Mission

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

December 7, 2015
Gillan Scott
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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 now got to the point where I'm not sure whether…

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…

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…

Songs of Praise and the cardboard church of Calais

August 12, 2015
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"The Lord is here," intones the vicar at thousands of services of Holy Communion week after week. Except He's not: His Spirit might be brooding in the chocolate-box parishes…

Tweeting the truth in love: Justin Welby affirms an unpalatable article of faith

August 11, 2015
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We have a blogging, vlogging and tweeting Archbishop of Canterbury. He's on Flickr, too. Justin Welby has fathomed that the medium is the message: the social network is the…

Justin Welby's "spiritual magpie" plan to save the Church of England (DV)

July 17, 2015
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There’s a fantastic article this weeks' Spectator entitled 'God’s management consultants: the Church of England turns to bankers for salvation'. It’s the sort of piece that is bound to…