“Be as canny as snakes and as innocent as doves.”

Jul 20, 2024 by

from Anglican Futures: Over the past few weeks Anglican Futures has received a number of blogs from people wishing to share their thoughts about the way forward. This is the first of them, others will be published over the next week. The...

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How the Church can recover its voice

Jul 20, 2024 by

by Edward Dowler, Church Times: Edward Dowler suggests ways in which it can speak distinctively rather than ape the wider culture. “YOUR voice is not small: it just needs to be heard” was the empowering advice of the Duchess of Sussex to...

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What happens to church property if evangelical congregations leave the Church of England?

Jul 17, 2024 by

by Julian Mann, Christian Today: Why do evangelical churches leaving the Church of England because of its revisionist direction of travel have to find new venues and their ministers have to move out of their vicarages? Ian Blaney,...

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CofE bishops’ appointments deadlocked by internal disagreement

Jul 16, 2024 by

from Religion Media Centre: Deadlock in the Crown Appointments Commission over the appointment of bishops has prevented a decision on the next Bishop of Ely, months after a similar impasse over the next Bishop of Carlise. The failure to...

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Letter to the Church Times (unpublished): Truth telling essential to building trust

Jul 16, 2024 by

from Julian Mann: Dear Sir, Your report on the new review of trust and trustworthiness in the Church of England (News, June 24) has prompted a memory from my time as a parish vicar before I left the C of E in 2019. I recall the...

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Men ‘underrepresented’ in congregations, Church of England admits

Jul 8, 2024 by

by Cameron Henderson, Telegraph: Church must reach working-class males in particular, say officials as ‘attendance declines’. The Church of England has admitted men are “underrepresented” in congregations as attendance at Sunday services...

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