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10/07/2024

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10/07/2024

Two prominent umbrella groups have given their response to the General Synod’s decision to endorse plans for stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples and delegate episcopal ministry for opponents to the changes

TWO prominent umbrella groups have given their response to the General Synod’s decision to endorse p...

10/07/2024

The draft guidance, Flourishing for All, published on Friday, is informed by both the latest government guidance on the issue and the final report and recommendations to NHS England from Dr Hilary Cass

THE Church’s National Society for education has released new anti-bullying guidance for church schoo...

10/07/2024

Poet’s Corner

Malcolm Guite, like Donne, confesses his tendency to be easily distracted

Malcolm Guite, like Donne, confesses his tendency to be easily distracted

10/07/2024

Headlines in our world news in brief this week:

Vatican bans tattoos for Basilica staff
Virgin Mary birthing sculpture beheaded
Widow of murdered Christian in Pakistan dies
Children among Christians arrested in Eritrea
Alliance calls for securing of FoRB in Cuba

Vatican bans tattoos for Basilica staff THE Vatican has banned workers at St Peter’s Basilica from h...

10/07/2024

Book review: Deryn Guest considers Jeremiah interpreted for the Black British

Deryn Guest considers Jeremiah interpreted for the Black British

10/07/2024

"There’s no room for error, potentially alienating those that work in or visit a sacred space"

Read our interview with Jacquiline Creswell, art curator for English Cathedrals 👇

‘There’s no room for error, potentially alienating those that work in or visit a sacred space’

09/07/2024

Book review: Peter Selby reflects on an individual response to a global problem

Peter Selby reflects on an individual response to a global problem

09/07/2024

Sunday's Readings for 14 July: 7th Sunday after Trinity

14 July, Proper 10: Amos 7.7-15; Psalm 85.8-end; Ephesians 1.3-14; Mark 6.14-29

09/07/2024

Two girls from St Paul’s Cathedral School have joined the St Paul’s Cathedral Choir as full choristers for the first time in its 900-year history

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09/07/2024

Press: No love for Keir Starmer from HTB millionaire

KEN COSTA, one of the Evangelical millionaires around Holy Trinity, Brompton (HTB), writes occasiona...

09/07/2024

This Month's Book Club choice is Struggling with God by Isabelle Hamley, C. H. Cook and John Swinton.
Podcast with Isabelle Hamley and Sarah Meyrick: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/5-july/audio-video/podcast/book-club-podcast-isabelle-hamley-on-struggling-with-god-mental-health-and-christian-spirituality
Essay by Anne Holmes: https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/5-july/books-arts/book-club/book-club-struggling-with-god-by-isabelle-hamley-c-h-cook-and-john-swinton
Alternative platforms: https://pod.fo/e/24f18d

09/07/2024

Gay man subjected to ‘exorcism’ at Sheffield church has complaint upheld

Matthew Drapper was also forced to step down from voluntary position, review finds

09/07/2024

Twenty-four clergy cricketers turned up, and were sorted into two teams of 12, which lent a Victorian-era tinge to proceedings on a beautiful sunny day at the exquisite pitch at Falkland Cricket Club, in Newbury, on Monday of last week.

TWENTY-FOUR clergy cricketers turned up, and were sorted into two teams of 12, which lent a Victoria...

09/07/2024

Another concern was “data creep”: it would not only be burial records that were scanned, but also every baptism and marriage register, and every monument in the church. This data could be sold on to other parties. “Privatising parochial records, and giving a private company the exclusive right to sell on personal data for profit is wrong,” he told the Synod

PARISHES should be told not to sign up to the National Burial Grounds Survey because of the risks, i...

09/07/2024

Parishes should be told not to sign up to the National Burial Grounds Survey because of the risks, including of the data being sold to the Mormon Church, the General Synod agreed on Sunday

PARISHES should be told not to sign up to the National Burial Grounds Survey because of the risks, i...

09/07/2024

Ms Godfrey received a series of negative and abusive comments on X when she posted pictures from the day of her wearing vestments.

The response prompted her to post more pictures, with the hashtag , which began trending on X, as other women priests followed suit

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09/07/2024

Obituary: Canon Philip Spence

The Rt Revd Nicholas Holtam writes: PHILIP SPENCE was a Methodist Minister who, in the aftermath of ...

09/07/2024

Books: William Whyte reviews a monograph on G. E. Street, devout architect

William Whyte reviews a monograph on G. E. Street, devout architect

09/07/2024

No longer joined to the State

Radical changes in the Church of Norway should interest Anglicans, writes Christopher Hill

Radical changes in the Church of Norway should interest Anglicans, writes Christopher Hill

09/07/2024

Book review: Paul Avis considers the fate of a theologian in a bruising controversy

Paul Avis considers the fate of a theologian in a bruising controversy

08/07/2024

Art review: Time to stop and pray, reflects Nicholas Cranfield in Mayfair

Time to stop and pray, reflects Nicholas Cranfield in Mayfair

08/07/2024

The lead bishop for Living in Love and Faith (LLF), the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, acknowledged that, in the current proposals, which also defer a decision on whether priests are permitted to be in same-sex civil marriages until February, “none of us get what we want”.

Houses of Clergy and Laity vote by narrow majorities in favour of LLF motion

08/07/2024

Coming up in the week ahead on TV and on Radio

HIGHLIGHT: On Your Farm Vernon Harwood visits the Salvation Army’s farm estate in Essex, to discover...

08/07/2024

Proposals to remove impediments on the use of new blessings for same-sex couples in stand-alone services, along with the provision of delegated episcopal ministry for those who oppose the changes, were shown a pale green light from the General Synod on Monday afternoon

Houses of Clergy and Laity vote by narrow majorities in favour of LLF motion

08/07/2024

"It is one thing to embrace all shades of theological opinion in your diocese — for all shades will be found there. It is another to affirm them all as equally valid, as modern bishops appear to do."

Read this week's Leader comment ⬇️

IN decades gone by, bishops never seemed to bother very much about the “figure of unity” bullet poin...

08/07/2024

Slow but steady progress towards safeguarding reform was endorsed at the General Synod on Monday morning. Efforts to move immediately towards independent scrutiny were cut off

SLOW but steady progress towards safeguarding reform was endorsed at the General Synod on Monday mor...

08/07/2024

Mass dependence on food emergency parcels is “a moral scar on our society”, the General Synod heard during a passionate and informed debate on foodbanks and the inadequacy of social security on Monday

MASS dependence on food emergency parcels is “a moral scar on our society”, the General Synod heard ...

08/07/2024

Quotes of the week

To this day he still prays — and not just in church. “Oh no, I pray in times of stress.” Has he pray...

08/07/2024

The Archbishop of Canterbury, who is due to visit Jamaica and the Cayman Islands later this month, posted on X on Tuesday that he was grieved to hear of the storm’s impact. “We pray for swift help to support those who need it, and for the safety of the brave aid workers in carrying out their work.”

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