Fr Luke Miller

  Luke Miller Archdeacon of London Proposed by The Venerable Catherine Pickford Seconded by The Rev’d Nigel Taylor Please do vote as this election is important. I ask you to give me your first or high preference vote. Christ’s Church, founded on Him, is His Bride, but in her human aspect she is ever called by Him to proclaim the Gospel afresh in every generation. The synod we are electing will make fundamental decisions about the Church of England and what it is to be one of her clerics in the next decades. Please give me your first – or high – preference vote as someone who cares about the issues, and who can be effective in contributing positively to the debates. MY BACKGROUND As well as being Archdeacon I am Rector of S Andrew by the Wardrobe in the City of London. I have served in parishes in Watford and Tottenham, where I helped plant a Church and helped set up the church of S Francis at the Engine Room Tottenham Hale . I am a traditionalist catholic, living out the ...

Sermon for SS Cornelius & Cyprian. Preached at the AGM of The Society for the Maintenance of the Faith SMF is a society of the Church of England which holds the patronage in whole or part of over 90 parishes.  John 17: 14 They are not of the world any more than I am of the world… 18 As you sent me into the world, I sent them into the world. SS Cornelius and Cyprian were both martyrs, but thy are linked together because of their correspondence on the nature of the church. Ecclesiology is suddenly the issue of the moment. As someone said to me the other day, how refreshing that people are standing for General Synod on issues other than sex.  The issue our saints were considering was the nature of the primacy of Peter, and the seniority of the Bishop of Rome. Later centuries have viewed the correspondence through the prism of later debates, but it seems - at least to Orthodox theologians - that the African Bishop Cyprian may have begun with a more ‘modern’ and ‘western’ view ...