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...
Barnabas Update on Persecuted Churches

Barnabas Update on Persecuted Churches

Barnabas Update on Persecuted Churches Terrorist attack church reopens in Ondo State, Nigeria; Jailed Iranian Christian couple granted retrial; At least ten killed in Christian-majority areas of Myanmar; Violence in Christian-majority DRC causes humanitarian crisis. ...

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...

A Re-Set Anglican Communion? Will Welby Jump or Be Pushed?

A Re-Set Anglican Communion? Will Welby Jump or Be Pushed?

A Re-set Anglican Communion?Will Welby Jump or Be Pushed? Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, in his speech to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC-18) in Accra, Ghana, expressed apparent willingness to relinquish his role as primus inter pares: “I will not cling...

NATIONAL

FIEC Celebrates 100 Years

FIEC Celebrates 100 Years

FIEC Celebrates 100 Years by Joel Murray Amidst protests about climate change and football fans heading to Wembley Stadium, church leaders, FIEC staff past and present, and other friends of FIEC gathered in London on a Saturday afternoon in April to celebrate the...

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Reviewer Deplores “Well Overdue” Report

Reviewer Deplores “Well Overdue” Report

Reviewer Deplores Delay to "Well Overdue" Report Jane Humphreys, who conducted the safeguarding review into the actions of the late Revd Trevor Devamanikkam, has criticised the length of time it took to complete. Her report lists reasons for the delay: that the Church...

INTERNATIONAL

GAFCON IV @ Kigali: Unspoken Truths

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...

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Oldest FCE Church Leaves Free Church of England: FCE Called to Repent

Oldest FCE Church Leaves Free Church of England: FCE Called to Repent

Oldest FCE Church Leaves Free Church of EnglandFCE called to "repent of its departure from the historic Protestant faith" The oldest extant Free Church of England (FCE) congregation has left the denomination. Christ Church, Exeter, founded in 1844, posted the...

Archbishop of Rwanda Elected New Chairman of GAFCON

Archbishop of Rwanda Elected New Chairman of GAFCON

Archbishop of Rwanda Elected New Chairman of GAFCON The Most Revd Laurent Mbanda, Archbishop of Rwanda who recently visited the Church of Ireland, the only Anglican Church in the British Isles that has not endorsed same-sex relationships, was elected Chairman of...

Church Society Director’s Thoughts on GAFCON IV

Church Society Director’s Thoughts on GAFCON IV

Church Society Director’s Thoughts on GAFCON IV Kigali Welby’s “Leadership Role in the Anglican Communion Entirely Indefensible” The Revd Dr Lee Gatiss, Director of Church Society, has not wavered in his commitment to see a spiritual and ecclesiological turnaround in...

Full Kigali Commitment Statement

Full Kigali Commitment Statement

Full Kigali Commitment Statement 21 April 2023   Greetings from Kigali, Rwanda, where the fourth Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON) met from 17-21 April 2023, bringing together 1,302 delegates from 52 countries, including 315 bishops, 456 other clergy and...

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...

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Review: The Rise & Fall of Mars Hill

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

LLF Implementation Groups Formed Before Final Vote

LLF Implementation Groups Formed Before Final Vote

LLF Implementation Groups Formed Before Final Vote Behaving as if the LLF proposal has passed its final reading and vote to become Canon Law, the College of Bishops has announced “Membership Implementation Groups” in advance of the vote. The two Co-Chairs are Bishops...

Latest Church of England Statistics on Fresh Expressions

Latest Church of England Statistics on Fresh Expressions

Latest Church of England Statistics on Fresh Expressions of Church Number of fresh expressions of Church   Data from Statistics for Mission indicate that there were around 9,100 fresh expressions of Church (fxCs) in 2019. The number of fxCs has increased over...

Shhh! You Know Hugh Participants Coy About St Hugh’s Conversations

Shhh! You Know Hugh Participants Coy About St Hugh’s Conversations

Shhh! You Know Hugh Participants Coy about St Hugh’s Conversations Evangelical members of the secret St Hugh’s Conversations remain quiet about the extent of their involvement in these ongoing liberal-conservative discussions. Last month, English Churchman revealed...

Archbishop of Canterbury Fined £510 for Speeding

Archbishop of Canterbury Fined £510 for Speeding

Archbishop of Canterbury Fined £510 for Speeding The Most Revd Justin Welby was fined £510 for driving 25 mph in a 20 mph zone.  He was caught by a speed camera along the embankment of the Thames on 2 October 2022. The initial fine was for £300 but was not recorded as...

DEVOTIONALS

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...

Talkative: What a Character by Revd Dr Peter Sanlon

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,...

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

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,...

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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,...

Pilgrim’s Process: Rejoice

Pilgrim’s Process: Rejoice

Pilgrim’s Process Rejoice by Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Christians are commanded in the Bible to ‘rejoice.’ It is such an important instruction that Paul repeats it: ‘Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe...

Pilgrim’s Process: Help!

Pilgrim’s Process: Help!

Pilgrim’s Process By The Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Help! On his journey to the Celestial City, Christian faced problems and difficulties. Some of these were his own fault - when he was not paying attention to the Word's directions, he fell into the ‘Slough of Despond.’...

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

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...

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...

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Letter: Solemn Times

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...

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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,...

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...

Pilgrim’s Process: Rejoice

Pilgrim’s Process: Rejoice

Pilgrim’s Process Rejoice by Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Christians are commanded in the Bible to ‘rejoice.’ It is such an important instruction that Paul repeats it: ‘Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe...

FIEC Celebrates 100 Years

FIEC Celebrates 100 Years

FIEC Celebrates 100 Years by Joel Murray Amidst protests about climate change and football fans heading to Wembley Stadium, church leaders, FIEC staff past and present, and other friends of FIEC gathered in London on a Saturday afternoon in April to celebrate the...

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...

TRENDING

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,...