The name’s NoRM – and I’m here to revitalise you…
George Crowder
The recent series of Revitalisation Webinars, run by Church Society in partnership with ReNew, has been remarkably popular. Many more people than expected have attended, and more than 100 ministers have been to at least one.
Whilst they are aimed at Church of England ministers, there have been a number of independent church ministers attending and, encouragingly, a number of lay people too.
What next for evangelicals in the Church of England?
Yet another proposal in the continuing crisis about the blessing of same-sex couples was debated in July session of General Synod.
It had to be substantively different from the previous proposal, but it had a similar pattern to the one before that. It passed by a narrow margin, with, as Vaughan Roberts insightfully surmised, those in favour of change voting for it and those against change voting against it. Despite chummy overtures, it did not garner the unity it sought to inspire.