So, back to routine after a long blogging break over the summer.
While this blog has been inactive there have been significant developments of deep concern to Anglicans in Wales: the 'two-tier approach' taken by the Bishops and the Governing Body in their latest attempt to induce the Holy Spirit to allow women bishops, and several reported statements which, if I am interpreting them rightly, herald the imminent dismantling of the parochial system in the Church in Wales. [here and here].
My initial reaction is to be extremely sceptical about those approaching retirement from active ministry (or who have already reached it) who advocate 'radical' change with which they will not have to live.
More comment later, when time permits, but the following video (of Feste's valedictory song, which ends Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, here in Trevor Nunn's film adaptation) perhaps sums up my current mood fairly well ('But that's all one, our play is done...' in the original text, anyway)
Although it could just apply to today's very equinoctial weather....
'My initial reaction is to be extremely sceptical about those approaching retirement from active ministry (or who have already reached it) who advocate 'radical' change with which they will not have to live.'
ReplyDeleteInteresting point ... I think a very useful study might be done on those who have managed to set in motion what might be termed 'social experiments' both in the Church & wider society the consequences of which could not possibly be known within their lifetimes ... and it would be particularly interesting to focus in this hypothetical study of how the outcomes these 'radicals' predicted for these changes compared with the reality ...