Baptising the Status Quo, Then and Now.

Apr 1, 2023 by

By Carl R. Trueman, First Things. With the election of Humza Yousaf as leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), it is likely that the recent flurry of writing on the significance of Kate Forbes and her faith will come to an end....

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The Church of England’s Empty Gesture

Jan 19, 2023 by

by Calvin Robinson, First Things: Last week, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby apologized for the Anglican Church’s “historic links to transatlantic chattel slavery,” and the Church of England set aside £100 million in reparations for...

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Professor Nigel Biggar questions £100 million CofE recompense to dead slaves

Jan 18, 2023 by

Nigel Biggar: the academic who dared to say Rhodes should stay. From Times 2 Interview with Andrew Billen. Towards the end of Colonialism Biggar compiles a tally of the evils of the British Empire. It includes “brutal” slavery, fatal...

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The Church of England can’t acknowledge its real original sin

Jan 17, 2023 by

by Charles Moore, Telegraph: The Church’s involvement with slavery was scandalous, and yet almost accidental. This is not the case with the Reformation. In the introduction to its new report on its 18th-century financial links with...

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The ideological error of Welby’s £100 million slavery fund

Jan 14, 2023 by

by Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald: The Archbishop of Canterbury has dipped into the back pockets of the Church of England where the Church Commissioners keep their spare cash. They manage an investment fund for the C of E of £10 billion...

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Reparations and the rectory

Jan 14, 2023 by

by Sebastian Milbank, The Critic: Can the Church of England buy its way into progressive paradise? Five hundred years ago Protestants made rather a lot of fuss about people purchasing advance tickets to paradise through the sale of...

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