Response to Church Society’s December 7 Statement on Stephen Sizer In light of the judgment made in Revd Dr Stephen Sizer’s Clergy Discipline Measure case, Church Society has published this update to an earlier post about Dr Sizer: On Tuesday 6th December 2022, the judgment in Mr Sizer’s Clergy Discipline Measure case was finally reported. The question of whether certain…

This post is about Church Society’s handling of a complaint made against it by Mrs Kate Andreyev. The evidence set out below shows that Church Society (CS) cannot be trusted to respond to complaints with integrity. A Promised Investigation On 11 February 2021, Rev Andrew Towner, the Chair of CS’s…

Church Society claims it has been exonerated from the charges of tolerating antisemitism and dishonesty. But there is no basis to this claim. The allegations remain unanswered. In April 2021, Rev Andrew Towner sent this letter to Church Society members on behalf of the Church Society Council (we have circled…

A year ago, on 8th November, 2019, the Jewish Chronicle — the world’s oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper — had an unusual front cover. With its eyes on the upcoming UK general election, the Chronicle’s cover article was ‘addressed not to our usual readers but to those who would not…

Why the time has come for British evangelicals to acknowledge their failure to confront antisemitism In response to recent events in America, a number of British evangelicals have been tweeting, blogging, and talking about racism. One evangelical blogger helpfully says, ‘Talking about race is very difficult and we may say…