Barnabas Report: At Least 21 Christians Killed in Mozambique
Barnabas Report At Least 21 Christians Killed in Mozambique During October At least 21 Christians have been killed by Islamist extremists in violent attacks throughout October in northern Mozambique. Jihadists set fire to a church building and several houses in the...
Church of England Evangelical Priest Resigns Over Bullying
Church of England Evangelical Priest Resigns over Bullying and AbuseSaga has left 39-year-old former astrophysicist unemployed The American online Anglican website, virtueonline.org has featured the story of a Church of England clergyman who has gone public with his...
International Christian Concern Reports Chinese Communists Jail Hong Kong Pastor
International Christian Concern Reports Chinese Communists Jail Hong Kong Pastor A Hong Kong pastor who was arrested and detained for sedition last month has been convicted and sentenced to one year in prison. Despite the sentencing, Rev. Garry Pang Moon-yuen...
FEATURED
The Book of Common Prayer Deserves a Fresh Consideration
The Book of Common Prayer Deserves a Fresh Consideration By the Revd Dr Chris Moore If you were to visit an old Church of England church building you would find a curious mix of the permanent and the temporary. You might look around and see centuries-old columns...
John Rodgers: Where Do We Go From Here? Part 3
Bishop John Rodgers Where Do We Go From Here Part 3 “The Days of Half Measures and Delays are Past” This is the third and final instalment of the address given by Bishop John Rodgers at the first GAFCON Conference in Jerusalem 2008. His reasoning is more...
Charity Commissioners Issue Strong Warning to Trustees of Christ Church, Oxford
Charity Commissioners Issue Strong Warning to Trustees of Christ Church, Oxford Rebuke Directly Related to Actions Toward Former Dean Christ Church has been involved in long and costly disputes involving its former Dean, who left his role earlier this year following a...
An RIP for RIP? A Faithful Departure?
The Northern Churchman A Faithful Departure? “May he rest in peace and rise in glory.” These words, solemnly intoned at a funeral service or in public acknowledgement of a death, have assumed a certain dignity and antiquity; they simply seem to be the right thing for...
GAFCON Primates Communique in Full
Communiqué from the Gafcon Primates CouncilFor the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who arebeing saved it is the power of God. 1 Cor 1:18 To all the faithful members of Gafcon throughout the world, and to all friends in...
Where Do We Go From Here?
Where Do We Go From Here by the Rt Revd John Rodgers Part 2 from Bishop Rodgers Address to GAFCON 2008 2. A Common Celebration of the Word and the Sacraments of the Gospel From the time of Cranmer until the 20th Century, Anglicans have had a common prayer book...
Prudence Dailey’s Commentary Reflections on the State Funeral of Her Majest Queen Elizabeth II
Prudence Dailey’s Commentary Reflections on the State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II I was astonished and deeply honoured when I received a telephone call from the Cabinet Office inviting me to attend the State Funeral of Her Majesty The Queen, as one of a...
NATIONAL
Melville-Knox Christian School Opens in Aberdeen
Melville-Knox Christian School Opens in Aberdeen Melville-Knox Christian School Aberdeen officially opened on Monday 7th November after years of prayer, planning and organisation. We give thanks to the Lord that we have been able to reach this significant milestone;...
Sanctuary Foundation Offers Free Advent Resource
Sanctuary Foundation Offers Free Advent Resource Sanctuary Foundation has been aiding those trying to offer assistance for those fleeing the war in Ukraine through its, “Homes for Ukraine” scheme. The charity has been serving as a liaison by resourcing hosts and...
Oxford Good Stewards Trust Announced in Response to Bishop of Oxford’s Revisionism
St Paul’s Banbury, Oxford Answers Bishop and Announces The Oxford Good Stewards Trust The Revd Dan McGowan, Vicar of St Paul’s, Banbury in Oxford Diocese has answered Bishop Croft’s revisionist declarations about same-sex matters and announced the formation of The...
Pilgrim’s Process: John 3:16 The Gospel in Miniature
Pilgrim’s Process John 3:16, The Gospel in Miniature By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Martin Luther said of John 3:16 that it contains ‘the Gospel in miniature.’ It may well be the most famous verse in scripture – it was the first one I taught my children to recite. ‘For...
Letter: Divorce
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, Re: Robert Ian Williams's letter (EC8117), no genuine evangelical could possibly countenance replacing our Lord's "let not man put asunder" with "man cannot put asunder", which is a doctrine from the pit. Such putting...
Charity Commissioners Issue Strong Warning to Trustees of Christ Church, Oxford
Charity Commissioners Issue Strong Warning to Trustees of Christ Church, Oxford Rebuke Directly Related to Actions Toward Former Dean Christ Church has been involved in long and costly disputes involving its former Dean, who left his role earlier this year following a...
