The church has failed to capitalise on its tally of advantages, and people are now cynical about the organisation. By Andrew Brown, Guardian Online. 19 May 2013

Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill Commons Report and Third Reading Briefing. CofE Website, 19 May 2013

Tory rebellion on amendment to grant civil partnerships to heterosexual couples will 'cost ﾣ4bn and take two years' Guardian Online, 19 May 2013

John Martin reviews Andrew Goddard's timely memoire of the Archiepiscopate of Rowan Williams

Andrew Goddard offers a positive assessment of the recent FAOC document

A comment on the most controversial funeral of the century.......

In the newsfeed, a column by Andrew Brown idly speculates about the reasons for the "decline of" the Church of England. If this sort of argument is not merely hateful it is naive. There is "decline in" every great and enduring institution in a living society. People die, needs...

...Faith... unites the soul with Christ as a bride is united with her bridegroom. By this mystery, as the Apostle teaches, Christ and the soul become one flesh [Ephesians 5:31-32]. And if they are one flesh and there is between them a true marriage... it follows that everything they have they hol...

The journey of contemplation needs, I suspect, to keep its feet on the ground.  All temptation to assail holy ground over piously and unreflectingly should be resisted.  The Book of Ecclesiastes (Koheleth) cuts us down to size. In Chapter 3:20-2 we read, 'All go to one place; al...