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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby's statement on the vote to allow women bishops in the Church of England: Today's overwhe...

Wake me when the first woman is ordained bishop in the Church of England. Since the defeat of the motion in General Synod to allow women ...

One wonders if there are any three English bishops out there with the guts to get together and do what the Bishop and the Bishop Coad...

Presiding Bishop Katharine carries her mitre Sometimes those outside see inside more clearly than the insiders.   From Christchurch, ...

  My sympathy to all my friends in the Church of England, especially to women friends and women priest friends. Whenever the next oppor...

Although he's fourth in line behind Christopher Cocksworth, Graham James, and John Sentamu, Giles Fraser likes Bishop of Durham Justin...

Well, Diarmaid MacCullough is our man in a way, as he's a member of the No Anglican Covenant Coalition.  In his latest article in the ...

Let's hope and pray that will not be the case.  The following poem was written by David Booker, a former colleague of themethatisme .  D...

(1) “This isn't, of course, about gender. Perish the Thought.” This assertion is a lie. It is, and it always was. Discriminatory is ...

I have not done a post on the amendments from the Church of England House of Bishops' meeting (all male, of course!) to the legislatio...

Passage of the Anglican Communion Covenant was supposed to be an easy task in England. But then people started reading, marking, learning a...

Read David@Montreal's post at LGBT Vocations about his conversation with a friend in England. Here's a brief quote: When V. calle...

Bishop Alan Wilson said ... I don't know why the English always have to find a more complicated and painful way of doing simple th...

From 'When is a bishop not a bishop?' by Nelson Jones in the New Statesman : The big decision won't be taken until July: this ...

From the BBC : A compromise to try to meet objectors' concerns will be presented by the Manchester Diocesan Synod at a meeting of the C...

Don't blame me. Blame Mr C. In my heart, I can't blame him at all. It's way past time for the misogynistic nonsense to be o...

Andrew Brown in the Guardian : The Church of England's House of Bishops – for which, read the archbishops of Canterbury and York – has...

The Rev Vanessa Herrick is a priest in the Church of England, which is presently engaged in deciding through legislation in General Synod w...

From the Telegraph : A group of influential MPs will tomorrow call for Parliament to intervene over the historic reform as fears grow that t...

From Thinking Anglicans The answers to the questions asked at last month’s meeting of the church of England General Synod are now available....