Lay Anglicana, the unofficial voice of the laity throughout the Anglican Communion.
This is the place to share news and views from the pews.
This is the question posed by Dr Graham Kings, Bishop of Sherborne, in his address yesterday, 18 February, to Salisbury Diocesan Synod proposing the adoption of the Anglican Communion Covenant: Do we wish...
...and the greatest of these is love.Corinthians 13.13 Although there are plenty of loving relationships between men and women described in the Bible, you could also say the first 'battles of the...
We are social animals It is a truism to say that we live in a global village - my twitterverse and blogosphere (and I imagine yours as well) include residents of Australia, Canada, Guatemala, New Zealand...
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?)
