Tag: Church of England

The Rt. Rev. Alan Wilson, the Bishop of Buckingham, joined the congregation of St Laurence Church in Winslow, south of London, for a celebration and

There is a legal case in the courts of Britain that, depending on the decision, could have the effect of allowing clergy in Britain to unionize. Up until now, the custom has been to say that clergy are employed directly by God and therefore exempt from existing employment law. Depending on the way the court decides, its decision could, by implication, allow clergy to claim otherwise.

In England gangs of thieves are making off with the roofs of Churches which are often made of lead because scrap metal brings in a lot of money. Many parishes would like to replace them with cheaper, less valuable material but are prevented by rules governing historic churches in Britain.

The advice represents a sudden drop in enthusiasm for exterior lighting, which peaked in 2000 when the Millennium Commission awarded £2.3million of lottery money to the Church Floodlighting Trust.

A. C. Grayling writes: When Labour cabinet members were asked about their religious allegiances last December, following Tony Blair’s official conversion to Roman Catholicism, it

Bishops in the Church of England have published a letter in response to concerns raised by a number of Anglo-Catholics there who strongly object to

Like Mr Rochester’s first wife, the misogyny and homophobia of the Church of England’s factions keep leaping out of the attic to scare off decent folk, writes Stephen Bates. Desperate in its search for relevance, the Established Church could not have chosen two issues more likely to make it appear institutionally decrepit among those it wishes to proselytise than its perceived discrimination against women and gay people.