(Updated) A Pakistani-born Bishop in the Church of England has written that some areas of Britain have become so dominated by Islam that these areas
It would be unlawful for the General Synod to delegate its decision making powers to the Primates. This therefore means that it could not sign up to a Covenant which purported to give the Primates of the Communion the ability to give ‘direction’ about the course of action that the Church of England should take.
– The Church of England Response to the draft Anglican Communion
There are plans on file to reduce the number of bishop but not the number of dioceses in an attempt to reduce the operating costs of the Church of England. The primary targets are dioceses that have more than three bishops serving them.
Following public criticism, several embarrassing cases resurfacing from the past and a painstaking subsequent review of procedure, the Church of England has published its “model protocol” for handling child protection cases.
(Updated) Saying that Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has “taken people’s identity” and “cut it to pieces,” the Most Rev. John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York,
The Church of England has created free virtual greeting cards which can be sent on with a personalized message to any of the seven million
Drenched in Grace was “A celebration and recovery of the traditional breadth and diversity of Anglicanism. The time has come for us to re-articulate our theological credentials as Anglicans, for whom inclusiveness, acceptance and listening to other points of view and tradition are not optional extras, but central to our Christian identity.”
Andrew Linzey, an Oxford professor, writes that the Church of England has an historic opportunity now that the Prime Minister has decided to pull the government out of the process used to choose British bishops. Prof. Linzey calls for the Church of England to follow the model used by the Episcopal Church and have the laity and clergy of each diocese directly choose their bishops by election.
Earlier this week we had a discussion of the latest Episcopal Church statistics. Now the Church of England is releasing her results from the past
The Church ordained 478 new clergy in 2006, a drop on the 505 ordained in 2005, the highest number since 2002…. Overall, more women (244) than men (234) were ordained in 2006, though the majority of these were ordained to non-stipendiary ministry. Of those ordained to full-time, stipendiary ministry, 128 were men and 95 were women.