The confounding revival

Clarity and consensus around the Quiet Revival remains elusive, the Nine O'Clock Service scandal rumbles on, while a bishop resigns in a fog of confusion and vague recrimination

Hello! Our first story today is about the much-debated Quiet Revival. Is it really happening, or are we just harping in on anecdotes and misconstrued survey data? If it is happening, why is it appealing to men more than women, for perhaps the first ever time in church history? And on top of apparently soaring church attendance, do polls show belief in God is rocketing upwards too?

Then we pick up some more threads from the Chris Brain/Nine O’Clock Service story, which has (almost inevitably) now sucked in the Church of England’s most stubbornly abuse-adjacent figure, former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey.

And we then find out which self-exiled present-day bishop has permanently stood down after a separate safeguarding scandal, despite never really explaining why.

There’s also my latest podcast (What lies behind growing calls to expand euthanasia to newborn babies?) and the usual list of links to interesting church news stories from around the web. This week, they include the res…