by Stephen Trott, Church Times: THE difficulties posed by the coronavirus crisis have exposed many fault lines and weaknesses in organisations around the country — and the Church of England is no exception. Its already tightly strained finances are under immense strain, with every church in lockdown for months and no income from church collections […]

by Martin Sewell, Archbishop Cranmer: […] If you have never heard this titan of broadcasting [Alistair Cooke – ed] you should not miss it, then weep for how far from his standards BBC broadcasting has fallen. As I begin to write, I have just listened to a party political broadcast for the Democrat party embedded […]

                            The Evangelical Fellowship of India is holding a series of Public Webinars on a theological response to issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Canon Dr Vinay Samuel, former EFAC General Secretary, is giving the first on Thursday August 6 on God’s […]

By Leah MarieAnn Klett, Christian Post: House churches across China have experienced intensified persecution in recent months, with Communist officials telling Christians they are not permitted to believe in God in the atheist country. Bitter Winter, a publication produced by the Center for Studies on New Religion which covers human rights issues in China, documented […]

by David Scullion, The Critic: The law on abortion in England and Wales is routinely broken. Claims that clinics have stacks of pre-signed abortion forms are widespread (the law requires two doctors to sign), and one of the legal reasons for abortion – that it would injure the woman’s mental health – is routinely stretched to include almost anything. Lockdown […]

from Barnabas Fund: Saudi Arabia’s call to the UN to focus on “eliminating Islamophobia” as an outcome of tackling online racism and xenophobia sets a potentially dangerous precedent – at a level of global policy – by attempting to define as a fait accompli that “Islamophobia” is a type of racial discrimination. While undoubtedly racism […]

from Coalition for Marriage: Marriage has hit a new low in England and Wales. Official statistics released this month show that barely half of the adult population, 50.2 per cent, was married in 2019, down from 51.8 per cent in 2009. Strikingly, less than 9.5 per cent of adults under 30 were married in 2019, reflecting a […]

By Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream: The well-funded, carefully orchestrated and determined campaign to foster disapproval of, and then to ban, so-called ‘conversion therapy’ across nations of the developed world, has been a key component in driving the massive cultural change that has been called the global sexual revolution. This campaign has achieved its latest ‘success’ […]

by Andrew Athersone, Psephizo: As the Church of England undertakes its “Covid Recovery” planning, the question of individual cups at Holy Communion continues to gather pace. As is widely known, the House of Bishops have taken refuge behind a 2011 paper from the Legal Advisory Commission (LAC) which summarily pronounced individual cups to be “contrary […]

by Alister McGrath, Psephizo: With the death of J. I. (‘Jim’) Packer, Anglican evangelicalism has lost one of its most significant theological voices, as well as a guiding figure of the National Evangelical Anglican Congress at the University of Keele in 1967, which many consider to have inaugurated a new phase in the history of […]