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This is the fifth contribution to His Grace’s emergency team ministry during the coronavirus pestilence. The author has a 30-year itinerant preaching and teaching ministry. He leads a large public sector organisation and wishes to remain anonymous, "for unprofessional reasons…"…

Lowering the voting age to six isn’t a bad idea: it would give the family its rightful electoral status

December 7, 2018
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Prof David Runciman (Cambridge University) is of the view that an ageing population is creating a democratic crisis: the views of those beneath the age of 18 – the current…

Blake God Blessing Seventh Day four-day week

Four-day week: mandatory indolence or an interfaith ‘sacred weekend’?

October 23, 2018
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When Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell mooted imposing a four-day week on the British economy (that is, a four-day working week; Labour has no plans to re-calibrate or 'modernise' the solar…

Welby UN Security Council pre-emptive reconciliation

Welby goes to the UN to speak about ‘pre-emptive reconciliation’ (aka friendship)

August 30, 2018
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Yesterday, Justin Welby became the first Archbishop of Canterbury to address the UN Security Council. His subject was mediation and conflict resolution (he sits on the UN Secretary-General's advisory board…

Trump to Europe: “You are losing your culture”

July 13, 2018
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While the media pore over Donald Trump's interview with the Sun, focusing on the possibility a post-(soft) Brexit US/UK trade deal ("..it will probably kill the deal") and Boris Johnson…

Why didn’t the Liberal Democrat Christian Forum speak up for Tim Farron?

November 29, 2017
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Former LibDem leader Tim Farron delivered the Theos Annual Lecture last night, entitled: 'What Kind of Liberal Society Do We Want?' The whole speech is worth reading, because it is…

Justine vs Justin: the ‘not yet’ and ‘never’ of same-sex marriage in the Church of England

July 27, 2017
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In an interview for Sky News last week on same-sex marriage and the Church, Justine Greening (the Education Secretary who also happens to hold the Equalities portfolio) told Sophy Ridge:…

Theresa May did not instruct the CofE to allow gay marriage

July 20, 2017
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'Prime Minister: The Church should "reflect" on allowing gay couples to marry', declares the Telegraph; 'Theresa May Suggests Churches Should Consider Conducting Same-Sex Marriages', says Huffpost UK; 'May: Church should…

It’s not that Christians can’t lead political parties; it’s that Evangelical Christians can’t lead the Liberal Democrats

June 15, 2017
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"To be a political leader...and to live as a committed Christian, to hold faithfully to the Bible's teaching, has felt impossible for me," said Tim Farron as he resigned as…

Corbyn in La La Land: a national maximum wage cannot be determined by need

January 10, 2017
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We have another trailer for the emerging ideology of Corbynomics. Jeremy Corbyn has said there should be a law to establish a maximum wage, because it is "the fairer thing…

Nigel Farage slams Jesus for his “negative” Christmas message

December 26, 2016
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Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage has slammed Jesus for his "negative" Christmas message. The Son of God said the world is full of wolves in sheep's clothing, not to mention…

The Kingdom of God is within you, but it is also a future promise

March 8, 2016
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Where is the Kingdom of God? Does it matter? How can it be both within you and yet still to come? Or has it already come? And if it…

Compassionate Conservatism and Social Justice – bedfellows or bugbears?

September 15, 2015
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Talk to most Labour supporters about 'compassionate conservatism', and they'll scoff at the very notion, as though the evil Tories had stolen the robe of Christ and were masquerading…

Clerics for Corbyn: Bishop of Willesden comes out for 'Alice in Wonderland' politics

August 31, 2015
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Pete Broadbent, Bishop of Willesden, has joined the Rev'd Giles Fraser and finally come out for Jeremy Corbyn. This is that same Jeremy Corbyn of whom Tony Blair says…

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…

Married at First Sight? Channel 4 make marriage a throwaway commodity

July 11, 2015
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Over Channel 4’s 33-year history there has been a whole range of programmes which have found their way into the nation’s hearts. Where would many of the older generation…

Cameron's 'One Nation' vision for stronger families is back on track

June 23, 2015
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It was a big 'One Nation' speech yesterday from the Prime Minister. He set out his vision for education and plans for welfare reform while visiting the Ormiston Bolingbroke…

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…

The way the Church does politics is largely ineffective

May 22, 2015
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This is a guest post by the Rev'd Stephen Heard – Assistant Priest at St Mark's Church, Enfield. He is a former civil servant with a background in political and…

Welby: £3 billion worth of church social action is proof of God's power

May 21, 2015
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Christians are good at telling stories but rubbish with numbers. This was one of the key observations at last night’s Cinnamon Faith Action Audit Report launch which presented the…