Letters: Readers React to the End of the English Churchman

Readers React to the End of the English Churchman   Dear Sir, In a statement in the penultimate issue of the English Churchman, the Trustees of the English Churchman Trust said, “The Trustees will consider how best to use the resources entrusted to them as they...
Barnabas Report:  Barnabas Builds Ten New Schools

Barnabas Report: Barnabas Builds Ten New Schools

Barnabas Report Barnabas Completes Ten New Schools for Impoverished Pakistani Christians Barnabas Aid has completed a project to build ten new schools for impoverished believers in Punjab, Pakistan. The second phase of five school buildings was completed in early...

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...

Further Concerns over Independent Safeguarding Board’s Independence

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 & 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 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...

NATIONAL

Storm in a Teacup?

Storm in a Teacup?

Anglican Futures Storm in a Teacup? One of the many unhappy consequences of 'Lockdown' was the postponement of wedding ceremonies.  Pre-covid the Church of England was conducting around 31,000 weddings and services of prayer and dedication a year. Countrywide in that...

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About the English Churchman Trust, Ltd

ABOUT THE ENGLISH CHURCHMAN TRUST The first object of the English Churchman Trust is “to promote the Protestant and Evangelical doctrines of the Church of England as set forth in the Thirty-nine Articles and the Homilies thereof, in particular by the publication of...

The End is Nye?

The End is Nye?

The End is Nye? During a Question and Answer session at the Religious Media Festival on June 12th, Archbishop Justin Welby pronounced, “Until we have a fully independent central safeguarding system - and this is not the official view, but it’s my view - until we have...

Justin Stop Oil

Justin Stop Oil

Justin Stop OilChurch Investment Bodies to Divest from Fossil Fuels The Church Commissioners and Church of England Pensions Board have each announced they will disinvest from fossil fuels this year. The Church Commissioners, who manage the Church of England’s £10.3bn...

INTERNATIONAL

Good Morning ACNA Part 2

Good Morning ACNA Part 2

Reformation Anglicanism Good Morning ACNA Part 2 By the Revd Canon Chuck Collins Editor’s Note: Canon Collins prepared this address for the ACNA Synod.  It stands as a great informational warning to those in British jurisdictions who wish to see reform. There are a...

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Editorial: Lambeth I:10 Rediscovered

Editorial: Lambeth I:10 Rediscovered

Editorial Lambeth I.10 Rediscovered One mantra from the Living in Love and Faith discussions was that texts should be understood in their cultural context. Simply quoting a Bible verse was not sufficient to settle debate; further reading, much study and endless...

GAFCON Starts Endowment Fund

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...

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...

CHURCH OF ENGLAND

Unite Comes Out in Favour of Increase in Clergy Stipend

Unite Comes Out in Favour of Increase in Clergy Stipend

Unite Comes Out in Favour of Increase in Clergy Stipend “Almost 20% of Clergy Turn to Clergy Support Trust” Church of England clergy, represented by Unite, the UK’s leading union, have for the first time in their history submitted a formal pay claim, as their members...

Keene’s Review: A People’s Church

Keene’s Review: A People’s Church

A People’s Church A History of the Church of England  Jeremy Morris Profile Books, 2022 (ISBN: 978-1-78125-249-9, 464pp) Writing a synoptic history of the church in one’s own nation is a crowning achievement in the career of any ecclesiastical historian. Morris’...

Justin Stop Oil

Justin Stop Oil

Justin Stop OilChurch Investment Bodies to Divest from Fossil Fuels The Church Commissioners and Church of England Pensions Board have each announced they will disinvest from fossil fuels this year. The Church Commissioners, who manage the Church of England’s £10.3bn...

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CEEC Director Supports Goddard’s Findings About LLF

CEEC Director Supports Goddard’s Findings About LLF

CEEC Director Supports Goddard’s Findings About LLF “We call on our bishops to accept this a doctrinal matter …” The Revd Dr Andrew Goddard, Tutor in Christian Ethics at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, sets out what he believes is the only appropriate legal route for the...

Bishop Becomes Bishop and Mann Becomes Archdeacon

Bishop Becomes Bishop and Mann Becomes Archdeacon

BISHOP BECOMES BISHOP The Venerable Ian Bishop, Archdeacon of Macclesfield, has been announced as the next Suffragan Bishop of Thetford, Norwich diocese. The soon-to-be Bishop Bishop is 62 and was ordained priest in 1992. He served in parish ministry in Southwark and...

