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Train conductor sacked for referring to ‘alcohol-free caliphate’ on Facebook

September 5, 2021
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Jeremy Sleath had worked for West Midlands Trains for 17 years. He was a Senior Conductor who had served his employer faithfully and admirably. He was sacked in September 2020, at the end of the national Covid-19 lockdown, for writing…

‘Key limiting factors’: the end of stipendiary parish ministry

July 3, 2021
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Priests are expensive. Church buildings are expensive. Theological formation is expensive. So the Church of England has set out its 'Vision and Strategy' for cost-cutting: 10,000 new lay-led churches over…

The Church of England should welcome Methodists into the fold of the historic episcopacy

February 8, 2018
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This is a guest post by the Rev'd Marcus Walker, who was Deputy Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome until January 2018. He is to be Rector of the…

As 40% of adults think Jesus is a myth, has Religious Education failed?

September 25, 2015
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Richard Dawkins and the other prophets of atheism love to tell us that in the fabricated battle between religious belief and rationalism, there can be only one winner, and…

Corbyn courts the churches, but Labour loathes Christianity

September 17, 2015
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Can you imagine what it must be like to be a Labour MP at the moment? It’s like the scruffy kid at school who doesn’t make friends easily and…

"Thatcher Rest In Hell" – Durham Miners' Gala rejoice over Thatcher effigy in coffin

July 12, 2015
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"The Durham Miners' Association has been shocked and saddened at the news last week of the death of three stalwarts of the socialist and labour movement," wrote the Friends…

Without Christian vision the future of politics looks bleak

February 24, 2015
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A couple of days ago my NASUWT magazine dropped through the letterbox and, as always, it makes for pretty depressing reading. If the contents are to be believed, most…

Andrew Lloyd Webber's vision to drag churches into the 21st century

January 6, 2015
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Seemingly from out of nowhere, Andrew Lloyd Webber, who we might expect to be a little distracted by his 'babe' Nicole Scherzinger performing in the recently revived Cats, has announced that he is…

How to prevent the extinction of the Church of England

October 24, 2014
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If anyone isn’t aware that the Church of England is slowly walking down the statistical road to oblivion, the publication of the 2015 British Election Study last week should…