Adam Gaunt reports on the February 2023 General Synod, and it wasn’t all about LLF Inevitably, the lengthy debates and discussions around the Living in Love and Faith (LLF) process have dominated reports from this February’s General Synod meeting; [...]
Thurifer visits General Synod The tea rooms were empty. The debating chamber was full. That could mean only one thing. The General Synod was debating sex. And gay sex at that. The debate over the blessing of and prayers [...]
Archbishop of York Stephen Cottrell recaps on his words to General Synod during the LLF debate We live in a culture and inherit a history where disagreement usually leads to division, division to conflict, and conflict to schism. I’m [...]
Emma Joy Gregory commends two General Synod Catholic Group figures as they step down from their roles Mary Nagel has been a member of the General Synod since 1990. Back then, the experience of General Synod meetings was quite [...]
Hot on the heels of a full nave in York Minster for the consecration of Stephen Race as the Bishop of Beverley, with the Bishop of Wakefield acting as the Principal Consecrator and the Bishop of Chichester preaching, we have [...]
Andy Hawes Being a Minority It is official; Christians are now a minority in England and Wales. The number of those who practise their faith is a very small number indeed. In my experience, organisations that have a [...]
Leslie Griffiths writes on a day for remembering I’m writing this on January 21st, on the fiftieth anniversary of my ordination, and find myself happy to spend the beginning of the day with my friends in the Forward in [...]
John Gayford gives a critical review of his life and his legend Pope Pius X was venerated in his own life time and he was canonised in 1954 by Pope Pius XII when great crowds came to cheer for [...]
In examining snobbery, accent and education, Tony Hodgson wonders about the Church of England In August the successful and acclaimed production of My Fair Lady reached the end of its London run at the Coliseum. Fittingly, the June edition [...]
Grace and Incarnation The Oxford Movement’s Shaping of the Character of Modern Anglicanism Bruce D. Griffith with Jason R. Radcliff James Clarke & Co, 2022 ISBN 9780227177884 If the Anglo-Catholic Movement is seen today as one of bells, smells, [...]