Category Archives: Establishment

Can Parliament Permit Church of England Clergy to Marry Same-Sex Couples? Should it?

by Professor Iain McLean, FBA FRSE, Professor Emeritus of Politics, Oxford University and a fellow of Nuffield College. As a Quaker, he was a consultant to Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) for their lobbying on … Continue reading

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Equality, Parliament, and the Established Church:  Some Recent Close Encounters

Revd Canon Dr Judith Maltby is Chaplain, Fellow and Dean of Welfare of Corpus Christi College, Reader in Church History in the University of Oxford, and a member of the General Synod of the Church of England (the first in … Continue reading

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Conscientious Objection

Questions of Conscience (5) by Rachel Muers, Professor of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh and a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers) The annual International Conscientious Objectors’ Day commemorates and supports those who refuse compulsory military service. Objection to … Continue reading

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This is No Time for a Soft Drink!

by the Revd Canon Rosie Harper, Chaplain to the Bishop of Buckingham and Trustee of the Ozanne Foundation, and Rt Revd Dr Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham Since the Gloucester Report of 1979 there have been many special C of E … Continue reading

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Queen Elizabeth II – Our Modern Day Saint?

by Jayne Ozanne, Founder of ViaMedia, Director of the Global Interfaith Commission on LGBT+ Lives and Member of General Synod. We Anglicans no longer canonise saints – at least not since the English Reformation in the 16th century – but … Continue reading

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Pageants, Progress & People – The End of an Era?

by Jayne Ozanne, Founder of ViaMedia, Chair of the Ban Conversion Therapy Coalition and Member of General Synod On Sunday I shall be incredibly “proud” (in the best LGBT+ tradition of the word) to take part in the Queen’s Jubilee … Continue reading

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Women Bishops: The Legacy of Baroness Howe of Idlicote (8 February 1932-22 March 2022)

by April Alexander, member of General Synod 2000-2021; Church Commissioner 2008-2018; member of Crown Nominations Commission 2013-2018   Obituaries to Lady Howe saluted her well-known feminism, but few mentioned her Anglicanism.  For those of us who have worked for the … Continue reading

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In Search of the ‘Optimal’

by Grace Davie, Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Exeter and co-editor (with Lucian Leustean) of The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Europe (2021) I was delighted to respond positively to the invitation to write a piece for Via … Continue reading

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General Synod: The Challenge of Voting in Women Bishops

by April Alexander, who served on General Synod (2000-2016) and was a Church Commissioner (2008-2018), an elected member of the Crown Nominations Commission (2013-2017) and Vice Chair of Church of England Pensions Board (2002-2008) Like Jenny Humphreys I, too, had refrained from … Continue reading

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We May be Winning the Fight Against the Virus, but We Risk Losing Something Else…

by the Right Revd Dame Sarah Mullally, Bishop of London It has been a long year. So many of us have suffered, whether through loss of those we love, loss of financial stability, loss of the freedom to see our … Continue reading

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