Barnabas Report: Islamists Spilling Rivers of Blood
Barnabas Report Islamists Spilling “Rivers of Christian Blood” The young Christians at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School in Kasese District, western Uganda, were ending their day in their usual way: singing hymns of praise. But the sounds of praise turned swiftly...
Nigeria: Latest Attacks on Christian Villages Claim 168 Lives
NIGERIA: LATEST ATTACKS ON CHRISTIAN VILLAGES CLAIM 168 LIVES By Andrew Boyd Fulani militants have attacked Christian villages in Mangu, central Nigeria. The latest wave of attacks on some 30 villages began on May 16 and killed at least 125. Similar attacks over the...
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
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...
Independent Safeguarding Board Abolished
Independent Safeguarding Board Abolished Members Sacked for Asserting Independence, in order to Make Safeguarding More Independent The Independent Safeguarding Board, set up to provide vital scrutiny of the Church of England’s safeguarding processes, has been...
St Hugh’s Group Held ‘Off the Agenda’ Meeting at General Synod: Emergency Meeting to Consider Structural Differentiation for Conservatives
St Hugh's Group Held 'Off the Agenda' Meeting at General Synod Emergency Meeting to Consider Structural Differentiation for Conservatives The St Hugh's Conversations, a series of secret meetings between conservative/evangelical groupings and liberal/progressive Church...
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...
NATIONAL
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...
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...
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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? 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 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
Barnabas Report: Islamists Spilling Rivers of Blood
Barnabas Report Islamists Spilling “Rivers of Christian Blood” The young Christians at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School in Kasese District, western Uganda, were ending their day in their usual way: singing hymns of praise. But the sounds of praise turned swiftly...
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...
Ho, Ho, No! St Nicholas Saves from Hell-Fire According to New Prayer Book
Ho, Ho, No! St Nicholas Saves from Hell-fire, claims New Prayer Book Santa Claus not only delivers the Christmas pressies once a year, he can also deliver people from the very flames of hell. That is, according to a new edition of an Anglican Book of Prayers publicly...
Cartoon: GAFCON Says No to Welby
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 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...
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...
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’...
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...
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...
CHURCH OF ENGLAND
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
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 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...
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 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
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 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...
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...
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
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...
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
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
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 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
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: 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
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...
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...
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: 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...
MORE NEWS
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 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
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...
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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? 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 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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Barnabas Report: Islamists Spilling Rivers of Blood
Barnabas Report Islamists Spilling “Rivers of Christian Blood” The young Christians at the Mpondwe Lhubiriha Secondary School in Kasese District, western Uganda, were ending their day in their usual way: singing hymns of praise. But the sounds of praise turned swiftly...
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...
