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CEEC responds to House of Bishops’ announcement
On 9 October 2023, the House of Bishops met in London to discuss the Prayers of Love and Faith. At the meeting, the bishops agreed in principle that prayers asking for God’s blessing for same sex couples, as part of public worship, should be commended for use. The...
Prayers of Love and Faith process reveals need to ‘pay attention to power’, says Academic
The serious actions of the bishops and the archbishops that are driving the Prayers of Love and Faith process are tantamount to a devastating mis-use of power and are threatening to ‘dissolve the glue that holds the church together’, argues Andrew Goddard, in his most...
The Right Revd Dr Karowei Dorgu
It is with great sadness that the death of The Rt Revd Dr Karowei Dorgu, Bishop of Woolwich and a member of the Church of England Evangelical Council (CEEC), has been announced. Bishop Karowei died peacefully in hospital, after a long struggle with his health, on...
The Times clergy attitudes survey is based ‘a con’, says academic
The Times newspaper recently published the results of a ‘clergy attitudes’ poll, which it conducted in August. The paper surveyed 1,185 clergy who agreed to take part, on their views on a range of things from workload pressures to sexuality. The headlines of the...
Leaders call on bishops to avoid ‘unlawful’ commendation of same sex blessings
CEEC has joined a group of 11 organisations and networks in the Church of England in sending a letter to the Archbishops and College of Bishops this week, which outlines that it would be ‘unlawful, unconstitutional and illegitimate’ for the bishops to commend...
‘Bishops, do not bypass Synod’ urges leading Christian ethicist
Leading Christian ethicist, Revd Dr Andrew Goddard, has called on the Church of England’s archbishops and House of Bishops to follow the best and only legitimate process by which they can bring the Prayers of Love and Faith to General Synod. The Revd Dr Andrew...
CEEC remains committed to Lambeth I:10 and therefore opposes the criminalisation of consensual homosexual behaviour
CEEC is fully committed to Lambeth I.10 in its entirety. This means upholding biblical teaching concerning sexual “abstinence…for those who are not called to marriage” between a man and a woman and not “legitimising or blessing” same-sex unions or ordaining those in...
John Dunnett named as CEEC’s new National Director
CEEC has announced the appointment of Rev. Canon John Dunnett as its new National Director. Dunnett succeeds Bishop Keith Sinclair, whose two-year term came to an end at the end of April 2023 and who has now retired. Dunnett assumed the role of National Director at...
Coronation of King Charles III – let’s pray
CEEC calls on evangelicals from across the country to join us in praying for the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla. We also pray for the bishops and clergy and all those involved in the service on Saturday. We pray with the rest of the Church of England...
CEEC publishes response to GAFCON IV statement
GAFCON IV released its statement (The Kigali Commitment) on Friday 21 April as it concluded its 2023 conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The GAFCON movement is a global family of authentic Anglicans standing together to retain and restore the Bible to the heart of the...