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‘Very Hurtful.’ First lesbian Archbishop Laments That People Are Leaving The Church Over Her Sexuality

2+ hour, 40+ min ago  (532+ words) The Anglican communion's newly minted Archbishop of Wales, the Rev. Cherry Vann, is lamenting that people are leaving the church on account of her lesbianism, describing their actions as "very hurtful." Vann is the first woman to be elected as…...

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Why the Roman Catholic Church Is Rising in England—and What It Reveals About Faith in an Age of Uncertainty

3+ week, 18+ hour ago  (225+ words) In an age of moral confusion and cultural uncertainty, people are drawn to those who actually believe what they say'who live as if their core convictions are real and unshakable. This may explain the quiet shift unfolding in England. For…...

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The Slow Grind of Change: What the 2024 GSS Tells Us About American Religion

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (204+ words) One of the most important cyclical events in my life as a data analyst of American religion is the semi-regular release of the General Social Survey.... I was more than pleased that the Association of Religion Data Archives had already…...

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UMC’s ‘General Council on Finance’ President Warns: ‘The church’s financial house is on fire’

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (323+ words) The United Methodist Church's financial leaders are sounding the alarm that the denomination is about to be in a world of financial hurt, declaring "The church's financial house is on fire' during the UMC's Finance and Administration meeting last week....

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Wokester women priests drive hundreds of Anglican clergymen to the Catholic Church -study

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (273+ words) As a Catholic, I've always thought the argument about women priests was a waste of time. There aren't going to be any, given Catholic Church doctrine. The Vatican is lately stringing the wokester women of the Church along on maybe…...

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New Archbishop of Canterbury says churches SHOULD baptise Asylum Seekers amid fears of fake conversions to stay in the UK

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (282+ words) The new Archbishop of Canterbury says that churches should not feel anxious about baptising asylum seekers in the face of concerns about fake conversions. Dame Sarah Mullally, who will move into Lambeth Palace next year, claimed that due to the…...

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New Vatican Pronouncement On Mary Narrows The Gap Between Protestant And Catholics

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (196+ words) The quickest way to start an online argument is to mention a topic where the stakes are highest and/or the diagreement is the most passionate. The proper Christian perspective on Mary, mother of Jesus is just such a topic....

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How a Christian monk created America

2+ mon, 1+ day ago  (572+ words) In 1517, in the famous act of defiance that launched the Protestant Reformation, Luther nailed his "95 theses" on indulgences to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. Among them was this devastating question: " 82. Why does not the pope, whose wealth…...

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Baptist professor’s Anglican turn sparks Twitter meltdown

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (537+ words) Dr. Barrett's essay identified several key issues with the SBC: the denomination's alleged "official rejection" of the Nicene Creed, problems with congregational polity that he claims breeds "image-management and spiritual abuse," and Baptist baptism practices, which he contrasts unfavorably with…...

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What’s happening to the Anglican Communion? {23rd October 2025}

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1665+ words) Earlier this month, a body known as GAFCON " the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans " declared it was "now the Global Anglican Communion." In the Oct. 16 declaration, entitled "The future has arrived," the alliance of conservative Anglican church leaders said it…...