Colin Coward
Changing Attitude, Human Connection and ...

There is something missing in the public conversation about human connection and community identified by Catharine Viner in a recent Guardian article. I observe that human connection and community are also missing in the Church of England. Discovering this essence would be a valuable outcome of changing attitudes, helping people develop lives well-lived and enriching all our lives, engaging with unadulterated love and living life in all its fulness.

Changing Attitude, Human Connection and Community and Unadulterated Love

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Safeguarding the Institution: How the Culture of the Church of England Facilitates Abuse

Safeguarding the Institution: How the Culture of the Church of England Facilitates Abuse

Stephen Kuhrt’s book ‘Safeguarding the Institution: How the Culture of the Church of England Facilitates Abuse argues that the running of a properly functioning church involves confronting issues and problems rather than avoiding them. The question “why are we doing this?” has been unconsciously present in most of the meetings Stephen has had with bishops and archdeacons. Every time they have been unwilling to discuss matters of principle and truth. It is the most terrifying question they can be asked.

Artificial Intelligence and the decline of truth and trust

Artificial Intelligence and the decline of truth and trust

I had a dramatic introduction to AI recently. We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that computer programmes can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Christianity’s operating systems and mechanisms, it’s theology, Biblical formulations and commentaries, teachings and practices, are in a seriously bad condition, unhealthy spiritually, morally and theologically. Human leaders, politicians, bishops, don't seem to have the maturity or ability to see and understand the dramatic changes that have taken place.

Co-founder of Living Out engaged in an inappropriate relationship with an adult man

Co-founder of Living Out engaged in an inappropriate relationship with an adult man

Living Out founder, the Revd Sam Allberry, a supposedly celibate Church of England priest, now in the USA, was found to have engaged in "an inappropriate relationship with an adult man in 2022 but no formal clergy misconduct proceedings have been initiated against him within the ACNA.”

A Jesus Christ centred church, simpler, humbler, bolder – Yeah!

A Jesus Christ centred church, simpler, humbler, bolder – Yeah!

A Jesus Christ centred church, simpler, humbler, bolder – yeah, go for it, Stephen Cotterell. The Jesus Christ centred church that is simpler, humbler, bolder, isn’t remotely visible on the horizon yet. You and your comrades in the House of Bishops are lost in an almost impenetrable maze of scriptural authority, archaic traditions and invalid reasons that you are showing no signs of the vision and courage necessary to develop the church of your dreams.