19 Feb 2018
The Church of England has signed an accord with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport setting out how churches and other church properties could host new digital infrastructure. The accord notes that: “The [National Church Institutions] and HMG...
19 Feb 2018
The Charity Commission has published draft guidance for charities on the proper management of their relationships with connected non-charitable organisations. The guidance and its associated documents are open for consultation until 15 May 2018; feedback should be...
09 Feb 2018
The Church of England General Synod has voted in favour of a motion welcoming the joint report, Mission and Ministry in Covenant, co-written by the two Churches’ faith and order bodies and published last year, which sets out proposals for intercommunion and the...
08 Feb 2018
On 6 February, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York announced the formal response from the House of Bishops to Sir Philip Mawer’s independent review into the nomination to the See of Sheffield. The House of Bishops “whole-heartedly” accepted all four of the review’s...
23 Jan 2018
We previously noted the Report of the Independent Review by Lord Carlile of Berriew QC into the Church of England’s handling of the accusations against Bishop George Bell, in which Lord Carlile concluded that, though the Church had ‘acted throughout in good faith’ and...
