By Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream. The last week of June has seen a number of high profile events marking the life of Gafcon, the global movement for renewal of the Anglican Communion according to biblical orthodoxy. 29th June is Gafcon Day, the anniversary of the first unveiling of the iconic Jerusalem Declaration and Statement at […]

by David Robertson, theweeflea: On Saturday The Times carried this extraordinary article.  (Kudos to The Times for taking this seriously and carrying this – unlike most of the rest of the Scottish press!).  To the delight of the Secularists it announced that almost 60% of Scots say they have no religion, the C of S […]

by Eric W Dolan, Psypost; New research indicates that religious believers can be better at perceiving and integrating different perspectives than atheists in Western Europe. “The main message of the study is that closed-mindedness is not necessarily found only among the religious,” the study’s corresponding author, Filip Uzarevic of the Catholic University of Louvain, told […]

from Christian Concern: TWO Christian street preachers have today [29 June] been acquitted of public order offences, after being convicted in February in what was described as a “modern day heresy trial”. Michael Overd and Michael Stockwell were found guilty under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 at Bristol Magistrates’ Court in February this year, […]

by Harry Farley, Christian Today: Doctors’ chiefs have backed decriminalising abortion, adding their voice to those calling for a change in legislation. Delegates at the British Medical Association’s annual conference voted in favour of changing the law on abortion so women would not be at risk of prosecution if they failed to get a doctors’ […]

from BBC News: The former Archbishop of Canterbury has resigned from his last formal role in the church after a review into historical child sex abuse. Lord Carey was criticised in an independent review of the church’s handling of abuse carried out by Bishop Peter Ball, 85, who was jailed in 2015. Dame Moira Gibb’s […]

from Premier Christianity: Sam Hailes talks to ‘Ella’ – a survivor of sexual abuse committed by Pakistani Muslim grooming gangs in the Rotherham area. Ella (not her real name) was brought up in what she describes as a normal, middle class, loving family near Rotherham, Yorkshire. A strong Christian faith was instilled in Ella at […]

by Harriet Sherwood, Guardian: The leaders of the Church of England have called for an urgent debate on the state of the country after recent terror attacks, the Grenfell Tower fire and the inconclusive general election outcome, saying this is a “critical time in the nation’s history”. The archbishops of Canterbury and York have taken […]

by Archbishop Cranmer: “A commission for countering extremism will be established to support the government in stamping out extremist ideology in all its forms, both across society and on the internet, so it is denied a safe space to spread,” the Queen announced in her speech this week to the assembled Commons and Lords and […]

by Harriet Sherwood, Guardian: Senior figures in the Church of England colluded for a period of 20 years with a disgraced former bishop who sexually abused boys and men, a damning independent report has found. The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said the report on the church’s handling of former bishop Peter Ball made “harrowing […]