When your head is in the Tiger’s Mouth. A heartfelt plea to Orthodox Anglicans in the CofE

Sep 29, 2023 by

By Cornelius Harding, from Anglican Ink. (photo credit: Freepik) The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby in his book “The Power of Reconciliation” helped me to understand the situation Orthodox Anglicans are in: “Judgement is a word...

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Will there be a place for me in the Church of England?

Sep 26, 2023 by

by John Dunnett, EN: In August, the Church of England announced that a series of meetings were to be held in September ahead of the bishops presenting to November’s General Synod ‘proposals t o enable same-sex couples to come to church...

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Wigan transformation fails to hit its targets

Sep 26, 2023 by

By Madeleine Davies, Church Times: THE evaluation of a project to transform Wigan into a “missional powerhouse” — which entailed the grouping of 33 churches in a single benefice — has reported mixed success after seven years and the...

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Who pays for the “Prayers of Love and Faith”?

Sep 25, 2023 by

By Anglican Futures. This is not the first time that this blog has put a tiny piece of global Anglicanism under the microscope in order to learn what is going on in the wider Church. On the 21st September 2023, the Diocese of Exeter,...

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We don’t know, but consider religious freedom, says C of E response on exceptions to mandatory reporting

Sep 21, 2023 by

by Hattie Williams, Church Times: THE Church of England safeguarding bodies’ response has been given to the government consultation on mandatory reporting of child abuse — without being clear whether it supports any religious exceptions,...

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To resurrect the church, try the gospel truth

Sep 15, 2023 by

by A N Wilson: Faith thrives when worshippers are given Christianity in the raw rather than the liberalism of the CofE hierarchy. Some weeks ago in The Times there was a survey conducted among a random selection of the clergy. Those who...

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