Sometimes place names get meanings they would rather not. From now on, Orlando will always mean the Pulse massacre - the biggest loss of life in any American mass shooting in modern times. It will live like Sandy Hook, or Dunblane, or Hungerford in our consciousness of horror and terror. But it will not be as puzzling …
Tag: discrimination
Culture Wars and Christmas
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 …
Linkages
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 …
The day after…
Like so many others, I am astonished, shattered and angry at what happened at Synod yesterday. Unlike some, I have no complaint at the process. I accept that in the Church of England we set the bar high for significant and radical changes. I shall leave it to others to decide if the standard is …
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