After various leadership resignations, evangelicals in the Church of England, conservative and charismatic, have cause for sober reflection as their churches gear up for the autumn term.
Dodgy bishops: can evangelicals obey?
This month I am looking at the apparently controversial idea that ministers in the Church of England should submit to their bishops.
Comment Lee Gatiss Scene from the 1960s satirical sketch The Bishop
Ministers in the Church of England have to take an oath of obedience to a bishop. It’s true. And this has been seen recently – even by some non-Anglican commentators in this very paper! as such an obviously bad thing that all Anglican Evangelicals should now immediately become ex-Anglican Evangelicals. But is that really necessary?
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