Opinion – 3 February 2024
Colin Coward Unadulterated Love This week’s events bring me close to despair Phil Groves ViaMedia.News To be Evangelical is to Challenge ‘Orthodoxy’ Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Can we ever...
View ArticleIndependent Safeguarding Board: radio interview transcript
The BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme carried an item on 28 January about the now defunct Church of England Independent Safeguarding Board. You can hear the item from the BBC website (starts at about 20...
View ArticleLLF: roundup of recent statements and news reports
Updated Since we posted the statement of the Bishop of Newcastle on Thursday morning, there have been several further statements. Some of these have been linked in the comments, but I am repeating them...
View ArticleOpinion – 7 February 2024
Janet Fife Surviving Church Putting My Name to My Story The Guardian view on crumbling churches: a social vocation can save them for the nation Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Time to challenge toxic...
View ArticlePre-General Synod Press Release – February 2024
The Church of England’s General Synod will meet in London later this month, and the usual pre-Synod press release, copied below, was issued today. Synod to address biodiversity, safeguarding, racial...
View ArticleFebruary 2024 General Synod – Agenda and Papers
The Church of England’s General Synod will meet in London from Friday 23 to Tuesday 27 February. The agenda (GS 2332) and papers were released today. The report of the Business Committee (GS 2333)...
View ArticleOpinion – 10 February 2024
David Runcorn Inclusive Evangelicals Marriage in the Garden Adrian Thatcher Modern Church A ‘Theological Vision’, or ‘Myopic Homophobia’? Anne Richards Modern Church Spiritual Abuse Colin Coward...
View ArticleCathedral Statistics 2022
The Church of England has published its Cathedral Statistics 2022 and an accompanying press release, which is copied below. Cathedral attendance continued post pandemic bounce back, 2022 figures show...
View ArticleCorrespondence re Secretary General
On 18 January, we published a letter addressed to the archbishops calling for the suspension and investigation of the Secretary General, William Nye. This letter was written by Martin Sewell and signed...
View ArticleOpinion – 14 February 2024
Stephen Parsons Surviving Church Can we find Integrity and Accountability in the Leadership of the Church of England? Neil Elliot NumbersMatters God loves statistics Anon ViaMedia.News Mini-MBA Course...
View ArticleOpinion – 17 February 2024
Ben Phillips The Critic How can we pay for our cathedrals? “Critics of silent discos in Canterbury Cathedral are silent on how to fund our churches” Bosco Peters Liturgy God is Immoral Colin Coward...
View ArticleThe Wilkinson Files
Sarah Wilkinson’s report into the Church of England’s Independent Safeguarding Board (ISB) was published in December. A debate on Safeguarding Independence (GS 2336) is scheduled to take place on...
View ArticleBishop of Buckingham, Dr Alan Wilson
The Bishop of Oxford, the Rt Revd Dr Steven Croft, has announced with great sadness the unexpected death of his colleague, the Rt Revd Dr Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham. Paying tribute to Bishop...
View ArticleBishop of Leicester writes to General Synod members
The Bishop of Leicester has written to all members of the General Synod this morning, ahead of the LLF debate at Synod this coming weekend. The original is here and I haved copied the body of the...
View ArticleJay report on Church of England safeguarding published
UPDATED This report was commissioned by the Church of England and first announced on 20 July 2023. Details followed in August: see Future of Church Safeguarding. The report is now published: The Future...
View ArticleOpinion – 21 February 2024
Unadulterated Love ‘Valuing all God’s children – including trans people! Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Freeing the Church of England from Mental Slavery Helen King ViaMedia.News Slouching Towards...
View ArticleGeneral Synod Questions
The Questions (and answers) for this weekend’s meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod were issued today. They can be found online here: Questions Notice Paper February 2024. Questions will be...
View ArticleSafeguarding – pre-Synod news and comment
Updated Friday to add a second Church Times article Gavin Drake Church Abuse The end is Nye for the Archbishops’ Council’s safeguarding fiasco General Synod: Further safeguarding obfuscation by the...
View ArticleGeneral Synod – 23-27 February 2024
This post will be updated as the meeting proceeds. The Church of England’s General Synod is meeting this weekend. The timetable is here, the agenda is here and the papers are here. House of Laity...
View ArticleOpinion – 24 February 2024
Helen King sharedconversations Questions of fornication Lisa Oakley University of Chester Response from Professor Lisa Oakley to the ‘Future of Church Safeguarding’ report recommendation 10 the removal...
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