By Martin Davie, Reflections of an Anglican Theologian: […] In 1992 America was in recession and ‘It’s the economy stupid’ successfully communicated the message that the key issue in the election was the US economy, and that Clinton would do a better job of handling the economy than Bush. What this piece of American political […]

by Ian Paul, Psephizo: At around this time each year, the Church of England statistics team release the data on what has been happening with attendance and services in the Church of England, based on the returns from churches from the previous year. This information is very useful, though also needs to be handled with […]

by Rod Dreher, The American Conservative: […]  Has anything like this ever happened to any society, ever? Three out of ten women under the age of 25 consider themselves to be gay or transgender. Five percent, sure. Maybe even eight percent. But thirty? Will they always think that? Maybe not, but these are their prime childbearing […]

by David Robertson, Christian Today: Steve Chalke has given us a straw in the wind about what will be coming next in the ongoing campaign to change church doctrine and practice in line with the current cultural zeitgeist. He tweeted: “When I began to welcome LGBT into my church, the Evangelicals threw the charity I founded […]

from Christian Concern: Tim Dieppe, Head of Public Policy, summarises what was discussed at a recent online forum run by Affinity on the Church’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. Affinity organised an online forum about coronavirus and the Church which took place on Monday. It was really well-organised with six speakers each given 15 minutes […]

by David Virtue, Virtueonline: VOL has been informed that the Bishop of Albany, the Rt. Rev William H. Love has announced his resignation effective Feb 1, 2021. This has been agreed upon by Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and has the unanimous approval of the disciplinary panel of the Episcopal Church. He will take a terminal […]

By Andrew Symes, Anglican Mainstream: Should evangelicals consider leaving the Church of England? This question has been asked ever since the middle of the sixteenth century. In every generation the arguments to “stick with the ship” (Ryle’s phrase) have prevailed; most have stayed and only a few have left. More recently, John Stott and Martyn […]

The Church of England Evangelical Council announces the appointment of the Rt Revd Keith Sinclair, currently Bishop of Birkenhead in the Diocese of Chester, as its National Director. Bishop Keith’s retirement from the See of Birkenhead in March 2021 was announced earlier this month. He will assume this new role on 27 April 2021, the 100th […]

by Effie Deans: Tens of thousands of French people have taken to the streets to demonstrate in favour of free speech. The French Government has responded robustly to the murder of a French teacher, Samuel Paty, who was killed by a Chechen extremist for showing cartoons of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad to his freedom of […]

By Chris Sugden, CEN: In a ‘zoom’ lecture on Anglican Mission and Culture for the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Bishop Michael Nazir Ali laid biblical foundations for engagement with culture in the incarnation and reviewed various approaches. “Jesus didn’t just become generally human but assumed a humanity that was gender-, culture- and time-specific”, he […]