Tag: Church of England

The Rev. George Conger’s blog site has news that the Church of England in Europe may soon be experiencing the same sort of parish-leave-taking as the Episcopal Church

Hearts were aflutter in the Anglican blogscape on Sunday when The Telegraph ran a story headlined “Church to impose ‘rule book’ of beliefs.” Here at The Lead the newsteam consulted and concluded the breathlessly told story just didn’t add up so we held off passing it on. Thinking Anglicans did too, but now has something concrete to say.

Forward in Faith UK has made its submission to the Women Bishops Legislative Drafting Group of the Church of England General Synod. For some reason,

Of course, what should really happen is that the bishops of the Church of England stop using colleges like this to train its priests. Places such as Wycliffe are turning Anglicanism into a cult. But it’s a symptom of how bad things are in the C of E, and how frightened its bishops have become of the financial muscle of conservative evangelicals, that they won’t find the gumption to cut Wycliffe adrift.

– Giles Fraser, The Guardian

At this time in the life of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion, faced with a faulty view of revelation, false teaching and indiscipline, we believe that it is necessary to set out where we as orthodox Anglicans stand, and to invite others to join us. If Communion is finally broken by some with The Episcopal Church, there will be those in the Church of England who will continue publicly to express their strong support for TEC. This will put many parishes and clergy who are in their charge in impossible situations.

Stephen Bates, religious affairs correspondent for the Guardian writes: The discontent at Wycliffe Hall, an evangelical Anglican college which is part of Oxford University, has

The Church of England’s most senior black cleric Dr John Sentamu warns that if people fail to vote they will be sleepwalking into “a wall of hate”. The advert comes after criticism that he and other bishops in the church may be playing into the hands of extremist parties, by urging the defence of Britain’s ‘Christian culture’.

“Births, deaths and marriages. They’re the only events that get most people in the UK through church doors these days and even that is too

“Canterbury Cathedral, the seat of the Church of England, installed its first female archdeacon in its 1,400-year history yesterday,” reports Agence France-Presse. Before a congregation