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Five per cent of churches under threat of closure in next five years, NCT survey suggests
FIVE per cent of the respondents to the latest National Churches Trust (NCT) survey say that their church will either “definitely” or “probably” be closed as a place of worship by 2030.The findings of the survey of 3628…
Mike Pilavachi loses MBE
THE founder of Soul Survivor, Mike Pilavachi, has been stripped of his MBE for “bringing the honours system into disrepute”, a government notice has confirmed. Mr Pilavachi, whose abuse of power was found by an independent…
Murder Before Evensong and Riot Women
I RECEIVED a copy of the book Murder Before Evensong by Richard Coles (Books, 24 June 2022) as an ordination gift, and was unsure whether I was supposed to find it inspiring or merely entertaining. Happily, the new TV…
Sunday, AntiSocial, and 20th Century Radicals
THE Canterbury Cathedral graffiti imbroglio (News, Viewpoint, 17 October) seemed to misalign BBC producers’ instincts for finding balance in a debate. Even Sunday (Radio 4) pitted two arty spikes against one another, in the…
IICSA recommendations ‘largely unimplemented’ three years on, says panel member
THREE years to the day since the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) published its final recommendations, a new campaign has been launched to address the “growing government inaction and unacceptably slow…
Instruments of Communion are needed to repair divisions, says Bishop Poggo
DIVISIONS among Anglicans, while not new, “require urgent attention and repair”, the secretary-general of the Anglican Consultative Council, the Rt Revd Anthony Poggo, has said.He was responding to the chairman of Gafcon’s…
Gafcon declaration on ‘Global Anglican Communion’ took shape in Sydney
THE statement from Gafcon that it had “reset” the Anglican Communion was developed at a meeting in Sydney last week, it has been revealed. In an interview posted on the website of the conservative Sydney organisation the…
Sunday's readings: Last Sunday after Trinity
Proper 25: Jeremiah 14.7-10, 19-end; Psalm 84.1-7; 2 Timothy 4.6-8, 16-18 LUKE draws the moral from this parable before he tells it: Jesus challenges people who consider themselves righteous, but whose righteousness consists…
Gafcon letter declares that it is the Communion now, minus Canterbury and all related ‘Instruments’
GAFCON is “now the Global Anglican Communion”, the chairman of the group’s Primates Council, the Archbishop of Rwanda, Dr Laurent Mbanda, has declared. In a letter to supporters on Thursday, Dr Mbanda wrote that the Gafcon…
Campaigners for same-sex marriage react with dismay and sadness to C of E House of Bishops decision
ADVOCATES of “full inclusion” of LGBTQ+ people in the Church have reacted with dismay to the House of Bishops’ decision that stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples and the reconsideration of rules that bar the…
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