Letters: Readers React to the End of the English Churchman

Letters: Readers React to the End of the English Churchman

Readers React to the End of the English Churchman   Dear Sir, In a statement in the penultimate issue of the English Churchman, the Trustees of the English Churchman Trust said, “The Trustees will consider how best to use the resources entrusted to them as they...

DEVOTIONALS

Pilgrim’s Process: The Future

Pilgrim’s Process: The Future

Pilgrim’s Process  By Revd Dr Peter Sanlon The Future It is the nature of a journey that we aim to arrive at a destination. Christian in Pilgrim’s Progress is spurred on in his travels by an overwhelming desire to reach his goal of the celestial city.  The New...

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Pilgrim’s Process: Question

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...

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...

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

Storm in a Teacup?

Storm in a Teacup?

Anglican Futures Storm in a Teacup? One of the many unhappy consequences of 'Lockdown' was the postponement of wedding ceremonies.  Pre-covid the Church of England was conducting around 31,000 weddings and services of prayer and dedication a year. Countrywide in that...

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Pilgrim’s Process: The Future

Pilgrim’s Process: The Future

Pilgrim’s Process  By Revd Dr Peter Sanlon The Future It is the nature of a journey that we aim to arrive at a destination. Christian in Pilgrim’s Progress is spurred on in his travels by an overwhelming desire to reach his goal of the celestial city.  The New...

Good Morning ACNA Part 2

Good Morning ACNA Part 2

Reformation Anglicanism Good Morning ACNA Part 2 By the Revd Canon Chuck Collins Editor’s Note: Canon Collins prepared this address for the ACNA Synod.  It stands as a great informational warning to those in British jurisdictions who wish to see reform. There are a...

Pilgrim’s Process: Repentance

Pilgrim’s Process: Repentance

Repentance By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon John Bunyan was far from the first to use imagery of journeying and travelling to describe the nature of the Christian life. In the fourth century the famous preacher John Chrysostom delivered a series of sermons on the theme of...

Good Morning ACNA Part 1

Good Morning ACNA Part 1

Good Morning ACNA Part 1 By Revd Canon Chuck Collins Editor’s Note: Regular EC columnist, the Revd Canon Chuck Collins wrote the following as an address to his Diocesan Synod in the US. He has had some health challenges so he was not able to deliver it in person. We...

Confusing Grace: The Northern Churchman Comments

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,...

EDITORIALS

Editorial: Church Considerations for Net-Zero

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

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...

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Editorial: The Crucifixion of Jesus

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 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?

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

Letter to the Editor: Called to Share the Gospel

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

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

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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CEEC Director Supports Goddard’s Findings About LLF

CEEC Director Supports Goddard’s Findings About LLF

CEEC Director Supports Goddard’s Findings About LLF “We call on our bishops to accept this a doctrinal matter …” The Revd Dr Andrew Goddard, Tutor in Christian Ethics at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, sets out what he believes is the only appropriate legal route for the...

About the English Churchman Trust, Ltd

ABOUT THE ENGLISH CHURCHMAN TRUST The first object of the English Churchman Trust is “to promote the Protestant and Evangelical doctrines of the Church of England as set forth in the Thirty-nine Articles and the Homilies thereof, in particular by the publication of...

The End is Nye?

The End is Nye?

The End is Nye? During a Question and Answer session at the Religious Media Festival on June 12th, Archbishop Justin Welby pronounced, “Until we have a fully independent central safeguarding system - and this is not the official view, but it’s my view - until we have...

Justin Stop Oil

Justin Stop Oil

Justin Stop OilChurch Investment Bodies to Divest from Fossil Fuels The Church Commissioners and Church of England Pensions Board have each announced they will disinvest from fossil fuels this year. The Church Commissioners, who manage the Church of England’s £10.3bn...

TRENDING

Justin Stop Oil

Justin Stop Oil

Justin Stop OilChurch Investment Bodies to Divest from Fossil Fuels The Church Commissioners and Church of England Pensions Board have each announced they will disinvest from fossil fuels this year. The Church Commissioners, who manage the Church of England’s £10.3bn...