World Council of Churches must expel the Russian Orthodox Church
What kind of Christian conscience can slaughter a young mother and her three-month-old baby one day, and pop off to church, light a candle, and praise Jesus the next? Ukrainian…
How many millions of asylum seekers should the UK welcome?
Building on his Easter sermon which condemned (rather robustly) Priti Patel's plan to send Channel migrants to Rwanda, the Archbishop of Canterbury has written a comment piece for the Telegraph in which he implores the Government to 'Put humanity at…
Mercy, forgiveness and judgment: Boris Johnson did not lie to Parliament
If you detest Boris Johnson or blame him for the great evil of Brexit and for ruining the country and just want him gone, there's no need to read on.…
Boris Johnson’s ‘disgraceful slur’ against the Archbishop of Canterbury
The Prime Minister sat rather dejected in the House of Commons yesterday, and spent two hours iterating (and reiterating) how sorry he was for sharing the Cabinet Room of No.10…
How does facilitating people-traffickers reflect the nature of God?
The Home Secretary's announcement that the thousands of asylum seekers (or economic migrants) crossing the Channel in an endless stream of dinghies (246,190 last year) are to be sent to…
Easter Day: ‘He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.’
He is risen! Hallelujah! Still the earth resounds this Easter Day with the joy of that seismic irruption 2,000 years ago. We have passed from death to life. Just as…
Holy Saturday: ‘He descended into hell’
Holy Saturday is a much misunderstood day, suspended awkwardly between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection, seemingly of no great spiritual significance. Jesus is buried: we are left wondering and waiting.…
Good Friday: the sufferings of Christ are the sufferings of the age
God died today. He hung on cross, in misery and agony, and died eventually. Today is a day to remember the day God died; the passion, the weeping, the wailing,…
Maundy Thursday: there needs to be some foot-washing in Oxford
You can't spread hope without truth, and you can't possess truth without humility, transcendence, and reconciliation in the heart. There is an earthly concept of justice which affords a proximate…
Church of England contributes just 0.5% to the UK’s spiritual and religious narrative
It's a crude headline-grabbing statistic, derived from a distinctly unscientific list of apparently random figures, but by no means without a degree of truth and reliability to it. There is…
Welby blasts BBC Question Time: ‘God will judge Putin’
Justin Welby has become the first sitting Archbishop of Canterbury ever to appear on the BBC's flagship political debate programme Question Time. Perhaps his predecessors over the past 43 years…
Patriarch Kirill: there are no Ukrainians, only ‘peoples of Holy Russia’
The Russian Patriarch delivered a sermon on Sunday in the Cathedral of the Armed Forces, just outside Moscow, which isn't so much an Orthodox cathedral as a temple to the…
Welby prays Lambeth Conference won’t be dominated by human sexuality
The Archbishop of Canterbury has expressed his sincerest wish, if not profoundest hope, and quite possibly his most earnest prayer that this summer's Lambeth Conference won't be dominated (again) by…
Westminster Abbey to install memorial bust of Margaret Thatcher — at last!
Westminster Abbey includes the graves of many notable politicians and memorials to former prime ministers, and from the 1970s the previous Dean of Westminster, the Very Rev'd Dr John Hall,…
Daily Mail adopts sharia to censor Mohammed image
The Daily Mail reported yesterday that another teacher has been suspended for showing an image of Mohammed. This image hadn't been shown in a classroom setting for educational purposes, however,…
Praying for Putin’s downfall, doom and destruction
There was a prayer for Ukraine in church on Sunday: "Lord, we pray for peace in Ukraine, and that Putin would see sense." That was it. There was no mention…
Rustat 1 – 0 Welby | Jesus College Cambridge must retain its memorial to Tobias Rustat
"Why is it so much agony to remove a memorial to slavery?" pleaded the Archbishop of Canterbury to Synod in February, as he bemoaned the fact that the Master of…
Why doesn’t Patriarch Kirill excommunicate Putin forthwith?
In the flaming ruins and rubble of Mariupol, dogs are eating people and people are eating dogs. Bloodied corpses line the streets, some covered with dusty sheets for burial shrouds,…
Welby and Kirill demand peace in Ukraine (but woolliness won’t stop war)
The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Patriarch of Moscow have had a video conference in which they both agreed on the need for disciples of Jesus to be peacemakers, and…
Homes for Ukraine: finally, a refugee programme we can be proud of
It has taken a while, but the UK now has a compassionate refugee programme responsive to the crisis unfolding in Ukraine, which is the worst refugee crisis seen in Europe…