Gavin Drake reports from this week’s meeting of the Church of England’s General Synod where issues around Women Bishops were debated. The Sunday Programme, BBC Radio 4
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Dr Williams issues warning on Nigeria
Nigeria is “at risk of disintegration” after the recent attacks on Christians, the Archbishop of Canterbury said this week. Dr Williams, speaking in an emergency debate in the General Synod on Wednesday, said that the situation in Nigeria was “not a few issues of interfaith conflict, but the threatened disintegration of a society”. Church Times
First anniversary of the Ordinariate
A church service on Sunday will celebrate the first anniversary of the founding of the Anglican Ordinariate. Gavin Drake looks back at its first year and investigates whether it has a future The Sunday Programme, BBC Radio 4
Happy Birthday to the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
The Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham – Pope Benedict’s structure to provide a space for former Anglicans in the Roman Catholic Church, is one year old tomorrow. I’ll be reporting for BBC Radio Four’s Sunday Programme, looking back at the Ordinariate’s past year and looking forward to its future. You can hear the […]
My blog in 2011 – a summary
Most of this will be meaningless, as I’ve deleted all the posts from last year to comply with neutrality of reporters required by some of my clients; but it is interesting (to me at least) none-the-less. Last year, the most popular search terms which brought people to my blog via search engines were: Gavin Drake […]
New front in Israeli / Palestinian conflict opens up in Britain’s system of advertising regulation
Last week, Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority released its latest adjudication on an advert by the Israeli Government Tourist Office in London. The advert featured the feeding of the five thousand and the authority ruled that it was not misleading or offensive for the national press and magazine advert to say “the masses have always been […]
The all-new singing and dancing Gavin Drake blog
Welcome to my new blog! Actually, it is my old blog, but without the old content. Having moved back into news journalism it is no longer appropriate to maintain a blog in which I espouse my opinions, thoughts and prejudices. Not least, because some of my clients don’t like their freelance (or in house) journalists […]
Rector loses employment tribunal case
A former Church of England Rector has today lost his employment tribunal claim against the bishop and diocese of Worcester. The Revd Mark Sharpe, former Rector of the Teme Valley South benefice near Tenbury Wells, alleged that the bishop and diocese had failed to protect him from parishioners in his “toxic parish”. He claimed a […]
Council and councillor join battle in court over prayers
The practice of saying prayers at the start of council meetings is akin to councillors’ reading pornographic or racist material, lawyers for the National Secular Society (NSS) told the High Court last Friday. The NSS and the former Bideford town councillor Clive Bone brought judicial-review proceedings against Bideford Town Council after councillors there twice rejected […]
Judge must decide on priests’ employment status
A former rector, the Revd Mark Sharpe, will have to wait up to three months before he finds out whether he can bring a case of constructive dismissal against the Bishop and diocese of Worcester. The chairman of an employment tribunal, A. J. McCarry, told Mr Sharpe at the end of a five-day preliminary hearing […]