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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."

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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.

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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.

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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"?

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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.

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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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February 19 2023 By dvirtue C of E Evangelicals in watershed fight for own bishops, structures and training

He continued: 'One of the big surprises for me at General Synod was to hear the Archbishop of York talk about the need for conversations with conservatives, talk of a settlement, talk of pastoral provision -- I hadn't expected to hear that. I think it's a significant move forward that the need for differentiation was acknowledged by the Archbishop of York and I think also the Bishop of London. I am looking forward to having the conversations the Archbishop has said now need to take place.

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, February 18 2023 By dvirtue The Archbishop of Canterbury misrepresented his "summons" by MPs, a former minister has claimed

Speaking to members of the Anglican Communion in Accra, Ghana, where he is still visiting, he said that he was twice summoned to Parliament over the issue as he blamed rising secularism for triggering the historic debate at General Synod, the Church's legislative body, on the new blessings.

He also warned that the church should not be "dictated to", "blackmailed" or "bribed" over the issue.

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February 13 2023 By dvirtue Archbishop of Canterbury claims he was 'threatened by MPs' in an attempt to 'force same-sex marriage' into the Church of England

The archbishop's comments came after the Church of England's legislative assembly, General Synod, passed a motion to allow the blessing of same-sex couples in civil partnerships earlier this month.

In his presidential address to the 18th plenary of the ACC, Mr Welby said that 'rules about sexuality in the Church of England' have been tabled for discussion as a 'result' of growing atheism in the UK.

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