Lay Anglicana, the unofficial voice of the laity throughout the Anglican Communion.
This is the place to share news and views from the pews.
Whitehill Chase, which describes itself as 'a safe place for healing', is home to a resource centre and meeting place near Alton in Hampshire which runs courses on 'listening, healing and...
Reflections on the heart of the psalms The Rt Revd James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool, has written a heartfelt and heartening book about the psalms. The word play is catching, as both title and text play...
http://youtu.be/L9X_5wwfdes My grandmother never actually said this to me. But it was the leitmotiv of her life, thanks to which she lived to be 99 years old. I know half a dozen other nonagenarians, and...
1. What is going on in the Anglican Communion?
Could we just have a recap here - after the Dublin Primates' meeting I am more confused than ever about who does what and with which and to whom...
I have just made a serendipitous discovery in Mr CatOLick. This handsome cat (at least I imagine he is handsome - but you will need imagination to visualise him...
3. Building Congregations - and destroying them
Under the headline 'Ideas needed for man-friendly churches' in the Church Times of 14 January 2011, Ed Thornton describes attempts to attract more men to church...
Welcome to Lay Anglicana, the online voice for lay people from the pews of Anglican churches the world over. We hope you will get involved by:
Our aim is to unify the numerically important – but hierarchically insignificant – laity of the Church of England, and to build bridges with other Anglican lay people across the Communion.
We welcome contributions from the clergy and indeed from other Christian denominations: we hope Lay Anglicana will be useful, not just as a place for lay Anglicans to talk to each other, but as a place where we can all seek to understand the viewpoint of ‘bishops, priests and deacons’ as well as Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Catholics and so on. (And perhaps it may offer a place where they in turn seek to understand us?)
