There is a good deal of chatter and not a little activity among some evangelicals about "false teachers"and the need to purify and re-reform the church. It is focused of course by the Bishop of New Hampshire's existence and by the determination of the diocese of New Westminster in Canada to provide liturgical rites for …
Continue reading Waiting for someone to sort it out – a blog from 2009
We were going to get the train and were the only people on the down escalator at Leicester Square. On the up escalator was a line of people. As we started down, we began to hear a man on the other side muttering "Queers". He looked at me as we passed, then started shouting repeatedly, …
I leaf through the blogs and websites most days, and I today I notice how women bishops and "gay marriage" are still stirring comment. I don't think there is going to be a ceasefire over Christmas. After what has been a dreadful year for the Church of England, with the census telling us of a …
I have been criticised on Thinking Anglicans for using the Apartheid analogy to explain why I don't think simply calling something a "deeply held theological conviction" is enough to exempt it from criticism and make it deserving of respect. Here is why I don't think it was a cheap shot at the end of a …
Lurking behind some of the commentary following Tuesday's rejection of the Measure allowing women to become bishops is a piece of linkage that needs examining. Some of the resistance to women in the episcopate was coloured (to put it no more strongly than that) by a fear that admitting that the people who hold up …
I hear a good deal from thse who hold the minority position over women bishops about the need to respect the views and positions of their side as we go forward. Respect? I respect your right to hold the views you do. I respect your right to be part of the Church of England just …
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