Are they better off on drugs? ".. the mother of a boy who goes to a church run community project in her parish said she would rather her son took up drugs..."

Latest from anglicanfutures.bsky.social it's a stunner!
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LLF - What's on the table? After months of speculation and despite the House of Bishops' decision to delay, once again, a final decision on the implementation of Living in Love and Faith (LLF), the papers for next month's Gener...

What' going to happen at General Synod in February? Part one of @anglicanfutures.bsky.social analysis www.anglicanfutures.org/post/llf-wha...

What makes someone a “safeguarding risk”? This week the Church of England announced the next stage in their response to the Makin Report. Having completed their risk assessments to determine whether, “there is any immediate safeguarding risk ...

I fear these are the questions evangelicals have spent the last few years avoiding asking, let alone, answering. The culture won't change until that does. www.anglicanfutures.org/post/what-ma...

Cottrell: "... a madman or something worse?" "... perhaps the best Cottrell can hope for is that he carries on, utterly incapable of being anything other than what he is..."

Thanks to @gavindrake.co.uk for producing great background for this. www.anglicanfutures.org/post/cottrel...

Cottrell: "... a madman or something worse?" "... perhaps the best Cottrell can hope for is that he carries on, utterly incapable of being anything other than what he is..."

If Stephen Cottrell represents what the pinnacle of leadership looks like in your church might it be overdue that you found a new church? www.anglicanfutures.org/post/cottrel...

A Call For Prayer and Fasting Appointing the next Archbishop of Canterbury - a call for prayer and fasting rather than preferment lists.

"When the CofE is looking for a new archbishop, why is there never a call to prayer for every parish? Why is there no time set aside for fasting and prayer? It is, after all, what our brothers and sisters in the ACNA were called to, earlier this year."
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A taste of the analysis that Anglican Futures has offered this year - the Top Ten blog. Keeping faithful Anglicans informed about synodical decision making, asking powerful people questions, and seeking a better culture amongst conservatives.

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‘Prolific, brutal and horrific’: Makin report calls out the Smyth abuse and the cover-up This story was updated on Friday 8 November

The Church Times article names the main clergy who knew, at the time, and later. The review states Smyth's horrific abuse of boys and young men was an “open secret amongst a whole variety of people connected with the Conservative Evangelical network”.

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Generations of men connected with Iwerne circulated via CICCU & OICCU through these 3 churches — victims; those who covered up; all connected.

Many of the clergy who covered up for Smyth are dead. But those circles — and their culture — still exist.

They now need the clear, cold light of day 2/2