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Recommended website of the week: Opinionated Vicar
I haven’t done this feature recently, but I’ve been meaning to give this blog a plug for a long time. Opinionated Vicar is one of the longest running UK Christian blogs that I know of, but it’s owner,...
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Poll suggests more Anglicans don’t believe in God than take their faith...
Back in February of last year, Richard Dawkins decided he was going to have a public rant about the number of people who call themselves Christians but don’t go to church. Ipsos MORI had carried out...
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The Church’s biggest crisis?
The declining proportion of the population who identify themselves as ‘Christian’ along with church attendance is in the news yet again today and the numbers don’t look great. When the Church of...
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Has the Church of Scotland voted to allow actively gay ministers or not?
The Church is often accused of being obsessed with sex (or at least a dislike of it under certain circumstances) and it’s not too hard to see why. Yesterday’s news was filled with the gay marriage...
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Why Tim Montgomerie is wrong and the Bishop of Leicester is right
Following on from the Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech in the House of Lords during the debate on same-sex marriage and the subsequent statement by the Bishop of Leicester, there appears to be a...
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36% of children don’t know whose birthday is celebrated at Christmas-time for...
I’m not really in the mood for Christmas yet, but thanks to ChurchAds.net launching their new Christmas advertising campaign this week I’ve ended up thinking about it a bit too much over the last...
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Just how compatible are feminism, Christianity and women becoming bishops?
One of the more interesting developments over the summer in the blogosphere was the launch of Vicky Beeching’s Faith in Feminism website. The point of the site is to ‘tackle the themes of religion and...
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Are faith schools really ‘selecting wealthy pupils by the back door’?
It’s not entirely surprising that alongside the start of this new academic year there has been another bust-up over the role of faith schools, their admissions policies and whether they should exist at...
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Since when did the Church of England decide to curl up in the corner and wait...
Last night some bizarre rumours began to circulate on Twitter. Apparently the Church of England had announced that this country had become so clueless about Christianity that there is no point trying...
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The C of E goes looking for ‘God-doing’ at the party conferences – and comes...
Today’s post is written by Richard Chapman who is the Church of England’s head of parliamentary affairs. He spends most of his time in Westminster working closely with MPs and peers in the House of...
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Prince George –‘In baptism God calls us out of darkness into his marvellous...
Today’s baptism of Prince George in the intimate setting of the Chapel Royal at St. James’s Palace marks another important step in the life of the future king. Even though only close family and...
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Has Justin Welby become the nation’s conscience personified?
The Archbishop of Canterbury isn’t exactly struggling to get the press to notice him at the moment. Of course it always helps to have a royal christening to preside over to gain a decent amount of...
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Time for the Church to recover a vision of society transformed
Despite my best efforts, I usually find it hard to get excited about the workings of the Church of England’s General Synod. Mostly there is a feeling of frustration with the focus on internal...
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Can local religion revive local communities?
Today’s guest writer is Dr Chris Baker. He is Director of Research at the William Temple Foundation, an independent faith-based research institution working to advance the vision of William Temple...
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The Church of England still needs to wake up and smell the coffee over church...
The history of technology companies is littered with casualties and failures. During my childhood, my friends and I played on Atari consoles and began programming on Spectrums, Commodore and BBC home...
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I’m a Christian and this is why I vote Conservative
My article last week’s article discussing Christian voting patterns has generated a fair amount of debate in various places over the last few days. In particular, my thoughts echoing Danny Webster’s...
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Building churches fit for the future – 7 lessons that need to be learnt
Most of the time God and Politics focuses on the relationship between the Christian faith, politics and society, but alongside these the future of the Church in this country is a major concern too....
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Gay marriage, culture wars and a church that needs to return to its roots
As a resident south of the border, I’ve been observing the progress of the same-sex Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill from a distance and not taking in quite the same volume of information...
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I’m a Quaker and this is why I find it very hard to vote at all
This is the sixth and last is the ‘This is why I vote’ series where writers are asked to discuss the reasons for their own political opinions and how they tie with their own faith. As it has...
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Where will we be in 2024? – Setting out a vision for the future of the Church
It’s now just over a week since the latest annual statistics for the Church of England were released. They were an example of how even the church finds it difficult not to spin out figures to paint the...
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