WATCH Features
Transparency Statistics March 2020
May 13th, 2020
Transparency Statistics March 2020 Following the 2014 settlement on Women in the Episcopate, WATCH has been monitoring the outworking of the House of Bishop’s Declaration, including the Five Guiding Principles…. Read more »
Church of England Newspaper Article April 2020: The passing of an icon
April 13th, 2020
The passing of an icon On the 13th March 2020 the Rt Rev Barbara C Harris died at the age of 89. She was the first woman to be consecrated… Read more »
Women in Ministry, the Church of England and Statistics: A closer look
March 2nd, 2020
Women in Ministry, the Church of England and Statistics: A closer look When the Church of England published its annual report on ministry in the Church of England last September,… Read more »
The Open Wound of Mutual Flourishing
November 21st, 2019
Recently Dr Gabrielle Thomas published an article in the journal “Ecclesiology” in which she tells how a majority of ordained (Anglican) women in a recent research project described the concept… Read more »
Church of England Newspaper article, October 2019: Trust and Transparency: Essentials for Mutual Flourishing
October 6th, 2019
Gospel ministry should be honest and open. Hidden practices and apparent deception should not be in the armoury of those seeking to bring people to Christ. In a recent talk… Read more »
Church of England Newspaper article, August 2019 – A Church For All
August 7th, 2019
I am happy to be celebrating 25 years as a priest in the Church of England.In spite of it being a difficult, rocky path the Church has made commendable progress… Read more »
Church of England Newspaper article July 2019
July 15th, 2019
It was heartening that most of the comment after the announcements, a few weeks ago, of three new suffragan bishops in the church of England did not start by remarking… Read more »
25th Jubilee!
March 12th, 2019
Starting on March 12th this year, and lasting over three months, more than a thousand women will be celebrating a Silver Jubilee: the 25th anniversary of their ordination to the… Read more »
The Woman of Valour: WATCH AGM Sermon preached on 17th November 2018 by Bishop Jo Bailey Wells
November 28th, 2018
Readings: Proverbs 31:10-31 and Matthew 11:16-19 16 “But to what will I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, 17 ‘We played the… Read more »
Ministry Statistics 2017
October 13th, 2018
It may be thirty years since the first women were ordained deacons in the Church of England and a woman is now Bishop of London; but if we ask how… Read more »
