FIEC Celebrates 100 Years
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Reviewer Deplores “Well Overdue” Report
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Oldest FCE Church Leaves Free Church of England: FCE Called to Repent
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Responses to Welby’s Dethroning by Other Denominations
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CEEC to Church of England: Step Back from the Brink
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Independent Safeguarding Board to Seek Independence
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The History of the Coronation Service
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Soul Survivor Canon Pilavachi Under Investigation
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Permitted to Hold Evangelical Views On Homosexuality Not Permitted to Express It
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How to Bless Same-Sex Couples: The Northern Churchman Comments
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St Hugh’s Group Held ‘Off the Agenda’ Meeting at General Synod: Emergency Meeting to Consider Structural Differentiation for Conservatives
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The Free Church (Continuing) to Hold 70th School of Theology
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Northern Ireland Ministry Assembly Conference Set
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Keene Review: England’s Second Reformation
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Oak Hill Principal Resigns
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Essex Memory Verse Rally
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Southern Presbytery Holds Annual Colloquium
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Dark Precedent Set as Christian Lecturer Sacked
‘Dark Precedent’ Set as Christian Lecturer SackedBiblical Views No Longer Tolerated – A Warning to CofE A Christian theology lecturer has been sacked and threatened with a counter-terrorism referral by a Methodist Bible college for a tweet on human sexuality that went...
Bishop of Rochester Says No to Same-Sex Blessings
Bishop of Rochester: No to Same-Sex Blessings Condemns Media Leaks The Rt Revd Jonathan Gibbs, Bishop of Rochester Diocese has made it plain that he will not participate in same-sex blessings. In his Presidential address to the Diocese, held 11 March, he said, ...
Read CS Lewis & Get Reported to Prevent
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Bell Consecrated in Wales As Bishop for Orthodox Anglicans
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Michael Nazir-Ali Now Disputes RC Teaching
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Bishops–Impaired Fellowship & Licences
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Vaughan Roberts Advocates for Liberal-Evangelical Settlement
Vaughan Roberts Advocates Liberal-Evangelical Settlement Maximum Unity without Theological Compromise The Revd Vaughan Roberts, Rector of St Ebbe's, Oxford and member of General Synod gave an account of General Synod proceedings to The Spectator magazine. He explained...
A Commination
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St Helen’s Bishopsgate Breaks with London: “We Do Not Stand Alone”
St Helen’s Bishopsgate Breaks with Bishop of London “We Do Not Stand Alone” The Revd William, Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate, announced on 1 March that his parish has broken its relationship with the Bishop of London. Taylor, long-time rector at one of the biggest...
Is There Any Contra Mundum? by Mouneer Anis
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Henry VIII Did Not Start the Church of England
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BINOs Ponder Gender-neutral Terms for God
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The Motion Passed
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Christian Faith of SNP Leader Candidateis Big News
Christian Faith of SNP Leader Candidate is Big News MSP Kate Forbes, has found that holding traditional biblical views are a big obstacle in her race to succeed Nicola Sturgeon as Leader of the Scottish National Party. Ms Forbes, MSP for the constituency of Skye,...
Anglican Myth #3: The Bishop is the Focus of Unity
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St Helen’s Bishopsgate “Pauses Contributions to Common Fund”
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Hull Parish Rejects Authority of Archbishop of York Over False Teaching
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His Majesty’s Declaration Pertaining to the Use and Understanding the Articles of Religion
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New Bishop for Complementarian Churches Consecrated
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Welby Chooses Disestablishment Over Global Breakup
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New Bishop to the Archbishops Announced
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Archbishops Rebuke Sam Margrave
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Bishop of Coventry Calls Police on General Synod Member
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Liberals & Progressives Come Out as Lawbreakers
Liberals and Progressives Come Out as Lawbreakers Following the publication of the Bishops' proposals in response to Living in Love and Faith, some liberal clergy have begun to speak as if doctrine and practice have already been changed, and that current church...
Doctrine is to be Guarded Not Undermined Cartoon
Welby in Danger of Losing primus inter pares Role over Same-Sex Blessings
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Archbishops Differ on Practice if Not on Principle
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Pilgrim’s Process: Tone, Voice, & Speech
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Diocese of Oxford’s “Bloated Bureaucracy” Under Fire
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New Bishop of Liverpool
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Bishops That Have Condemned Blessing of Same-Sex Marriage
Church of England BINO Bishops Who Have Commended the Prayers for Same-Sex Blessings
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FIEC: Helping the Next Generation of Leaders at the Hub
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Church Society Invites Liberals to Leave the C of E
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Anglican Futures: An Apology from an English Anglican to the Anglican Communion
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Church Society Invites Liberals to Leave the C of E
Church Society Invites Liberals to Leave C of E The Director of Church Society, the Revd Dr Lee Gatiss has a long response to the announcement of the BINO (Bishops in Name Only) Archbishops that they will support the blessing of same-sex civil marriages. His lengthy...
Former Diocese of Lincoln Clergyman Sentenced to 10 Years
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Bingo: A View from the Pew
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The Calling of Bingo
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In Case You Missed a Real Story
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Southwark Cleric Rebukes Bishop Chessun
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Editorial: Delusion & Judgment
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Anglo-Catholic Provincial Episcopal Visitors Appointed
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Pilgrim’s Process: Discerning the Times
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Resistance vs Fidelity
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FIEC Pray for One Hundred
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Church Official to be Sentenced for Fraud before Christmas
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Jesus in the Bleak Mid-Winter
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Sizer Tribunal Finally Issues a Verdict
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Bishop Sinclair Makes Clear Position of CEEC
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Resistance and Fidelity by Julian Mann
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Editorial: Joy to the World Cup
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Church Leaders Mark 100 Years at FIEC Leaders’ Conference
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Editorial: For the Sake of Ten
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Melville-Knox Christian School Opens in Aberdeen
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Sanctuary Foundation Offers Free Advent Resource
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Oxford Good Stewards Trust Announced in Response to Bishop of Oxford’s Revisionism
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Pilgrim’s Process: John 3:16 The Gospel in Miniature
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Letter: Divorce
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Charity Commissioners Issue Strong Warning to Trustees of Christ Church, Oxford
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Going Backwards: Lichfield Diocese Rebuilds Shrine to House Relics of St Chad
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Contending with Lamb-like Gentleness and Lion-like Courage by Mark Pickles
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Free Church of England Cleared by Charity Commission for England & Wales
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The Book of Common Prayer Deserves a Fresh Consideration
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The Gospel Magazine Resolution of 2022
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1,100 Church of England Clerics Willing to Conduct Same-Sex Marriages
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Former London Diocesan Head of Finance & Property Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement of £5,200,000
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Report from the Trinitarian Text & Translation Conference
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Letter to the Editor: Open Air Preaching Under Assault
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CEEC Urges Church of England to “Learn from Their Mistakes”
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Wholly Trinity: Northern Churchman
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Knotty Influence Demonstrated in Latest Senior Appointment
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General Synod: Gospel Driven Anglicanism
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Anglican Network in Europe/GAFCON to Hold Conference for Disaffected C of E Clergy
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Anglican Futures Let Him Who is Without Sin…
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