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The Critical Friend

Tim Wyatt

A weekly newsletter about the church - what it's doing right, what's going wrong, and what might happen next - from a churchgoing journalist

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Latest Issues

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Calming the waters

Hello! This week’s newsletter is all about the Church of England’s synod (that’s its governing assembly for the uninitiated) in London this week. First we reflect on Sarah Mullally’s opening address and what it tells us — if anything — abou...

20 days ago
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A question of trust

Hello! Our first story today is about the furore over Soul Survivor Watford, that controversial charismatic evangelical church plant humbled by the revelations in 2023 that its founder and leader Mike Pilavachi was an abuser. Is it right or...

a month ago
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Asking the difficult questions

Hello! Most of the fall-out from the Makin report into the John Smyth abuse scandal focused on the Church of England, its bishops and archbishops, and what they did or didn’t do. But what about conservative evangelicalism, the tradition whi...

a month ago
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Uninspired

Can the C of E fulfil its plan to make recompense for the slave trade, churches as sanctuaries in immigration arguments, and some unedifying parliamentary ping pong

a month ago
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