Bible has less to do with the conviction of the guilty and more to do with the care of the innocent.”
Rachel Mann Church Times How Life of Brian drew me to Christianity
“Church leaders who condemned the film on its release 40 years ago missed its evangelistic potential”
Michael Sadgrove Woolgathering in North East England On Books, Waves and Not Getting Angry with Rascals
Andrew Lightbown Theore0 That under her we may be godly and quietly governed.
Church Times Leader Under judgment
1 CommentWesley Hill The Living Church Bibles for the Ages
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Long-term effects of Church Abuse
Helen King ViaMedia.News Wider Still & Wider…
17 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church Keith Makin and the Smyth review.
David Ison ViaMedia.News An Anglican Communion at a Crossroads?
5 CommentsJanet Fife Surviving Church Bishops-Free from the ‘bondage of corruption’?
Jeremy Pemberton From the Choir Stalls On Not Sharing the Peace
Michael Sadgrove Woolgathering in North East England Called to the Priesthood, Called to be Lay
Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Focus on prevention
Paul Bayes ViaMedia.News The (Rebel) Alliance of Allies
28 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church Truth and Integrity in Politics and Religion
Rosie Harper ViaMedia.News Shhh….It’s Secret!!
Philip Welsh Church Times Give parents room to breathe at baptisms
“The promises demanded in Common Worship are too didactic, argues Philip Welsh. A small act of rebellion is required”
Nick Baines Church Times What is truth, when we have a PM who lies?
“Trust is a casualty of this political crisis, says Nick Baines. The consequences could be far-reaching”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Who is my enemy? When the Church needs to listen better.
Wyn Beynon Inclusive Church Male Headship and Patriarchal Theologies
74 CommentsGilo Surviving Church Safeguarding the Secrets Pt 2 (NST)
David and Yvonne Shemmings Community Care Learning from survivors of church sexual abuse
Trevor Thurston-Smith The Pensive Pilgrim Collective Sin and Mrs Cook
Stephen Kneale Building Jerusalem If you really want to be a resource church, send your trainees to those best placed to train them
21 CommentsRachel Mann Church Times We should embrace our oddness
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Traumatising Narcissism, Survivors and Sexual Abuse
Mark Vernon Christian Today William Blake: The Christian prophet determined to open our immortal eyes
1 CommentMartin Sewell Archbishop Cranmer Nobody knows Nobody’s Friends
Karen Swallow Prior Christianity Today Screens Are Changing the Way We Read Scripture
8 CommentsStanley Monkhouse Rambling Rector O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself
Jonathan Clatworthy Modern Church Christian imperialism
Jonathan Draper Afterthoughts Trick or Treat?
Richard Peers Quodcumque – Serious Christianity Losing Sleep Over Michaela – why children aren’t coming to church
31 CommentsArchbishop Cranmer Clergy sexual abuse: why can’t the Church cleanse its own temple?
Gilo Surviving Church Safeguarding the Secrets part 1 – Nobody’s Friends
Anne Inman The Tablet Should we be calling priests ‘Father’?
“It is perhaps time for the dangers inherent in the use of ‘father’ as a form of address to be taken seriously”
Greg Sheridan The Spectator The West cannot survive without a re-energised belief in Christianity
“Most British people seem to take it on faith that to have faith is stupid”
Ian Ellis The Irish Times Serious dialogue: How different churches can enrich one another
“Rite&Reason: Receptive ecumenism seeks to learn from features of other denominations”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Congregational dynamics and murder
The John Smyth Review – Is it fit for purpose?
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Jesus: the Evidence; Channel 4, April 1984
Helen King sharedconversations Fight the good fight(s): the ordination of women and the human sexuality debate
Church Times Spiritual abuse: this way to the exit
Hattie Williams speaks to the authors of a new book that tracks a path through the maze of spiritual abuse
Fergus Butler-Gallie Church Times When was the pre-Brexit Golden Age?
Lloyd Brown Farewell to Shadowlands The Church without borders: Reflections from the Diocese in Europe
29 CommentsMartyn Percy delivered this lecture at Salisbury Cathedral: Redeeming Evangelism: Authentic Mission in the Church of England
Sumit Paul-Choudhury BBC Future Tomorrow’s Gods: What is the future of religion?
“Throughout history, people’s faith and their attachments to religious institutions have transformed, argues Sumit Paul-Choudhury. So what’s next?”
There are important pieces by Martin Sewell and Stephen Parsons about who has power in the Church of England; we have added links to them in the article Matt Ineson challenges the National Safeguarding Team.
Hannah Malcolm Church Times Brian Cox’s quest for meaning
“The Planets posed some searching questions for Christians”
Tim Stratford Dean of Chester Helter Skelters, Crazy Golf and LEGO®
2 CommentsStephen Parsons Surviving Church Further reflections on Deference in the Church
Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley An Expert on Retail and Christianity Writes
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and others Washington National Cathedral Have We No Decency? A Response to President Trump
11 CommentsDavid Hamid Eurobishop Deacons make history in the Diocese in Europe
Archbishop Richard Clarke The Irish Times Church of Ireland has put its survival over public engagement
Peter Allan Church Times Humanity’s third movement
“God’s work in creation is not finished”
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Boris kippers and sacred truth
Simon Robinson ruminations, contemplations, stumblings On being assaulted in church
24 CommentsSurviving Church Jane Chevous reflects on IICSA
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church An ethically challenged Church? Bullying and threats
Paul Bayes The Guardian Rough sleeping is not only a moral issue – it’s the measure of a just society
Georges Staelens Blogue de Georges Messes vespérales/Evening Masses
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love True and untrue images of God in the church
7 CommentsAndrew Lightbown Theore0 Speaking of Fresh Expressions, sacramentality and mission
Simon Taylor ViaMedia.News Does the Bible Really Say…that Creation is Straight?
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The Christlike God – seamless creation and evolution
Sam Wells delivered the Inclusive Church 2019 Lecture Citizens of Heaven: Identity, Inclusion and the Church earlier this month. You can read the transcript or watch the video.
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