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Barnabas Fund Reports: Turkey Escalates Airstrikes Against Christians in Syria & Iraq
Barnabas Fund Reports Turkey Escalating Airstrikes Against Christians and other Minorities in Syria and Iraq Turkey has escalated a supposedly anti-terrorist military campaign in Syria and Iraq which appears to be targeting Christians and other minorities. A spate of...
Plaque Commemorating the Martyrdom of William Bamford Unveiled
Plaque Commemorating Martyrdom of William Bamford Unveiled By Stephen Toms A plaque has been erected to the memory of William Bamford in the town of Harwich, where he was burned for his Protestant faith on 15th June, 1555. William Bamford, sometimes called William...
Kidnapped Bishop’s Wife Released Unharmed
Kidnapped Bishop’s Wife Released Unharmed The Church of Nigeria reports that Mrs Anuri Maduwuike, wife of Church of Nigeria Bishop Emmanuel C. Maduwuike, Bishop of Ikeduru Diocese, was kidnapped by gunmen on 8 October. She was released unharmed on 11 October. The...
FEATURED
Viktor Orban: Hungarians Can Only Survive as Christians
Viktor Orban: Hungarians Can Only Survive as Christians Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban spoke at a service dedicating a new church building for the Church of Unity in the Pestszenterzsebet District of Budapest on 26 September. Orban, considered a right-wing...
Being Clearly and Positively Anglican Part 2
Anglican Futures on Being Clearly and Positively Anglican In the first post in this series, we thought about what it will mean for us to be faithful to the biblical gospel and biblical priorities for church life as they find expression within authentic Anglicanism....
Just When You Thought You’d Heard Everything: The apostle Paul Welcomes the News that Peter Has Returned to the Judaisers
Just When You Thought You’d Heard Everything … (Editor’s Note: Please put down your tea and swallow your biscuit before reading.) Paul, Apostle to the Gentiles, has today welcomed the news that his fellow-apostle Peter has taken a new path in his...
Afghan Pastors Reflect on the Sovereignty of God
Afghan Pastors Reflect on God’s Sovereignty By Mark Morris Editor’s Note: The following account was published on 16 July as events were unfolding in Afghanistan. We reproduce it here with permission. It is worth sharing with others. It first appeared on The Gospel...
Interview with Tim Farron
EDITOR’s NOTE: Over the next few editions of the English Churchman, we will feature interviews with a number of people in public life who are professing and practicing Christians. You will read views with which you disagree. Likewise, you will read views with which...
Prudence Dailey: No, Loving Your Neighbour Doesn’t Require you to Cover Your Face
No, Loving Your Neighbour Doesn’t Require You to Cover Four Face At the time of writing, it looks likely that the majority of COVID restrictions will be removed in England on 19th July, including mandatory mask-wearing. At the same time, the government is...
Raffel Consecrated Archbishop of Sydney
On Friday 28 May, The Very Revd Kanishka Da Silva Raffel, Dean of Sydney’s St Andrew’s Cathedral, was consecrated as Archbishop of the Diocese of Sydney and Metropolitan of New South Wales of the Anglican Church of Australia. Archbishop Raffel’s consecration took...
NATIONAL
Letter to the Editor: The Murder of Sir David Amess
Murder of Sir David Amess Dear Editor, I grieve at the loss of a friend and former Party colleague Sir David Amess, MP who was murdered in an increasingly dangerous world. In the 70s I worked with David in the Young Conservatives before he became an MP and he was...
466th Anniversary of the Martyrdoms of Latimer & Ridley
466th Anniversary of the Martyrdoms of Latimer & Ridley Saturday, 16 October marked the 466th anniversary of the martyrdoms of Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley. They were burned at the stake after being found guilty of heresy due to their refusal to...
Clergy & Ordinands Subscribing to the English Churchman Get Free Book
Clergy & Ordinands Subscribing to the English Churchman Get Free Book Any serving clergyman or theological student in training within the UK will receive a free copy of JC Ryle’s, Knots Untied when they subscribe to the English Churchman newspaper. The Banner of...
