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March 13 2023 By dvirtue Queer theology may sink the Church of England, British Monarchy and the Commonwealth

It would be tempting to regard the issue of same-sex blessing as an internal quarrel within just the Church of England. But the decision goes beyond the walls of the Church and the nation to shake the foundations of the British Commonwealth and the monarchy, which since the time of Henry VIII has been seen as the defender of the Christian faith, with the state as the supporter of the Christian religion as expressed in Anglicanism.

March 10 2023 By dvirtue ALL SOULS LANGHAM PLACE ISSUES LETTER TO LONDON BISHOP

At a very practical level these materials undermine the Biblical call to discipleship: a call to put aside one's self in a desire to live in response to all that our Lord Jesus has done for us. This is particularly true for many in our church family who have chosen to abstain from sex outside marriage, regardless of their sexuality.

March 08 2023 By dvirtue Death Comes for the C. of E.

Little wonder that, when King Charles III visited the United States in 2007, he boycotted TEC. During one reception, a layman said to him, “I would have thought that as the head of the Church of England, the parent church of the Anglican Communion, Your Royal Highness would have attended services at the Episcopal Cathedral.”

Charles wagged his finger “in a scolding manner” and said, “You know very, very well why I cannot worship in an Episcopal Church.”

March 07 2023 By dvirtue The Church of England and the chaplain who dared to speak the truth

But every now and then the Church says, "No!"

The Rev Bernard Randall is one such case. He was disciplined in his former job as a school chaplain for preaching a sermon that encouraged "a reasoned debate between beliefs", but gave permission for students to question "the ideologies of LGBTI activists". He was later made redundant.

March 03 2023 By dvirtue CHAPLAIN SACKED FOR IDENTITY POLITICS SERMON TO APPEAL RULING

Bernard, who is a former chaplain at Christ's College Cambridge, had been 'alarmed' when at the start of the school year in 2018, Trent College in Nottinghamshire, which has a 'Protestant and Evangelical' CofE ethos, invited radical and extreme LGBT group Educate & Celebrate (E&C) into the school.

During staff training, E&C's leader, Elly Barnes, had encouraged staff to chant "smash heteronormativity."

March 02 2023 By dvirtue BISHOP COCKSWORTH'S STARTLING ADMISSIONS

Secondly, he confirms what many have long suspected -- that the bishops, working together, are "collegiate" in that they seek to act en masse and indeed often seem to have collective groupthink, but are, nonetheless, dysfunctional. After the draft prayers were published "it soon became clear that different bishops had, after all, different understandings of what was being provided," he states.

March 02 2023 By dvirtue UNBELIEVABLE!

They make horrific reading, most of all for the survivors of abuse within the Church of England. And they come as the Makin Report by the Church into the abuse of John Smyth shamefully passes more than 1,000 days overdue.

The SCIE report analyses the policies and culture of safeguarding that exists at Lambeth Palace - which is recognised to be both the residence and workplace of the Archbishop of Canterbury.

February 23 2023 By dvirtue Church of England Considers 'Gender-neutral God'

What are Anglicans--and Roman Catholics, and fellow Christians in other communions--to make of this? Or of the idea of "rewriting of scriptures"?

February 21 2023 By dvirtue Anglicans reject Justin Welby as head of global church amid anger at same-sex blessings

Their decision stems from the decision this month of the Church of England's governing body, the General Synod, to allow clergy to bless couples in same-sex marriages.

The conservative Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA), which claims to speak for 75% of Anglicans worldwide, said in a statement on Monday that the C of E had "departed from the historic faith" and disqualified itself as the "mother church" of the Anglican communion.

February 20 2023 By dvirtue WHY NEW GRASSROOTS NETWORK ANGLICAN ORTHODOX IS NEEDED

As a vicar, I won't be conducting 'gay blessings'. But I'm not confident any existing group will provide the practical, ongoing, robust, public support I'll need when -- and it's when, not if -- I'm targeted.

Last summer, as a PR consultant, I gave the orthodox Primates of the Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA) attending the Lambeth Conference a 'voice', via the national and international media.

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