Today, churches around the world will gear up for Maundy Thursday meals and services. The word maundy derives from the Latin mandatum and references the mandatum novum (new
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By all means change your doctrine, but don’t you dare change the chairs!
The Church of England is a funny old fellow. No sooner had the debacle on blessing same-sex marriages died down a little does an even
A true gospel vision must start by welcoming all people from anywhere
I’ve written recently about the problem of comfortable, middle class Christians refusing to move to those areas that are perhaps deemed less salubrious. You can
Either CofE clergy are the only honest ones or they are most fundamentally out of touch
It’s not for me to pontificate on the Church of England’s woes. Nonetheless, I suspect Cranmer is right when he stated: You know that church
What does it actually mean to believe in the sufficiency of scripture?
Before we can begin looking at the doctrine of scriptural sufficiency, it would help to work out what it actually is. Let’s be clear from the
Ministries essential to the church: when no ministry might be better
What ministries and roles are so fundamentally important to the church that, were we to do away with them, it would cease to function? Our