Plaque Commemorating the Martyrdom of William Bamford Unveiled
Plaque Commemorating Martyrdom of William Bamford Unveiled By Stephen Toms A plaque has been erected to the memory of William Bamford in the town of Harwich, where he was burned for his Protestant faith on 15th June, 1555. William Bamford, sometimes called William...
Diocese of Leicester Votes for Minsters
Diocese of Leicester Votes for Minsters By a vote of 72% in favour to 28% against, the Synod of Diocese of Leicester voted to implement a new framework for diocesan ministry. According to the Diocesan summary of the plan, the intention is to organise into 20-25...
Federation of Independent Evangelical Churches Schedule 2021 Conferences
Federation of Independent Evangelical Churches Schedule 2021 Conferences The Federation of Independent Evangelical Churches in the UK has released its schedule for their 2021 Conferences. In total, there will be five conferences held around the UK. The first will be...
INTERNATIONAL
Barnabas Fund Reports: Turkey Escalates Airstrikes Against Christians in Syria & Iraq
Barnabas Fund Reports Turkey Escalating Airstrikes Against Christians and other Minorities in Syria and Iraq Turkey has escalated a supposedly anti-terrorist military campaign in Syria and Iraq which appears to be targeting Christians and other minorities. A spate of...
466th Anniversary of the Martyrdoms of Latimer & Ridley
466th Anniversary of the Martyrdoms of Latimer & Ridley Saturday, 16 October marked the 466th anniversary of the martyrdoms of Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley. They were burned at the stake after being found guilty of heresy due to their refusal to...
Formularies for What? Part 2
Formularies for What? Part 2 By Chuck Collins The 1662 Book of Common Prayer The next historic formulary of Anglicanism is the 1662 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, the recognised standard for worship and theology in the Anglican Communion today and throughout...
Kidnapped Bishop’s Wife Released Unharmed
Kidnapped Bishop’s Wife Released Unharmed The Church of Nigeria reports that Mrs Anuri Maduwuike, wife of Church of Nigeria Bishop Emmanuel C. Maduwuike, Bishop of Ikeduru Diocese, was kidnapped by gunmen on 8 October. She was released unharmed on 11 October. The...
Norway Murder Victims Stabbed Rather than Killed with Arrows
Norway Murder Victims Stabbed Rather than Killed with Arrows The five victims killed in Kongsberg, Norway by a recent convert to Islam, were not killed with a bow and arrows as initially reported. It seems the assailant discarded the bow and arrows before stabbing at...
Pilgrim’s Process: Following the Science, by Peter Sanlon
Pilgrim’s Process By Peter Sanlon Following the Science In recent days there has been much talk about 'following the science'. People have realised that moving forward in days of a health emergency requires a precise understanding of the situation. We need accurate...
REVIEWS
The 1662 Book of Common Prayer, International
Book Review The 1662 Book of Common Prayer International Edition Given that the vast majority of 110 million Anglican Christians around belong to provinces that identify the 1662 Book of Common Prayer as their standard liturgy, it is no surprise that a publisher has...
When a nation prays
Pastor Peter Simpson Minister of Penn Free Methodist Church www.realchristianity.org or jacqui.langston@btinternet.com 2021 156 (including references) pbk £6:75 or £18:25 for 3 copies (both prices include p&p) World War Two has been examined from almost...
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...
Bibliophiles Rejoice for Choice
Bibliophiles, lovers of books and particularly those who prefer well-bound leather bibles can rejoice for the choices they have at the moment. If you do not own one and think to do so is an occasion for sin…look the other way. There are three companies currently...
Against The Flow: The Inspiration of Daniel In An Age Of Relativism
Against The Flow: The Inspiration of Daniel In An Age Of Relativism John C Lennox Monarch Books, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-85721-621-2 The Book of Daniel gains barely a mention in the Revised Common Lectionary, but arguably there is not a book of Scripture that is more...
CHURCH OF ENGLAND
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Gospel-Driven Anglicanism Part 4
Should I Stay or Should I Go? By the Revd Dr Mark Pickles Part 4 Gedaliah is appointed governor and we read that Jeremiah purposely chooses to live amongst “those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile in Babylon” (40:7). Things have taken a turn...
