Following on from my previous post about clergy being banned from the bedsides of patients in the current crisis, things continue to develop. Various clergy around the country have been expressing their frustration with the ongoing ban on them entering their own churches; news of the bedside-ban on voluntary chaplains seems to have heaped even …
English Archbishops: Zeitgeist or Holy Geist?
Zeitgeist = 'Spirit of the age' or 'Spirit of the times'. Holy Geist = don't bother asking an archbishop (or archbishop-designate) as they probably won't know. Talking via email last week to the admirable Ian Paul, I happened to comment that criticizing the Church of England at the moment is as easy as shooting fish …
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Keep calm and buy loo rolls
Ah, the great British blitz spirit. Long gone, apparently, in certain sections of our population. The TV-drivel-fed, media-influenced hordes nowadays seem to have no will to engage their brains before acting like lemmings in supermarkets and pharmacies. Who knew that the go-to items to buy in the face of the Black Death would be …
Welby and Sentamu: a masterclass in moral relativism
Photo by banphote kamolsanei from Pexels Well, folks - especially we Anglicans - isn’t it great to know that in a time of national crisis, we can rely on the leaders of our Church to speak out the truth? To point people in the direction of faith in Jesus? To tell people how to get …
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Same-sex marriage survey: another comedy of interpretive errors
Dear God, here we go again. I suppose we ought to be grateful that the Ozanne Foundation (OF) has at least had the sense to commission some work from YouGov this time, rather than repeat the car crash that was its attempt at research in late 2018 (the Faith and Sexuality Survey). The new Same …
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The new fundamentalism: Lux Politica Rectitudo
I suppose most thinking people would tend to agree that we now live in a largely secular world, in which folks who actively follow a religion are becoming a minority - certainly in the developed world. The religion that is practised in ‘the West’ is largely of a benign variety – very different from the …
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Clare Dimyon and breast screening: whatever happened to ‘patient choice’?
Ask any woman about going for a mammogram and she is likely to wince. These screening procedures are not pleasant, no matter what the situation. Try having your boobs painlessly squeezed and flattened into the scanner as you are manhandled by the operative. This can take several attempts and is often the most time-consuming section …
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BBC ‘impartiality’: the latest instalment
Well folks, here we go again. Just days after the BBC management caved in to the complaints of some well-known BAME shouters who did not like the fact that a ‘person of colour’ had been censured for breaching impartiality in her presenting role – Naga Munchetty – we get further evidence of the BBC’s version …
Resisting Whiteness or Resisting Racism?
Would you believe that here in our country – and it’s 2019, remember – an event is being held today where a group of people are being told they cannot ask questions from the floor of the meeting and are being prevented from entering a particular safe space room at the event due to the …
UK democracy: a law of unintended consequences?
What we now apparently have in the UK is government by the courts. The ruling of the Supreme Court this week (24/9/19) has, in effect, ruled that we no longer have a constitutional monarchy and that courts can overturn the decisions of the government. According to the judgment handed down yesterday, the Queen’s Order in …
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