Church of England

Should I answer this question honestly? Or at all?

June 27, 2010

Wrestling with our new diocesan ministry review, I was struck by one question: Within the context of your ministry how do you develop a healthy work-life balance? Well, more accurately I was struck by my instinctive answer to it: Look for a secular job, I would guess. I’m not entirely sure that’s what bishops want [...]

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Off with their heads!

June 23, 2010

(This post is one of a sporadic series on the Church of England’s Thirty-nine Articles) I’m vaguely aware that my first blogging anniversary is past and that I want to get to the end of the 39 articles by my summer holiday break. Unfortunately, I’m not at all sure what to make of this next [...]

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Does the BBC “do God” enough or at all?

January 20, 2010

I see that there are background papers (first item under the Wednesday agenda) published for the forthcoming General Synod debate on the way the BBC treats religion (mainly Christianity). I expect that bits of this debate will garner headlines at various intervals between now and the debate. It will, I suspect, do so in part [...]

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The Big Question: in an elderly and inward looking church …

November 28, 2009

… what should you do in the face of a budget deficit? The Diocese of Winchester has the answer: cut the funding for work with students cut two training posts for new clergy cut the communications budget and replace the worker with an adviser cut the funding for the canon missioner Dave Walker notes tonight [...]

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Advent calendars great and small

November 26, 2009

The Church of England is kicking off its online Advent Calendar in style with a launch video from Desmond Tutu, and its own website. You can get thoughts and actions for each day via email or twitter, or simply going to the site. According to the news release, over the season … the Archbishop of [...]

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