466th Anniversary of the Martyrdoms of Latimer & Ridley
466th Anniversary of the Martyrdoms of Latimer & Ridley Saturday, 16 October marked the 466th anniversary of the martyrdoms of Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley. They were burned at the stake after being found guilty of heresy due to their refusal to...
Leicester Diocese Illogical
Letter to the Editor Leicester Diocese Illogical Sir, Leicester Diocese’s decision on 9 October to replace its traditional Parishes with ‘Minsters' is both spiritually and financially illogical. The Church of England’s own growth report ‘From Anecdote to...
Book Review: Bleeding for Jesus
Bleeding for Jesus John Smyth and the cult of the Iwerne Camps Andrew Graystone Darton, Longman and Todd, 2021 (ISBN: 9781913657123, 250pp, £12.99) This book is the latest instalment of a long-running tragedy. It comes six years after the author was first made aware...
School Pupils Across the Country Memorise Passages from BCP for £1,000 Prize
School Pupils Across the Country Memorise Book of Common Prayer Passages £1,000 Prize for Winner By Tim Stanley Hundreds of school pupils across the country are busy this term studying prayers and readings from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer in a bid to win a prize...
Clergy & Ordinands Subscribing to the English Churchman Get Free Book
Clergy & Ordinands Subscribing to the English Churchman Get Free Book Any serving clergyman or theological student in training within the UK will receive a free copy of JC Ryle’s, Knots Untied when they subscribe to the English Churchman newspaper. The Banner of...
DEVOTIONALS
Pilgrim’s Process: Following the Science, by Peter Sanlon
Pilgrim’s Process By Peter Sanlon Following the Science In recent days there has been much talk about 'following the science'. People have realised that moving forward in days of a health emergency requires a precise understanding of the situation. We need accurate...
Pilgrim’s Process: Pilgrim’s Need the Light of God’s Word, Sanlon
Pilgrim’s Process by Peter Sanlon Pilgrim’s Need the Light of God’s Word As pilgrims travelling through a dark world, we need the light of God's Word (Ps.119:105). Despite knowing this we often struggle to regularly read the Bible. Many of God's people feel guilty...
Pilgrim’s Process, Promises, Revd Dr Peter Sanlon
Pilgrim’s Process By Peter Sanlon Promises At every step of our pilgrimage we depend on God. Peter stumbled at many points in his walk with the Lord, but came in due course to see that ‘His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness.’ (2...
Pilgrim’s Process: Common Grace by Peter Sanlon
Pilgrim’s Process By Peter Sanlon Common Grace Loving God is so important for satisfaction and joy in life, that it is easy to mistakenly think only spiritual concerns are important in life. There are many ways for this error to arise: We can think the only truly...
“Little” Thomas Bilney, Chuck Collins, Center for Reformation Anglicanism
“Little” Thomas Bilney Evangelist to Hugh Latimer You probably know the rockstars of the English Reformation (Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley), but do you know Thomas Bilney? Bilney (1495-1531) was the first Reformation Anglican at Cambridge University, the birthplace of...
Pilgrim’s Process by Peter Sanlon
Pilgrim’s Process By Peter Sanlon Shame Some cultures are shaped by what sociologists call a 'shame' culture. People are managed by fear of shame that is heaped on them for transgressing behavioural norms. Shame can be used in families to compel children...
DOCTRINE
Formularies for What? Part 2
Formularies for What? Part 2 By Chuck Collins The 1662 Book of Common Prayer The next historic formulary of Anglicanism is the 1662 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, the recognised standard for worship and theology in the Anglican Communion today and throughout...
What Does the Future Hold? by Revd Dr Rohintan Mody
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD? by the Revd Dr Rohintan Mody Lecturer in New Testament Evangelical Theological College of Asia Introduction: All human beings are created by God in his image to have an interest in the future, to have goals in mind, to have expectations of...
Collins: Real Presence: Marburg & Cranmer
Real Presence, Marburg, and Cranmer By Revd Canon Chuck Collins So why were Reformation churches divided? What separated Luther from the other reformers and why couldn’t they just get along for the sake of the Protestant witness? It was because they agreed on...
