Some news stories following the Bank Holiday weekend.....
Latest Church of England worshipping figures [here] a 'curate's egg' if ever there was one. Not wholly negative but, of course, people do like going to church at Christmas - it forms part of that seasonal experience...
"Eastern imperialism" - how the new great power on the block tries to extend it's influence - it's the "economy, stupid!" [here]
From Scotland on Sunday [here] former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, urges evangelicals in the Church of Scotland not to walk away over the ordination of non-celibate homosexuals to the Kirk's ministry. Is there a Gaelic word for indaba? Anyway, keep the frog talking until the water boils; it may not always be the intention, but the end result is the same....
Miranda Thelfall-Holmes ties herself in knots over the question of the two-thirds majority requirement for final synodical legislation [here] Horror of horrors, the Anglican Covenant, that doomed experiment in trying to fit brakes to a runaway vehicle, might have succeeded ....
What about a more radical suggestion? - Suspend synodical government altogether. To adapt the old BT commercial, it's not always good to talk ... (and its lethal to vote....)
And an interesting exchange about 'modern' traditionalism and (in the pre-reformation sense) 'conciliar Catholicism' [here] Of appeal to those of us who are essentially - and desperately unfashionably these days - 'mass and office' Anglo-Catholics.
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