INTERNATIONAL
On Transubstantiation: Reformation Anglicanism
Reformation Anglicanism On Transubstantiation By the Revd Canon Chuck Collins Transubstantiation became the official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church at the Fourth Lateran Council that began, November 11, 1215. The Council of Trent in 1551 went on to confirm the...
Anglican Futures: Collected Comments About the Consecrations
Anglican Futures Collected Comments About the Recent Consecrations The consecration of three bishops for the Anglican Network in Europe has, rightly received wide coverage. So wide that it is doubtful that many can take it all in, so here are some “edited highlights”....
Contending with Lamb-like Gentleness and Lion-like Courage by Mark Pickles
Gospel-Driven Anglicanism By the Revd Dr Mark Pickles Contending with Lamb-like Gentleness and Lion-like Courage John Piper writes: “Life is war. That’s not all it is. But it is always that...very few people think that we are in a war that is greater than World War...
TBS Offers New Translation in Desauri Tharu Language
TBS Offers New Translation In Desauri Tharu Language The Trinitarian Bible Society has continue to make progress in a translation of the Bible into the Desauri Tharu language. Desauri is one of the Tharu language variants spoken by the Tharu people of the Terai region...
Mark Twain’s Observations on the Jewish People
Mark Twain’s Observations about the Jewish People We live in a time of growing anti-semitism. It is not a new thing but it never ceases to shock people whose world view is shaped by the Bible. The American writer, Mark Twain wrote about the Jewish people during...
John Rodgers: Where Do We Go From Here? Part 3
Bishop John Rodgers Where Do We Go From Here Part 3 “The Days of Half Measures and Delays are Past” This is the third and final instalment of the address given by Bishop John Rodgers at the first GAFCON Conference in Jerusalem 2008. His reasoning is more...
REVIEWS
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...
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...
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 Society Releases Video: Engine of the English Reformation
Church Society Releases: The Engine of the English Reformation Video Ahead of Reformation Day, Church Society has released a very informative video entitled, The Engine of the Reformation. The video lasting just over three-quarters of an hour, is hosted by the Revd...
CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Church of England Council Rejects Croft’s Position
Church of England Evangelical Council Rejects Croft’s Position In a press statement following the pronouncements of Steven Croft, Bishop of Oxford, the Church of England Evangelical Council repudiated the departure of biblical teaching advocated by Croft. It said,...
Oxford Good Stewards Trust Announced in Response to Bishop of Oxford’s Revisionism
St Paul’s Banbury, Oxford Answers Bishop and Announces The Oxford Good Stewards Trust The Revd Dan McGowan, Vicar of St Paul’s, Banbury in Oxford Diocese has answered Bishop Croft’s revisionist declarations about same-sex matters and announced the formation of The...
The Diverse Excellencies of Jesus Christ: Gospel-Driven Anglicanism
Gospel-Driven Anglicanism By the Revd Dr Mark Pickles The Diverse Excellencies of Jesus Christ The American Theologian and Pastor, Jonathan Edwards (1703 -1758), once preached a sermon entitled “The Admirable Conjunction of Diverse Excellencies in Jesus Christ”. The...
Two Ways to Live: A Response to Vaughan Roberts
Two Ways to Be a Christian? A Response to Vaughan Roberts By a Loyal Layman Many who attended university in the 1990s and 2000s will be familiar with the evangelistic tract “Two Ways to Live”. It was a simple and useful gospel outline. Students attending the big...
Anglican Futures: Collected Comments About the Consecrations
Anglican Futures Collected Comments About the Recent Consecrations The consecration of three bishops for the Anglican Network in Europe has, rightly received wide coverage. So wide that it is doubtful that many can take it all in, so here are some “edited highlights”....
Margrave Puts Compensation Question to House of Bishops
Margrave Puts Compensation Question to House of Bishops Samuel Margrave, lay member of General Synod from Coventry Diocese has released a very pointed question to the House of Bishops for the next meeting scheduled for December. He writes, “To the Chair of the House...
DEVOTIONALS
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...
Pilgrim’s Process: “Mind Mr By-Ends”
Pilgrim’s Process “Mind Mr By-Ends” By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Driving into an English city on holiday I idly counted the rainbow flags posted in shop and house windows. One after another they signalled support for this world’s ideology. I went into three...
Pilgrim’s Process: Inward Work
Pilgrim’s Process By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Inward Work On our pilgrimage there are many things that it is good to do. Many actions and ventures that would serve others and benefit the Church. It is easy to focus on the needful actions. Many books and strategies and...
Are You a Lucky Dipper?
Are You a Lucky Dipper? by The Revd Christopher D. Pierce Do you read the Bible methodically or are you a lucky dipper? To be more explicit, do you start at the beginning of a book and work your way through to the end? Perhaps you merely open the Bible and let your...
