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  • February 22, 2015
    The bishops' letter: a 'voice above the roar of the guns'

    The response of many politicians to the Bishops' general election letter leaves us all with questions to answer, says Jill Segger. She asks if we are ready to meet the challenge of a vision beyond polemic and party interest.

  • October 1, 2014
    Church must change on equality issues, says bishop

    The Anglican Bishop of Manchester says that the Church can "be on the right side of equality issues", after years struggling with them.

  • September 9, 2014
    LGBTI Anglican Coalition supports Church of England's Shared Conversations

    The College of Bishops of the Church of England will meet for two days from 15 to 17 September to continue the process of Shared Conversations on Sexuality, Scripture and Mission.

  • February 24, 2014
    Bishops face searching questions on same-sex marriage guidance

    In an open letter, the LGBTI Anglican Coalition has asked the Church of England’s House of Bishops some searching questions regarding Pastoral Guidance on Same Sex Marriage. Criticism of the bishops’ guidance, which ruled out clergy being married same-sex partners and services of blessing, has been widespread.

  • February 23, 2014
    Ideology, destitution and hope: a challenge to David Cameron

    Twenty-seven Anglican bishops, a Cardinal, an assortment of non-conformists and Quakers may have a ring of Edward Lear, but this coalition represents a growing momentum of faith-based anger and condemnation of the government's 'reform' of social security (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/20200)

  • January 9, 2013
    Much ado about bishops: time for a more humane dispensation?

    There has been much ado about bishops of late. First, the Church of England's House of Laity rejected the consecration of women, to the consternation of a majority in their own communion and the incredulity of wider society. Then the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster soured the Nativity season - perhaps the tenderest of all our celebrations of the mysteries of faith - with negativity about same sex love and marriage.

  • June 22, 2012
    Bishops and the latest Lords expenses row
  • November 20, 2011
    Welfare reform, impiety and the ruin of the state

    “A dog starved at his master's gate, predicts the ruin of the state”. These lines from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence go beyond the obvious cruelty they describe. They remind us of the destruction which follows when power abdicates responsibility, care and compassion.

  • February 2, 2011
    Bishops, AV and a depressing dose of 'naysaying'

    A very interesting debate has been going on about the Alternative Vote in the last 24 hours, since ten Church of England bishops (three of them retired) came out in support of an empowering reform of the system at the upcoming referendum on 5 May 2011.

  • July 25, 2008
    Marching to a different drum?

    When Anglican bishops attending the Lambeth Conference took part in an anti-poverty walk with other faith leaders through central London, they traced steps that vividly illustrate the real divisions of our world, says Savi Hensman.