The Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, the Rt Revd Martin Seeley, will retire on 28 February 2025. He will be 70 on 29 May 2024, but has given an extension by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The CNC meetings to choose a successor will be held on 4 March 2025 and 28-29 April 2025. So far […] The post Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich to retire first appeared on Thinking Anglicans ..read more

Hatty Calbus Surviving Church HTB: Extraordinary Influence Charlie Bell ViaMedia.News Time to be Civil about Marriage Stephen Andrews The Living Church Thoughts on Church Scandal Yin-An Chen ViaMedia.News The Majority or the Minority? A Rhetorical Question The post Opinion – 4 May 2024 first appeared on Thinking Anglicans ..read more

The Rt Revd John Inge, the Bishop of Worcester since 2008, has announced that he will retire on 9 October 2024. Details are on the diocesan website. The post Bishop of Worcester announces his retirement first appeared on Thinking Anglicans ..read more

The Archdeacon of Auckland, Rick Simpson, gave written evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee, which provides the detailed facts concerning baptisms of refugees or asylum seekers in Darlington. Read his evidence in full here (dated 5 April). The Church Times reports on this: Archdeacon of Auckland rejects claims of ‘conveyor-belt’ conversions  …In Febuary, the Home Affairs Committee […] The post Asylum seeker “conveyor belt” baptism claims refuted first appeared on Thinking Anglicans ..read more

The National Redress Scheme is for survivors and victims of Church-related abuse. See here for links to earlier press releases about this. Details of the proposed financial award framework for the Church of England’s national Redress Scheme have now been published. If approved, the framework would be used to calculate offers of financial redress to […] The post National Redress Scheme: financial award proposals published first appeared on Thinking Anglicans ..read more

Colin Coward Unadulterated Love Transformational Christian Life Judith Maltby ViaMedia.News Safeguarding & Living in Love and Faith: Learning for the Church of England from the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse & Lessons Learned Reviews [This is the paper referred to in the comments to last Saturday’s Opinion piece.] Justin Humphreys/Ian Paul Psephizo Can safeguarding […] The post Opinion – 27 April 2024 first appeared on Thinking Anglicans ..read more

Press release from the Prime Minister’s Office Appointment of Dean of Lincoln: 23 April 2024 The King has approved the nomination of The Reverend Canon Dr Simon Jones, Chaplain and Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, to be appointed as Dean of Lincoln. From: Prime Minister’s Office, 10 Downing Street and The Rt Hon Rishi Sunak […] The post Dean of Lincoln first appeared on Thinking Anglicans ..read more

Helen King sharedconversations Jesus is coming, look busy: onwards with Living in Love and Faith? Neil Elliot NumbersMatters Is yours an Easter or a Christmas Church? Harriet Symonds The House Scrolls of Doom: Why Gen Z is shunning the church Christopher Landau Psephizo What is the place of charismatic theology after Mike Pilavachi? Christopher Landau Church […] The post Opinion – 20 April 2024 first appeared on Thinking Anglicans ..read more

Church of England press release Independent co-chair for safeguarding Response Group appointed Lesley-Anne Ryder, an experienced CEO and chair who has worked in national and local government and the health and charity sectors, has been appointed the independent co-chair of the Response Group looking at two important reports on independence and safeguarding in the Church […] The post Co-chair named for Wilkinson Jay response group first appeared on Thinking Anglicans ..read more

Helen King sharedconversations Not the Usual Suspects Surviving Soul Survivor Lee Coley Church Times State support is needed to keep churches open “The Government is unlikely to release funds unless parishes show how vital buildings are to communities” The post Opinion – 13 April 2024 first appeared on Thinking Anglicans ..read more