New Bishop of Oxford enthroned with L-plates
Bishops don't much like the word 'enthroned' these days. Perhaps it's a bit too imperial or exalted for modern notions of accessibility and equatability. So now we focus on their…
Mark Chapman
Shared conversations: some came to seek truth; others to conquer. Why can’t we just be kind?
Commenting on the Bishops' statement Marriage and Same Sex Relationships after the Shared Conversations ("a gamma minus piece of drafting if ever there was one"), Canon Professor Mark Chapman prophesies that it "will make General Synod bloody". The report is…
The great canon doctor Martyn Percy implicates Justin Welby in "secular sorcery"
"Everything you need to know about the Bible can be summed up by the great canon doctor Martyn Percy: 'The Bible did not arrive by fax from heaven.'," writes…
Nissar Hussain leads Top 100 UK Christians 2015
The awards for the Top 100 UK Christians 2015 were announced, word spread and admonition radiated (just as it it did last year). #CranmerList2015 was explained (again), word spread…
Canon Andrew White leads Top 100 UK Christians 2014
The awards for the Top 100 UK Christians were announced, word spread and admonition radiated. #CranmerList2014 was explained, word spread (again), nominations poured in and speculation grew. The waiting…