BY STEPHEN KUHRT Dear Bishop Sarah, Congratulations on your nomination to be the next Archbishop of Canterbury. The fact that you are a woman, educated at a comprehensive school and a polytechnic, worked as a cancer nurse and trained for ordination on a non-residentiary course are, for me, undiluted positives. More crucially, they can all… Continue reading An Open Letter to Bishop Sarah Mullally
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Why Stephen Cottrell should resign as Archbishop of York
BY STEPHEN KUHRT Quoting Lady Bracknell has become a literary cliché, but her sardonic observation from The Importance of Being Earnest uncannily captures the current crisis in the Church of England. In the wake of the Makin report and Justin Welby's resignation, the statement that to lose one Archbishop ‘may be regarded as a misfortune, to lose… Continue reading Why Stephen Cottrell should resign as Archbishop of York
Why Justin Welby must resign as Archbishop of Canterbury
BY STEPHEN KUHRT Photo: Flickr The Makin Report, published this week, chronicles the appalling, sadistic and spiritualised abuse carried out by John Smyth and the abject failure of the Church of England to respond adequately to this. John Smyth’s abuse represents pure evil. But just as evil is the vast number of professing Christians who… Continue reading Why Justin Welby must resign as Archbishop of Canterbury
Safeguarding the Institution 