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Welby breathes new life into the crumbling Anglican Communion

September 16, 2015
Archbishop Cranmer
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Anglicanism: the final frontier. These are the prophetic voyages of Justin Welby. His continuing mission: to explore strange new reconciliations; to seek out new wine and new creations; to boldly go where no archbishop has gone before.. ..at least…

A National Register of Faith Leaders? Government plans to vet all ministers of religion

September 16, 2015
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There was an odd article in the Telegraph last week. Odd because the headline, photograph and content didn't quite cohere. Andrew Gilligan has apparently got hold of a leaked…

Compassionate Conservatism and Social Justice – bedfellows or bugbears?

September 15, 2015
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Talk to most Labour supporters about 'compassionate conservatism', and they'll scoff at the very notion, as though the evil Tories had stolen the robe of Christ and were masquerading…

Labour has become the party of terrorists, extremists and radical revolutionaries

September 14, 2015
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"We now have a leader who is as extreme and as hard left as any leader we have ever had including Keir Hardie. We have got a leader who…

Jeremy Corbyn is crowned Labour leader – it's the prayer wot won it

September 12, 2015
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Archbishop Cranmer: "Please, Lord, please let Jeremy Corbyn win the Labour Party leadership. Pleeeeeease." It was a frivolous intercession made in the Prayer Room (at the bottom of the Homepage)…

Assisted Dying: Canon Rosie Harper condemns "extreme and emotive claims" of "a certain section of believers"

September 11, 2015
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The Archbishop of Canterbury couldn't be any clearer: 'MPs must not take risks with the lives of vulnerable people', he writes in the Evening Standard. He is unequivocal, too,…

Elizabeth II becomes our longest-reigning monarch – God Save The Queen!

September 9, 2015
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Today, 9th September 2015, sometime around 5.30pm, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning monarch in British history, beating the record previously set by her great-great grandmother Queen…

Cameron declares war on British Jihadists

September 8, 2015
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"Today, I can inform the House that in an act of self-defence and after meticulous planning, Reyaad Khan was killed in a precision airstrike carried out on 21 August…

Migrants, refugees, dead babies and 'virtue signalling': WWJD?

September 7, 2015
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This is a guest post by the Rev’d Stephen Heard – Assistant Priest at St Mark’s Church, Enfield. He is a former civil servant with a background in political and…

Archbishops clash over crushing ISIS and right-to-die compassion

September 6, 2015
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The Church of England is all over the place today. Indeed, one headline seems almost purposely designed to degrade the other. In the red corner we have Archbishop Justin…

Look, a dead baby. Now change your wicked, callous policy

September 4, 2015
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Look here, upon this picture, and on this, The counterfeit presentment of two babies.. What's the difference? Is it the manner of their dying? Is it that one of…

The social gospel is a legitimate child of evangelism

September 2, 2015
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"I am so tired of hearing this social gospel held up as the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. The reason the Church pushes this social gospel is because by…

Reimagining Europe: Church wades in to EU referendum

September 1, 2015
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"In less than two years we will have a referendum on our place in Europe," writes the Archbishop of Canterbury on 'Reimagining Europe' – the Church's new blog dedicated…

Clerics for Corbyn: Bishop of Willesden comes out for 'Alice in Wonderland' politics

August 31, 2015
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Pete Broadbent, Bishop of Willesden, has joined the Rev'd Giles Fraser and finally come out for Jeremy Corbyn. This is that same Jeremy Corbyn of whom Tony Blair says…

Lower than ermine? Why is Ann Widdecombe not in the House of Lords?

August 29, 2015
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One of these is in the House of Lords and oughtn't to be; and one isn't but really, really ought to be. One wonders why. Michelle Mone OBE (left)…

Evangelism threatened by counter-extremism measures

August 28, 2015
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The Evangelical Alliance has been surveying Evangelicals. 1,730 of them, to be precise. And it transpires that four out of five of them think government policies to tackle extremism…

Welby: "Christians are not saints"; Cranmer: "O yes we are"

August 27, 2015
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"Christians are not saints," tweeted Lambeth Palace, apparently quoting from a sermon by the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. "They are sinners calling other sinners to know and love…

The apocalypse of Islam and the signs of the times

August 26, 2015
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The Temple of Baalshamin predated Mohammed by six centuries. It was a cultural jewel in the Syrian desert, revealing to the world a glimpse of the pre-Islamic religions of…

Why does Jeremy Corbyn grasp the oppression of every minority except Jews?

August 25, 2015
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"For too many on the Left, Jewish suffering does not touch them the way Muslim suffering or gay suffering or black suffering touches them," writes the discerning Stephen Daisley…

Bishop demands asylum for "the infidel's military translators"

August 24, 2015
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"It seems to me that interpreters are like priests; they are mediators and help connect cultures and communities," said the Rt Rev'd Alastair Redfern, Bishop of Derby, speaking in…