Revd Randall’s Employment Tribunal Continues
Revd Randall’s Employment Tribunal Continues The Employment Tribunal case for the Revd Dr Bernard Randall continues. It is now thought likely to end on 23 September. The hearing was not sidelined by the unexpected death of Her Majesty The Queen. The Revd Dr Randall’s...
Barnabas Report: Libyan Court Sentences Christian Convert to Death
Barnabas Report Libyan Court Sentences Christian Convert to Death A Christian convert from Islam has been sentenced to death by the Court of Appeal in Misrata, north-west Libya. The man became a Christian around four years ago, and has been arrested several times...
Barnabas Fund: Pakistani Supreme Court Grants Bail to Three Christians
Barnabas Fund Reports Pakistani Supreme Court Grants Bail to Three Pakistani Christians Charged with Blasphemy The Supreme Court of Pakistan in Islamabad has granted bail to three Christians charged with “blasphemy” in separate cases. Sanitary worker Salamat Mansha...
FEATURED
Diocse of NW Australia Elects New Bishop
Diocese of North West Australia Elects New Bishop The outspokenly conservative Australian Diocese of North West Australia has elected a successor to former Bishop Gary Nelson. The Revd Darrell Parker, Senior Minister at St Paul’s Anglican Church in the Diocese of...
The Jerusalem Declaration
The Jerusalem Declaration The readers of the English Churchman frequently read of the happenings of GAFCON (Global Anglican Futures Conference) Provinces. At the heart of GAFCON is the commitment of the member Provinces to a document called the Jerusalem Declaration...
The EC Interviews Bishop Glenn Davies
The EC Interviews Bishop Glenn Davies Little did the organisers of the 2022 Conference of the Protestant Reformation Society know when they invited the Rt Revd Dr Glenn Davies, former Archbishop of the Diocese of Sydney, that he would be at the centre of a huge...
GAFCON Australia Forms Diocese of the Southern Cross
GAFCON Australia Forms Diocese of the Southern Cross Announces Anglican Lifeboat for Faithful Christians “We are at an important moment in the history of the Anglican Church in Australia,” said Bishop Richard Condie, Chair of GAFCON Australia. Last week, over 350...
Has the Sun Set on the Lambeth Conference?
Has the Sun Set on the Last Lambeth Conference? By Susie Leafe The buses are lined up, 650 bishops and their spouses are wheeling their bags across the campus, and the journey home begins. Flags have been folded and over the next few days, security fences, marquees...
Global South Bishops Call for Reaffirmation of Lambeth 1.10
Global South Bishops Call for Reaffirmation of Lambeth 1.10 Bishops from the Global South are not backing down in the face of vocal opposition to the original "Call" to reaffirm Lambeth 1.10. At a press conference held at the Lambeth gathering they issued the...
Revisionist Bishops Rebel Against Call to Reaffirm Lambeth 1.10
Revisionist Bishops Rebel Against Call to Reaffirm Lambeth 1.10 Revisionist bishops from within the Church of England, Church in Wales, Scottish Episcopal Church,The Episcopal Church, and the Anglican Church of Canada are rebelling against the “Call” to reaffirm the...
NATIONAL
Church Leaders and Parliamentarians Pay Tribute
Church Leaders and Parliamentarians Pay Tribute In a statement given shortly after the announcement of the Queen’s death, Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby said: “As we grieve together, we know that, in losing our beloved Queen, we have lost the person whose...
Keene Review: God’s Church for God’s World Part One
God’s Church for God’s World Faithful perspectives on mission and ministry Tom Woolford and Adam Young (eds.) IVP, 2022 (ISBN: 9781789742244, 218pp, £19.99) Part One This is an important book which takes a snapshot of evangelical ministry in 2022. The title and...
Protestant Reformation Society Holds 2022 Conference
Protestant Reformation Society Holds 2022 Conference The 2022 Conference of the Protestant Reformation Society was held in Wycliffe Hall, Oxford from 30 August - 1 September. The conference theme was, “The Importance of Doctrine.” The main lecture room at Wycliffe...
