Barnabas Supported School in Bethlehem Celebrates 20 Years of Care
Barnabas Update Barnabas Supported School in Bethlehem Celebrates 20 Years of Care A Christian school in Bethlehem, supported by funding from Barnabas Aid, is celebrating 20 years of providing a Christian education to poor Christian children in a city where they are a...
Barnabas Update: 100 Christian Families Freed from Slavery
Barnabas Update 100 More Christian Familes Freed from Slavery Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, Barnabas Aid has freed another 100 Christian families from the yoke of debt and bonded labour in Pakistan’s brick kilns. It brings to 1,575 the total...
Barnabas Update on Persecuted Churches
Barnabas Update on Persecuted Churches Terrorist attack church reopens in Ondo State, Nigeria; Jailed Iranian Christian couple granted retrial; At least ten killed in Christian-majority areas of Myanmar; Violence in Christian-majority DRC causes humanitarian crisis. ...
FEATURED
High-Flyer Ozanne Pleads Poverty Equality Campaigner Abadons Equality
High Flyer Ozanne Pleads PovertyEquality Campaigner Abandons Equality in Favour of Comfort Ex-evangelical homosexual campaigner Jayne Ozanne sought a freebie of over £1700 on her recent flight to Australia. In a public tweet to Qantas on February 13th, she requested a...
Editorial Screwtape’s Apprentice?
Editorial Screwtape’s Apprentice? There is a scene from this past General Synod that will be forever fixed in the minds of those who saw it—and never forgot by those who read or heard the words Archbishop Welby spoke. In asking the Synod to vote down an amendment...
GAFCON IV @ Kigali: Unspoken Truths
Unspoken Truths About GAFCON Editor’s Note: Here is a veteran observer, who has served as a church planter in two jurisdictions and was present at GAFCON I. He explores some uncomfortable aspects of its development. The recent Gafcon IV gathering in Kigali, Rwanda,...
Further Concerns over Independent Safeguarding Board’s Independence
Further Concerns over Independent Safeguarding Board’s IndependenceAppointment of Chair “Too Cosy” Church abuse campaigners have criticised the Archbishops’ Council appointment of Meg Munn as interim chair of the Independent Safeguarding Board as being “too cosy”. Ms...
Bishops–Impaired Fellowship & Licences
BISHOPS – Impaired Fellowship and Licences? By the Rt Revd Dr Rob Munro Bishop of Ebbsfleet Bishop Rob Munro has released guidance for complementarians on impaired fellowship and licences. It is worth reading closely and evangelicals should discuss within their local...
St James’s Piccadilly Hosts Drag Show
St James’s Church Piccadilly Hosts RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, PREACH! The parish church of St James’s Piccadilly hosted RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, PREACH!, at a show on 4 March. Publicity for the event was rather clear. On the parish website (www.sjp.org.uk), the following...
A Re-Set Anglican Communion? Will Welby Jump or Be Pushed?
A Re-set Anglican Communion?Will Welby Jump or Be Pushed? Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, in his speech to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC-18) in Accra, Ghana, expressed apparent willingness to relinquish his role as primus inter pares: “I will not cling...
NATIONAL
FIEC Celebrates 100 Years
FIEC Celebrates 100 Years by Joel Murray Amidst protests about climate change and football fans heading to Wembley Stadium, church leaders, FIEC staff past and present, and other friends of FIEC gathered in London on a Saturday afternoon in April to celebrate the...
Reviewer Deplores “Well Overdue” Report
Reviewer Deplores Delay to "Well Overdue" Report Jane Humphreys, who conducted the safeguarding review into the actions of the late Revd Trevor Devamanikkam, has criticised the length of time it took to complete. Her report lists reasons for the delay: that the Church...
Oldest FCE Church Leaves Free Church of England: FCE Called to Repent
Oldest FCE Church Leaves Free Church of EnglandFCE called to "repent of its departure from the historic Protestant faith" The oldest extant Free Church of England (FCE) congregation has left the denomination. Christ Church, Exeter, founded in 1844, posted the...
