Posted just now on the Archbishop of Canterbury’s website: Prizes for: a) what it might mean, and b) the most imaginative way that the Daily Mail will turn this into “an excoriating attack on David Cameron’s government by an out-of-touch … Continue reading
Once again, I discover a change in the legal status of the things I am supposed to do, as a clergyman in the Church of England, by listening to the Today programme on Radio 4. Now, apparently, the House of … Continue reading
Actually, the question is not so much about the Ordinariate as about the legal advice prepared for the next meeting of General Synod, and placed on the intertubes here. Commendably clear (and uncompromising), the basic tenor of the piece is … Continue reading
Today an email from Amazon, noting my purchasing pattern, and based upon the purchasing patterns of other discerning consumers, suggesting a book I might like to buy. Rowan Williams and careers advice? There’s a neat combination!
Charles Gore, (1853–1932), bishop of Worcester, first bishop of Birmingham, bishop of Oxford, on the episcopate: The whole atmosphere of the episcopate is manipulation of details and avoidance of big principles.1 G L. Prestige, The life of Charles Gore; a great … Continue reading
The BBC reports the Lambeth Conference march of witness, and finishes the report with an appeal for photographs: But that’s impossible! Imagine taking photos of a procession of bishops without endangering yourself or others! Simply can’t be done. Leave it … Continue reading
I never really wanted 3MT to be a repository of sermons, but I have weakened. This is based on a sermon preached yesterday in St Stephen’s Church, Canterbury, in the light of the meeting of the Lambeth Conference, which is … Continue reading
The fringe entertainment has yet really begun at the conference (despite the World’s Greatest Living Ecclesiastical Conference Cartoonist’s attempts at liturgical dancing and pigeon killing). The fringe will begin with the conference moving out of retreat next week. In the … Continue reading
With the bishops retreating to the cathedral, today the campus of UKC was curiously deserted, inhabited only by the bishop’s wives1 (I would say “spouse”, being a good Guardian-reading liberal, but I didn’t see anyone who wasn’t a wife!): There … Continue reading
Well they’ve only gone and done it. The pile of bishops arrived today, finding themselves, bewildered, in the University of Kent’s equivalent to Heathrow Terminal 5: Once meeted, they were greeted (with “difficult” bishops being identified by specially trained volunteers) … Continue reading
