Photo: M. Hitchcott. I have had cause previously to comment on the utter gullibility of some clergy and members of the laity in the Church, but here we have yet another classic case to support my claim. It has come to public attention this week in the UK that we now have some clergy enthusiastically …
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Oh no. Here we go again. The Archbishop of Canterbury is once more in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Where to start? The Lord High Admiral of HMS Church of England has been opening his mouth at the current COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow. One is tempted to ask why he is …
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Last week I made a complaint to the BBC about the language used on one of their programmes. Not on the news, or in a drama, or from a member of the public sounding off on camera. No. It was a complaint about Strictly Come Dancing (that's Dancing With The Stars for US readers). Yes, …
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Credit: Blake Ezra Photography Another day, another apology from the Archbishop of Canterbury. Is this now his principal role? As Apologizer In Chief? Oh wait...that sounds familiar....yes, it's only a few weeks since I wrote those very words when commenting on a previous 'apology'. Good grief. Here we go again. One has to ask - …
Continue reading Archbishop Welby apologizes again: for anti-semitic laws from 800 years ago
Bishop Paul Bayes (Liverpool) In late June, Bishop Paul Bayes (Liverpool) made a keynote speech to the first National MOSAIC Conference. No, I hadn't heard of MOSAIC either. Apparently it is 'a church coalition which brings together campaigns on issues of race, ability, sexuality, gender and gender identity', according to the Church Times. You can …
Continue reading Bishop Bayes: ‘Let the world set the agenda for the Church of England’
Readers may be familiar with the phrase 'Critical Theory'. This wonderful expression is being bandied about more and more in the media. Sadly, also in the Church. Typically, we see comments, citing CT, coming from people who have little or no idea what it actually means - including Church leaders. So - let's have a …
John Smyth QC, died 2018. Another day, another apology from the Archmuppet of Canterbury. Is this now his principal role? As Apologizer In Chief? I wouldn't mind so much if most of the apologies themselves were ever meaningful and couched in plain English. But most of them seem to have the sticky fingerprints of legal …
Continue reading Archbishop Welby’s apology to John Smyth’s victims
I've been chewing over the latest failure of leadership to strike HMS Church of England and trying to find the right words to describe what I am seeing. You know you have a problem when the words you are juggling with include all of the following: amoralimmoralmorally weakmorally bankruptunethical The Rev Dr Bernard Randall was, …
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Reading the recent 'independent' report into the case of Jonathan Fletcher, one-time vicar of Emmanuel Church, Wimbledon (ECW), is enough to make you despair. And not only of the failings of the Church of England, the Diocese of Southwark and all the other mitred and robed 'usual suspects' involved. Nobody emerges from this disaster unscathed …
Continue reading Jonathan Fletcher and the CofE: here’s another fine mess
Here’s a thought, dear readers. Imagine, if you will, the responses from the media, ‘social justice “warriors”’, left-wing politicians and all the usual suspects to the following news item: “Two White teens aged 14 and 16 years are now facing second-degree murder charges after allegedly setting on fire a 53-year old Black man in his …
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