Welby breathes new life into the crumbling Anglican Communion
Anglicanism: the final frontier. These are the prophetic voyages of Justin Welby. His continuing mission: to explore strange new reconciliations; to seek out new wine and new creations; to boldly go...
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There's one surefire way of silencing objectors to women bishops – without...
There is a serial objector who pops up at the consecration of just about every woman bishop in the Church of England, and he isn’t even an Anglican. The Rev’d Stephen Holland is pastor of...
View ArticleSame-sex marriage/blessing confronts Church of England with "a structural...
We have reached Chapter 5 in the great Anglican sexuality saga: ‘Church of England parishes consider first step to break away over sexuality‘. It isn’t clear what the dénouement shall be, but the...
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With the gift of a crozier, Pope Francis recognises and affirms the episcopal...
You can read too much into a symbol, especially if it signifies a deep spiritual longing or portends some prophetic fulfilment. What to one person is just the rain, to another becomes life-giving...
View ArticleWould the appointment of Bishop Martyn Percy offer remedy against Justin...
Here follows Adrian Hilton’s response to Martyn Percy’s second letter on ‘Renewal & Reform’ (R&R) and the ministry and leadership of Justin Welby: Dear Martyn, Thank you for your letter. You...
View ArticleMartyn Percy: Justin Welby “is preparing the ground for a complete volte-face...
Here follows Martyn Percy’s response to Adrian Hilton’s second letter on ‘Renewal & Reform’ and the ministry and leadership of Justin Welby. It was a simultaneous exchange with Hilton’s third...
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Synod vote on same-sex relations: it was female clergy wot won it (or lost it)
The electronic voting results for the Synod motion on ‘Marriage and Same-Sex Relations after the Shared Conversations‘ have been released. As we know, in an exercise of pure democracy, Synod as a whole...
View ArticleIf Philip North can’t be Bishop of Sheffield, the Church of England ceases to...
The Dean of Christ Church, Professor Martyn Percy, has issued an ultimatum circumspectly entitled ‘Questions of Ambiguity and Integrity‘. It’s quite long, but essentially it boils down to a choice:...
View ArticleAbstaining: Martyn Percy’s excellent (but flawed) Lenten reflection (on...
Martyn Percy has written an excellent Lenten reflection on abstaining, in the context of the appointment of the next Bishop of Sheffield. We wait with bated breath to see if Philip North will proceed...
View ArticlePhilip North crisis: ‘Good Disagreement’ has become ‘bad bullying’
This is a guest post by the Rev’d Dr Gavin Ashenden, former Chaplain to the Queen. ___________________________ When the house that has been painstakingly constructed on the sand falls flat, there is...
View ArticleBishop of Sheffield: Martyn Percy asked for bread; Sentamu and Welby give a...
No doubt there has been a lot of frantic to-ing and fro-ing between the palaces of Bishopthorpe and Lambeth since Philip North felt unable to take up the nomination as Bishop of Sheffield. People have...
View ArticleWomen bishops: the desperate and disingenuous distinction in the Five Guiding...
Of all the responses to the post on the ‘review’ instigated by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York into the operation of the Five Guiding Principles in the nomination of Philip North to become...
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Gender justice and LGBT equality: Martyn Percy demands female cardinals and...
In another 5,000-word essay, the Very Rev’d Professor Martyn Percy, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, demands “a thorough and wholesale review” of discrimination in the Church of England. And by...
View Article‘Dear Patrick…’ Words of comfort for clergy who feel forsaken by mutual...
Returning to the Church of England’s gender wars and sexuality skirmishes (which never really went away), the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, who advocates righteous discrimination against...
View ArticleMawer, Percy, and the See of Sheffield: what if Conservative politicians had...
Sir Philip Mawer’s report on the circumstances surrounding the nomination of Bishop Philip North to the See of Sheffield makes interesting reading, in particular what it means for the ‘mutual...
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Wrestling with Scripture? Is it time to transgender our macho theology?
The Rt Rev’d Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool, posed the question of whether the phrases we use to describe biblical exposition are “too macho”. The Rt Rev’d Pete Wilcox, Bishop of Sheffield,...
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“Late ordinand” Sarah Mullally to be next Bishop of London
The long wait is over: the person selected by the Crown Nominations Commission under the guidance of the Holy Spirit to be the next Bishop of London is the Rt Rev’d Sarah Mullally, presently Bishop of...
View ArticleWhen did Transgenderism supplant Anglican orthodoxy as a qualification for...
If you believe that women may not be priests; that Holy Orders are a male preserve; that a woman may not represent Christ at the altar; that ‘woman priest’ is an ontological category error, there is no...
View ArticleWhy a woman may be the next Archbishop of York, but not of Canterbury
His Grace The Most Rev’d and Rt Hon Dr John Sentamu, Lord Archbishop of York, has announced that he will retire from his post on 7th June 2020, three days before his 71st birthday. He said: “I have...
View ArticlePatriarchal pronouns: if we should stop calling God ‘he’, may we call Satan...
The Rev’d Canon Rosie Harper wants to vomit. That’s what she wrote in her article ‘Toxic masculinity: Why we should stop calling God “he”‘. What makes her want to vomit is… well, ‘toxic masculinity’;...
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