Gospel-Driven Anglicanism, Baptism: Part 3 by Mark Pickles
Gospel-Driven Anglicanism Part 3 By Dr Mark Pickles We pick up where Dr Pickles left off last time in his explanation of infant baptism. He had just quoted from the late RC Sproul’s question: “Isn’t it strange that this departure and deviation from the purity of the...
Scripture or the Three-Legged Stool? by Mark Pickles
The question of ultimate authority is crucial for any church or denomination but is of particular significance within Anglicanism. The Thirty-nine Articles are unequivocal the Scripture is to be the Church’s final and ultimate authority. Article VI states that “Holy...
Five Guiding Principles
1.) Now that legislation has been passed to enable women to become bishops the Church of England is fully and unequivocally committed to all orders of ministry being open equally to all, without reference to gender, and holds that those whom it has duly ordained and...
COLUMNIST
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Gospel-Driven Anglicanism Part 4
Should I Stay or Should I Go? By the Revd Dr Mark Pickles Part 4 Gedaliah is appointed governor and we read that Jeremiah purposely chooses to live amongst “those of the poorest of the land who had not been taken into exile in Babylon” (40:7). Things have taken a turn...
What Does the Future Hold? by Revd Dr Rohintan Mody
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD? by the Revd Dr Rohintan Mody Lecturer in New Testament Evangelical Theological College of Asia Introduction: All human beings are created by God in his image to have an interest in the future, to have goals in mind, to have expectations of...
Anglican Futures: On the Edge
Anglican Futures On the Edge Anglican Futures is very much like a think-tank for Anglicans—for those determined to leave the official structures of Anglicanism as well as for those determined not to. This article relates an account of those that chose to leave and...
Collins: Real Presence: Marburg & Cranmer
Real Presence, Marburg, and Cranmer By Revd Canon Chuck Collins So why were Reformation churches divided? What separated Luther from the other reformers and why couldn’t they just get along for the sake of the Protestant witness? It was because they agreed on...
Prudence Dailey Commentary: The Church Needs to Stop Obsessing Over Climate Change
Prudence Dailey’s Commentary The Church Needs to Stop Obsessing Over Climate Change The philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously described the life of mankind in his natural state as ‘nasty, brutish, and short’. And so it was, for most of human history, for the great...
Being Clearly and Positively Anglican Part 2
Anglican Futures on Being Clearly and Positively Anglican In the first post in this series, we thought about what it will mean for us to be faithful to the biblical gospel and biblical priorities for church life as they find expression within authentic Anglicanism....
EDITORIALS
Editorial: Ryle’s Advice on the Church of England
Editorial Ryle’s Advice on the Church of England Many earnest, well-intentioned, and clearly articulate practising Christians believe the Church of England is a spent force unworthy of support—that all that is missing is the hand-writing on the wall of General Synod,...
Climate Change, COP26, and Limits of Episcopal Authority
Editorial Climate Change, COP26, and Limits of Episcopal Authority In February of 2021, the Bishop of Norwich, the Rt Revd Graham Usher, was appointed to additional duties within the Church of England. At the invitation of both archbishops, Bishop Usher took on the...
An Editorial: Matters Indifferent?
An Editorial Matters Indifferent? Theology, the study of the knowledge of God, really does matter. What one believes in this regard actually has eternal consequences. Sadly, there are many in leadership positions within the Church of England and broader Anglicanism...
Editorial: The Departure of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet
The Departure of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet The Bishop of Ebbsfleet, the Rt Revd Jonathan Goodall has decided to leave the Church of England and become a member of the Roman Catholic Church. For eight years he has been the Provincial Episcopal Visitor for the Province of...
Editorial: Organising Suggestions for Members of the Next General Synod
Editorial Organising Suggestions for Members of the Next General Synod Since the elections for the next General Synod are rapidly closing in upon us, we offer a few ideas for special interest groups for the new members to throw their support behind to make this the...
