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The Ugley Vicar (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is a little-understood feature of Anglican theology that the relationship between the Church of England and the Queen is not entirely unique. This is because the principle that the Queen is the Church’s ‘Supreme Governor’ depends not on the nature of the Church of England, but on the nature of the Queen’s rule . Article 37 deserves careful...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | yesterday
It is a little-understood feature of Anglican theology that the relationship between the Church of England and the Queen is not entirely unique. This is because the principle that the Queen is the Church’s ‘Supreme Governor’ depends not on the nature of the Church of England, but on the nature of the Queen’s rule. Article 37 [...]
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | yesterday
Vicarturnedauthor Rev G P Taylor says he will desert the "sinking ship" Church of England which he said was the "spiritual arm of New Labour" for Roman Catholicism.
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
VICAR-turned-author GP Taylor says he is deserting the "sinking ship" of the Church of England, which he described as the "spiritual arm of New Labour".
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the GATHERING and elsewhere (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
It does feel as if Society and Ministry have changed quite dramatically in the very brief time since my time at college. As if everybody would still be talking about The Matrix and Losing My Religion... I thought Mission-Shaped Church...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | yesterday
... I left, I wondered what this was doing to the faithful people in the pews. To me it showed how the Church of England had sunk into a liberal pit that was no earthly use and offered no hope, no love and no grace. It was going through the motions of faith and was largely irrelevant to the people it once thought it served. In all my years as a Christian and as a priest, I never thought...
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furtherandfaster (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
If the population were ever to lose their powers of speech there would be various unpredictable consequences. One would be that immediately the Church of England would cease to exist. The core of the church is not its church buildings...
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eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Church Times SWINE-FLU precautions should be maintained, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have told the Bishops. New government evidence had shown that nearly a third of all children could catch the virus. Dioceses that have resumed use of the common cup and the sign of Peace at holy communion have said that they will review their [...]
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eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I was just running through the headlines for the Church of England today, here is a sample:- Church of England considers cutting pension benefits for clergy after equities bet – The Church of England is considering cutting the rate at which members of its current pension scheme for clergy accrues benefits, it was [...]
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Ekklesia (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Church of England's pension scheme succumbed to the "cult of equity" and sank 100 per cent of its investments into stocks towards the end of the 1990s bull market, a number of newspapers are suggesting.
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Ekklesia (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Church of England has used a meeting of global faith leaders and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to launch an environmental strategy for the next seven years.
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VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Church of England squandered clergy pensions in 'reckless' stock market gamble By Steve Doughty The Daily Mail http://tinyurl.com/yf38njf November 4, 2009 The Church of England was accused today of squandering its clergy pensions through reckless betting on the stock market. Its deepening crisis over how to pay the pensions for retired vicars is 'largely self-inflicted',...
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VirtueOnline (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
SWEDEN: Lutheran decision on same-sex marriage draws flak from Africa, England By Trevor Gundy and Fredrick Nzwili, Ecumenical News International, London/Nairobi October 26, 2009 A decision by the (Lutheran) Church of Sweden to allow same-sex marriages to be celebrated in churches has been criticized by Lutheran churches in Africa and also by the (Anglican)...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By Ruth Gledhill, Timesonline Anglican clergy are to be asked to work until the age of 68 to rescue the Church of England from a multimillion-pound pensions shortfall after the credit crunch left a “huge great hole” in a scheme created in 1998. The increased longevity of the clergy, combined with greater regulation and the credit crunch, [...]
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Money Outlook (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Anglican clergy are to be asked to work until the age of 68 to rescue the Church of England from a multimillion-pound pensions shortfall after the credit crunch left a “huge great hole” in a scheme created in 1998.
