“Why are we all belting out a fervent prayer for a second blessing of sinless perfection, in which I imagine precisely none of us believe?” That was the thought that…
Our own denomination, the Church of England (as well as its wider partners across the Anglican Communion), grows increasingly polarised over our response to changing cultural attitudes, so we must…
This week, many will be meeting on the Church Society - Fellowship of Word & Spirit conference "Big Church". Which seems a good moment to tell you about our next…
Melvin Tinker discusses Anglican ecclesiology in his article ‘Refining the Reformers’. This article is in response to a previous one (‘The Anglican Understanding of Church’, Churchman 115/3, 2001), and should…
Developing Discipleship is the first of a number of papers recently published to be discussed at General Synod in February. It has a rather modest aim, namely “to begin a…
How do our church meetings proclaim the gospel story? Of course we want all our words to point to Christ. But what about the shape of the gathering, the liturgy?…
Well, he wasn’t mistaken. I was recently at an Anglican gathering encompassing representatives from all streams of the Church of England, except, perhaps, the most Catholic. As we went around…
As we come to Good Friday, it’s instructive to see the particular theological and devotional emphases that the Prayer Book Collects appointed for the day aim to bring out.
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