Three of Two Hundred Thirteen
Three of Two Hundred Thirteen In Lewis Carroll’s 1871 novel, Through the Looking Glass, his character, Humpty Dumpty is having a conversation with Alice from Carroll’s earlier novel, Alice in Wonderland. "I don't know what you mean by 'glory,' " Alice said. Humpty...
LETTERS
Letter to the Editor: The Murder of Sir David Amess
Murder of Sir David Amess Dear Editor, I grieve at the loss of a friend and former Party colleague Sir David Amess, MP who was murdered in an increasingly dangerous world. In the 70s I worked with David in the Young Conservatives before he became an MP and he was...
Reformation Sunday Advert
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: 15 October 2021. My ‘Advert’ titled “Reformation Sunday 31 October” said, “The Church of England should still celebrate this 500th year since Martin Luther declared at the ‘Diet of Worms’ in 1521, “Here I stand. God help...
Letter to the Editor: Response to the Last Editorial
Letter to the Editor Response to Last Edition’s Editorial Dear Editor, Thank you very much for your Christian charity and spirited editorial, Friday 8th October 2021, ( E.C. No.8090). Also thanks are due to you for reprinting so much excellent reformed evangelical...
Leicester Diocese Illogical
Letter to the Editor Leicester Diocese Illogical Sir, Leicester Diocese’s decision on 9 October to replace its traditional Parishes with ‘Minsters' is both spiritually and financially illogical. The Church of England’s own growth report ‘From Anecdote to...
Letter to the Editor: Assisted Suicide
Letter to the Editor Assisted Suicide Dear Sir, One of the main arguments in favour of the abolition of the death penalty fifty or sixty years ago was that occasionally an innocent person would be killed. If parliament votes to allow assisted suicide then the only...
MORE NEWS
Clive West Memorial Trust Lecture: John Yates III to Speak
Clive West Memorial Trust Lecture Revd Dr John Yates III to Speak The annual Clive West Memorial Lecture will be held on Thursday, 11 November at 19:30 at St Nicholas’ Church, Lisburn Road in Belfast. This year’s speaker is the Revd Dr John Yates III, Rector of Holy...
Book Review: Bleeding for Jesus
Bleeding for Jesus John Smyth and the cult of the Iwerne Camps Andrew Graystone Darton, Longman and Todd, 2021 (ISBN: 9781913657123, 250pp, £12.99) This book is the latest instalment of a long-running tragedy. It comes six years after the author was first made aware...
School Pupils Across the Country Memorise Passages from BCP for £1,000 Prize
School Pupils Across the Country Memorise Book of Common Prayer Passages £1,000 Prize for Winner By Tim Stanley Hundreds of school pupils across the country are busy this term studying prayers and readings from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer in a bid to win a prize...
Clergy & Ordinands Subscribing to the English Churchman Get Free Book
Clergy & Ordinands Subscribing to the English Churchman Get Free Book Any serving clergyman or theological student in training within the UK will receive a free copy of JC Ryle’s, Knots Untied when they subscribe to the English Churchman newspaper. The Banner of...
Formularies for What? Part 2
Formularies for What? Part 2 By Chuck Collins The 1662 Book of Common Prayer The next historic formulary of Anglicanism is the 1662 edition of the Book of Common Prayer, the recognised standard for worship and theology in the Anglican Communion today and throughout...
Anglican Futures Predicts
Anglican Futures predicts that the Church of England will allow the "blessing" of same-sex marriages by February 2023 s - whatever the final results of the General Synod elections. Read on to find out why and how. The Living in Love and Faith resources were published...
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...
TRENDING
Letter to the Editor: Response to the Last Editorial
Letter to the Editor Response to Last Edition’s Editorial Dear Editor, Thank you very much for your Christian charity and spirited editorial, Friday 8th October 2021, ( E.C. No.8090). Also thanks are due to you for reprinting so much excellent reformed evangelical...
Letter to the Editor: The Murder of Sir David Amess
Murder of Sir David Amess Dear Editor, I grieve at the loss of a friend and former Party colleague Sir David Amess, MP who was murdered in an increasingly dangerous world. In the 70s I worked with David in the Young Conservatives before he became an MP and he was...
