Calming the waters

The C of E's new ABC makes her debut and sets out her stall, while the gay blessings saga comes to a bitter and frustrated end

Hello! This week’s newsletter is all about the Church of England’s synod (that’s its governing assembly for the uninitiated) in London this week. First we reflect on Sarah Mullally’s opening address and what it tells us — if anything — about what kind of archbishop she wants to be.

Then we get to the spiciest debate of the week: the formal end of the Living in Love and Faith project — or is it actually just another beginning?

We touch on yet another new model for outsourcing church safeguarding to an independent body, and there’s also another few rounds in the ring between those for and against using some of the C of E’s assets to make recompense for historic links to the slave trade.

Finally, there’s our latest podcast, exploring a landmark social media addiction trial underway in the United States, and whether Christians should be leaping on this bandwagon to try and tame big tech firms supposedly harming our children.

Unfortunately, the same factors which made meant this newsletter …