Pilgrim’s Process: “The Chief End of Man”
Pilgrim’s Process By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon “The Chief End of Man” We all are conscious of our own trials, struggles and burdens — they make our pilgrimage to heaven difficult in ways unique to us. Perhaps some of your challenges are difficulties known only...
DOCTRINE
Oxford Good Stewards Trust Announced in Response to Bishop of Oxford’s Revisionism
St Paul’s Banbury, Oxford Answers Bishop and Announces The Oxford Good Stewards Trust The Revd Dan McGowan, Vicar of St Paul’s, Banbury in Oxford Diocese has answered Bishop Croft’s revisionist declarations about same-sex matters and announced the formation of The...
Anglican Bishop of Norwich Joins in Roman Catholic Requiem Mass for The Queen
Anglican Bishop of Norwich Joins in Roman Catholic Requiem Mass for The Queen Church of England Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher joined in a Roman Catholic Requiem Mass for Her Majesty The Queen at St John’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Norwich on 15 September. Roman...
Bishop of Maidstone Stands with GSFA
Bishop of Maidstone Stands with Global South Fellowship of Anglicans The Rt Revd Rod Thomas, Bishop of Maidstone and Provincial Episcopal Visitor for those churches that believe in the complementarian understanding of ordination, told the English Churchman that, “I...
The Kirk Joins the Methodists & Scottish Episcopal Church on Road to Sodom
The Kirk Joins the Methodists and Scottish Episcopal Church on the Road to Sodom The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland voted overwhelmingly (274 for to 136 against) to permit same-sex marriages by its clergy and in its buildings at the meeting of its General...
Who’s YOUR Righteousness?
Who’s Your Righteousness? By the Revd Canon Chuck Collins Who’s your righteousness? "The Lord our Righteousness" was the sermon preached March 20, 1757 at St. Mary's Church in Oxford. It offended nearly everyone that day and William Romaine was invited to never preach...
GAFCON Ireland Offers Course on Romans
GAFCON Ireland Offers Course on Romans Theology Ireland, sponsored by GAFCON Ireland, is offering an in-depth look at the Apostle Paul’s Letter to the Romans in May. Although all are welcome, the course is primarily geared toward laity. The course will be taught by...
COLUMNIST
The Cancelling of the Creator
The Cancelling of the Creator The headline from a national newspaper popped up on my phone: “Daniel Radcliffe is surely the world’s most ungrateful man”. It’s not a title many would be scrambling to win for themselves, but the opinion-piece made the case. Daniel...
On Transubstantiation: Reformation Anglicanism
Reformation Anglicanism On Transubstantiation By the Revd Canon Chuck Collins Transubstantiation became the official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church at the Fourth Lateran Council that began, November 11, 1215. The Council of Trent in 1551 went on to confirm the...
Two Ways to Live: A Response to Vaughan Roberts
Two Ways to Be a Christian? A Response to Vaughan Roberts By a Loyal Layman Many who attended university in the 1990s and 2000s will be familiar with the evangelistic tract “Two Ways to Live”. It was a simple and useful gospel outline. Students attending the big...
Pilgrim’s Process: John 3:16 The Gospel in Miniature
Pilgrim’s Process John 3:16, The Gospel in Miniature By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Martin Luther said of John 3:16 that it contains ‘the Gospel in miniature.’ It may well be the most famous verse in scripture – it was the first one I taught my children to recite. ‘For...
The Book of Common Prayer Deserves a Fresh Consideration
The Book of Common Prayer Deserves a Fresh Consideration By the Revd Dr Chris Moore If you were to visit an old Church of England church building you would find a curious mix of the permanent and the temporary. You might look around and see centuries-old columns...
Anglican Arminianism & Kudzu
Anglican Arminianism and Kudzu By the Revd Canon Chuck Collins Jacobus Arminius, Dutch pastor and theologian, died October 19, 1609. But Arminianism in its various forms is like kudzu (a noxious weed similar to Japanese knot-weed imported to America to combat topsoil...
EDITORIALS
Editorial: A Tautological Bishop?
Editorial A Tautological Bishop? In October, Dr Jo Bailey Wells, the current Bishop of Dorking in Guildford Diocese, was announced as the Anglican Communion’s first Bishop for Episcopal Ministry. Dr Bailey Wells, a former chaplain to Archbishop Justin Welby, will...
Editorial Giving Thanks for the Rail Strike
Editorial Giving Thanks for the Rail Strike It is not a frequent thing to find support for public strikes in the pages of the English Churchman but we will make an exception for the one scheduled for this Saturday, 8 October. Our gentle readers are right to ask, Why?...
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...
Editorial: Elizabeth the Faithful
Editorial Elizabeth the Faithful 1926 — 2022 Her Majesty The Queen’s death shocked all but those most “in the know at Balmoral”. Signs of her increasing frailty were more evident but almost all viewed her as indestructible as a ball bearing. She had always been a...
