It’s now just over a week since the latest annual statistics for the Church of England were released. They were an example of how even the church finds it difficult not to spin out figures to paint the best possible… Read More ›
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The Church’s biggest crisis?
The declining proportion of the population who identify themselves as ‘Christian’ along with church attendance is in the news yet again today and the numbers don’t look great. When the Church of England’s latest attendance figures were published earlier this month, there… Read More ›
Building bridges: My interview with Justin Lee, founder of the Gay Christian Network (part 2)
This is the second part of the interview I conducted with Justin Lee, the founder and chief executive of the Gay Christian Network in the United States, which has thousands of members and hosts an annual conference. Following on from the… Read More ›
Building bridges: My interview with Justin Lee, founder of the Gay Christian Network (part 1)
Following on from the huge amount of interest generated by last month’s book review of Unconditional: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs-Christians Debate by Justin Lee, I thought it would be a good idea to contact him to ask for an interview…. Read More ›
First Birthday! What I’ve learnt over the last year
Today God and Politics in the UK is one year old! On November 30th 2011 I published my first post on St. Paul’s and the Occupy protests, which you can read here. I have to admit that I had no idea what… Read More ›
Justin Welby – new Archbishop of Canterbury – this is your moment
It’s been officially unofficial over the last couple of days, but the truth is now out; Justin Welby, the Bishop of Durham, will be the new Archbishop of Canterbury. John Ingham and Jonathan Wynne-Jones’ article in the Telegraph finally gives sufficient… Read More ›
He cries, wees and he’s come to save the world. It’s Godbaby(TM)!
I wasn’t expecting to be thinking about Christmas this week, but thanks to ChurchAds.net releasing this year’s Christmas campaign yesterday, I’m probably now thinking about it too much. ChurchAds.Net is an ecumenical network operating with a council of reference which includes a… Read More ›
The Church of England has a lot more to worry about than women bishops
Well it’s been a little over a week now since the Church of England’s General Synod decided not to make a decision on the ordination of women bishops. Until now I’ve managed to restrain myself from wading into this debate. It’s… Read More ›
Advertising Standards Authority admits fundamental flaw in ‘God Can Heal ban’ judgement
On Wednesday the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) published an update on its ruling against Healing on the Streets (HOTS) – Bath. Following a single complaint against the Christian group jointly run by churches in Bath who regularly go onto the… Read More ›
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