Trevor Grundy
Trevor Grundy is an author at Religion News Service.
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Majority of British Jews feel they have no future in England, Europe
By Trevor Grundy — January 14, 2015
CANTERBURY (RNS) Rising anti-Semitism in Britain and Europe has made Jews afraid.
Church of England names its first woman bishop; Libby Lane to assume historic role
By Trevor Grundy — December 17, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Libby Lane's appointment is as a suffragan bishop -- a bishop subordinate to a metropolitan or diocesan bishop.
Fleeing persecution, Christian converts find safe houses in England
By Trevor Grundy — December 12, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Christian Concern believes thousands of Muslims are anxious to convert and in need of housing after suffering verbal -- and sometimes physical -- attacks from families, friends and co-workers.
Archbishop Justin Welby: ‘There is a possibility that we will not hold together’
By Trevor Grundy — December 9, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Welby said that although individual churches remain "strong, resilient and thriving," the differences among them remain profound.
Church of England formally approves women bishops
By Trevor Grundy — November 17, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) On Monday (Nov. 17), the church’s two most senior leaders, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Archbishop of York John Sentamu, signed the change into church, or canon, law.
2 percent of English ministers say humans invented God
By Trevor Grundy — October 28, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) “Clergy just preach social clap-trap these days,” said Alison Ruoff, a lay member of the Church of England's General Synod. “We expect better from them.”
Top Anglican calls for lifting seal of confessional in child abuse cases
By Trevor Grundy — October 23, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) "How can you hear a confession about somebody abusing a child and the matter must be sealed up and you mustn’t talk about it?" asked Archbishop of York John Sentamu.
Catholic bishop in England resigns over affair with woman, calls decision ‘liberating’
By Trevor Grundy — September 29, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) "In some respects I feel very calm," said Kieran Conry. "It is liberating. It is a relief." But it may not be the end of the matter for the former Roman Catholic leader.
Kissing corpses is helping spread Ebola, expert says
By Trevor Grundy — September 26, 2014
LONDON (RNS) "There are very strong traditional beliefs and traditional funeral rites which require that the whole family touch the dead body, and they have a meal in the presence of the dead body," renowned scientist Peter Piot said.
British humanists enlist Virginia Woolf and others to answer life’s big questions
By Trevor Grundy — September 25, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) British humanists hope novelists George Eliot and Virginia Woolf and philosophers Bertrand Russell and A.C. Grayling can help answer life's big questions without religion.
Vatican cricket team may need divine intervention in match with Church of England
By Trevor Grundy — September 12, 2014
(RNS) “Realistically, we are rank underdogs with a very outside chance, but that’s okay,” said the Rev Eamonn O’Higgins, spiritual director and manager of the Vatican club.
Methodists in England ‘like an iceberg … crumbling into the sea’
By Trevor Grundy — September 2, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) “It’s totally dying out," said Linda Woodhead, a sociologist at Lancaster University. "On current trends, they (the Methodists) will disappear, very soon.”
London rally will call for zero tolerance of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia
By Trevor Grundy — August 29, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The rally comes against the backdrop of a worrying rise in European anti-Semitism and the release of a report by the Community Security Trust that monitors attacks on the Jewish community.
Political correctness about Muslims may have led UK officials to ignore reports of sex abuse
By Trevor Grundy — August 28, 2014
CANTERBURY (RNS) Police and government officials turned a blind eye to reports that teenage girls were sexually abused because of fear that, if widely known, they would stir up anti-Muslim feelings in Britain.
Jewish film festival to return to London theater, but not this year
By Trevor Grundy — August 19, 2014
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) The Tricycle Theatre has invited the film festival back on the same terms as in previous years “with no restriction on funding from the Embassy of Israel in London.”
