Lancashire Judge Rules in Favour of Franklin Graham
In a strong and clear rebuke of the cancel culture sweeping the UK, a court ruled that the 2018 Lancashire Festival of Hope with Franklin Graham was discriminated against by the Blackpool Borough Council and Blackpool Transport Services Limited by taking down bus ads...
Fletcher Report Impact of Harmful Behaviours
Impact of harmful behaviours From the evidence-gathering process of this Review, it is clear that JF engaged in a range of harmful behaviours that have been experienced by a number of people, through demonstrative accounts including a serious sexual act performed in...
An independent review into allegations of misconduct against the Revd Jonathan Fletcher
An independent review into allegations of misconduct against the Revd Jonathan Fletcher has been conducted and made public by the UK’s only safeguarding charity, Thirtyone:8. Fletcher was minister at Emmanuel, Wimbledon from 1982 - 2012. It is reported that 98...
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Christians in Parliament Group Join to Read the Gospel for Easter
Christian MPs and Peers from across the political parties came together to share a message of renewed hope this Easter, through a recording of the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ death and resurrection. The video recording was launched on the Christians in Parliament...
One Stream Anglicanism
By Chuck Collins What would a one-stream Anglican Church look like - - the biblical, evangelical stream that’s front-and-center in the Articles of Religion, the Homilies, and in the Book of Common Prayer? We all know that three-streams sounds nice and agrees with our...
Melville-Knox Christian School Advert
Melville-Knox Christian School Aberdeen is a proposed independent Reformed Christian primary school. We are delighted to announce this exciting development where our school board of directors are seeking to recruit a class teacher (potential head teacher) who will...
Letters To The Editor – Graham
Dear Sir, The organisers of an evangelistic event in which Franklin Graham preached have won a legal dispute with Blackpool Council. The Lancashire Festival of Hope took place over three days at Blackpool's Winter Gardens in September 2018, which saw hundreds make...
Letter To the Editor – Government
Dear Editor, Readers may appreciate the relevance of the following comments by Bishop Ryle in his Expository Thoughts on John 18:36 (Volume 3 page 274): “No government can expect to prosper which refuses to recognise religion, which deals with its subjects as if they...
Letter to the Editor – Covid
Dear Sir, Mr Hitchens has been consistent in his opposition to HM Government's Covid policies throughout this crisis, but he gets to the heart of the matter with his point about 'policies based largely upon fear'. The successful de-Christianising of this nation has...
Letter to the Editor Hate Crime Law
Letter to the Editor Regarding the new 'Hate Crime Law' proposed in Scotland, which is reported to define, "Religious phobias as hate crime"; I ask, "Is the Westminster Parliament supreme in the United Kingdom?" If the answer is, "Yes it is," then why is a lesser...
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Lancashire Judge Rules in Favour of Franklin Graham
In a strong and clear rebuke of the cancel culture sweeping the UK, a court ruled that the 2018 Lancashire Festival of Hope with Franklin Graham was discriminated against by the Blackpool Borough Council and Blackpool Transport Services Limited by taking down bus ads...
Spectator Cover Shows Empty Tomb for Easter Edition
Many of the readers of the English Churchman are also readers of The Spectator but the 3 April edition was a rather nice surprise. If you missed it, the cover featured an artist’s rendering of Jesus’ empty tomb. Bright morning sunlight showed the inside of a tomb,...
Christian School to Open in Aberdeen
Melville-Knox Christian School Aberdeen was recently formed after a number of encouraging developments amongst leaders and members of Reformed and confessional churches in the city. A series of preliminary discussions led to the establishment of Melville-Knox...
Unreserved Apology Thirtyone/8
The Revd William Taylor, rector of St Helen’s, Bishopsgate issued an apology to his congregation and those whom he might have hurt in his comments on the Thirtyone:8 charity’s review of the Jonathan Fletcher/Emmanuel Church Wimbledon investigation. In part, he said:...
Fletcher Report Impact of Harmful Behaviours
Impact of harmful behaviours From the evidence-gathering process of this Review, it is clear that JF engaged in a range of harmful behaviours that have been experienced by a number of people, through demonstrative accounts including a serious sexual act performed in...
Cancelled’ Christian actress to appeal tribunal ruling and unprecedented legal costs
A Christian actress will appeal an employment tribunal ruling which upheld her being ‘cancelled’ and hounded out of her promising career for an historic Facebook post. Seyi Omooba, 26, was removed from a lead role in a musical production of ‘The Color Purple’ after a...
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Coalition of NI Pro-Life Groups
A coalition of Northern Ireland pro-life groups have jointly called for pro-life MLAs to walk away from Stormont until Westminster allows the Northern Ireland Assembly to determine abortion law in the Province. They issued the following statement. “We reject outright...
