Rev Dan

King Charles stood before the United States Congress and called the Christian faith his firm anchor and daily inspiration. He invoked Easter. He spoke of hope and prayer. But this is the same man whose Christmas messages have consistently placed Christianity alongside all the great faiths as one voice in a shared moral chorus.Both speeches were scripted. Both were approved. Both went out in his name.So which one is real and what does the difference reveal, not just about the King, but about all of us?In this podcast, I look carefully at what Charles said in Congress, set it alongside his Christmas 2024 and 2025 messages, unpack the Isaiah passage he quoted and what he left out, and ask what faithful Christian witness actually requires from a monarch, and from us.


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Something fills the space when shepherds go.And the question we’re now facing in the Church of England is whether what replaces them is still the gospel… or something else.
In this podcast, I respond to the conversation many of you have been raising since the last one. The structural crisis is real. But underneath it sits a deeper issue: theological drift, thinning orthodox voices, and a generation of leaders still waiting when they may be needed most.
This isn’t about outrage. It’s about clarity.What does faithfulness look like when the institution is drifting? And who is going to hold the line?


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The Church of England knows what grows churches. They commissioned the research. They published the findings. They ran a pilot — and the pilot collapsed.So why are they doing it again?In this podcast, I walk through the 2014 Church Growth Research Programme, the Wigan pilot project, the Chote audit of £176 million of Strategic Development Funding, and the pension correction now driving clergy cuts across the country — from Leicester to Truro to Kingston.This is not commentary. This is the Church's own evidence, against itself.
Links mentioned:From Anecdote to Evidence (2014): https://www.churchofengland.org/about/vision-strategy/funding-strategic-mission-and-ministry/strategic-development-funding/anecdoteThe Chote Review: https://www.churchofengland.org/about/vision-strategy/funding-strategic-mission-and-ministry/strategic-development-funding-0Marcus Walker, The Critic — The Road to Wigan's Tears: https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/november-2023/the-road-to-wigans-tears/Ian Paul, Psephizo — What Has Now Happened With Clergy Pensions: https://www.psephizo.com/life-ministry/what-has-now-happened-with-clergy-pensions/


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The Church of England is not lost. But it is contested. And what happens in the next few months will determine whether the window for biblical faithfulness stays open or closes for a generation.
In this podcast, I walk through what actually happened with the Living in Love and Faith project, why the vote to end it was more complicated than the headlines suggested, and what the upcoming General Synod elections mean for ordinary Christians in ordinary parishes.


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The Church Commissioners have committed £100 million to Project Spire, a reparations fund for historic links to the slave trade. But the history it rests on is being challenged by serious scholars. The legal basis is uncertain. And 81% of Anglicans say this is not what they want their Church to spend money on.
Meanwhile parishes are closing. Vicarages sit empty. Clergy are burning out.
In this video I walk through what Project Spire actually is, what the evidence does and doesn’t show, and what faithful Christians can do when the institution they love loses sight of the people it was built to serve.


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