Editorial: Down the Liberal Lane
Editorial Down the Liberal Lane By the time this edition reaches you, the Employment Tribunal in Derbyshire may have rendered a verdict in the case brought by the Revd Dr Bernard Randall. Dr Randall had served as college chaplain at Cambridge before being appointed...
Editorial: Lambeth 2022 The Elevation of Experience
Editorial Lambeth 2022: the Elevation of Experience The Lambeth Conference is finally over. Thanks be to God! Its completion was about enough to turn the most emotionless soul into a pew-jumping Pentecostal. Hallelujah! However, this most recent gathering did bring...
LETTERS
Letter: Divorce
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, Re: Robert Ian Williams's letter (EC8117), no genuine evangelical could possibly countenance replacing our Lord's "let not man put asunder" with "man cannot put asunder", which is a doctrine from the pit. Such putting...
Letter: Church Society Covenant
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, The declaration for members of Church Society is fundamentally flawed and is in reality a rehash of the Reform covenant. Whilst proclaiming Biblical perspicuity it sidesteps the great Anglican evangelical divide on divorce. This is...
Letter: Response to the CEEC Statement
Letter to the Editor Response to the CEEC Statement Dear Sir, And so the debating continues concerning matter sexual. CEEC have produced a video entitled, Learning From Elsewhere. The full title should read, Learning From Elsewhere – other than the Bible. Have you...
Letter to the Editor: Open Air Preaching Under Assault
Letter to the Editor Open Air Preaching Under Assault We minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the open air under continuous threat from the authorities. Recently while preaching at The Cross, in the centre of our City, Security men came and stood alongside me...
Letter Evensong at Manchester Cathedral
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, On Friday 9 September, my wife and I attended the “Evensong with Prayers for her Majesty Queen Elizabeth 11” at Manchester Cathedral. While I have found myself very moved and tearful by her death, I could not help but notice the...
MORE NEWS
Church of England Council Rejects Croft’s Position
Church of England Evangelical Council Rejects Croft’s Position In a press statement following the pronouncements of Steven Croft, Bishop of Oxford, the Church of England Evangelical Council repudiated the departure of biblical teaching advocated by Croft. It said,...
On Transubstantiation: Reformation Anglicanism
Reformation Anglicanism On Transubstantiation By the Revd Canon Chuck Collins Transubstantiation became the official doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church at the Fourth Lateran Council that began, November 11, 1215. The Council of Trent in 1551 went on to confirm the...
Oxford Good Stewards Trust Announced in Response to Bishop of Oxford’s Revisionism
St Paul’s Banbury, Oxford Answers Bishop and Announces The Oxford Good Stewards Trust The Revd Dan McGowan, Vicar of St Paul’s, Banbury in Oxford Diocese has answered Bishop Croft’s revisionist declarations about same-sex matters and announced the formation of The...
Rector of St Ebbe’s Response to the Bishop of Oxford
Rector of St Ebbe’s Response to the Bishop of Oxford The Revd Vaughan Roberts, long-time rector of St Ebbe’s Church in Oxford Diocese, has written a forty-seven page response to the fifty-four page essay where his bishop argued in favour of same-sex marriage,...
Two Ways to Live: A Response to Vaughan Roberts
Two Ways to Be a Christian? A Response to Vaughan Roberts By a Loyal Layman Many who attended university in the 1990s and 2000s will be familiar with the evangelistic tract “Two Ways to Live”. It was a simple and useful gospel outline. Students attending the big...
Pilgrim’s Process: John 3:16 The Gospel in Miniature
Pilgrim’s Process John 3:16, The Gospel in Miniature By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Martin Luther said of John 3:16 that it contains ‘the Gospel in miniature.’ It may well be the most famous verse in scripture – it was the first one I taught my children to recite. ‘For...
Anglican Futures: Collected Comments About the Consecrations
Anglican Futures Collected Comments About the Recent Consecrations The consecration of three bishops for the Anglican Network in Europe has, rightly received wide coverage. So wide that it is doubtful that many can take it all in, so here are some “edited highlights”....
TRENDING
Book Reviews: Baptism & Confirmation & Patterns for Baptism
Book Reviews Baptism and Confirmation Church House Publishing, 2022 (ISBN: 9780715123522, 468pp, £40) Patterns for Baptism Church House Publishing, 2022 (ISBN: 9780715123492, 392pp, £25) These handsome volumes are the latest additions to Common Worship, the Church of...
The Diverse Excellencies of Jesus Christ: Gospel-Driven Anglicanism
Gospel-Driven Anglicanism By the Revd Dr Mark Pickles The Diverse Excellencies of Jesus Christ The American Theologian and Pastor, Jonathan Edwards (1703 -1758), once preached a sermon entitled “The Admirable Conjunction of Diverse Excellencies in Jesus Christ”. The...
