St John’s Nottingham…

...is a great place to study theology or train for ministry,full time,part time or by distance. To find out more visit the St John's website or email me on ian.paul (at) stjohns-nottm.ac.uk

How should we vote about women bishops?

On Monday I attended a really helpful meeting in anticipation of the Diocesan Synod vote on the motion from General Synod proposing a way forward on women bishops. This essentially proposes a ‘middle way’between simply going ahead,and making a legally structured provision for those disagreeing. It proposes to put in place delegated (rather [...]

What is wrong with Common Worship?

General Synod,the Church of England’s ‘Parliament’has voted to look at a revision of the Common Worship Baptism service. There has been debate about the difficulty of the language;can you expect non-church-goers to understand the idea of the ‘kingdom of God’for example? But that is not the issue for me—it is much [...]