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Women as Bishops

This post is not more of my own thoughts. It is an announcement of an opportunity to hear some other thoughts on the subject “Women as Bishops: what next for Evangelicals, what do we need from each...

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Women as Bishops: Reflections

The meeting Women as Bishops which I advertised in my last post here was very interesting. We were pleased to have about 60 people present for the discussion led by the Bishop of Lewes, Wallace Benn,...

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Women as Bishops: The Recording

Now available at my church’s website: an audio recording of last Saturday’s Chelmsford Diocesan Evangelical Association meeting about Women as Bishops, together with Lis Goddard’s PowerPoint...

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No more broad bishops in London

The Church of England has always prided itself on being a broad church. The Diocese of London has always been at the heart of that church (and my old home of Chelmsford was within it before 1846), and...

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Art from N.T. Wright’s old home saved for tourists

N.T. Wright, the world renowned theologian and former Bishop of Durham, may be enjoying his new job as a research professor at the University of St Andrews – which is probably best known today as where...

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Cathedral promotes nudism, newspaper claims

I’m not sure I believe a word that I read in The Mail on Sunday. There is perhaps a little more truth in what they write than there was in the recently defunct, but little lamented, Sunday Sport. At...

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Church of England Weddings: not one size for all

LATEST: Church of England’s ruling Synod rejects plans to increase standard fees for weddings and funerals Good! For more on why this was a bad move, see Weddings R Us by Archdruid Eileen. The issue...

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Did the Church of England stop colluding with Babylon?

George Monbiot, writing in The Guardian last night, accused the Church of England of “colluding with Babylon”. But in the latest developments this afternoon St Paul’s Cathedral has suspended its legal...

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Why can’t women appoint Anglican bishops?

It is a long time since I have commented here on the slow progress towards the Church of England accepting women as bishops. I haven’t really been following the discussions, which have dragged on...

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Restoring the Church of England to Sanity

An ancient poet, not Euripides, wrote: Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. If we replace “gods” with the three persons of the Trinity, is this what is happening to the Church of...

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