Archbishop Justin Welby: “There will be people who look at that and say the church is totally out of touch … but we don’t do things on the basis of opinion polls.”
The Rev. Canon Andrew Hindley was subject to five police investigations for sexual impropriety and assessed as a major risk to young men, and only agreed to resign after receiving a six-figure payoff from the Church of England.
The Rev. William Taylor: “Yesterday’s commissioning was the second of its kind, and I suspect many others will now follow — and, in due course, ordination services.”
Timothy Dudley-Smith, who wrote “Tell Out My Soul” and more than other 400 hymns and served as Bishop of Thetford from 1981 to 1992, died August 12 at 97.
Just as the Church of England has created blessings for same-sex couples that are not wedding rites, the Church of England Evangelical Council has created “spiritual overseers.”
The Church of England’s General Synod has narrowly backed standalone services for blessing same-sex unions alongside a provision for conservative parishes to register for delegated episcopal oversight.
Amid public accusations of bullying, Winchester Cathedral has lost its 22-year director of music, the senior non-executive member of its chapter, and half of its lay clerks.
