CI News: 19 April 2024

Apr 19, 2024 by

from The Christian Institute: In the news this week: Westminster has rejected calls to ban smacking in England, the Health Secretary pledges to crack down on private gender clinics which prescribe puberty blockers to under-16s, and...

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Clergy mental health is at breaking point

Apr 19, 2024 by

from Anglican Futures: A heart-rending “In View of Experience” blog from a serving incumbent. A member of the clergy quoted in the Church Times said, “People say they’re consulting by meeting, but . . . it seems to...

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Landing zone needed for LLF

Apr 19, 2024 by

by Christopher Landau, Church Times: ‘Compassionate orthodoxy’, not a divisive settlement, is required. FOR those of us who were non-Synod members of the short-lived Living in Love and Faith working groups that met intensively last...

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The Scandal of the Thousands Sacked for Wrongthink

Apr 19, 2024 by

by C.J. Strachan, The Daily Sceptic: High profile cancellations in the wake of the Cass Report are front and centre in the media as those whose lives were destroyed are once again in the spotlight, this time for vindication. A recent...

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The Church of England is losing young people – and fast

Apr 19, 2024 by

by Julian Mann, Christian Today: Attendance by children in Church of England churches is plummeting. Might that indicate that the push by revisionist bishops to ditch the Church’s traditional teaching on marriage and sexual morality...

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Puberty blocker ruling hasn’t solved Scotland’s gender problem

Apr 19, 2024 by

by Victoria Smith, UnHerd: So it turns out that Scottish children are no more suitable for medical experimentation than English ones. Yesterday NHS Scotland responded to the Cass Review by pausing the prescription of puberty blockers for...

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Mayors who tried to ban the Nat Cons met Iranian theocrats and Turkish ultranationalists

Apr 19, 2024 by

by Georgia Gilholy, Conservative Home: On Tuesday morning I found myself staring up at what resembled stars strewn across a black sky. No, there was no shock solar eclipse. I was looking up in despair at the snazzily decorated ceiling of...

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Many RE lessons simplistic and ill-informed, Ofsted report declares

Apr 19, 2024 by

by Francis Martin, Church Times: Non-religious worldviews are not neutral, teachers are told. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (RE) in English schools often fails to prepare students to “live in a complex world”, a new report from Ofsted says. The...

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Church of England attendance figures: Number of children in church falls in half over the past 20 years

Apr 19, 2024 by

from Hansard, H/T Anglican Ink: Neil O’Brien: (Cons.) Harborough: To ask the Member for South West Bedfordshire, representing the Church Commissioners, what average weekly attendance was in each year since 1994. Answered on 12 April 2024...

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What is the place of charismatic theology after Mike Pilavachi?

Apr 19, 2024 by

by Christopher Landau, Psephizo: These are testing times for anyone even loosely connected with charismatic life within, or adjacent to, the Church of England. To discover that a figure whose ministry was widely celebrated ‘used his...

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