Spanish Language Silent Retreat from 4th – 8th August 2021: We are pleased to let you know that this year, for the first time, we are offering a 5-day (4-night) silent retreat, which will be offered fully in Spanish to support the Spanish-speaking mindfulness community

Oxford Mindfulness Centre email, 23 July

What we are for is parish. It is at the very heart of our mission and our call. We are for parish priests who have been working in such challenging conditions and we deeply value them. We are for the Reformed, Catholic tradition of the Church of England with its clear understanding of the role of priests in proclaiming the gospel, teaching the Apostolic faith, and administering the sacraments of holy communion and baptism. We are for good governance and safeguarding. But we are also noticing the growing number of new congregations and lay-led worshipping communities around the country that are extending the reach of our parishes, that are connecting with new people in new places in new ways. For us it was never either/or but both/and

Ric Thorpe, Bishop of Islington, explaining how the Myriad project to support lay-led churches fits into C of E structures, 23 July

We cannot fail to see how instrumental it [the vaccine] is, precisely in its “mystical” value, to the collective acceptance of human sacrifice as normal and indeed necessary: the most innocent and defenceless creature, the baby in the womb in the third month of gestation, is sacrificed and dismembered in order to extract tissue from his still palpitating body with which to produce a non-cure, a non-vaccine, which not only does not heal from the virus, but in all likelihood causes a greater percentage of death than Covid itself, especially in the elderly or those who are sick

Carlo Maria Viganò, former papal nuncio to the US, from Modernism, Unmentionable Vices and Corruption in the Time of Bergoglio, an Italian anti-vaxx book of essays, translation was published in Lifesite News under the heading “Human sacrifice of innocent victims offered to Satan”, 21 July

Certain aspects of how power structures can be harmful have been recognised in conservative Evangelical culture recently. I believe that the way in which women are employed in conservative Evangelical churches is in danger of being another

Kirsten Birkett, researcher, on how women are treated in complementarian circles, 16 July

Unfortunate typo when instead of thanking a Churchwarden for their continued ministry typed thanks for their continued misery!

The Revd Barry Hill, Twitter, 20 July

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