What is in Kelvin's Head?

Predictions 2026

01/01/2026
1. A rocky road to the enthronement of the next Archbishop of Canterbury.
2. Further turmoil and scandal in the Anglican Episcopates of the United Kingdom.
3. No progress for those hoping for Equal Marriage in the Church of England.
4. More talk about the Quiet Revival which will continue not to show up in denominational statistics.
5. Success for BBC Farage TV as Reform make great gains in the May elections
6. Despite its record in government, the SNP get about 60 seats in the new Scottish Parliament.
7. Because of its record in government, the Labour party gets terrible results and there is an attempt to remove Keir Starmer as leader.
8. Despite its record both in and out of government the Democratic Party does well in the November elections in the USA.
9. Stock market has another volatile year but ends up on this year, but not by much. FTSE is 9,931 at the start of the year.
10. 2026 is the hottest year ever recorded.
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22 responses to “What is really going on in the Church of England”

David

18/02/2017

Kelvin, thank you for your prophetic honesty. Living in Canada, I was shaken by how deeply I was emotionally involved this past week. But then as a friend suggested, one was simply living the reality of being joined in the living Body of Christ.

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Treblef

18/02/2017

Kelvin, thanks for the brilliant comments, as ever helping to unpick the knots. When do you think the Church will start recognising that some people are required to be celibate whatever their sexuality? When will they start to give loving support to those who have no one in their lives to share with, whether LGBTI or straight?

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1. Kelvin
  
  18/02/2017
  
  I think that the church does recognise that some people are called to celibacy. There’s quite a rich discourse about this from within and far beyond the religious orders.
  
  I’m not sure that the church does so well with single people however.
  
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  1. UkViewer
    
    18/02/2017
    
    If someone is single, what distinguishes them from someone who is celibate?
    
    Unless one or other wears a badge proclaiming their status, it’s difficult to understand the only difference is their being available for having a relationship or not?
    
    I suppose that those in celibate relationships will also be indistinguishable from those couples (straight or gay) who live in full relationships.
    
    I am unsure why those who wish to keep the same sex relationship in the closet are bothering to fight a fight, which in the longer term, they must know they will not win.
    
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Jeremy Pemberton

18/02/2017

Kelvin,
It is probably only fair to tell you that the negotiations between LGCM and CA went on for over two years. So, prescient though you are, others were already engaged in doing what I think everyone could see was a desirable reunion from quite a long time ago.

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1. Kelvin
  
  18/02/2017
  
  That Jeremy – I wasn’t trying to suggest it was me wot done it. More that it was me wot was pleased at the outcome.
  
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S. Thomas

19/02/2017

Strange world – when otherwise balanced, kind, Christian people – with a (so-called) ‘phobia’ – are criminalized and persecuted, hounded and made to feel even more uncomfortable about their inherent spiritual / psychological / moral disposition. To what other phobias might this be response be reasonably applied?

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1. James Byron
  
  19/02/2017
  
  “Homophobia” isn’t usually meant literally. Maybe not the best term, but the one that’s entered common use.
  
  As for criminalized, the definition of “homophobia” used by English prosecutors — homophobia is wholly subjective, and means whatever a person thinks it means — has no weight in any court of law: it’s a recording tool. Actual English laws against “hatred” on grounds of sexual orientation set the bar so high that anything much short of threatening violence is likely to fall short. Conservative Christians were so un-persecuted that they got a special section inserted to clarify that the could continue to condemn homosexuality and try and heal LGBT people to their heart’s content.
  
  Personally I’d have one of those hypothetical reasonable persons define what homophobia is. Institutional discrimination, labeling gay relationships as sinful, and disciplining same-sex couples who wed would certainly quality.
  
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Scott Smith

01/03/2017

Kelvin, I get the impression that there is no compromise position between the two sides — that ultimately, one side will have to totally capitulate for the Church to get beyond this issue. Would you agree? If so, do you think both sides are aware of that?

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1. Kelvin
  
  02/03/2017
  
  No – I wouldn’t entirely agree in that I don’t see this as being about two sides. It is far more complex than that.
  
  What I see is a church where the bloc of those who have traditionally been opposed to equality for LGBT people is fragmenting and doing so fairly quickly.
  
  The ecclesiastical solution to this is for people to recognise that people who have different views to themselves are fully Christian and that this is merely something upon which Christians disagree. Gradually, different churches and different provinces within Anglicanism are coming to this view. This is not surprising as it is fairly basic common sense.
  
  If there are going to be losers in this, those who are determined to demand that the whole church reflects their own view are inevitably those who are going to lose.
  
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