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Articles by Jeremy Worthen
Mission and the Church—A Cautionary Tale?
Around the turn of the millennium, a number of movements advanced the claim that the decline of Christendom in Western societies required a fresh missionary strategy focused on creating new forms of church, ones not continuous with the old. It wasn’t an entirely novel claim, and the work of Sheffield Industrial Mission from the post-war decades provides an intriguing parallel.
Strategic Choices
An article in Covenant last year by Joshua White offered some cogent reflections on the adoption of strategic planning by many churches, in the light of its current popularity in the North American context.[i] It occurred to me that in the Church of England, where I serve as a priest, the turn to strategic planning could be characterized as one of the more significant developments I have lived through in over thirty years of ordained ministry.
Jeremy Worthen, Author at The Living Church
How do Christian communities across the globe relate to one another? What binds us together in meaningful relationships? Still Living in Love and Faith? Church of England bishop seem committed to changes on teachings about sexuality, but don't seem aware of the ecclesiological changes needed. The authors write: “Modern British Christianity has dramatically declined in many ways. But it has also shown striking resilience.
The Abuja Affirmation—An Anglican Communion?
Editor’s Note: This essay is part of a series on the Abuja Affirmation which will run April 13-17. A Series Round Up with links to all the essays will appear later in this spring. I had the very great privilege of being in Canterbury Cathedral on March 25 for the installation of Sarah Mullally as archbishop.
Means and Ends of Evangelism
Archbishop Michael Ramsey is for many one of the most inspirational figures for Anglican ecumenism from the last century. The Gospel and the Catholic Church, published in 1936, articulates a creative appropriation of Catholic Anglicanism that opens a pivotal role in the search for Christian unity.
Britian’s Transnational Church
Christianity in Britain Since 1914 Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000 Edited by David Goodhew and Mark Smith Palgrave Macmillan, 331 pages, $159.99 Toward the end of their Introduction, the editors of this book summarize the picture that they believe emerges from the 12 detailed studies it assembles: “Modern British Christianity has dramatically declined in many ways. But it has also shown striking resilience. British Christianity has both grown and shrunk, died and risen again.
Are We Losing The Daily Office?
Whether we are losing the daily office is a question Anglicans might have been asking since at least the 18th century. Growing urbanization marked the beginning of the end of the Church of England’s initial success in embedding participation in Morning and Evening Prayer, as set out in the Book of Common Prayer, in the cultural rhythms of a still predominantly agricultural society.
Three Cases of Discernment
Since completing my curacy in the Church of England, I’ve worked as a priest in three different contexts: ministerial formation, national ecumenical and theological work, and now a large urban multi-church parish. In each of them, discernment has featured as a key term, and one that has sometimes bothered me.
Nothing Is Stronger Than the Church
Last month, I was on holiday with my wife in Crete. The weather hadn’t been great — it rained most of the day soon after we arrived, and someone said it was the first time in four months — but the sun was shining, so we decided to take a walk into the local town. We weren’t in a hurry, and my wife needed to buy a present for a friend, so we looked into a few of the local shops and bought a couple of things.
Pray Like Jesus
By Jeremy Worthen There are many things that I am not very good at, and one of them is swimming. I remember there being an outdoor pool at my junior school — unless my memory is playing tricks on me — and how summer visits there got more difficult each year as every other child seemed to get the hang of motoring unaided from one end to the other apart from me.
New: 5/22 TLC Online
The May 22 Retirement issue of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. In our cover story, Simon Cotton continues his tour of ancient UK church architecture, finding a 12th-century structure and yew trees from the time of Christ at Pennant Melangell, three miles up a one-lane road in Wales. In News, Kirk Petersen describes the first trickle of COVID cases from a consequential Executive Council meeting.
Reflections
The official daily Bible notes from the Church of England, they are designed to enrich your daily prayer and enhance your spiritual journey day by day throughout the year.
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