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What Exactly Did Revd Randall Say That Was So Extreme?
What Exactly Did Revd Randall Say That Was So Extreme? Ever since The Revd Dr Bernard Randall came into the public sphere most have never read what caused his firing. If you only read the secular papers or other media, you would think that he had used his position...
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...
Barnabas Fund Report: African Hospitals Give Thanks for PPE as Ebola Breaks Out in Uganda
Barnabas Fund Report African Hospitals Give Thanks for PPE as Ebola Breaks Out in Uganda Christian hospitals in Africa have given heartfelt thanks for a huge consignment of personal protective equipment (PPE) shipped by Barnabas Aid’s medical.gives programme. “We want...
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...
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...
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 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 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 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
Vaughan Roberts Advocates for Liberal-Evangelical Settlement
Vaughan Roberts Advocates Liberal-Evangelical Settlement Maximum Unity without Theological Compromise The Revd Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford and member of General Synod gave an account of General Synod proceedings to The Spectator magazine. He explained...
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...
St Helen’s Bishopsgate Breaks with London: “We Do Not Stand Alone”
St Helen’s Bishopsgate Breaks with Bishop of London “We Do Not Stand Alone” The Revd William, Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate, announced on 1 March that his parish has broken its relationship with the Bishop of London. Taylor, long-time rector at one of the biggest...
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...
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...
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...
INTERNATIONAL
Archbishop of Rwanda is Featured Speaker at Down Cathedral
Archbishop of Rwanda is Featured Speaker at Down Cathedral Global South Leader to Speak About Reconciliation Archbishop Laurent Mbanda, Primate of the Church of Rwanda, will be the special guest for this year’s St Patrick’s Day service at Down Cathedral. He was...
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...
Barnabas Fund: Relief Efforts to Earthquake Survivors in Syria & Turkey
Barnabas Aid News from Relief Efforts to Earthquake Survivors in Turkey & Syria Barnabas has delivered food, blankets and other aid to Christian survivors of the devastating Turkey-Syria earthquake. The distribution of 1,500 food.gives boxes containing rice,...
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
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
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
Vaughan Roberts Advocates for Liberal-Evangelical Settlement
Vaughan Roberts Advocates Liberal-Evangelical Settlement Maximum Unity without Theological Compromise The Revd Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford and member of General Synod gave an account of General Synod proceedings to The Spectator magazine. He explained...
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
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...
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 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 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
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,...
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 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
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
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...
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...
Lambeth Palace’s Safeguarding Lambasted by SCIE
Anglican Futures Lambeth Palace’s Safeguarding Lambasted by SCIE The Church of England faces yet another crisis and like other recent events it has a common origin. In March 2022, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) conducted an independent audit of...
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...
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? 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...
Archbishops See Handwriting on the Wall
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: 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 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: 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...
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: 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? 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...
MORE NEWS
Tim Rowlands Is Announced As the New Head of the Evangelical Alliance in Wales
TIM ROWLANDS IS ANNOUNCED AS THE NEW HEAD OF THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE IN WALES The Evangelical Alliance announced that Tim Rowlands will be joining the staff team as the head of the Evangelical Alliance in Wales from 1 April, supporting the church in Wales in its...
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
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...
Archbishop of Rwanda is Featured Speaker at Down Cathedral
Archbishop of Rwanda is Featured Speaker at Down Cathedral Global South Leader to Speak About Reconciliation Archbishop Laurent Mbanda, Primate of the Church of Rwanda, will be the special guest for this year’s St Patrick’s Day service at Down Cathedral. He was...
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...
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...
TRENDING
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
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...
