This is not a blog as such - instead Anglican Futures has been asked to share this open letter to the Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales. We hope it will be read widely. In the 1970s when the protests over English-only road signs were at their height in Wales many of those signs were defaced or torn down creating confusion for lots of drivers. It is distressing to see that similar confusion is being caused amongst many church people today as a result of the most recent road map for...

The Bishop of Ebbsfleet, the Right Revd Dr Rob Munro, has written to the complementarian clergy for whom he provides extended episcopal oversight concerning the impact of the nomination of Sarah Mullally as Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr Munro is a bishop of great integrity, not least when it comes to all things Anglican in polity and order, which makes it all the harder to concur with the position he has set out in his reflection.

Most historians would agree that the English Reformation took place over a century or more. There were moves and counter-moves along the way but looking back certain moments are still remembered as having particular significance. One of those moments took place 470 years ago, on October 16th 1555, the day when Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley were burned at the stake in Oxford. Both Latimer and Ridley had been ordained in the Medieval Church, under the jurisdiction of the Pope in Rome. Yet,...