Vaughan Roberts: evangelicals in 'unsustain­able position’

en staff  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  22 Aug 2024
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Vaughan Roberts: evangelicals in 'unsustainable position’

Vaughan Roberts

Evangelicals in the Church of England are currently in an ‘unsustainable’ position following an ‘unprincipled’ process to liberalise teaching on same-sex relationships, leading evangelical minister Vaughan Roberts is warning.

Speaking to en, Roberts, who is rector of St Ebbe’s Church, Oxford, called on more bishops to engage in face-to-face discussions with leaders of the Alliance, the umbrella group bringing together a spectrum of orthodox Christians in the denomination.

He declared that a matter of ‘first order’ in terms of doctrine required ‘first-order differentiation’ via a different structure within the CofE.

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