New Church Society Declaration for Members
New Church Society Declaration for Members Best Financial Position in Ages Church Society had its AGM on 31 August. A new, even clearer declaration of the positions held and espoused by the oldest group within the Church of England was also adopted. Members were...
Margrave Files Formal Complaint with Bishop of Leicester
Margrave Files Formal Complaint with Bishop of Leicester An unapproved change for the Communion Table at St Nicholas’ Church in Leicester has drawn a formal complaint from General Synod Member, Samuel Margrave. Samuel Margrave wrote to the Bishop of Leicester: Dear...
Begg: The UK Has Been Through an Immoral Revolution
Begg: The UK Has Been Through an Immoral Revolution Pastor and theologian Alistair Begg has issued a rallying cry to Christians to embrace the ‘authority of Scripture’ in the face of hostility from the world. He did so whilst speaking at the 2022 Keswick Convention....
INTERNATIONAL
Queen’s Choice of Hymns and Scripture Readings
Queen’s Choice of Hymns & Scripture Readings Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth demonstrated the depth of her faith and understanding of the scriptures and hymnody when planning her funeral. The hymns were melodic works of substance, truth, and comfort designed for...
Barnabas Report: Libyan Court Sentences Christian Convert to Death
Barnabas Report Libyan Court Sentences Christian Convert to Death A Christian convert from Islam has been sentenced to death by the Court of Appeal in Misrata, north-west Libya. The man became a Christian around four years ago, and has been arrested several times...
ANiE’s Bishop on the Death of HM The Queen
Anglican Network in Europe’s Bishop on the Death of Her Majesty The Queen With the death of Her Majesty the Queen much will be rightly said of her example and attitude of service throughout her long reign, but I think that the evidence of what she said and how she...
Letter to the Editor: GAFCON is Not All it Seems
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, The recent of the EC [8112] contained the Jerusalem Declaration and information concerning the formation of the Diocese of the Southern Cross which has adopted that Declaration. The recently appointed Bishop of the Southern Cross...
Irish Musicians Record to Support Church of England Abuse Survivors
Irish Musicians Record to Support Church of England Abuse Survivors A group calling itself, Musicians for Justice, has released a song and video high-lighting abuse within the Church of England. The musicians are of Irish descent and advocate for those who suffered...
Protestant Reformation Society Holds 2022 Conference
Protestant Reformation Society Holds 2022 Conference The 2022 Conference of the Protestant Reformation Society was held in Wycliffe Hall, Oxford from 30 August - 1 September. The conference theme was, “The Importance of Doctrine.” The main lecture room at Wycliffe...
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
Queen’s Choice of Hymns and Scripture Readings
Queen’s Choice of Hymns & Scripture Readings Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth demonstrated the depth of her faith and understanding of the scriptures and hymnody when planning her funeral. The hymns were melodic works of substance, truth, and comfort designed for...
The Faith of the Queen; A Cleric’s Reflections
The Faith of the Queen A Cleric’s Reflections As far as we know, Queen Elizabeth II commended only one book published during her long reign. In 2016 she penned the Foreword to a volume produced jointly by the Bible Society, HOPE and the London Institute of...
Former Liberal Democrat Leader’s Remarks on the Death of Queen Elizabeth
Former Liberal Democrat Leader’s Remarks on the Death of Queen Elizabeth Tim Farron (Lib-Dem), MP for Westmoreland and Lonsdale spoke from the floor of the House of Commons to express his thoughts on the late Queen Elizabeth. The day after her untimely demise he...
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...
The Queen’s Faith in Her Own Words
The Queen’s Faith – in Her Own Words Its formal name was ‘Her Majesty’s Most Gracious Speech’. To the royal household, it was known as the QXB – the Queen’s Christmas broadcast. Queen Elizabeth II spoke about the significance of Christmas to more people than anyone...
