by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream. Every few years the church’s ministry among the urban poor in Britain comes into renewed focus. It can take the form of church leaders in advocacy mode for social action, looking at the big picture, addressing government policy on issues such as housing and benefits, and setting up a nationwide […]

Resources from Christian Institute and Christian Concern. Help stop sex changes on demand – your chance to speak out, from Christian Institute. The Government is consulting on making it easier to change legal sex. It is asking about: ·       Removing any need for a medical diagnosis or two years living as the opposite sex, in a […]

by Nicholas Hellen, Sunday Times. The happy couple walked out of the flower-bedecked church wearing matching buttonholes. Pictures show that a wedding photographer was on hand to capture the moment, away from the church, when they ducked under a shower of confetti [this picture, together with others, can be found on social media but have […]

From Anglican House Media. The Global Anglican Future Conference of June 2018 “Letter to the Churches” is a bold call to proclaim God’s Gospel, reform God’s Church, and reach out to God’s world. The author of The Global Anglican Communion and Convener of the Gafcon Statement Group has published the complete text of the Letter to the […]

From Advance website. Advance 2020 is seeking to promote and stir up the gift of the evangelist within the church, building towards a huge year of outreach throughout the UK in 2020. As a united group of ministries and church leaders, we believe that the gospel has lost none of its power to save and […]

David Robertson, theweeflea. It’s a somewhat strange paradox. As the church seems to be in decline, the number of religious items in the news increases and the clergy are everywhere… …Despite the most fervent wishes of the more militant secularists religion is not going to disappear from civil society soon. Indeed I suspect it is […]

by Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay and Peter Boghossian, Aero: This essay, although hopefully accessible to everyone, is the most thorough breakdown of the study and written for those who are already somewhat familiar with the problems of ideologically-motivated scholarship, radical skepticism and cultural constructivism. Part I: Introduction Something has gone wrong in the university—especially in […]

from ACNS: The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, will retire on 7 June 2020 – Trinity Sunday – three days ahead of his 71st birthday, it was announced today. Church of England clergy are required to retire at the age of 70, but the Queen, as Supreme Governor of the Church of England, has […]

by Benjamin Haas, Guardian: Crackdown on unofficial churches comes as Vatican and Beijing sign controversial deal on appointment of bishops. Pastor Jin Mingri has felt firsthand the pain of one of Chinese president Xi Jinping’s harshest crackdowns on religion in years. Jin’s Zion Church in Beijing, one of the biggest unofficial congregations in the country, […]

from Gafcon UK: Gafcon UK welcomes the recent statement by the Evangelical Fellowship of the Church in Wales, which gives a pastorally sensitive and doctrinally clear summary of the biblically orthodox position on the issue of same sex relationships. EFCW is absolutely correct to warn of the serious implications of the Welsh Bishops’ plan to […]