Thinking Anglicans

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Kate Bottley The Guardian I’m the vicar on Gogglebox, but that’s not the only funny thing about me

In Church Times Michael Palin writes about churches that have meant the most to him in my seven of the best, and there is this leading article: A church definition.

Robert Ellsberg The Tablet Raised to the altars: one who fell for the poor
John Dear Huffington Post Honoring Oscar Romero of El Salvador

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Bishop Steven Croft Advising Mr Cameron: lessons from an ancient kingdom

A study day on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner taught Malcolm Doney the link between poetry and theology; he writes in Church Times: Grey beard — but no loon.

Claire Jones Come to this table – if you’re one of us

The Bishops of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and of Hertford were consecrated at Westminster Abbey on Ascension Day. Rowan Williams preached the sermon.

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Rachel Giles Church Times Health: Blessed, but not with a child

Patrick Comerford The Irish Times Same-sex marriage: Why are faith groups so concerned about civil legislation?

Christopher Howse The Telegraph Women building a library in exile

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Simon Jenkins Reform Magazine Jumble sales of the apocalypse: When prayer goes wrong

Lisa Kelly Ignatian Spirituality Dude, You Can’t Fail!

Steven Croft The Top Ten Proverbs for Twitter and Facebook

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Lisette Thooft interviews Linda Woodhead for Volg Nieuw W!J: “Liberal Religion is Hardline Religion”.

Chrissy Sykes Thoughts from a baby Christian

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Andrew Brown The Guardian Faith no more: how the British are losing their religion

Michael Sadgrove On Reaching a Certain Age

David Benady PR Week Spreading the word

Ian Duffield Signs of the Times The 2015 proposals to re-brand the Church of England

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Julian Coman The Observer Should the church be a radical voice in politics?

Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Ralph Jones for New Humanist The Church rejected me because I’m gay.

Giles Fraser The Guardian Arguments over Greek debt echo ancient disputes about Easter

Some Easter Day sermons

Archbishop of Canterbury
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

Bishop of Chelmsford
Bishop of Chichester
Bishop of Ely
Bishop of Exeter
Bishop of Guildford
Assistant Bishop of Newcastle
Bishop of Norwich
Bishop of Stockport
Bishop of Taunton

Bishop of Argyll & The Isles
Bishop of Brechin
Bishop of Edinburgh
Bishop of Moray, Ross & Caithness

Archbishop of Dublin

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The Guardian Palm Sunday celebrated wordwide – in pictures
Penitents during Holy Week around the world – in pictures

Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool Huffington Post All Welcome to the Table This Easter

Chrism Mass sermons
Bishop of Southwark
Bishop of Liverpool

Andrew Brown The Guardian Michael Gove is right – Christianity has become a laughing stock

Editorial in The Guardian The Guardian view on Easter: David Cameron’s wonky cross

Giles Fraser The Guardian Christianity, when properly understood, is a religion of losers

Christian Piatt sojourners Fifty Shades of God: Does Easter Week Affirm Our Violent Desires?

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Laurence Cawley BBC News The Jedi and the Bishop: two men from Essex, two religious outlooks

John Pavlovitz 6 Reasons Stone-Throwing Christians May Need To Retire “Go And Sin No More”

Andrew Lightbown Secular utilitarianism 1 – Agape 0; the problems with Baber’s scheme

Christopher Howse The Telegraph Mozarabic chant in deepest Suffolk

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Helen De Cruz has interviewed H E [Harriet] Baber as part of a series on Philosophers and their religious practices: The SCP is my Church.

The Guardian Homes in old churches – in pictures

Madeleine Davies Why journalists can’t afford to ignore religion

Helen Pidd of The Guardian has been talking to the Bishop of Stockport: Libby Lane: ‘Whatever the Church’s failings, I really think this is where God has put me’.

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Ian Paul Is ‘discipleship’ Anglican?

John Armstrong Episcopal News Service Canon David Porter shares lessons learned about reconciliation

Christopher Howse The Telegraph The trouble with swearing an oath on a holy book

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Andrew Stephens-Rennie An open letter to parishes hiring youth workers

Ana Marie Cox The Daily Beast Why I’m Coming Out as a Christian

Anna Tims has been talking to Tim Pike for The Guardian’s Work & Careers page: How do I become … a priest.

Theo Hobson New Statesman The problem with church schools? They run counter to Christian values
Nigel Genders (Church of England Chief Education Officer) Church schools: No problem

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Cole Moreton Five ways for the Church of England to stop making a complete and utter fool of itself over money

Kelvin Holdsworth The Archbishop, the gays and their sins

Charlotte Gale Ten things I have learned about General Synod

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Rose Hudson-Wilkin Christian Today What Christians get wrong about Politics

Angus Ritchie Huffington Post What Do the Bishops Know About Politics? More Than You’d Think…

Eliza Filby Church Times The Church, the ballot-box, and Mrs Thatcher

Economist Gender, violence and religion: When north and south agree

Linda Woodhead Theos What is the future for religion in Britain?

Giles Fraser The Guardian Give me hypocrites over cynics any time. At least they aspire to something

Antonia Blumberg Huffington Post Christians Celebrate Ash Wednesday Around The World [Photos From Around The World]

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Today is Valentine’s Day. Kelvin Holdsworth has 10 Tips on How to Date a Priest.

Brian Orme ChurchLeaders.com 10 Dangerous Myths About Church Growth

Giles Fraser The Guardian I regret that the devil is being made redundant. He’ll be much missed

Christopher Howse The Telegraph A throne like a church spire

A conversation about Time with Br Geoffrey Tristram and the Rt Rev Nick Knisely: Eternity is Real

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Madeleine Davies A response to Stephen Fry

Giles Fraser The Guardian I don’t believe in the God that Stephen Fry doesn’t believe in either

Maurice Glasman Church Times After the bad and the ugly — good economics

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Ian Paul responds to the article by Linda Woodhead that I linked to last week: Who is ducking what in the C of E?

Justin Welby has blogged On tweeting and touching and preached this homily at Trinity Wall Street, New York.
Andrew Brown of The Guardian responds with this: Justin Welby’s Twitter sermon sounds like a plea for ecclesiastical discipline.

Angela Tilby Church Times Dissing the D-word

Giles Fraser The Guardian Even atheists such as Stephen Fry have Downton-esque nostalgia for the C of E

Graham Kings Fulcrum English Monk Who Encouraged the Ministry of Women. Also published in The Times (£).

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Linda Woodhead Church Times The challenges that the new C of E reports duck

Meri-Anna Hintsala Westminster Faith Faiths blog Putting a Church Online – Lessons from Finland

Church Times leader Right sort of growth

Michael Paulson New York Times Inequality as a Religious Issue: A Conversation With the Archbishop of Canterbury

Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech at ‘Creating the Common Good’ conference in New York

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Ben Irwin blogs How Newsweek Got the Bible Right — and Still Got it Wrong in response to the Newsweek article that I linked to three weeks ago.

The Economist Go forth and multiply

Mark Clavier blogs Fragmented formation: training clergy.

Father Richard Peers SCP ‘Liberals in vestments’: What is the Society of Catholic Priests for?

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The Guardian Epiphany around the world – in pictures

Huffington Post Epiphany 2015: Dates, Customs, Scripture And History Of ‘Three Kings Day’ Explained (PHOTOS)

Paul Handley Church Times leader Fundamentalism

Christopher Howse writes about St Hilary in his Sacred Mysteries column in The Telegraph Troglodytes, topazes and the spring term.

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