A better answer

Justin Welby has come up with a smoother response to difficult questions around sexuality and the church, but has he blown up the Prayers of Love and Faith at the same time?

Hello! The Archbishop of Canterbury has been making waves this week after a contentious podcast interview he gave. Did he, accidentally or otherwise, give a quite misleading and inaccurate answer to the question ‘Is gay sex a sin?’, or this is all a storm in a teacup? As well as wrapping up the latest in the gay blessings saga in the Church of England, we also return briefly to whether the government has really just criminalised Christians’ praying in their heads as abortion buffer zones come into force. And finally, we look at a fresh attempt to eject the bishops from the House of Lords.

Then we have my latest podcast (Are near death experiences actually a thing, and if so, should Christians use them as evangelistic props?) and a long list of interesting church news stories from around the internet (tear gas-infused fights inside a Ukrainian church, a spurious medieval trigger warning, and pole dancing in church).

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