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Archbishop addresses Anglican secondary school heads

Sep 28, 2016 by Jill

Archbishop Justin Welby set out the Church of England’s education vision at the Anglican Academies and Secondary Heads Conference at Coventry Cathedral on Friday 23 September. Read the text of the Archbishop’s speech: Church Schools: Communities of faith and reconciliation in a multi-faith context When I last spoke on education it was 22nd June – the day before the vote on whether the UK remained or left the European Union. While it was only three months ago, as a country we are...

Archbishop Justin Welby: Church has helped spread antisemitism

Sep 27, 2016 by Jill

by Aaron James, Premier: The Archbishop of Canterbury has said the Church has helped spread antisemitism across the world. Most Rev Justin Welby made the comment in an essay for the Holocaust Education Trust, which recently asked leaders in religious and public life to submit their thoughts on antisemitism for its new ‘Lessons Learned?’ project. The Trust says ‘Lessons Learned?’ comes after an 11 percent rise in antisemitism last year, including language and imagery...

Justin Welby affirms traditional family values in the face of a changing world

Sep 27, 2016 by Jill

by Justin Welby, Anglican Ink: There is something remarkably appropriate about the Mothers’ Union picking two readings, one of drama and reliance on the intervention of God. And the other is one of Jesus’s jokes, with a very sharp sting in it. It is appropriate to put these two together because the Mothers’ Union is God-centred in a remarkable way. The Mothers’ Union faces the most extreme odds that cannot be overcome except through the action of God. But also, contrary to the mockery and...

The Church of England now has no place for believers in the traditional family

Sep 23, 2016 by Jill

by Jane Kelly, Telegraph: Being a member of the Church of England is to belong to a strange club, or so it seems to me. All the rules have changed since I joined as an infant, or rather since my parents imposed their religion onto me (something which is now discouraged). There is no escape from the new ethos of the place and even the flannely Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, is zealous in his mission to drag us all, no matter how recalcitrant, into the modern, post-Christian age. Like...

Victorian family values are a myth, Archbishop tells Mothers’ Union

Sep 23, 2016 by Jill

by John Bingham, Telegraph: The idea of a Victorian golden age of traditional family values is a “myth”, the Archbishop of Canterbury has insisted as he urged Christians to face up to the reality of divorce, cohabitation and gay marriage in the 21st century. The Most Rev Justin Welby, who argued in the House of Lords against the legislation extending marriage to same-sex couples, said new family structures including same-sex unions are now a reality “whether we agree or not”. His remarks came...

After “Shared Conversations” what Gospel will the Church of England share?

Sep 13, 2016 by Jill

By Canon Phil Ashey, AAC: Summary: On matters of human sexuality, does the Archbishop of Canterbury believe that one must sacrifice the clarity and authority of the Bible to reach lost people? If so, he should admit it clearly and let the rest of the Communion move on. For what he will have left to share is an amputated gospel: grace without guilt, confession without conviction, response without repentance, imagination in place of revelation, and imitation without imputation. In the hopes of...

The ‘Be Positive’ message: are we substituting God’s grace with our own?

by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream. How should Christians live “in a culture which often either ignores faith or aggressively opposes it? What are Christians to do in… an environment, where traditional attitudes to morality are suddenly becoming extreme and unacceptable?” These questions were asked at a recent symposium hosted by an organisation called Threads UK, […]
OSCE Film Review – Voices of the Silenced: experts, evidences and ideology

from Core Issues Trust: As part of the 20th Human Dimension Implementation Meeting of the OSCE in Warsaw, Poland, Core Issues Trust today (27th September 2016) released a trailer of its new production – “Voices of the Silenced: experts, evidences and ideology”. The side event, a working breakfast, preceeded Working session 12 (Tolerance and non-discrimination) […]
Married parents are the best defence against child abuse

by Rob Slane, The Conservative Woman: Imagine you have a really bad back. You go to the doctors, but instead of examining you properly, he says that he is sorry you are in discomfort, before writing a prescription for some strong painkillers. The painkillers help numb the pain somewhat, but the problem persists, and the […]
A Tale of Two Cities: Charlotte and Tulsa

by Canon Phil Ashey, AAC: Every morning I check the news headlines and frequently rely on my mobile phone’s app for CNN. It’s not very often that I find positive things about the Church in the headlines, but today I was both heartened and convicted by this story: “Why Charlotte exploded and Tulsa prayed.” I […]
AMiE Unveils Church Planting Plan for Britain

from FCA South Africa [Editor’s note: This post features a new video from Anglican Mission in England, and has helpfully transcribed some of the spoken words in the film.] What is our desire? When Jesus looked at the crowds he was filled with compassion. He was deeply moved as he saw vast numbers of lost […]
UNICEF says 28 million children uprooted by global conflict

by Michael Astor, AP: Some 28 million children around the globe have been driven from their homes by violent conflict, with nearly as many abandoning their homes in search of a better life, according to a UNICEF report released Tuesday. The report found that while children make up about a third of the world’s population […]
Science and the Bible, debates about committees, hope and courage in mission

by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream: Another week, another revisionist Church Times leader article penned by an academic heavyweight. This time a consultant psychiatrist and Professor of Theology insists that we need to allow the latest scientific findings to inform our understanding of Scripture. People used to believe that the earth was static and at the […]
Child Sacrifice Returns to the West

by John Zmirak, Stream: This weekend’s report that Belgium has euthanized its first terminally ill child marks a watershed in the West: the overt return of human child sacrifice to our culture’s religious rituals. We have crossed a chasm. The medical execution of a sick Belgian child, and the bizarre, taxpayer-funded experiments that American doctors […]
Evolution’s Can Opener

By Eric Metaxas, Breakpoint: A new fossil discovery makes it even tougher for Darwinists to explain the origin of life. There’s an old story about a chemist, a physicist, and an economist stranded on a desert island with nothing to eat but a can of soup. Puzzling over how to open the can, the chemist […]
Why I was wrong about Christianity

by Tom Holland, New Statesman: It took me a long time to realise my morals are not Greek or Roman, but thoroughly, and proudly, Christian. When I was a boy, my upbringing as a Christian was forever being weathered by the gale force of my enthusiasms. First, there were dinosaurs. I vividly remember my shock […]