Ordained Ministry Statistics for the Church of England
Ordained Ministry Statistics for the Church of England All ordained ministers (nearly 20,000 in total) A third (33%) of those in ordained ministry in 2020 were female, which has continued the gradual increase in the proportion of women (28% in 2016). The...
DEVOTIONALS
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...
The Cost of Christian Discipleship
The Cost of Christian Discipleship By The Revd Christopher Pierce Everything in life has a price but have you ever thought about the cost of Christian discipleship? Is there a monetary value placed upon it? If you’d only watched some of the prosperity gospel...
Pilgrim’s Process by Peter Sanlon
Pilgrim’s Process By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon As we travel to heaven we long to share the good news of Jesus' death and victory with others. We pray for opportunities and seek to redeem the time. The challenge to be bold, brave and open in testifying to the good news...
DOCTRINE
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...
Happy Radbertus Day! by Chuck Collins
Happy Radbertus Day! By the Revd Canon Chuck Collins Happy Radbertus Day (April 26th)! Saint Paschasius Radbertus (785-860) was the first theologian to articulate “transubstantiation.” He didn't use the term that became widely used in the latter part of the 12th...
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...
The Creed of Athanasius
Creed of St Athanasius WHOSOEVER will be saved: before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholick Faith. Which Faith except every one do keep whole and undefiled: without doubt he shall perish everlastingly. And the Catholick Faith is this: That we worship...
COLUMNIST
The Faith of the Queen; A Cleric’s Reflections
The Faith of the Queen A Cleric’s Reflections As far as we know, Queen Elizabeth II commended only one book published during her long reign. In 2016 she penned the Foreword to a volume produced jointly by the Bible Society, HOPE and the London Institute of...
Collins: The Elizabethan Settlement
The Elizabethan Settlement By Revd Canon Chuck Collins Queen of England for 44 years, Elizabeth died March 24, 1603. She was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, the last of the five monarchs in the House of Tudor. She never married ("Virgin Queen"). Her coffin...
Pilgrim’s Process: Rebuke
Pilgrim’s Process By the Revd Dr Peter Sanlon Rebuke In the fifth century some monks in France realised that Augustine’s theological writings commended a Biblical and God focused vision of the Christian pilgrimage. Augustine has been called the ‘Doctor of grace’ for...
Anglican Futures: A Cure for the Lambeth Hangover?
Anglican Futures Commentary A Cure for the Lambeth Hangover? As the bishops of the Anglican Communion disembark from their flights and return to their dioceses, there is a danger that some will rub their eyes, and realise that however great the party was, there has...
Prudence Dailey’s Commentary: God Save King Charles–Our New Christian Monarch
Prudence Dailey’s Commentary God Save King Charles—Our new Christian Monarch It is difficult to comprehend that Elizabeth II, our extraordinary Queen, in the seventieth year of her reign is no longer with us. In common with most people alive today, I can remember no...
Collins: Marburg, Real Presence” & Thomas Cranmer
Marburg, “Real Presence” and Thomas Cranmer By the Revd Canon Chuck Collins There’s a reason why there are so many Protestant churches. It’s the same reason that separated Luther from the other reformers and why they couldn’t just go along to get along. It was because...
EDITORIALS
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...
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: Lambeth 2022 Communion at a Crossroads
Editorial Lambeth 2022: Communion at a Crossroads By the time this edition of The English Churchman lands, hundreds of bishops of the Anglican Communion will have arrived for the 2022 Lambeth Conference. The majority world will gather at Kent University and it will...
Editorial: Lessons to be Learned from the American Pro-Life Movement
Editorial Lessons to be Learned from American Pro-Life Movement Friday, 24 June 2022, the Feast of St John the Baptist, will be a date which will live in infamy amongst the supporters of abortion. On that date, the US Supreme Court, overturned the precedent set by...
“Unbiblical” Archbishops?