Bishop Love Moves to Anglican Church in North America
Former Bishop of the Diocese of Albany in the Episcopal Church USA, The Rt Revd William Love, was announced as the new Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of the Living Word, Anglican Church of North America by The Rt Revd Julian Dobbs. Dobbs is the bishop ordinary for...
Christian Refugee Families Lose Everything in Fire
Many Christian families lost their shelter and what little possessions they owned when fire engulfed a sprawling Rohingya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, on 22 March. The United Nations refugee agency said 11 people died in the inferno and 560 were injured....
Dutch Correspondent – April 2021
The Reformed Daily has her Fiftieth Anniversary In 1966 five men came together. They wanted to commence a Reformed newspaper. Media were critical about the conservative part of the nation and even Christian newspapers were losing their Christian identity. It seemed...
Dutch Parliament Recognises Armenian Genocide
2 March 2021 The Dutch parliament voted on 27 February to pass a widely-supported motion calling upon the government to recognise the Armenian Genocide. The motion on the Armenian Genocide, submitted by Christian Union (ChristenUnie) MP Joël Voordewind, was passed...
Pakistani Christian Widows Need Help
Pakistani Christian Widows Need YOUR Help The Barnabas Fund is collecting funds to aid Pakistani Christian widows and children. What follows is the story of a woman named Riffat. Their website: www.barnabasfund.org has details on how to aid and pray. Riffat’s...
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BCP Worship
The Second Sunday after Easter 11 April 2021 Psalm 81:1-4Ezekiel 37:1-101 John 5:4-12John 20:19-23 BCP Collect “Almighty Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification: Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice...
Heidelberg Catechism Lord’s Day 3
Q & A 6 Q. Did God create people so wicked and perverse? A. No. God created them good (1) and in his own image,(2) that is, in true righteousness and holiness, (3) so that they might truly know God their creator, (4) love him with all their heart, and live with God in...
Ethiopian Government Atrocities
Ethiopian Government Investigating Atrocities The Associated Press is reporting that the government in Ethiopia has admitted that it is investigating “credible allegations of atrocities and human rights abuses” in its embattled Tigray region, including in the city of...
He Will Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire
Bishop JC RyleHe Will Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire In 1878, two years before he was made the first Bishop of Liverpool, The Revd JC Ryle delivered a sermon on the biblical teaching regarding the doctrine of hell. His words are as pertinent today as they...
William Hunter Transubstantiation
Written By Chuck Collins Nineteen-year old apprentice silk weaver, William Hunter, was caught and arrested for reading the Bible by himself in a local chapel (Foxe’s Book of Martyrs). The Roman Catholic magistrate decided to make an example of him by making him...
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Spectator Cover Shows Empty Tomb for Easter Edition
Many of the readers of the English Churchman are also readers of The Spectator but the 3 April edition was a rather nice surprise. If you missed it, the cover featured an artist’s rendering of Jesus’ empty tomb. Bright morning sunlight showed the inside of a tomb,...
BCP Worship
The Second Sunday after Easter 11 April 2021 Psalm 81:1-4Ezekiel 37:1-101 John 5:4-12John 20:19-23 BCP Collect “Almighty Father, who hast given thine only Son to die for our sins, and to rise again for our justification: Grant us so to put away the leaven of malice...
St George’s Church Crowhurst Promotes Wider Use of the BCP
A parish church in East Sussex – located next to the ruins of King Harold’s Saxon Manor, mentioned in the Domesday Book – has joined the Prayer Book Society in a bid to strengthen its campaign promoting wider use of the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) by young people as...
Coalition of NI Pro-Life Groups
A coalition of Northern Ireland pro-life groups have jointly called for pro-life MLAs to walk away from Stormont until Westminster allows the Northern Ireland Assembly to determine abortion law in the Province. They issued the following statement. “We reject outright...
Christian School to Open in Aberdeen
Melville-Knox Christian School Aberdeen was recently formed after a number of encouraging developments amongst leaders and members of Reformed and confessional churches in the city. A series of preliminary discussions led to the establishment of Melville-Knox...
Melville-Knox Christian School Advert
Melville-Knox Christian School Aberdeen is a proposed independent Reformed Christian primary school. We are delighted to announce this exciting development where our school board of directors are seeking to recruit a class teacher (potential head teacher) who will...
Church of Ireland Bishops Decry Violence Over Easter Weekend
Four Church of Ireland bishops issued a statement on Easter Monday after violent protests took place over the weekend in Carrickfergus, Newtonabbey, and Londonderry. The bishops wrote: “The violence which has been happening in parts of Northern Ireland over the past...
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HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. His Royal Highness passed away peacefully at Windsor Castle. Please join us in prayer: O MERCIFUL God, the Father...
He Will Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire
Bishop JC RyleHe Will Burn Up the Chaff with Unquenchable Fire In 1878, two years before he was made the first Bishop of Liverpool, The Revd JC Ryle delivered a sermon on the biblical teaching regarding the doctrine of hell. His words are as pertinent today as they...
