Archbishop Cranmer comments; Ashenden responds. Cranmer: […] St Edburgha’s Church Hall in Yardley, Birmingham, hosted a ‘Taste Ramadan’ evening on 2nd June. It was billed as a “community iftar meal” to “share food and share friendship”, and was open to members of the public. We read: The free event has been organised by Qamar Abbas, president […]

by David Virtue, VOL: The new Bishop of Toronto, the Rt. Rev. Andrew Asbil a proponent and supporter of same-sex marriage, recently participated in euthanizing a couple who had been married for 73 years. On March 27, George and Shirley died, holding hands in their own bed in a Toronto retirement home with the help […]

by Mark Simpson, BBC News: The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has adopted a new policy that means anyone in a same-sex relationship cannot be a full member of the Church. It also means their children cannot be baptised. The move comes after the Church cut ceremonial ties with the Church of Scotland due to its […]

from The Big Conversation: What are the psychological roots of faith beliefs?  Can we make our own rules for life or are we subject to a higher level of meaning? Can we dispense with religion as a ‘virus of the mind’, or are even atheists fundamentally religious deep down? Jordan B Peterson and Susan Blackmore […]

from Barnabas Fund: Religious freedom is one generation away from being lost in Europe, Barnabas Fund warned EU Parliament members at a historic meeting on 5 June 2018. Discrimination and intolerance of Christianity in Europe was the subject of debate for the first time in the European Parliament, in a meeting hosted by Nathan Gill, […]

by Adam Becket, Church Times: FAITH Groups responded “rapidly, compassionately and holistically” to the Grenfell Tower fire, a new report by Theos says. Churches and other places of worship should practise regularly emergency responses to tragedies before crises occur, which the report calls “preparation in peacetime”. The report, After Grenfell: The faith groups’ response, published […]

by James Tapsfield, Mailonline: The Archbishop of Canterbury faced the wrath of Brexiteers today after he hailed the EU as ‘the greatest dream realised for human beings since the fall of the Western Roman Empire’. Justin Welby deliver the gushing assessment in a speech in Serbia at the weekend, saying the bloc had ‘brought peace, prosperity, compassion […]

by Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream. In December 2013, at a point in history mid-way between Parliamentary approval for same sex marriage and the enactment of a new law changing marriage’s definition, a senior judge was disciplined for expressing conservative views on marriage and family. Sir Paul Coleridge had started the Marriage Foundation, not from conviction […]

from ACNS: The General Synod of the Igreja Episcopal Anglicana do Brasil – the Anglican Episcopal Church of Brazil (IEAB) has approved changes to its canons to permit same-sex marriages. Civil same-sex marriages have been legal in Brazil since 2012. The decision would not require liturgical changes, the IEAB said in a statement, because gender neutral language […]

by Darren Carlson, Gospel Coalition: In 2007, Dudley Woodberry and others published a study that recounted interviews with 750 former Muslims who had converted to evangelical Christianity. Many of the reasons they gave for their conversion would be expected—the love of God, a changing view of the Bible, and an attraction to Christians who loved […]