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Conservative evangelicals set up rival Anglicans structure
The Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, meeting in London, say they’ll offer alternative spiritual leadership to dissaffected members of the Church of England. They also want an alternative to the Archbishop of Canterbury as chairman of the Anglican primates meeting. Is this a way of keeping the Anglican communion together or splitting it asunder? The Sunday […]
The Church in Wales Governing Body
The Governing Body (GB) of the Church in Wales, similar to the General Synod of the Church of England, met in Llandudno on the 18th and 19th April. I was there for the Church Times and produced a number of reports, including: Church seeks Welsh-speakers to fill language gap THE Governing Body (GB) of the Church […]
Church response to rising youth unemployment
Gavin Drake reports on what practical steps churches can offer to the young unemployed in the week that new figures show a rise in the number of young out of work. The Sunday Programme, BBC Radio 4
Climate threat to Britain’s ancient buildings
A combination of the prolonged spells of extremely cold weather during the winters of 2009/10 and 2010/11; and the recent dry summers is posing a significant risk to the nation’s historic buildings. The church of St John the Baptist has stood for around 1,000 years in Woodhurst, near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire, but last week part […]
Pupils escape Lichfield Close blaze
An exploding laptop is being blamed for a fire that tore through a historic part of Lichfield Cathedral School, although the Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service says that investigations into the cause of the blaze are continuing. More than 200 children, aged between eight and 12, were moved to safety after the fire broke out […]
Yorkshire diocese hosts international inter-faith dialogue
The diocese of Wakefield arranged a visit to Britain for a group of religious leaders and law enforcement officials from an area of pakistan where nine Christians were killed in Muslim-led riots. Our reporter Gavin Drake spent the day with them in Yorkshire. The Sunday Programme, BBC Radio 4
Judgment by employment tribunal upholds clergy office-holder status
The chairman of the House of Clergy in the diocese of Worcester, Canon Stuart Currie, has welcomed a judgment by the Birmingham employment tribunal that clergy are office-holders rather than employees. The Employment Judge, Alan McCarry, made the ruling after a claim brought by the former Rector of Teme Valley South, near Tenbury Wells, the […]
Clergy can join new association
The country’s largest union, Unite, announced the launch of the Church of England Clergy Association (CECA) on Monday. Despite four years of talks with the House of Clergy, however, it has received only a cautious welcome. In 2008, the General Synod’s House of Clergy established a working group to explore the establishment of a body […]
The Church of England General Synod
The General Synod of the Church of England met in London, at Church House, Westminster, from the 6th to the 9th February. I was there alongside CT assistant editor Glyn Paflin and staff and freelance writers Ed Thornton, Madeleine Davies and Margaret Duggan. Together we produced a 12-page special report for the General Synod Digest, a […]