Editorial “Unbiblical” Archbishops? The Most Revd and Right Honourable Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury does not have an easy job. He is the Primus inter pares of the Anglican Communion. We are now told that means 85,000,000 people look to him as the first...
LETTERS
Letter: They Forgot God
Letter to the Editor “They Forgot God” Sir, This letter is intended for publication in the English Churchman. Does any reader recognise the initials GLF and NFOL from around half-a-century ago? GLF means Gay Liberation Front and NFOL means Nationwide Festival of...
Letter: Play-actors will be Exposed
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, Your work must be very stultifying these days. Despite the glorious joy that comes with reporting on the advance and the proclamation of the gospel, you find yourself having to report so very frequently on the public failures of our...
Letter to the Editor: GAFCON is Not All it Seems
Letter to the Editor Dear Sir, The recent of the EC [8112] contained the Jerusalem Declaration and information concerning the formation of the Diocese of the Southern Cross which has adopted that Declaration. The recently appointed Bishop of the Southern Cross...
Letter: A New Strategy?
Letter to the Editor A New Strategy? Dear Sir, It appears that for the last number of years, the biblically-orthodox primates of the Anglican Communion have adopted the wrong strategy in engaging with the Archbishop of Canterbury. They should have simply employed a...
Letter: Welby-wokery and Weddings
Letter to the Editor Welby-wokery and Weddings Dear Editor, Your recent correspondent suggested that the latest ‘Welby-wokery’ emanating from General Synod has eliminated the ordination of women, as the Church of England does not officially know what a woman is. More...
MORE NEWS
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...
The Queen’s Faith in Her Own Words
The Queen’s Faith – in Her Own Words Its formal name was ‘Her Majesty’s Most Gracious Speech’. To the royal household, it was known as the QXB – the Queen’s Christmas broadcast. Queen Elizabeth II spoke about the significance of Christmas to more people than anyone...
Anglican Futures: A Cure for the Lambeth Hangover?
Anglican Futures Commentary A Cure for the Lambeth Hangover? As the bishops of the Anglican Communion disembark from their flights and return to their dioceses, there is a danger that some will rub their eyes, and realise that however great the party was, there has...
Ordained Ministry Statistics for the Church of England
Ordained Ministry Statistics for the Church of England All ordained ministers (nearly 20,000 in total) A third (33%) of those in ordained ministry in 2020 were female, which has continued the gradual increase in the proportion of women (28% in 2016). The...
Revd Randall’s Employment Tribunal Continues
Revd Randall’s Employment Tribunal Continues The Employment Tribunal case for the Revd Dr Bernard Randall continues. It is now thought likely to end on 23 September. The hearing was not sidelined by the unexpected death of Her Majesty The Queen. The Revd Dr Randall’s...
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Remarks on the Death of HM The Queen
Archbishop of Canterbury’s Remarks on the Death of Her Majesty The Queen It is with profound sadness that I join the nation, the Commonwealth and the world in mourning the death of Her Late Majesty The Queen. My prayers are with The King and the Royal Family. May God...
Barnabas Report: Libyan Court Sentences Christian Convert to Death
Barnabas Report Libyan Court Sentences Christian Convert to Death A Christian convert from Islam has been sentenced to death by the Court of Appeal in Misrata, north-west Libya. The man became a Christian around four years ago, and has been arrested several times...
TRENDING
Former Liberal Democrat Leader’s Remarks on the Death of Queen Elizabeth
Former Liberal Democrat Leader’s Remarks on the Death of Queen Elizabeth Tim Farron (Lib-Dem), MP for Westmoreland and Lonsdale spoke from the floor of the House of Commons to express his thoughts on the late Queen Elizabeth. The day after her untimely demise he...
Queen’s Choice of Hymns and Scripture Readings
Queen’s Choice of Hymns & Scripture Readings Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth demonstrated the depth of her faith and understanding of the scriptures and hymnody when planning her funeral. The hymns were melodic works of substance, truth, and comfort designed for...
