Some Christians I know or read about claim to be concerned about the long-term health of society and the future welfare of generations yet unborn, as well as the current one, and yet all too many of the senior figures in the Church of England, say, make asses of themselves by unthinking repetition of Big Government thinking. Case in point being the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. It is, ...

Anglican and Catholic Churches are clashing with mainstream views, says equalities boss Trevor Phillips.

My argument that Islam should become our state religion is pretty simple. We need a state religion, to provide moral purpose to our politics and moral guidance to our people. As an Anglican, I obviously believe Anglican Christianity is best,...

The head of the Anglican Church has made an outspoken intervention in the debate on welfare reform, criticising plans to force the long-term unemployed into four-week work placements

The pontiff's arrival in the UK is overshadowed by the crisis over paedophile priests, strained relations with the Anglican Church and anger over Vatican policy on homosexuality and abortion

During the late 1970's through to the early 1990's I was a member, a section steward, a branch secretary and a district chair of a trades union known as NUPE (The National Union of Public Employees). The union represented health service employees, local government employees, the ancillary staff of Universities and weirdly, junior Anglican Clerics and Methodist Ministers. NUPE was affiliated to

A bishop has been reinstated by America's Anglican church after being defrocked for covering up his brother's sex abuse of an under-age girl.

W B Yeats once observed that the English conception of compromise is that “Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.” I was reminded of this recently, when reading Splintered Sunrise, the Marxist blog which increasingly concerns itself with the

Let me annoy some bloggers by raising this issue again. Some said I was not good at this subject. Others implied I had little right to comment. I am a child of the Anglican tradition. I have every right to comment on the Church’s future, as it

I find it difficult to believe that the Anglican Church has made such heavy weather of women Bishops. They made the crucial decision to have women vicars years ago. How can they deny their female employees the chance of promotion? Today’s Synod should just get on with it, and allow any