"It's not about me, it's what's best for the church," Welby added, days before the gathering of more than 650 global Anglican leaders in Canterbury, England. "I will certainly take advice and if my health is good and people are happy that I'm still there, then I'll still be there."
If Welby remains in office until January 2026, completing about 13 years of service, he will become the longest-serving archbishop of Canterbury in half a century.
Read moreSuch change points to the slippery slope that occurs when a country decides to give its approval to the taking of one's own life -- while lawmakers begin putting many restrictions on the legislation, it isn't long before they seek to loosen or remove those restrictions.
"There would be every prospect that any change in the Suicide Act in this country could lead to similar consequences," Eyre said.
Read moreBut he added that there are now 'complexities associated with gender identity' which a church project about sexuality and relationships is exploring.
The admission, in an official report prepared for the gathering of its governing body this weekend, stirred criticism last night.
It comes despite Anglicanism continuing to oppose same-sex weddings -- and only recently allowing women to be bishops.
Read moreLast week at the annual International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C., The Heritage Foundation hosted a panel titled, "Victims of 'Polite' Persecution: Believers Targeted By Secular Abortion and Gender Activists." One of the panelists was Reverend Dr.
Read moreThe report asks the Church to make amends, indeed to offer 'reparation and redress', for assets it may have accumulated originating from the profits of slavery. Although having to acknowledge that the extent of these holdings is not yet known, it makes much of the investments the Church may have held in pre-1837 slave-owning enterprises. The report has much less to say about the many Anglican clergy at the forefront of the abolitionist cause.
Read moreA RESPONSE TO THE SLAVERY MONUMENT
Sir, Lord Boateng, in his report on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Racial Justice Commission, makes the excellent point that "There is still no national memorial to the victims [of slavery] and those who resisted slavery and this needs to be rectified" ("Church urged to pay for slavery memorial", news, Jun 29).
Read moreSigned by the Most Rev Justin Welby and the Most Rev Stephen Cottrell, the senior leaders, alongside 23 bishops that sit in the House of Lords, criticised the plan for lacking morality.
Writing to the Times, the co-signed letter states: 'Whether or not the first deportation flight leaves Britain today for Rwanda, this policy should shame us as a nation.
Read moreThe weekend's joyous celebrations were hardly the moment to focus on the merits or demerits of Establishment. The question was entirely bypassed by most commentators, amounting to at least tacit endorsement. The Church Times's Platinum Jubilee double issue gave pride of place to a robust defence of Establishment by a leading cleric but allowed not a peep of dissent on the matter across its entire 64 pages.
Read moreThe film suggests that these differences are profound rather than superficial and that they cannot simply be 'covered up'. The film asks whether the way forwards for the Church of England can be built on the idea of 'agreeing to disagree'.
Read moreThat's certainly one way to demonstrate institutional racism.
There once was a time when it was said that the CofE was "the Conservative Party at prayer", those days are long gone.
We now have a hierarchy who look down their noses at Express readers, sneering at us for having the wrong worldview.
As with every public institution, the so-called liberal Left has taken over and implemented their woke agenda.
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