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Ungoverned and unsealed
Hello! It’s good to be back after a couple of weeks of holiday. Today’s newsletter picks up two more interesting snippets from the Church of England’s General Synod meeting last month I didn’t have time to mention before. The first is the c...
Constructive ambiguity
Hello! Over the past weekend a few hundred Anglicans gathered as they always do in July at the University of York for the summer session of the Church of England’s governing assembly, the General Synod. They talked about a lot of stuff, but...
Into the long grass
Hello! We begin this week with a long-awaited debate within global Anglicanism about some fairly mild reforms to try and stave off schism. But, suffice to say, they didn’t exactly grasp the nettle on this one.
Then we figure out why progr...
The devil is in the detail
Could evangelical churches really get criminalised in the conversion therapy ban, the Church of Ireland faces a belated reckoning over abuse, and some people still really don't like Project Spire
Hello! The government has set out how it wa...
We are profoundly sorry
The C of E repents for more historical sins, more number crunching for trainee vicars, and a Christian climate sceptic billionaire's donations come under scrutiny
Hello! Our first story this week is about the apology recently made by the C...
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