Entries categorized as church
Regeneration: Young people and the Church
I would like it better if we could say “Young people ARE the Church.” It’s one of the greatest failings of the biggest institutional churches (and mine is one of the worst at this) that we treat young people as if they are customers, not members. Always being provided for but never being asked to More...
is the institutional Church an out-moded organisational technology?
Come and join me, Kester Brewin, Jonny Baker and Ian Mobsby for a discussion on the future shape of church.
Date: 15th September
Venue: The Betsey Trotwood, 56 Farringdon Road
Time: 7:30pm
Cost: free!
Kester writes: “In the light of the scandals surrounding the Catholic church, and the decline in church attendance over the past decades, has the classic model More...
women priests equated with child abusers…
this is bizarre in the extreme…
more on the story from Andrew Brown
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Mitregate: the follow up
The posts of the last few days have been a tad on the serious side. Thank you for all the comments and thoughts. For a cheering up post, here is a blog, devoted to recording the consecrations of women to the episcopate, which rejoices in the marvellous title Chicks In Pointy Hats.
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women, bishops and synod
Next month sees the proposals drawn up by the revision go back to Synod for its revision stage. The simplest way forward would be a single clause measure, which would enable us to have women in the Episcopate without any discrimination at all. But the revision committee has listened closely and carefully to all points More...
Are you comfortable in church (is it too ‘feminine’)?
The Church Mouse covered the Sorted survey the other day, which suggested that men are ‘less comfortable in Church than in a lingerie department’. Today, Mouse has unearthed some more detail from Christian Research, who organised the survey, and the even more interesting piece of information is that less than half of people who say More...
facebook is a religion?
Mark Meynell writes about “the church of facebook”
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Women submit to your husbands
I missed this story in the Telegraph a few days ago (not my paper of choice) until I read it via The Church Mouse.
Two clergymen in Kent are preaching not only the old chestnut that women should be silent in church and submit to their hubands “because the Bible says so”, but even that divorce More...
The Church and New Media
The conference I was on this week was quite wonderful. The theme was beauty, but around the edge of that a variety of other questions emerged. One of them was a new version of what might sound to some like “an old chestnut” – except that it does genuinely bother people, and is therefore, to More...



