Mission

The Servant Queen, and the Foreword which declares the glory of God

February 25, 2016
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Her Majesty the Queen has written the Foreword to a book being published to celebrate her 90th birthday on 21st April this year. The Servant Queen - and the King she serves gives a unique insight into the Queen's…

Anglican Primates pronounce, but the Holy Spirit prevails

January 16, 2016
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The media bulletins are full of 'Episcopal Church suspended from the Anglican Communion', with a list of prohibitions and fulminations about 'second class Anglicans', with Giles Fraser reminding us…

Church of England continues its decline – but is revival stirring?

January 12, 2016
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The Church of England has published its attendance stats ('Statistics for Mission') for 2014. Don't yawn. Yes, the interesting Anglican stuff is leavening this week in a Canterbury crypt,…

Nissar Hussain leads Top 100 UK Christians 2015

December 31, 2015
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The awards for the Top 100 UK Christians 2015 were announced, word spread and admonition radiated (just as it it did last year). #CranmerList2015 was explained (again), word spread…

The Church of England's investment in social media is a major embarrassment

December 7, 2015
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Quite often when I attend a variety of events and conferences, I’ll end up in conversation with total strangers from all sorts of backgrounds talking about this blog. It’s…

The search for the Top 100 UK Christians – nominations now open for #CranmerList2015

December 1, 2015
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The celebration of Christian saints is a phenomenon which has endured throughout the centuries with an enthusiasm that shows little sign of diminishing. Recent Roman Catholic popes have dished…

Cinema Lord's Prayer 'ban' was a retroactive policy to chuck the Church of England

November 25, 2015
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Today the General Synod debates the public perceptions of Jesus (GS Misc 1126): What do people in this nation know and believe about Jesus? What do they really think…

Lord's Prayer advert banned by cinemas

November 22, 2015
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Cinemas are private establishments, and so are free to advertise whatever they like and decline to advertise whatever they don't like. Pearl & Dean dominated cinema advertising in the…

The ironic lack of politics at Christians in Politics

November 12, 2015
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I genuinely expected to be disappointed when I first found myself at an event organised by a Christian political group. Four years ago I put a blog together after…

Rev'd Barry Trayhorn "forced to resign" as prison worker – for quoting the Bible in chapel

November 2, 2015
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HMP Littlehey is a 'Category C' men's prison ("Those who cannot be trusted in open conditions but who are unlikely to try to escape") and Young Offender Institute near…

Would the Dean and Chapter of Manchester Cathedral host and pray for Ukip?

October 29, 2015
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When the Dean of Manchester Cathedral agreed to facilitate the march of the people against austerity during this year's Conservative Party conference, a simple matter of Christian hospitality to…

Giles Fraser has missed the point: rural churches need to be valued, not exterminated

October 17, 2015
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This is a guest post by Rev Tiffer Robinson – A Church of England Priest responsible for four rural parishes in Suffolk. He is also a newly elected member of…

The Church of England is not dying – it is regenerating

October 16, 2015
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It’s been well publicised this week that there are one or two Church of England congregations that aren’t exactly bursting at the seams. If you go to a Church…

Who on earth would book Katie Hopkins for a Christian conference?

October 14, 2015
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The Church and Media conference has been running in various guises for the last 39 years. Not many people know it exists, but that is because it has aimed to serve…

Chartres' Lambeth Lecture: the Church must be "vision-led and not problem-led"

October 5, 2015
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While the Archbishop of Canterbury pored over the Blogosphere on his iPad (to which he is apparently rather attached), the Bishop of London psyched himself up for the latest…

Bishop of Chelmsford repudiates episcopal "talent pool"

October 1, 2015
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It was a glorious sermon, with an audacious, if not subversive (which some may call prophetic) intervention on the Church of England's emerging "talent pool" approach to recognising bishops.…

Ukip MEP bashes Archbishop for offering sanctuary to refugees

September 22, 2015
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What do you think? There was an archbishop who loved to read The Guardian and watch the BBC. He saw that thousands upon thousands of Christians were suffering throughout…

We need more Christians in politics – and banking, education, media…

September 20, 2015
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Another of Justin Welby’s visions has begun to bear fruit. Yesterday, Lambeth Palace hosted the launch of the much-heralded Community of St Anselm. In a special service in the…

Welby breathes new life into the crumbling Anglican Communion

September 16, 2015
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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…

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…