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Jeremy Corbyn is crowned Labour leader – it’s the prayer wot won it
Archbishop Cranmer: “Please, Lord, please let Jeremy Corbyn win the Labour Party leadership. Pleeeeeease.” It was a frivolous intercession made in the Prayer Room (at the bottom of the Homepage) on...
View ArticleChartres’ Lambeth Lecture: the Church must be “vision-led and not problem-led”
While the Archbishop of Canterbury pored over the Blogosphere on his iPad (to which he is apparently rather attached), the Bishop of London psyched himself up for the latest Lambeth Lecture: ‘New...
View ArticleThe fight against modern slavery has a new hero
When we consider the way that Christians have been at the forefront of combating the scourge of slavery, the name that quite rightly springs to mind is William Wilberforce. During the latter part of...
View ArticleThe Church of England is not dying – it is regenerating
It’s been well publicised this week that there are one or two Church of England congregations that aren’t exactly bursting at the seams. If you go to a Church of England church and find that you can...
View ArticleLord’s Prayer advert banned by cinemas
Cinemas are private establishments, and so are free to advertise whatever they like and decline to advertise whatever they don’t like. Pearl & Dean dominated cinema advertising in the 1950s-70s,...
View ArticleThe National Secular Society’s vacuous and arrogant stance against the Lord’s...
For decades the Church of England has gained a not entirely undeserved reputation for being a bit wet behind the ears and having all of the subversiveness of a ham and cheese quiche. But now we find...
View ArticleStephen Crabb has no need to be ashamed of his Christian faith
Who could have imagined just 15 years ago at the turn of the century that we would now be living in such unpredictable times? What seems like a permanent cloud of nervousness and instability pervades...
View ArticlePolitical spin and media din: the importance of silence
There’s an awful lot of noise around at the moment. Perhaps there was always a din in the Agora and a racket in the Forum, but they were concerned with important matters of philosophy and polity. Or...
View ArticleThe Queen’s 90th: Happy Birthday, Ma’am
God has saved her and she has lived long. The first two invocations of the National Anthem have been and are still being fulfilled. Her Majesty The Queen’s 90th Birthday is a cause of national...
View ArticleThy Kingdom Come: a week of prayer for confidence to make Jesus known
“Jesus Christ calls every person to follow him. As Christians it’s our duty and joy to share that invitation. That’s why the Archbishops of Canterbury and York are inviting every church in England to...
View ArticleThe Times takes another swipe at the Archbishop of Canterbury
Reasoned criticism of the Church of England is always welcome: as a human institution it boasts of no perfection; as a provisional branch of the Catholic Church it makes no claim to eschatological...
View ArticleWelby: "The best decision anyone can ever make is to be a follower of Jesus...
Back in January, Tim Montgomerie, writing in the Times, vented his frustration with the Archbishop of Canterbury: I remain hopeful that Justin Welby, a “graduate” of HTB and its famous Alpha course,...
View ArticleThe £3.5 billion gift from the churches to our communities
This Friday will see Jake Berry MP’s private member’s Local Government (Religious etc. Observances) Bill go to Committee stage in the House of Lords. Assuming this goes through (and the indications...
View ArticleVoting is a moral obligation, but praying for those in authority is a divine...
On Saturday in The Times, Graham Tomlin, the widely respected principal of St Mellitus Theological College, wrote a profound article on the relationship between the authority of our political leaders...
View ArticlePray and fast for climate change? Is the Church creating disciples of Christ...
The latest session of the General Synod of the Church of England drew to a close in York this week and, absent any debate about women bishops, it failed to set the blood racing. Indeed, until we get...
View ArticleTim Farron's Christian faith becomes an object of media scorn
There are plenty of people who think that you shouldn’t mix faith and politics. For some, such as the National Secular Society, they have made it a mission to keep the two as far apart as possible....
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn's path to power is more plausible than people think
Usually somewhere between three and 30 people avail themselves of the #Amen prayer facility at the bottom of this blog’s Home Page. Since it was installed, the most believers gathered in prayerful...
View Article"God told me to.."
Have you ever had a Christian say to you: “God told me to..”, followed by a directive or (more usually) a subtly coercive exhortation to do something (usually) for them? “God told me to ask you..”;...
View ArticleThe cult of Comrade Corbyn
A cult is a small, unpopular religion. A religion is a large and fashionable cult. When the disesteemed and shunned become desirable and popular, there follows respect, if not dignity and honour. All...
View ArticleElizabeth II becomes our longest-reigning monarch – God Save The Queen!
Today, 9th September 2015, sometime around 5.30pm, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes the longest-reigning monarch in British history, beating the record previously set by her great-great...
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