Darkness at Noon and the Post Office Scandal

Jan 20, 2024 by

Andrew Carey Editorial Comment Church of England Newspaper January 19 2024 Arthur Koestler’s famous and horrific account of life under the regime of the Soviet Union must have matched the experience of the nation’s sub postmasters and...

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Bishop of St Albans statement on Post Office scandal

Jan 20, 2024 by

In April 2021 the Court of Appeal overturned the convictions of 39 sub-postmasters. At that time, the Revd Paula Vennells, who was CEO of Post Office Limited from 2012 to 2019, stepped back from her parochial duties. A statutory public...

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Tom Wright corrects Western misinterpretations of St Paul

Jan 18, 2024 by

Book Review of Into the Heart of Romans, Tom Wright, SPCK, 2023. £20.  234pp. The apostle Paul had an agenda and so does Professor Wright. Dr Wright brings a Pauline corrective to some western misrepresentations of Christian faith....

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Archbishop of Nigeria addresses Princeton R20 Conference on Human Rights

Jan 12, 2024 by

PRINCETON, New Jersey — On 13 – 14 December 2023, international religious authorities and scholars representing the world’s major faith traditions gathered in Princeton to discuss the future of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights...

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What do you make of Esther (Rantzen on assisted dying)?

Jan 12, 2024 by

What do you make of Esther? Michael Wenham Michael Wenham lives with a motor neurone disorder, Primary Lateral Sclerosis. He blogs at My Donkey Body.  He is a retired minister of the Church of England  A campaigner’s call to change an...

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Why no one wants prayers of love and faith

Jan 12, 2024 by

By Ian Paul, Psephiso. Sue Donymous writes: A major problem with the Prayers of Love and Faith package (PLF) that scraped through Synod is that no one actually wants this approach. The only caveat to that ‘no one’ is that—for now—some who...

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