Church of England Evangenlical Council Launches Two Initiatives
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Maidstone Commitments Issued for Complementarian Churches
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Prudence Dailey’s Commentary: How a Non-Christian Tech Billionaire Became Good News for Christians
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Pastor & School Caretaker Wins Employment Court Ruling
Pastor and School Caretaker Wins Employment Court Ruling Mr Keith Waters, Pastor of Ely New Connexions Church won an Employment Court ruling last week after he was fired for posting on Twitter “LGBTQ Pride events are harmful and should not be attended by Christians...
Mixed Review of Welby’s Easter Sermon
Mixed Review of Welby’s Easter Sermon Poll Shows Majority Want Welby Out of House of Lords Publicly expressed opinions on Archbishop Justin Welby’s Easter Sermon were mixed. The Guardian generally praised his political comments condemning the Government’s programme...
Is God Not Permitted to Use His Preferred Pronoun?
Is God not Permitted to Use His Preferred Pronoun? Controversies about language and gender dominate media and social media. Not surprisingly, it also clouds debate in the church at times, in the language used of God and his identity. One recent example is the World...
Gospel-Driven Anglicanism: Towards a Strategy, Pioneering
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Anglican Futures: Of Frogs & Fish Part 2
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US State of Oklahoma Bans Most Abortions
US State of Oklahoma Bans Most Abortions Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed legislation on Tuesday, 12 April that bans most abortions in that state. The legislation requires that doctors convicted of performing an abortion would receive up to 10 years of prison...
Uxbridge Court Finds Pastor Sherwood Innocent
Uxbridge Court Finds Pastor Sherwood Innocent Special Report by Roland Parsons That any police force would attempt to criminalise the Bible message on Christian Marriage should be a wake-up call to Christians in Britain. At Uxbridge, the constituency of the Prime...
Concerns About Christians Being Labelled “Far-Right Extremists”
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Editorial: Via Media?
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GB News Religious Affairs Editor Blocked from Ordination
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Welby Asks Government to Work with Faith Groups to Achieve Net Zero by 2030
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Trinitarian Bible Society Offers Platinum Jubilee Commemorative Bible
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Government Does a U-Turn on Conversion Ban Therapy
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Pilgrim’s Process: Peter Sanlon
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Memorial Service for Prince Philip
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Archbishop’s Attempt to Meddle in Rustat Case Ignored by Judge
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Judge Issues Clear Judgment on Rustat Memorial Question at Cambridge
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Welby Denounces P&O for Sacking 800 British Workers
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Banner of Truth Conference Dates Set
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MPs Debate Gender-Specfic Religious Persecution
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Pilgrim’s Process: Evidence
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New Archdeacon of Canterbury Named
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Anglican Futures: Learning from Moses
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Bureaucratic Frustrations Meet Congregation Trying to Help Ukrainians
Bureaucratic Frustrations Meet Congregation Trying to Help Ukrainians Emmanuel Anglican Church in Tunbridge Wells is trying to aid a Ukrainian pastor and family find refuge under the UK government’s Ukrainian refugee programme. They are meeting with frustratingly...
Campaigner Seeks Relief after London Censure
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House of Lords Votes Down Another Assisted Suicide Bill
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The Society Meets to Discuss Episcopal Vacancies
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FIEC Holding Conferences Around UK Through June 2022
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Oak Hill College to Hold Open Morning for Those Consdidering Theological Training
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Boys’ Brigade Produces Ukraine Conflict Resources
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National Parliamentary Prayer Breakfast Scheduled
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A Little Good News from Morley
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Consultant Statistician Refutes Spin of YouGov Poll
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Church of Ireland Archbishops Issue Joint Statment on Easing of Covid Restrictions
Church of Ireland Archbishops Issue Joint Statement on the Easing of Covid Restrictions Whilst Anglican churches in England, Scotland and Wales await the lifting of final Covid restrictions, the two Archbishops of the Church of Ireland have issued a joint statement...
