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...

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Court Rules Against Revd Randall

Court Rules Against Revd Randall

Court Rules Against Revd Randall Upholds His Firing For Holding to the Doctrines of the Church of England Judge Victoria Butler of the East Midlands Employment Tribunal ruled against the Revd Dr Bernard Randall in his appeal of his dismissal from the role of chaplain...

FEATURED

Editorial Screwtape’s Apprentice?

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...

Canterbury Fails: Cathedral U-Turn over Livestreaming

Canterbury Fails: Cathedral U-Turn over Livestreaming

  Canterbury Fails Cathedral U-Turn over Livestreaming There was much confusion in the cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral last week as the arrangements for the consecration of two 'flying bishops' were announced. The consecrations of the Suffragan Bishop of...

Editorial: Dissembling BINOs and a Bishops’ Egg

Editorial: Dissembling BINOs and a Bishops’ Egg

Editorial Dissembling BINOs and a Bishops' Egg  Those familiar with the BCP’s service for Morning Prayer would have immediately seen through the word salad offered by the Bishops in their explanation and commendation of blessings for same-sex marriage. For centuries,...

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act of 1963

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act of 1963

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Act of 1963 Persons Against Whom Proceedings May be Instituted. Proceedings under this Measure may be instituted against an archbishop, any diocesan bishop or any suffragan bishop commissioned by a diocesan bishop or any other bishop or a...

Editorial: The Rise of the BINO

Editorial: The Rise of the BINO

Editorial The Rise of the BINO Former evangelical and current Bishop of Oxford, Dr Steven Croft, has published a fifty-two-page essay in which he advocates change to Church of England doctrine and practice on marriage to allow same-sex weddings to be conducted. His...

NATIONAL

A Commination

A Commination

A Commination In earlier times, the Church was very clear in its condemnation of sin. It did not wink at it or think it a mere trifle.  If you open your Book of Common Prayer you will find the liturgy entitled,  A Commination. It is the last portion of liturgy before...

Henry VIII Did Not Start the Church of England

Reformation Anglicanism Henry VIII Did Not Start the Church of England By The Revd Canon Chuck Collins Henry VIII did (not!) start the Church of England. He pushed through the Act of Supremacy, January 15, 1534, that made him and all his heirs the Supreme Head of the...

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New Bishop Installed for NW Australia

New Bishop Installed for NW Australia

New Bishop for NW Australia Conservative Anglican outpost, the Diocese of North West Australia, has its new bishop in place.  The Rt Revd Darrell Parker was installed as the diocesan bishop in a service on 15 February.  Bishop Parker had been consecrated at St...

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Is There Any Contra Mundum? by Mouneer Anis

Is There Any Contra Mundum? by Mouneer Anis

Op-ED Is There Any Contra Mundum? By the Most Revd Dr Mouneer Anis Over the centuries, the church of Christ faced many heresies and unbiblical innovations. However, God raised up faithful church leaders to defend the truth and protect the church from losing her...

Archbishop of Uganda Issues Some Home Truths to C of E

Archbishop of Church of Uganda Issues Home Truths to Church of England On 10 February, The Archbishop of the Church of Uganda has penned a lengthy response to recent events at the last meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod.  He pulled no punches and it...

Hypocrisy of Authoritarian Bishops Part 3

Hypocrisy of Authoritarian Bishops Part 3

The Hypocrisy of Authoritarian Bishops Part 3 By the Revd Dr Lee Gatiss Origins? Did the prayers that are suggested in GS2289 come from the Liturgical Commission? That is the official body which discusses and drafts our liturgies. Surely they carefully looked at all...

REVIEWS

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...

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Review: The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill

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

Cleric in Same-Sex Marriage Faces CDM

Cleric in Same-Sex Marriage Faces CDM

Cleric in Same-Sex Marriage Faces CDM Sam Margrave, General Synod member from Coventry Diocese has informed the Bishop of Manchester his intention to submit a Clergy Disciplinary Measure (CDM) against a deacon in Manchester Diocese.   The English Churchman was sent a...

Cocksworth Reveals LLF Failings

Cocksworth Reveals LLF Failings

Bishop of Coventry Reveals LLF FailingsQuestion of Doctrinal Change has not been Answered Bishop Christopher Cocksworth, chair of the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) Co-ordinating Group from 2017 to 2020, has written a personal reflection on the LLF debate at General...

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Church Times Reports Unhappy Clergy Meeting with Bishop of London

Church Times Reports Unhappy Clergy Meeting with Bishop of London

Church Times Reports Unhappy Clergy Meeting with Bishop of London Reporter Ed Thornton of Church Times reports that an estimated 150 - 200 London Diocesan clergy met with the Bishop of London in the aftermath of the General Synod’s decision to bless same-sex civil...

Self-styled “Evangelicals” Support Gay Blessings

Self-styled “Evangelicals” Support Gay Blessings

Self-styled "Evangelicals" Support Gay Blessings   A collection of self-identified "evangelicals" on General Synod have written to the Church Times, expressing their support for the Bishops' Living in Love and Faith (LLF) proposals and subsequent synod vote. They...

