Church of England Newspaper report. AFRICA will have overtaken China as the continent with the largest population by 2100, a meeting at General Synod sponsored by Anglican Mainstream was told. However, most Africans have not yet reached childbearing age. As people flock to the cities for work, rural areas will be depleted of labour to […]

From Barnabas Fund: A report produced by an executive agency of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office has argued that Evangelical Christians in the Global South should be expected to “reinterpret” the Bible to make it compatible with LGBT ideology. The recommendations, if implemented, would massively reverse freedom of religion across the globe. Read here […]

by Melvin Tinker, Anglican Ink: After nearly a quarter of a century living in the City of Hull, my love for the people and the place grows each year and the word ‘pride’ is one I would unreservedly use to describe my affection for the town. But of course this cherished word, ‘like ‘gay’, is […]

by Peter Saunders, CMF: The rollercoaster journey of the last twelve months has left many UK citizens feeling dislocated and anxious about the future of our country. Political events – Brexit, Trump, a snap general election, a hung parliament, confidence and supply arrangements and the Queen’s speech – have laid bare deep divisions between old […]

by Gavin Ashenden, from Archbishop Cranmer: During the General Synod debate on homosexuality I took to twitter. It’s like sitting up in the gods of a theatre. You are with the rowdy crowd. Shakespeare’s groundlings elevated to the grandstand of the internet. I chose my 140 characters with care. I tried the ‘critique without caustic’ […]

by Steve Doughty, Mailonline: Less than half of women in England and Wales are married – the first time the proportion has dropped so low. Just 49.9 per cent of women over the age of 16 last year had tied the knot, officials figures show. The Office for National Statistics said 51.9 per cent of […]

by Nick Duffy, Pink News: A Church of England Bishop has become a patron of his local Pride event. The Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Rev Paul Bayes, was announced as a patron for the Liverpool Pride festival, which takes place this month. The church leader is a strong proponent of LGBT rights, supporting equal […]

by Brendan Showalter, Christian Post: Eugene Peterson has reversed his new stance affirming gay marriage, saying he was “put on the spot” and that he really does believe in traditional marriage. “To clarify, I affirm a biblical view of marriage: one man to one woman. I affirm a biblical view of everything,” Peterson said in […]

from Christian Concern: Another street preacher who was charged under the Public Order Act 1986, after allegedly entering a discussion with two passers-by about homosexuality, has been acquitted. Andrew Frost was preaching on the streets of Nottingham city centre in March this year. He preached on the consequences of sin, and quoted Luke 13:1-5 and […]

by Dan Doriani, The Gospel Coalition: For centuries, liberal theologians have believed it their task to make Christianity palatable to “modern man.” In most cases, the modern man in question is anyone who shares the liberal theologian’s heritage and social status. The liberal theologian’s goal is to rescue Christianity by excising the elements that seem most […]