Save The Parish welcomes appointment of new Archbishop of Canterbury
Hearty congratulations to Bishop Sarah Mullally as she becomes our new Archbishop of Canterbury. I really wish her all the luck in the world as she takes the tiller to…
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Next Archbishop of Canterbury must be pro-parish churches
Sir James Burnell-Nugent writes in The Times this week of his hopes that the Crown Nomination for the next Archbishop of Canterbury will be pro-parish.
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Justin Welby’s successor needs to halve the ‘upstairs church’
Emma Thompson considers the type of person the new Archbishop of Canterbury should be and argues that the Church “needs a parish-facing, pastoral Archbishop” who is willing to scale back the “bishops, bureaucracy and bluster.”
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The Church of England has to rebuild trust
That the Archbishop of Canterbury had to resign is a dark day in the life of the Church of England. He was right to resign but this leaves us with the question of where the church goes now.
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The parable of Justin Welby
When Channel 4’s Cathy Newman summed up the Church of England’s John Smyth scandal as showing that ‘the church had neither process nor kindness’, Justin Welby agreed. The Makin review into the church’s handling of the abuse allegations against Smyth shows what happens when things aren’t done by the book.
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The Church of England must take this opportunity to reform
Emma Thompson writes in The Telegraph that the Church of England shouldn’t rush into making appointing a new Archbishop of Canterbury.
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The next Archbishop should be pastoral not managerial
Emma Thompson believes bishops’ calling should be largely pastoral, parish-facing and caring, starting with loving existing churchgoers.
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Resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury
What a sad day this is for the Church of England. We are holding all concerned but, particularly the abused, in our prayers.
