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’
48 CommentsStanley Monkhouse Rambling Rector Retired Struggle
Beth Keith Modern Church Is Liberal Theology Dead?
14 CommentsBendor Grosvenor The Art Newspaper ‘Westminster Abbey charges £27 per ticket–even God might baulk at that price’
“If ever a ticket price reflected British history it is for this royal church, where the nation’s great and good are commemorated in profusion”
Karen O’Donnell ViaMedia.News Consent, Power, and BDSM in Theological Research
80 CommentsMartine Oborne Student Christian Movement blog Frustrated Vocations: Why We Need an Honest Church on Women’s Ministry
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love The essence of the Christian message – the primacy of God’s unconditional, infinite, intimate love
Marianne Rozario Theos The death of traditional funerals
33 CommentsThe Guardian has published several letters in response to the article by Simon Jenkins that I linked to a week ago.
Saving churches from decay should be a national responsibility
“Readers take issue with an article by Simon Jenkins in which he suggests that local authorities should step in to fund churches”
Kirk Petersen The Living Church GAFCON Meeting Could Reshape the Anglican Communion
Helen King sharedconversations Revenge of the Sticky Notes
60 CommentsJudith Maltby ViaMedia.News Equal Marriage – 1928 Style
Peter Stanford The Guardian Is the UK prepared to let its rural churches rot – or can they be saved?
“A tour of abandoned Norfolk churches prompts reflections on the future of these sacred buildings in an age of declining faith”
Mark Vasey-Saunders scm press Disagreeing about our disagreements
Stephen Cottrell The Archbishop of York Easter Sunday reminds us to celebrate, not fear, our differences
Fergus Butler-Gallie Engelsberg Ideas Laughing with the Face of God
48 CommentsChurch of England bishops have highlighted the hope of the resurrection in a series of video and published messages ahead of Easter: Bishops speak of resurrection hope in troubled world
Christopher Howse The Spectator The surprising beauty of Mass in a burnt-out church
Calum Cockburn British Library Medieval manuscripts blog Picturing the Crucifixion
Simon Jenkins The Guardian The decline of churchgoing doesn’t have to mean the decline of churches – they can help us level up
Stephen Cottrell Archbishop of York Water is thicker than blood
Theo Hobson The Spectator Does the Church of England need evangelicals?
125 CommentsHelen King ViaMedia.News Pressing ‘PAUSE’
Jonathan Chaplin Law & Religion UK Lost in transmission – on not romanticising the Coronation
Rebecca Chapman The Church of England Newspaper Justin Welby: What Has Changed After 10 Tumultuous Years?
45 CommentsStanley Monkhouse Rambling Rector Retired Bashing on
Jayne Ozanne ViaMedia.News Hot Cross Bunnies & Religious Freedom
Philip Jones Ecclesiastical Law Electing the Parochial Church Council: Smith v Bishop of Barchester
44 CommentsHelen King ViaMedia.News One Church? Secrecy, Unity and Temptation
Fergus Butler-Gallie Church Times Beginning Lent from scratch
“Abstinence reveals what really matters, says Fergus Butler-Gallie in his new memoir about life as a young priest”
Justin Welby was installed as Archbishop of Canterbury ten years ago this week.
Giles Fraser UnHerd Justin Welby can’t read the room
Matthieu Lasserre La Croix International The man who’s trying to halt the Church of England’s decline
Tim Wyatt Religion Media Centre Gentle Justin, the archbishop who has steered the CofE through a troubled decade
Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News The Unholy Alliance
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love “I have come that you may have life, life in all its fulness”
Rachel Mann The Christian Century Twisting words
“What does it mean to protect women and girls?”
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church A New Dean – a New Beginning for Christ Church?
24 CommentsFr Ron Smith, who contributed more than 5000 comments to Thinking Anglicans, died on 10 March 2023, aged 93. He was a priest in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. Bosco Peters, a fellow New Zealander, has written this appreciation: Fr Ron Smith RIP.
‘Sioux Grey Wolf’ Psephizo Pandemic Pandemonium And The Purple Powers
34 CommentsCharles Read ViaMedia.News What is The Church of England Evangelical Council Up To? Some Autobiographical Reflections
Ed Watson Earth and Altar Who is Rowan Williams?
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church What is going on at the Top Level of the CofE over Safeguarding?
The Living Church Remembrances of Frank Griswold, 25th Presiding Bishop
0 CommentsIan Paul Psephizo Five good reasons for not giving
Martine Oborne ViaMedia.News Blackburn: What We Still Don’t Know
Drew Nathaniel Keane The Living Church
Sunday Liturgy without a Priest: Part One (Communion by Extension)
Sunday Liturgy Without A Priest: Part Two (Morning Prayer and Antecommunion)
Phil Hooper Earth & Altar Who is Athanasius of Alexandria?
50 CommentsBosco Peters Liturgy Deconstruction Part 1
Philip Zoutendam Earth & Altar Who is Thomas Cranmer?
One of my fellow editors at Thinking Anglicans has written this.
Simon Kershaw Thinking Allowed The Coronation Liturgy
Jasvinder Sanghera, Survivor Advocate Independent Safeguarding Board Response to SCIE report on safeguarding practices into Lambeth Palace
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Trying to be heard. How Lambeth Palace has let down the Abused in their search for Justice
See also links in the comments to our article Lambeth Palace safeguarding audit published.
April Alexander ViaMedia.News Learning from history: LLF and the ordination of women
Helen King ViaMedia.News Born-Again Virginity?
Pierre Whalon God does not exist
Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Review Time
Martyn Percy Prospect Magazine Why Charles’s coronation could be a spiritual flop
Pete Broadbent Ecclesiastical Law Journal Reflections on the Workings of General Synod
[no longer behind a paywall]
Alice Goodman Prospect Clerical life: Will the Church of England survive?
“According to the census less than half the population is now Christian. But in my parish, I still see parents passing their faith down to their children”
A new Resources Guide is now available from the Lambeth Conference team.
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Agents of contamination and decomposition – transcript of the vlog: Unadulterated Love episode 3
8 CommentsChristopher Cocksworth (Bishop of Coventry) The Living Church Living in Love and Faith: Where do things stand? Where do we go from here?
Andrew Rumsey Down in The Effra Cold Snap
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love GSFA and CEEC persecute LGBTQIA+ people who contaminate the Church
131 CommentsA Monument of Fame (Lambeth Palace Library blog) Back to the future: the Church Commissioners’ first computer
Martin Sewell Surviving Church Independent Safeguarding in the CofE. ‘When you give, let go’.
Simon Richiardi Surviving Church I kissed dating goodbye. Surviving a Church that practised ‘Biblical Marriage.’
K-Anonymous Surviving Church Innocent until proved guilty, except in the Church of England
Maggi Dawn Church Times God has many names: a solution to the inclusive-language dilemma
Andrew Nunn Looking back [at eighteen years on the General Synod]
Savitri Hensman ViaMedia.News Being Invisible While Anglicans Debate Marrying Same-Sex Couples
20 CommentsMiranda Threlfall-Holmes No, the doctrine of marriage is not fixed
Andrew Goddard Psephizo What are the bishops claiming about marriage?
Helen King sharedconversations Would you Adam and Eve it?
Russell Dewhurst Law & Religion UK Canon B5 and the Prayers of Love and Faith
Meg Munn Chair of the National Safeguarding Panel Annual Report 2022 National Safeguarding Panel
Giles Fraser UnHerd God has no gender
Frank Cranmer Religion Media Centre Factsheet: Establishment and the Church of England
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