2020s to be decade of women bishops

Dec 29, 2019 by

by Nicholas Hellen, Sunday Times: The Church of England is turning to “unconscious bias training” in an effort to appoint more female bishops over the next decade. The Bishop of London, Sarah Mullally, 57, said she hopes the training —...

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What would reform of the Church of England take?

Jun 24, 2019 by

from Northern Souls blogspot: There is an ongoing debate among conservative evangelicals about whether to stay or go with respect to the Church of England. We have seen a number of principled defections in recent months, although,...

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Jackson motion on traditionalists defeated in Church in Wales Governing Body

May 4, 2019 by

by Tim Wyatt, Church Times: AN ATTEMPT to bar traditionalists from ordination in the Church in Wales has been heavily defeated at a meeting of the Church’s Governing Body in Cardiff. The private member’s motion called on the Bishops to...

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500 churches in C of E still ban female priests

Apr 28, 2019 by

by Nicholas Hellen, The Times: An internal Church of England report has revealed that 500 of its churches are operating a male-only policy for priests, five years after it had agreed to the ordination of female bishops. Individual...

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The ACNA and the Priesthood of the Church

Apr 28, 2019 by

by Alice C. Linsley, Biblical Anthropology: This has been a difficult article to write due to the strength of my conviction that women’s ordination to the sacred order of priests is a dangerous innovation that will continue to cause...

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Why Christians need to find ways of generously living together

Mar 12, 2019 by

by Tony Robinson: After an independent review found that the Dean and Chapter of Wakefield Cathedral did not do enough to accommodate the views of a traditionalist worshipper opposed to women’s ordination, the Bishop of...

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