How to Spot a Healthy Church by Jonathan Bond
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Cambridge College Refuses to LGBGTQ+ Flag
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2022 AGM of the Essex, Suffolk, & Norfolk TBS
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Presbyterian Church in Ireland’s Moderator on Givan Resignation
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New Moderator for the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
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Editorial: Bishops of the Bubble
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Letter: Call for a Renaissance with Biblical Authority
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West Anglia Auxiliary of the Trinitarian Bible Society Annual Meeting Scheduled
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MSC Seminar: Cultural Marxist Challenges & Us: Exposing, Resisting, & Restoring
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GAFCON Ireland Bible Conference: What is the Gospel?
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Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches Announcne £162,000 in MInistry Grants
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Prudence Dailey’s Commentary: The National Health Service: A Secular Religion?
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Editorial: The Importance of Ordination Vows
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Bishop of London Calls on Government to Delay Mandatory Covid Vaccinations
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Gospel-Driven Anglicanism: Towards a Strategy by Mark Pickles
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Christian Nurse Fired for Wearing a Cross Necklace Wins Employment Case
Christian Nurse Fired for Wearing a Cross Necklace Wins Employment Case Mary Onuoha, a former NHS nurse, won her claim of constructive dismissal after being fired for refusing to stop wearing a small gold cross she’d been given at her baptism. Ms Onuoha is a...
Westminster Conference Report by George Curry
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Oak Hill to Host Seminar for Those Considering Ministry in the Church of England
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Archbishop of Canterbury’s Statement on the Death of Desmond Tutu
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Tutu’s Overlooked Anti-Semitism
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Anglican Futures: What Hints Are there About Central Plans for the Future
Bishop of Maidstone’s Regional Meetings
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Ashers Bakery Wins Again
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Gospel Driven Anglicanism: Toward a Strategy
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Anglican Futures Funding the Future
Character Matters: Prudence Dailey’s Commentary
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Presbyterian Church in Ireland Takes Firm Stand Against Congregation Allowing Married Homosexual Elder
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Queen’s Address to General Synod
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Editorial: Breathing Space for Parishes
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Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Reports
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Anglican Futures: Funding the Future Part 5
Banner Borders Conference
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Note to Our Readers
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The Revd Melvin Tinker
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Letter to the Editor: Prayers for the Dead at Remembrance Services
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FIEC Updates Its “Values Statement”
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Editorial: Your Worldview Matters
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Anglican Futures: Is the Church of England Model Sustainable?
Bishop of Norwich Directs Vicar of Wymondham and Spooner Row to Apologise to Congregation
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Bishop of St Asaph Holds First Gay Couple Blessing in Church in Wales
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Christian Institute Launches “Let Us Pray” Campaign Conversion Therapy Ban
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Letter to the Editor: Pharisees & Sadducees
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Prudence Dailey’s Commentary: There is Nothing Humanitarian About Assisted Dying
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Book Review: The Sum of Saving Knowledge, Keene
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Editorial: From Rochester to Rome
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COP26 in Glasgow: Sky is Falling & Filled with 400 Private Jets
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Primate of Nigeria Encourages People to Keep Looking To Jesus
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GAFCON Australia
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GAFCON Ireland Deeply Troubled Over Nazir-Ali’s Defection
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“Doctors Are Very Poor at Predicting When People Will Die”
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House of Lords Assisted Dying Debate
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Letter to the Editor: The Murder of Sir David Amess
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466th Anniversary of the Martyrdoms of Latimer & Ridley
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Clergy & Ordinands Subscribing to the English Churchman Get Free Book
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Plaque Commemorating the Martyrdom of William Bamford Unveiled
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Diocese of Leicester Votes for Minsters
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Federation of Independent Evangelical Churches Schedule 2021 Conferences
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Street Preachers Win Permission to Appeal Over Police Arrests
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Sir David Amess Assassinated
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Just When You Thought You’d Heard Everything: The apostle Paul Welcomes the News that Peter Has Returned to the Judaisers
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Letter to the Editor: Assisted Suicide
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Letter to the Editor: Should I Stay or Should I Go–Another View
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Sanlon’s Response to Turner’s Letter
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