Church of England cowardice is hindering our evangelism

The CofE hierarchy care too much about what plays well in the liberal media - and its damaging our gospel witness, says Andy Bannister

My family and I are denominational gypsies; every time we move house, we end up attending a different type of church. After our last relocation, we landed in the Church of England.

I am now a Reluctant Anglican. There are great things happening in some Church of England congregations. The church we attend in Swindon was planted in 2018 into a converted factory and over 200 people attend each Sunday, a third of whom have become Christians in the last six years. It’s a wonderful missional church to belong to - even if my kids first picked it because of the colourful plastic slide that takes young people (or older people with a good chiropractor on speed dial) between floors.

But there’s another slide in the Church of England that’s more problematic, caused by cowardice among the upper leadership, especially from the Archbishop of Canterbury himself, Justin Welby.