Good News

Why, when church attendance is falling, is cathedral attendance soaring?

October 25, 2018
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An email was delivered to Cranmer's Tower at 11.15am on Tuesday of this week. It was headed: 'Record numbers attend cathedrals at Christmas', followed by a very red, upper-case warning: 'RELEASE AND STATISTICS EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01 24/10/18'. Why should good…

Bishop of Liverpool slams ‘so-called Evangelicals’, and so condemns himself

January 8, 2018
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The term 'Evangelical' as applied to Christians has a long and well-chronicled heritage. In 1525, William Tyndale explained in his Doctrinal Treatises (p8): "Evangelion (that which we call the gospel)…

Bishop Philip North is good news for the poor – what a shame he’s sidelined

August 4, 2017
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It is #GoodNewsFriday – space and time to tell of God's love, miracles, joy, hope and peace – and Bishop Philip North provides today's subject matter. Here are a few…

Is it time for a Good News Day?

July 21, 2017
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Let's survey the news today: there's a boycott, a ban, another ban, yet another ban, a blunder, a bereavement, a crisis, a dilemma, sex and drugs, suicide, murder, theft, envy,…

Holy Saturday: marginalisation, persecution, martyrdom

March 26, 2016
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Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden; and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid. There laid they Jesus…

Pentecost evangelism? What is the gospel in an age of religious relativism?

February 29, 2016
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The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have written to every clergyman and woman in England (all 11,300 of them, which is a lot of stamps), urging them to pray…

Pray and fast for climate change? Is the Church creating disciples of Christ or eco-warriors?

July 15, 2015
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The latest session of the General Synod of the Church of England drew to a close in York this week and, absent any debate about women bishops, it failed…

Christians in Parliament demonstrate what doing God really means

July 3, 2015
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On Wednesday evening Christians in Parliament along with Christians in Politics and Christians in Government held their annual service of prayer and worship at the the Emmanuel Centre in…

The Church cannot grow if it will not share the gospel

June 5, 2015
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I stumbled recently across an interesting blog post on the sharing the gospel – or rather the lack of it – by the Rev'd Richard Moy. While visiting five cathedrals over the last…

On this day, 459 years ago, a man was burned at the stake for 'heresy'

March 21, 2015
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On this day, 459 years ago, a man was burned at the stake for 'heresy' – essentially for holding conflicting personal, political and theological loyalties. He bequeathed to us…

Welby: "The best decision anyone can ever make is to be a follower of Jesus Christ"

March 6, 2015
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Back in January, Tim Montgomerie, writing in the Times, vented his frustration with the Archbishop of Canterbury: I remain hopeful that Justin Welby, a "graduate" of HTB and its famous…