Responses to Welby’s Dethroning by Other Denominations
Responses to Welby’s ‘Dethroning’ by Other Denominations Some of the practical aspects of the recent worldwide Anglican conference in Rwanda are yet to be experienced. The English Churchman wrote to some of the other denominations and asked how that the Archbishops’...
CEEC to Church of England: Step Back from the Brink
CEEC to Church of England: “Step Back from the Brink” The Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC) responded strongly to the final statement from the GAFCON IV gathering in Kigali, Rwanda. It set out a six-point response and “urgently” called for an exploration...
Independent Safeguarding Board to Seek Independence
Independent Safeguarding Board to Seek Independence "Clear Interference" from Church Authorities Alleged The Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB), set up to provide vital scrutiny of the Church of England’s safeguarding processes, has announced its intention to seek...
INTERNATIONAL
GAFCON Starts Endowment Fund
GAFCON Starts Endowment Fund By Anglican Futures Reporting from Kigali In a major announcement at the fourth Global Anglican Futures Conference (Gafcon IV) today the Primates’ Council of the movement outlined the establishment of an endowment fund. The assembly was...
New Wine Speaks Out About Safeguarding Query Into Pilavachi
New Wine Speaks Out About Safeguarding Query into Pilavachi The leadership of New Wine has spoken out about the Safeguarding query into Mike Pilavachi. The statement came as a surprise given the allegations have been public for weeks. It gave no indication of...
Oldest FCE Church Leaves Free Church of England: FCE Called to Repent
Oldest FCE Church Leaves Free Church of EnglandFCE called to "repent of its departure from the historic Protestant faith" The oldest extant Free Church of England (FCE) congregation has left the denomination. Christ Church, Exeter, founded in 1844, posted the...
Archbishop of Rwanda Elected New Chairman of GAFCON
Archbishop of Rwanda Elected New Chairman of GAFCON The Most Revd Laurent Mbanda, Archbishop of Rwanda who recently visited the Church of Ireland, the only Anglican Church in the British Isles that has not endorsed same-sex relationships, was elected Chairman of...
Church Society Director’s Thoughts on GAFCON IV
Church Society Director’s Thoughts on GAFCON IV Kigali Welby’s “Leadership Role in the Anglican Communion Entirely Indefensible” The Revd Dr Lee Gatiss, Director of Church Society, has not wavered in his commitment to see a spiritual and ecclesiological turnaround in...
Full Kigali Commitment Statement
Full Kigali Commitment Statement 21 April 2023 Greetings from Kigali, Rwanda, where the fourth Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) met from 17-21 April 2023, bringing together 1,302 delegates from 52 countries, including 315 bishops, 456 other clergy and...
REVIEWS
Book Review: To Proclaim Afresh Declarations and Oaths for the Church of England
To Proclaim Afresh Declaration and Oaths for Church of England Ministers Faith and Order Commission Church House Publishing, 2022 (ISBN: 9780715142905, 35pp, £5.99) Colin Podmore’s 1999 article on the Declaration of Assent in the Ecclesiastical Law Journal considered...
Repackaging Christianity: Alpha and Building a Global Brand
Repackaging Christianity Alpha and the building of a global brand Andrew Atherstone Hodder & Stoughton, 2022 (ISBN: 978-1-399-80151-5, 308pp, £22) The Alpha Course is known to many from its prolific advertising, on buses, on banners outside churches, on the...
Keene Review: Finding Your Best Identity
Finding Your Best Identity A short Christian introduction to identity, sexuality and gender Andrew Bunt IVP, 2022 (ISBN: 9781789744200, 90pp, £8.99) The most casual glance at biblical passages such as Matthew 6 or 1 John 2 indicates that ‘the world’ is entirely...
Book Review: Reimagining Britain by Justin Welby
Reimagining Britain Foundations for Hope Justin Welby Bloomsbury, 2018, new edn. 2021 (ISBN: 978-1-4729-8497-5, 322pp, £12.99) The Archbishop of Canterbury has made several notable political interventions recently, including over ‘partygate’ and the Rwanda deportation...
Review: The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill
The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, Christianity Today Produced, Written, Edited and Hosted by Mike Cosper Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts or at https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/rise-and-fall-of-mars-hill/ One of the most intriguing and...
CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Anglican Futures: A Memorable Moment from GAFCON IV Kigali
Anglican Futures A Memorable Moment from GAFCON IV Kigali One of the most memorable moments of GAFCON IV in Kigali, came at the end of a long morning. There had been two presentations tracing the recent history of the Anglican Communion. These were followed by a...
LLF Implementation Groups Formed Before Final Vote
LLF Implementation Groups Formed Before Final Vote Behaving as if the LLF proposal has passed its final reading and vote to become Canon Law, the College of Bishops has announced “Membership Implementation Groups” in advance of the vote. The two Co-Chairs are Bishops...
Revd Canon John Dunnett Named as CEEC’s National Director
Rev. Canon John Dunnett Named as CEEC’s National Director The Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC) has announced the appointment of Rev. Canon John Dunnett as its new National Director. Dunnett succeeds Bishop Keith Sinclair, whose two-year term came to an end...
Latest Church of England Statistics on Fresh Expressions
Latest Church of England Statistics on Fresh Expressions of Church Number of fresh expressions of Church Data from Statistics for Mission indicate that there were around 9,100 fresh expressions of Church (fxCs) in 2019. The number of fxCs has increased over...
Shhh! You Know Hugh Participants Coy About St Hugh’s Conversations
Shhh! You Know Hugh Participants Coy about St Hugh’s Conversations Evangelical members of the secret St Hugh’s Conversations remain quiet about the extent of their involvement in these ongoing liberal-conservative discussions. Last month, English Churchman revealed...
Archbishop of Canterbury Fined £510 for Speeding
Archbishop of Canterbury Fined £510 for Speeding The Most Revd Justin Welby was fined £510 for driving 25 mph in a 20 mph zone. He was caught by a speed camera along the embankment of the Thames on 2 October 2022. The initial fine was for £300 but was not recorded as...
DEVOTIONALS
Pilgrim’s Process: What Old Truths Have I Begun to Sit Nightly To?
Pilgrim’s Process “What Old Truth Have I Begun to Sit Lightly To”?” By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon As we journey to the heavenly city we need to keep remembering and keep believing. It is easy to assume that understanding the Gospel is a once for all action - but in...
Pilgrim’s Process: Question
Pilgrim’s Process Questions By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon In the Gospels Jesus asked over 300 questions but only answered 8. A key way God meets us in Jesus is by asking us questions. When asked a questions we may be invited, challenged, provoked or examined. All this...
Church Society Engcourages 60 Days of Prayer for the Church
Church Society Encourages Christians to Join in 60 Days of Prayer for the Church Beginning on the 22nd of February, Church Society started a 60 Day prayer cycle for the Church of England. Each day has its own theme and features one of the collects from the Book of...
Pilgrim’s Process: Beyond the Mind
Pilgrim’s Process Beyond the Mind by the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon In 1517 Martin Luther felt emboldened to publish his 95 Theses - which challenged the confused, human centred theology of the mediaeval church. Luther was bold in accusing his superiors of cruelty and...
Pilgrim’s Process: Tone, Voice, & Speech
Pilgrim’s Process By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Many today are concerned about not just the content of what people say in the public arena, but also the way that whatever is spoken, is said. People can get offended as much by tone or manner, as content. The complex and...
Talkative: What a Character by Revd Dr Peter Sanlon
Pilgrim’s Process By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Talkative—What a Character! Talkative was one of the characters Christian met on his journey to the Celestial City. Talkative - as his name suggests - loved to talk of Biblical matters. He declared, ‘What is so profitable,...
DOCTRINE
BINOs Ponder Gender-neutral Terms for God
BINOs Ponder Gender-neutral Terms for God It was revealed at General Synod that the bishops are to launch a project on inclusive language in worship, with a proposal that the Church of England might speak of God in a non-gendered way, to make services ‘more...
The Church of Uganda’s Standard for Sexual Relationships
The Church of Uganda’s Standard for Sexual Relationships By the Most Revd Dr Stephen Kaziimba In his lengthy response to the Church of England’s decision to bless same-sex marriages, the Archbishop of Uganda, the Most Revd Dr Stephen Kaziimba explained his provinces...
