Something that you might have missed on Monday was a very interesting programme in the This World strand on BBC2 called Battle of the Bishops.
The programme primarily focuses on Archbishop Akinola and some of the other GAFCON during the run up to the conference. There are also contributions from Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark Cathedral [...]

I’ve been quite avidly reading the blog by the Bishop of Buckingham, Alan Wilson, since I came across it a few months back. It’s quite an eclectic mix at times with snapshots from his holidays, pictures of his work around Diocese, and religious comment.
One of the best things about it though is it is quite [...]

Almost eighteen months ago, when we were still helping with the running of the Youth Group, Beth and myself took three of our young people up to Church House in Oxford to participate in the consultation process to choose the new Bishop of Oxford. Although it was never a guarantee, Ian MacDonald the Diocesan Youth [...]

Last Saturday there was an opinion piece in the Guardian that has got a number of people talking.
The general gist of the argument is to lay the charge that falling numbers in the Church are to do with the move from a primarily Matins based service pattern to the weekly Eucharist model that the majority [...]

Last week I posted about the growing media interest in the goings on at St Mary and St Michael in Trumpington.
The Church Times this week carries a more detailed report, which gives a bit more insight into what is going on. Tom Ambrose, the vicar at the centre of the arguments is quoted as saying [...]

In all the recent goings on in the Anglican Communion, the obvious crunch point has always been the Lambeth Conference in 2008. Every ten years all the Bishops of the Anglican Communion from all over the world get together, ironically not in Lambeth but at the University of Kent in Canterbury. However who attends is [...]

Usually when you get a communication from the Bishop to the people of the Diocese, it’s in the form of a letter, one that quite often gets read out at the main Sunday service in amongst the notices. The new Bishop of Oxford, John Pritchard seems to be trying something a bit different, with a [...]

So as of the APCM yesterday, I am Churchwarden designate of St James.
It came about as a result of the Churchwardens Measure 2001 which set a limit on the time in office of a Churchwarden to six years, in 2008 both of our current Churchwarden’s – one of whom has been in post for eight [...]

You may have heard that the Anglican Primate of Canada is due to retire following the meeting of the Canadian General Synod in June. Unlike the Church of England, the new primate will be democratically elected by the clergy and laity in the General Synod from a short list of candidates drawn up by the [...]

A few weeks ago I commented on the brewing row over the meaning of Easter caused by an upcoming talk by the controversial Dean of St Albans, Jeffrey John. Subsequently John has responded to the criticism through the Church Times, and Bishop Tom Wright has produced an extensive article expressing why his original criticisms were [...]

This news story raised a smile. Apparently the producers of Celebrity Big Brother contacted the office of the Archbishop of York to ask whether John Sentamu would be willing to appear on the show.
It is perhaps a mark of quite how much he has registered with the public over the year since he was installed [...]

The Province of Central Africa tries to un-elect the new Bishop elect of Lake Malawi.