Oath of Canonical Obedience Explained

Oath of Canonical Obedience Explained

Oath of Canonical Obedience Explained The Revd Dr Lee Gatiss, Director of Church Society has called on clergy to remember the explanation of The Oath of Canonical Obedience from the Faith & Order Commission last year. “The Oath of Canonical Obedience takes for...

DEVOTIONALS

Pilgrim’s Process: Beyond the Mind

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...

Talkative: What a Character by Revd Dr Peter Sanlon

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,...

Pilgrim’s Process: Systematic Theology

Pilgrim’s Process: Systematic Theology

Pilgrim’s Process Systematic Theology By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon God has revealed himself and his plans for us, in the form of a narrative - the Bible story that runs from Genesis to Revelation. In order to keep us going as pilgrims on the way, we should seek to make...

Pilgrim’s Process, The Journey

Pilgrim’s Process, The Journey

Pilgrim’s Process  By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon The Journe ‘Blessed is the man     who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners,     nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the Lord,     and on his law he...

DOCTRINE

Archbishop of Uganda Issues Home Truths to Church of England

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

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...

Gist of Bishops’ Pastoral Letter Regarding Same-Sex Blessings

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

A Plea to Local Churches: Gospel-Driven Anglicanism

A Plea to Local Churches: Gospel-Driven Anglicanism

Gospel-Driven Anglicanism By The Revd Dr Mark Pickles Thus the plea in this chapter is for local churches:  I. To be intentionally praying for and asking God to raise up more workers for his harvest field. If every evangelical Anglican local church had a vision to...

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Fostering Division in the Name of Unity

Fostering Division in the Name of Unity

The Northern Churchman Fostering Division in the Name of Unity With the inevitable din and fallout following General Synod, other events have passed without comment, such as the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This year's service linked churches in Britain and...

The Archbishop of Doublethink

The Archbishop of Doublethink

The Archbishop of Doublethink George Orwell coined the term ‘doublethink’ to describe the flexibility of mind required to live and survive in the society described in the novel 1984. Amongst its many traits, doublethink required the ability “To know and not to know,...

Henry VIII Did Not Start the Church of England

Reformation Anglicanism Henry VIII Did Not Start the Church of England By The Revd Canon Chuck Collins Henry VIII did (not!) start the Church of England. He pushed through the Act of Supremacy, January 15, 1534, that made him and all his heirs the Supreme Head of the...

EDITORIALS

Editorial Screwtape’s Apprentice?

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...

Editorial: Dissembling BINOs and a Bishops’ Egg

Editorial: Dissembling BINOs and a Bishops’ Egg

Editorial Dissembling BINOs and a Bishops' Egg  Those familiar with the BCP’s service for Morning Prayer would have immediately seen through the word salad offered by the Bishops in their explanation and commendation of blessings for same-sex marriage. For centuries,...

Editorial: Delusion & Judgment

Editorial: Delusion & Judgment

Editorial Delusion & Judgment When the Apostle Paul wrote to the Thessalonians, he told them (and us) that before the coming of the lawless one that God would “send a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false in order that all may be condemned who...

Editorial: Luke 2:1-32

Editorial Luke 2:1 - 32 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own...

LETTERS

Letter: Solemn Times

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...

Letter:  Jealously Angry & Indignant

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...

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Letter:  Law & Politics

Letter: Law & Politics

Letter Law & Politics Dear Sir, The historian Robert Conquest posited a law about politics, that the simplest way to explain the behaviour of any bureaucratic organisation is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. Can this 'law' explain the...

Letter:  Apology?

Letter: Apology?

Letter Apology? Dear Sir, The Bishop’s response to Lambeth has been published along with some responses, for example, Church Society and CEEC. There is much to criticise in the deplorable, blasphemous, verbose and vacuous Bishop’s paper. To pick up on one point which...

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A Commination

A Commination

A Commination In earlier times, the Church was very clear in its condemnation of sin. It did not wink at it or think it a mere trifle.  If you open your Book of Common Prayer you will find the liturgy entitled,  A Commination. It is the last portion of liturgy before...

Fostering Division in the Name of Unity

Fostering Division in the Name of Unity

The Northern Churchman Fostering Division in the Name of Unity With the inevitable din and fallout following General Synod, other events have passed without comment, such as the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. This year's service linked churches in Britain and...

New Bishop Installed for NW Australia

New Bishop Installed for NW Australia

New Bishop for NW Australia Conservative Anglican outpost, the Diocese of North West Australia, has its new bishop in place.  The Rt Revd Darrell Parker was installed as the diocesan bishop in a service on 15 February.  Bishop Parker had been consecrated at St...

Pilgrim’s Process: Beyond the Mind

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...

TRENDING

A Plea to Local Churches: Gospel-Driven Anglicanism

A Plea to Local Churches: Gospel-Driven Anglicanism

Gospel-Driven Anglicanism By The Revd Dr Mark Pickles Thus the plea in this chapter is for local churches:  I. To be intentionally praying for and asking God to raise up more workers for his harvest field. If every evangelical Anglican local church had a vision to...

Cocksworth Reveals LLF Failings

Cocksworth Reveals LLF Failings

Bishop of Coventry Reveals LLF FailingsQuestion of Doctrinal Change has not been Answered Bishop Christopher Cocksworth, chair of the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) Co-ordinating Group from 2017 to 2020, has written a personal reflection on the LLF debate at General...