Archbishop of Uganda Issues Home Truths to Church of England
Archbishop of Church of Uganda Issues Home Truths to Church of England 10th February 2023 Good morning, our Media Evangelists, and Praise God from Whom all Blessings Flow! I have invited you here today to update you and, through you, all our Christians here in Uganda...
Hull Parish Rejects Authority of Archbishop of York Over False Teaching
Hull Parish Rejects Authority of Archbishop of York Over False Teaching St Andrew’s Kirk Ella has written a very direct letter to the Archbishop of York about his support for the same-sex blessings proposals. In the letter, they pull no punches and announce that with...
Welby in Danger of Losing primus inter pares Role over Same-Sex Blessings
CHURCH OF ENGLAND ‘BLESSING’ GAY UNIONS WOULD VIOLATE BIBLICAL TEACHING & JEOPARDISE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY’S CONTINUING ROLE IN THE ANGLICAN COMMUNION by Paul Eddy The Most Reverend Justin Badi, Primate of South Sudan, and Chairman of the GSFA responded,...
Gist of Bishops’ Pastoral Letter Regarding Same-Sex Blessings
Gist of Bishops’ Pastoral Letter New Prayers of Love and Faith We value and want to celebrate faithfulness in relationships. That is why we have drafted and asked the House of Bishops to further refine and commend a new resource to be used in churches, called Prayers...
COLUMNIST
Confusing Grace: The Northern Churchman Comments
The Northern Churchman Comments Confusing Grace The Prayer of General Thanksgiving reminds us that the love of God is displayed in two chief ways. Firstly, "our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life" - God's love and care in providing a world,...
Confusing Grace: The Northern Churchman Comments
The Northern Churchman Comments Confusing Grace The Prayer of General Thanksgiving reminds us that the love of God is displayed in two chief ways. Firstly, "our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life" - God's love and care in providing a world,...
Pilgrim’s Process: Rejoice
Pilgrim’s Process Rejoice by Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Christians are commanded in the Bible to ‘rejoice.’ It is such an important instruction that Paul repeats it: ‘Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe...
Pilgrim’s Process: Help!
Pilgrim’s Process By The Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Help! On his journey to the Celestial City, Christian faced problems and difficulties. Some of these were his own fault - when he was not paying attention to the Word's directions, he fell into the ‘Slough of Despond.’...
The Chair of St Augustine is Empty: Australian Journalist-Clergyman Reports on Kigali
Australian Journalist-Clergyman Reports on Kigali Meeting “The Chair of St Augustine is Empty” By the Revd David Ould Australian clergyman-journalist, David Ould reports from the GAFCON IV conference. GAFCON 23 has closed here in Kigali with what may be one of the...
The Northern Churchman Comments on the Coronation
The Northern Churchman The Coronation Many commentators and viewers will find themselves bemused this week watching a Service of Holy Communion being broadcast to millions worldwide. The Coronation combines the spiritual and national elements of monarchy. As a...
EDITORIALS
Editorial: The Coronation & Prayer for King Charles, Queen Camilla, Bishops, & Each Other
Editorial The Coronation & Prayer for King Charles, Queen Camilla, Bishops, & Each Other Tomorrow the nation and many portions of the world will be tuned in to see the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. It is an apostolic command to pray for...
Editorial: Church Considerations for Net-Zero
Editorial Church Considerations for Net-Zero We have yet to meet a single soul proclaiming to be a follower of Jesus who wants to destroy the earth. Why? It would not make sense to do so but there is also the fact that the Bible tells us that God has reserved that...
Editorial: The Chutzpah of the Purple Blob
Editorial The Chutzpah of the Purple Blob "We have a system of government with the engine of a lawn-mower and the brakes of a Rolls-Royce." This was the observation of the writers of that excellent comedy Yes, Prime Minister. In more recent times these...
Editorial: The Crucifixion of Jesus
Editorial The Crucifixion of Jesus Matthew 27:32-54 32 And as they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name: him they compelled to bear his cross. 33 And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull, 34 They gave him...
