Thinking Anglicans

Opinion – 26 July 2023

Will Timmins Bible By Day Abuse NDAs and the Church: Making a Covenant with Death

Religion Media Centre Briefing: Is the Church of England ungovernable?

Kirk Smith The Living Church A Bishop Goes to Seminary
“How Working in Four Episcopal Seminaries Changed My Understanding of Theological Education”

David Runcorn Inclusive Evangelicals General Synod, LLF and the mind of the church

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Opinion – 22 July 2023

Jonathan Clatworthy The point of it all Early Christian marriage

Caroline Newman Surviving Church Is anyone safe in the Church of England?

Mark Bennet ViaMedia.News Learning Lessons? Leading a Church Where Abuse Has Happened

Lorraine Cavanagh Christian Faith in the here and now

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Opinion – 19 July 2023

Theo Hobson The Spectator The Church of England is on the brink of a crisis

Morwenna Ludlow ViaMedia.News Giving Up Sex? What Macrina Tells Us About Choosing Celibacy

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Opinion – 15 July 2023

Helen Hall and Javier Garcia Oliva ViaMedia.News Marriage Law in England and Wales – Some Reflections

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Jayne Ozanne and Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin speak passion and truth

Rosie Dawson The Living Church A ‘Culture of Mistrust’ at General Synod

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Opinion – 8 July 2023

HH Peter Collier KC Law & Religion UK Marriage and/or Holy Matrimony

Judith Maltby ViaMedia.News Equality, Parliament, and the Established Church: Some Recent Close Encounters

Iain McLean ViaMedia.News Can Parliament Permit Church of England Clergy to Marry Same-Sex Couples? Should it?

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Opinion – 5 July 2023

David Bagnall ViaMedia.News Let’s Disagree to Agree: Rwanda and Homosexuality

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love How to be a Christian re-imaginer in an era of crisis

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Opinion – 1 July 2023

Tim Chesterton Inclusive Evangelicals From Rejection to Affirmation: My Personal Journey

Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley “A Recipe for Red Tape” – the New Church of England Dioceses

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Opinion – 28 June 2023

Martine Oborne ViaMedia.News Thirty Years of Women Priests in the Church of England and Still Two Thirds of Paid Posts Are Held by Men

Mike Higton kai euthus Disagreement, Conscience, and Harm

Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News Trust and Transparency – it’s Time for Change

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Opinion – 24 June 2023

Archdruid Eileen The Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Revised Church of England Ministerial Training Curriculum

Fergus Butler-Gallie New Statesman Why vicars are revolting
“Front-line clergy are turning against an increasingly managerial Church of England.”

Huw Spanner Church Times Clergy retirement: Insights into the Church’s silver service
“There are dioceses in which retired priests preside at as many as half the eucharists celebrated. Huw Spanner hears about being relied on”

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Opinion – 17 June 2023

Richard Tuset Anglo Catholicism: Historical re-enactment society or a potent force for contemporary evangelism

Sam Maginnis Church Times Clergy need a stipend that alleviates hardship
“Rising inflation has left many clerics struggling to cover household bills and other essentials”

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Opinion – 14 June 2023

Erin K Wilson Religion and Global Society The changing nature of religion in today’s world

Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Team Ministries and Minster Communities in the Church of England.

Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News Playing the Victim

65 Comments

Opinion – 7 June 2023

Christopher Marshall Walking together with differences

Gilo Surviving Church Missing in Action?

Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Consultation on National Standards

Mike Higton kai euthus Power in the Church of England

Craig D’Alton Humane Catholic Church for Introverts?

Paul Avis The Living Church The Role of Bishops in the Governance of the Church

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Opinion – 27 May 2023

Ian Paul Psephizo The Church of England’s financial imbalance

Sophie Grace Chappell ViaMedia.News Two-Edged Scripture: Taking the Bible Seriously

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Opinion – 24 May 2023

David Runcorn Beginning now – praying in uncertainty and perplexity

Steven Shakespeare Mary: Woman of the Apocalypse

Rachel Muers ViaMedia.News Conscientious Objection
Questions of Conscience (5)

Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Survivor Engagement

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Opinion – 20 May 2023

David Runcorn

Martine Oborne ViaMedia.News In Conscience?
Questions of Conscience (4)

Christopher Landau Church Times Can Gen Z save a C of E it barely knows?
“The lack of attention to liturgy in some of the larger urban churches is a cause for concern, argues Christopher Landau”

100 Comments

Opinion – 17 May 2023

Philip North ViaMedia.News On Conscience
Questions of Conscience (3)

Martin Sewell Surviving Church Why the Bishop of Oxford should be suspended

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Opinion – 13 May 2023

Rosie Harper Surviving Church The Thing under the Thing………

Women and the Church Inquiry by Independent Reviewer into the appointment of the Rt Revd Philip North as Bishop of Blackburn

Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News Killing Fear and Freeing Conscience: Charting the Way Forward for our Life Together
Questions of Conscience (2)

Alice Goodman Prospect Clerical life: Last days of the curates
“I hear more and more about gifted young clergy leaving the church–and it fills me with dread”

Andrew Lightbown Theore0 Speaking of ologies and economic theory

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Opinion – 10 May 2023

Matthew S C Olver The Living Church Ritual Repels the Robots: One Human Response to AI

Giles Goddard ViaMedia.News Freedom of Conscience: Sauce for the Gander?
Questions of Conscience (1): opening a new series of posts offering reflections on this theme

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Opinion – 3 May 2023

Emma John The Guardian The church has at last welcomed us singletons into the fold. Hallelujah!

Anonymous Surviving Church New Dictionary Definitions for the Church of England. No 1: ‘Independent’

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Opinion – 29 April 2023

Stanley Monkhouse Rambling Rector Retired Struggle

Beth Keith Modern Church Is Liberal Theology Dead?

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