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 …
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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 …
Continue reading Inter-racial crime: media double standards?
So once again Our Great Leader (peace be upon him) the Archmuppet of Canterbury, is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Meghan, the meal-ticket Duchess, has graciously bestowed upon we plebs the juicy titbit that she and Harry were actually married three days before their £32 million nuptials in Windsor in 2018. For …
Hot on the heels of its designation of St Mary-at-Lambeth as the first 'eco-church', our increasingly political Church leadership (I use the term loosely) has now updated one of its biggest relevance-chasing wheezes by appointing a new bishop for climate change: 'The Bishop of Norwich, Graham Usher, has accepted the invitation of the Archbishop of …
Continue reading A lead-bishop for climate change: the CofE political party
There continues to be a range of responses in the media (official and social) to the tweet about Captain Tom that was made last week by Jarel Robinson-Brown. Predictably, the furore is now the responsibility of everyone else - indeed, anyone else - but the Reverend in question. As usual, we are seeing a mass …
The Rev Jarel Robinson-Brown has recently been appointed as curate at All Hallows By The Tower in London. Given the news today, one can only ask questions of those who approved him for training as a priest in the first place and those who later opened a curacy place for him. Call me naive, but …
St Mary at Lambeth, next door to Lambeth Palace (red brick) For the latest lunacy emanating from the Church of England, look no further than this. In today’s Times, the following headline announces: 'Eco church St Mary-at-Lambeth seeks shepherd and flock' Yes, you did read that correctly. An old church (see old painting, above) close …
Continue reading Eco-Church: just what we need to solve life’s problems in Lambeth
In 2011, I was privileged to do some work in Tunisia. Part of this involved developing some educational presentations with a Tunisian science professor. What was most memorable to me was not the science we were working on, but her experiences and thoughts on the recent (January 2011) revolution that triggered what is known as …
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