Made in Sheffield

A series of scandals and setbacks in the charismatic evangelical world curiously all involve the same church in Sheffield

Hello! Our first story is a winding journey through three separate issues in the charismatic evangelical UK church, which somehow all have links to the same church in Sheffield - St Thomas’s, Crookes. Is this just coincidence, or are there lessons to be learned about recurring weaknesses in this tradition?

Then we pick up events in Wales, where a new archbishop has been named to replace Andy John, forced out over the scandal at Bangor Cathedral. Who is the first woman to ever lead the Church in Wales, and can she steer that troubled denomination back to calmer waters?

Finally, what on earth possessed a bishop to try and shut down a concert in central London wearing only his dressing gown?

Then there’s my latest podcast (should we all be AI sceptics now?), and the usual list of links to interesting church news stories, this week featuring not one but two churches with medieval skulls interred in their walls, the unexpected return of Gen Z chastity, and the Trump administration going full …