by Sean Reilly | Sep 6, 2008
As holidays for many people end and the northern hemisphere winter approaches after a wet summer, Monday mornings can be difficult. To boost morale and ease the Monday blues, the Church of England offered early morning commuters on 1 September a prayer published in...
by Sean Reilly | Aug 26, 2008
The famous biblical story of creation, echoed in the prologue to John’s Gospel, famously contains the divine injunction, “Let there be light.” But the Church of England says that in an age of eco-responsibility, a little less light might be...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 27, 2008
The 68 million strong Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has welcomed the recent decision by the Church of England General Synod to consecrate women as bishops, for its potential to enrich the life of the Church and in particular “for its immediate consequences in...
by Sean Reilly | Jul 8, 2008
Emotional scenes greeted the decision this evening by the General Synod of the Church of England, its governing body, to confirm the Church’s intention to consecrate women as bishops – a historic move which follows the decision to ordain women as priests in 1994....
by Sean Reilly | Jun 20, 2008
The Charity Commission, the independent British charity regulator, and researchers at the Von Hugel Institute in Cambridge, have disagreed over the findings of a new report commissioned by the Church of England on the role of faith in social welfare. Writing in The...