Editorial: Counting The Chicks Before They Hatch
Editorial Counting Their Chicks Before They Hatch When most everyone had enough of a connection to the land and animal husbandry to understand the aphorism, “Don’t count your chicks before they hatch” everyone understood it was unwise to be sure of a presumed...
Editorial Screwtape’s Apprentice?
Editorial Screwtape’s Apprentice? There is a scene from this past General Synod that will be forever fixed in the minds of those who saw it—and never forgot by those who read or heard the words Archbishop Welby spoke. In asking the Synod to vote down an amendment...
LETTERS
Lettter to the Editor: Free Church of England
Letter to the Editor Dear Colleagues, I read with some dismay your article on the oldest established Free Church of England leaving the denomination. It was disappointing to read your review of the difficulties of the Denomination dating back to 2004 – only history...
Letter: Jealously Angry & Indignant
Letter Jealously Angry & Indignant Dear Sir, As one reads through the EC, and from other sources the various articles, reports and reactions to the Synod’s acceptance of prayers for blessing same sex unions and the whole matter of LLF, we find some words are...
Letter to the Editor: Called to Share the Gospel
Letter to the Editor Called to Share the Gospel The people of God are called to share the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is why we are here on earth. The purpose of the Christian on earth is not to reform the world and “fix” the world’s problems. Our function...
Letter: Time For a Split Between Church of Woke and the Church of England?
Letter to the Editor Time for a Split Between Church of Woke and the Church of England? Dear Sir, Reading what the Church authorities are up to with a very different definition of the Bible—is it not time to split the Church of England in two, those who believe in...
Letter: Solemn Times
Letter Solemn Times Dear Sir, It is always easier to provide negative feedback and to criticise, than to be positive. I therefore just wanted to say that I totally agree with the Editorial in your current issue (EC8122). We are living in tremendously solemn...
MORE NEWS
Confusing Grace: The Northern Churchman Comments
The Northern Churchman Comments Confusing Grace The Prayer of General Thanksgiving reminds us that the love of God is displayed in two chief ways. Firstly, "our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life" - God's love and care in providing a world,...
Shhh! You Know Hugh Participants Coy About St Hugh’s Conversations
Shhh! You Know Hugh Participants Coy about St Hugh’s Conversations Evangelical members of the secret St Hugh’s Conversations remain quiet about the extent of their involvement in these ongoing liberal-conservative discussions. Last month, English Churchman revealed...
GAFCON Starts Endowment Fund
GAFCON Starts Endowment Fund By Anglican Futures Reporting from Kigali In a major announcement at the fourth Global Anglican Futures Conference (Gafcon IV) today the Primates’ Council of the movement outlined the establishment of an endowment fund. The assembly was...
Pilgrim’s Process: Rejoice
Pilgrim’s Process Rejoice by Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Christians are commanded in the Bible to ‘rejoice.’ It is such an important instruction that Paul repeats it: ‘Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe...
FIEC Celebrates 100 Years
FIEC Celebrates 100 Years by Joel Murray Amidst protests about climate change and football fans heading to Wembley Stadium, church leaders, FIEC staff past and present, and other friends of FIEC gathered in London on a Saturday afternoon in April to celebrate the...
Letter to the Editor: Called to Share the Gospel
Letter to the Editor Called to Share the Gospel The people of God are called to share the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is why we are here on earth. The purpose of the Christian on earth is not to reform the world and “fix” the world’s problems. Our function...
Lettter to the Editor: Free Church of England
Letter to the Editor Dear Colleagues, I read with some dismay your article on the oldest established Free Church of England leaving the denomination. It was disappointing to read your review of the difficulties of the Denomination dating back to 2004 – only history...
TRENDING
Confusing Grace: The Northern Churchman Comments
The Northern Churchman Comments Confusing Grace The Prayer of General Thanksgiving reminds us that the love of God is displayed in two chief ways. Firstly, "our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life" - God's love and care in providing a world,...
Revd Canon John Dunnett Named as CEEC’s National Director
Rev. Canon John Dunnett Named as CEEC’s National Director The Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC) has announced the appointment of Rev. Canon John Dunnett as its new National Director. Dunnett succeeds Bishop Keith Sinclair, whose two-year term came to an end...
