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Rev’d Will Pearson-Gee: “I am not going to close our services”

December 31, 2021
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As 2021 draws to a close, with Covid mutations multiplying, millions isolating, thousands dying, gas prices soaring, inflation pressing, poverty increasing, Putin and Xi agitating, and the Church of England still closing its services, it is heartening to hear a…

When does talking or praying about sexuality become conversion therapy?

December 6, 2021
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As the Government's consultation on their Conversion Therapy (Prohibition) Bill nears its end, there is a sense of confusion and exasperation, if not of fear and despair. Not among those…

A ‘Church for England’, but whose understanding of Englishness?

August 12, 2021
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Much has been written about the Archbishop of York's article in the Telegraph, in which he set out his vision for England woven with his preferred themes of Englishness, calling…

The mission of the Church is not ‘right ethics’

April 14, 2020
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This is the 15th contribution to His Grace’s emergency team ministry during the coronavirus pestilence. The author wishes to be known as The Snail @. He has a background in…

Kruger: we should not throw away the inheritance of our Christian culture

February 9, 2020
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In his maiden speech on 29th January, a Conservative MP said something which even the Bishops in the House of Lords aren't saying. Danny Kruger, the Member for Devizes, made…

Catholic and Reformed: continuity and development

January 13, 2020
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Toward the end of his ministry as Archbishop of Canterbury (though it may have been just after the end), Rowan Williams was interviewed about his beliefs, and in particular his…

A Christian case for Brexit

January 7, 2020
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If one anti-Brexit argument persists within the clergy hierarchy of the Church of England, it is that the UK's departure from the European Union is a fundamentally 'un-Christian' pursuit. The…

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Labour plans to downgrade Christianity in the school curriculum

December 5, 2019
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There's something tucked away on page 15 of Labour's 'Race and Faith' manifesto which has received no comment at all. No-one seems to have noticed their intention to downgrade Christianity…

Welby in Amritsar — damned if he does; damned if he doesn’t

September 15, 2019
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The Archbishop of Canterbury visited the site of the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre in the Punjabi city of Amritsar. He didn't merely visit it, he prostrated himself very publicly before…

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Church of England guidance used against Christian in court

July 22, 2019
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There's something ever so slightly disquieting about this, but not for the reasons permeating the websites and chat-threads of Evangelical Christendom. Dr David Mackereth, who said in a Department of…

If a Christian doctor can be forced to deny biology, there is no hope for theology

July 18, 2019
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Piers Morgan has some robust views about religion and sexual-reproductive morality, and if you happen not to agree with his perfectly enlightened worldview, you are a lunatic, a bigot, or…

When did traditional morality become ‘fundamentalist’?

July 10, 2019
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It was a question posed by Professor John Milbank on Twitter a few days ago. Or, rather, it wasn't posed as a question, such as the 'when' inquiry into conceptual…

Mounstephen calls for sanctions on countries which persecute Christians

July 8, 2019
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The Bishop of Truro Philip Mounstephen has finally published his independent report on persecuted Christians across the world, and it doesn't disappoint. The review was commissioned by Foreign Secretary Jeremy…

There is no such thing as ‘spiritual abuse’

July 4, 2019
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Another abuse scandal has broken out in the the Church of England, and it is once again facing the responsibility as to how best to respond. Most sexual abuse is…

Tory leadership contest: how ‘Christian’ are the candidates?

May 30, 2019
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We have arrived at the final two candidates in the Tory leadership contest: either Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt will be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and…

Royal Assent: Crown neutrality on Brexit is unsustainable

April 8, 2019
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The last time Royal Assent was withheld from a parliamentary bill was in the wake of the union of England and Scotland in 1707/8, when Queen Anne declined to support…

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Home Office refuses asylum to Iranian Christian convert – quoting violence in the Bible as evidence of bogus claim

March 20, 2019
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An Iranian Muslim who converted to Christianity because it is the true religion of peace has had their application for asylum in the UK rejected because the Home Office didn't…

Charles, Defender of the Faithful persecuted for Jesus’ sake

December 5, 2018
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Yesterday, from the pulpit of Westminster Abbey, the Prince of Wales made a plea for peace; and not only peace, but for reconciliation. And not only did he make a…

Advent Sunday: people don’t know Jesus, and that’s our fault

December 2, 2018
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There's a lot of confusion about Jesus: there are so many ideas about who he was or is that it almost seems as though there are lots of Jesuses. He…

Michael Gove delivers Theos Annual Lecture: “I speak as a Christian”

November 23, 2018
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Michael Gove delivered this year's Theos annual lecture last night, and his subject was environmental justice, stewardship and the moral purpose of government. The whole lecture is well worth reading,…