{"id":5398,"date":"2014-02-09T17:39:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T17:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?page_id=5398"},"modified":"2020-07-21T13:25:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T12:25:18","slug":"perspectives-on-the-church-of-england","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?page_id=5398","title":{"rendered":"Perspectives on the CofE"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a list of my key writings about the dear old dying old CofE. If you only read one thing, read this: Three steps to change the culture of the CofE<\/a><\/p>\n

I’m starting to think about a more positive approach, which I am calling ‘Unafraid Anglicanism’ – essentially, trying to envisage an Anglican future outside of establishment:<\/p>\n

Longing for an unafraid church<\/a>
\nThe contours of unafraid Anglicanism<\/a>
\nRev, establishment and the pursuit of unafraid Anglicanism<\/a><\/p>\n

Older posts roughly in date order:<\/p>\n

Of Strategy, Smallbone and the Spanish Train<\/a>
\nIs the Church of England doomed?<\/a>
\nGoing to Eli – the tension between the institutional and the vocational<\/a>
\nThe stupid and ungodly Church of England<\/a><\/p>\n

Why bother with a church that isn’t spiritually serious?<\/a><\/p>\n

The church has declined because it doesn’t believe in magic<\/a><\/p>\n

How shall we clothe the naked CofE?<\/a>
\nEfficiency and resilience in the CofE<\/a>
\nFaramir, Fraser and the folly of a fast church<\/a>
\nPopulation or congregation? Where the ghost of establishment resides<\/a>
\nWhat is to be done?<\/a>
\nDulce et decorum est, pro ecclesia mori<\/a>
\nIs it time to abandon ship?<\/a>
\nThe dying of a church is not a management problem<\/a>
\nMy Heart’s Desire<\/a>
\nBeing a church in exile: what changes?<\/a>
\nNot just tea and sympathy – the priest as pastor<\/a>
\nThe Church of England and the Bakken Shale<\/a>
\nOf deckchairs and lifeboats<\/a>
\n“For a blunder, that’s too big” – musing on the death of the Church of England<\/a>
\nThe worldly widowhood of the Church of England<\/a>
\nThe real problem with the House of Bishops<\/a>
\nThe Church of England is an institutionally abusive church<\/a>
\nDo the five guiding principles commit the Church of England to lay presidency?<\/a>
\nLet my people go<\/a>
\nA Church for<\/em> England<\/a>
\nUnacknowledged materialism and the decline of the Church of England<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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