David Walker

Archbishop cheers Labour MP for breaking lockdown law

We are in the midst of a global pandemic, and the law of the land is clear: "no person may participate in a gathering which takes place in a public or private place outdoors, and consists of more than six…

Lord Carey: Bishops exacerbate the “hysterical, coarsened and divisive nature of our debate”

June 1, 2020
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Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey has publicly admonished those Bishops who decided to "speak truth to power" by joining the onslaught against Dominic Cummings. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph,…

Boris Johnson and the Episcopal Land of Zoom

May 29, 2020
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This is the 18th contribution to His Grace’s emergency team ministry during the coronavirus pestilence. The author is an Incumbent in the Church of England, who wishes to remain anonymous.…

Bishop: ‘Sack Cummings, or the Church of England will no longer work with Government’

May 25, 2020
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A number of Bishops have rounded on the Prime Minister for not sacking his senior advisor Dominic Cummings, following revelations that he drove from London to Durham during lockdown to…

Labour conference welcome Bishop Liverpool

Would bishops ‘especially’ welcome the Conservative Party Conference to their diocese?

September 25, 2018
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The Bishop of Liverpool Paul Bayes exhorted his Twitter followers to pray for the party conference season, but he reserved an especial welcome for the Labour Party, whose conference is…

Bishop of Manchester condemns ‘Hang the Tories’ left-wing hate

October 1, 2017
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One effigy hanging beneath this bridge could be Boris, but it's hard to tell. They're both male – or dressed as men – so the Prime Minister isn't the target. Except…

Church of England campaigns for the living wage, but insists its clergy must claim tax credits

November 24, 2015
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This is a guest post by Harold Pinker (pseudonym) – a Tory-inclined clergyman in the Church of England who fears that his ministry would be impaired (ie his prospects for…

Murmur in Manchester Cathedral: Corbyn counters Conservative Party Conference

October 6, 2015
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The Bishop of Manchester is neither a member nor a supporter of the Labour Party. We know this because he tweeted it. He lauds the Guardian for its superior…

It's time to put the bedroom tax to bed

June 12, 2015
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If you select any of the government’s welfare cuts since 2010, it’s more than likely that there’s been a bishop or two who have opposed them. Remember the Bishops’…

Alan Henning’s compassion made him more Muslim than any member of ISIS

October 5, 2014
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Our prayers and our thoughts have been with the family of Alan Henning over these last weeks, during which his life has been so publicly threatened. In his life Alan…

21 bishops now demand aid and asylum for Iraqi Christians

September 15, 2014
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It is, sadly, now too late to save Mosul. But there is a further letter in today's Times demanding Government action to aid or offer asylum to the persecuted, suffering…

Why can bishops organise to condemn foodbanks but not genocide?

August 12, 2014
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After the Holocaust, the whole of civilisation united behind two simple words: "Never Again". If the free world is not prepared to eradicate the Islamist evil spreading over the…