South Sudan Primate Welcomes Church Leaders but Remains Firm on Biblical Marriage
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New Bishop for Complementarian Churches Consecrated
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Liberals & Progressives Come Out as Lawbreakers
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South Sudan Primate Welcomes Church Leaders but Remains Firm on Biblical Marriage
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Bishop of Coventry Calls Police on General Synod Member
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Welby in Danger of Losing primus inter pares Role over Same-Sex Blessings
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Book Review: Reimagining Britain by Justin Welby
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Book Review: To Proclaim Afresh Declarations and Oaths for the Church of England
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Review: The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill
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Church Society Releases Video: Engine of the English Reformation
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Thomas Cromwell: The Man Behind the Curtain
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New Bishop for Complementarian Churches Consecrated
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CEEC Calls for Action
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Hypocrisy of Authoritarian Bishops
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Welby Chooses Disestablishment Over Global Breakup
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Conservative Bishops Reaffirm Church’s Teaching on Marriage
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DEVOTIONALS
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DOCTRINE
Hypocrisy of Authoritarian Bishops
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Welby in Danger of Losing primus inter pares Role over Same-Sex Blessings
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Bishop of Maidstone Stands with GSFA
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Thomas Cromwell: The Man Behind the Curtain
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Northern Churchman: Awkward Questions Part 2
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Editorial: Dissembling BINOs and a Bishops’ Egg
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Editorial: For the Sake of Ten
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Editorial: The Rise of the BINO
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Editorial: A Tautological Bishop?
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Letter: Apology?
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Letter: Solemn Times
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Letter: Bingo’s Ordination?
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Letter: What Does Bingo Represent?
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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: 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...
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CEEC Calls for Action
CEEC Calls for Action Offers the Church of England a Better Way Forward After failing to provide a quick substantive answer to the Blessings Proposals by the House of Bishops, the CEEC has responded in a very clear way in stating its opposition to what has been...
Thomas Cromwell: The Man Behind the Curtain
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