The Guardian (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Why are the English archbishops silent over Uganda's grotesque anti-homosexuality bill? A bill currently before the Ugandan parliament (pdf) proposes seven year prison sentences for discussing homosexuality; life imprisonment for homosexual acts; and death for a second offence. Sober observers believe it will be passed. The Anglican church in Uganda appears to support it, and the Church of England...
21st Century Schizoid Man (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Archbishop of Canterbury was a troublesome man to the King. He consolidated Church holdings and took revenue from the King, King Henry II, to support the activities of the church. Taking money from the King is rarely a good idea. Henry, in order to control the Church in England, largely to finally reduce corruption amongst the clergy, made the clergy subject to the secular court, meaning that the...
In The Faith (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Archbishop of York has called for a new generation of Good Samaritans to bring comfort to those struggling in the recession.
Christian Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Archbishop of York has called on people to look after their neighbours in difficulty because of the recession
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The Archbishop of York who has condemned the profiteering of financial traders has predicted that the recession will bring some positive benefits.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The credit crunch has changed everything, says the Archbishop of York. Now people are beginning to realise that there are more important things than choice and the free market This is not going to be easy. John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, is all for pulling out of the interview the day before we meet. Whereas he wants to talk only about the trust he has set up to help young people in his diocese,...
Morgan Hen (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
It seems that the Welsh loony left's favorite Latin American dictator is putting his foot in his mouth again. I will be interested to see how they defend this one? Some nefarious CIA plot. No, not this time. He with his own mouth described tyrant Robert Mugabe as a brother, and even cast doubts on the crimes committed by Idi Amin . Maybe could explain to those families who loved ones were murdered...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement, once said that if she, in hospice terms, was the Archbishop of Canterbury, then my father, Eric Wilkes, was the Archbishop of York. Eric, who has died aged 89, opened St Luke's hospice, Sheffield – the first modern unit outside London as well as the first day hospice – in 1971. He was co-chairman (1984-93) of the national charity...
Christian Today (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Christians are called to go out onto the streets of the UKs cities and towns where people are looking for a place they can shelter from life and all its problems says the Archbishop of York
Another Green World (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Archbishop of York to remain silent over bill which will kill gays in Uganda, blood all over his robes if you ask me, Outrage needed! Religion should be about compassion and reverence. This Bishop is like the priests who stood around or even cheered when Jesus was killed. Religious 'leaders' who failed to speak out against the persecution of LGBT community fail to follow their faith and betray their...
The Church Mouse (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The Archbishop of Canterbury has been a busy chap this week. Amongst many other things, no doubt, he has been speaking at the RSA for the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, writing in the Guardian's Comment is Free and using his sermon at All Saints, St Margaret St, for All Saints Day to grab some column inches by describing the future of the Anglican Communion as 'chaotic'. All in all Mouse considers these...
eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
“The European Parliamentary and local elections on June 4th will take place at a time of extraordinary turbulence in our democratic system. It is a time for great vigilance over how to exercise our democratic right to vote. “The temptation to stay away or register a protest vote in order to send a negative signal to [...]
Europe 1700-1914 (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Most black slaves in England had been brought back by sea captains. Their status was legally uncertain. Some had been legally emancipated. Francis Barber had been freed by his previous owner, Colonel Bathurst; similarly a black valet in the service of Sir Joshua Reynolds. But slaves were often put up for public sale in Bristol and Liverpool. Granville Sharp , then a junior clerk in the Ordinance Office...
Max Atkinson's Blog (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
When teaching and writing about the effectiveness of different types of visual aid, one that I always recommend for getting a positive response from audiences is the use of an object or prop to get your point across. If you've seen Ann Brennan's speech (4th video clip in Claptrap 1 ), you might have noticed that the audience laughed and applauded when she held up a copy of the paper on equality that...
The Church Mouse (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
The good old CofE has published its figures on how much our bishops cost. The cost of stipends (pay), national insurance and pensions contributions hardly changed (up slightly from £5m to £5.1m) and the cost of maintaining their homes and offices went down from £7.9m in 2007 year to £7.1m last year. Great news. However, the cost of running their offices has increased from £12.3m...
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