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  • New Year Predictions 2015

    Here are my New Year Predictions for 2015

     

    1. Those who voted YES in the Scottish Referendum will continue to behave as though they won. This may be unhelpful.
    2. Those who voted NO in the Scottish Referendum will continue to behave as thought he referendum never happened. This may be unhelpful.
    3. There will, I fear, be a Tory Prime Minister at the end of 2015.
    4. The Liberal Democrats will retain 10 – 14 seats in the House of Commons.
    5. Nick Clegg will lose his seat and be Lord Clegg by the end of the year.
    6. The Labour Party will not be led by a Milliband by the end of the year.
    7. The Church of Scotland will begin a new procedure under the barrier act to determine whether to accept ministers in same-sex partnerships who are married (ie not merely in Civil Partnerships).
    8. There will be legal victories for those seeking to extend Civil Partnerships to straight couples.
    9. Elizabeth Warren will become a household name.
    10. (Some) straight liberals will lead the charge (such as it is) for (something less than) LGBT equality, (sometimes). Believe it or not, I’m excited by this and it is an improvement. [Remember that in 2011 I predicted that “No straight liberal in the church will feel the need to sacrifice anything at all for the gay friends they purport to support.” Things are changing a bit].
    11. Advances in e-learning in churches.

3 responses to “Pic”

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    Kelvin

    Re: Pic
    Find that pic quite spooky, makes them look like a cult.
    what a wierd bunch we piscys are at times.

    Why are some of the Bishops trying to look over their own mitre whilst others wear it like a party hat?

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    Anonymous

    Re: Pic
    Wasn’t me either. Good effort. I also see that “consecration dates” — surely “ordination”! — are given only for those ordained bishop this year.

    The pic can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Episcopal_church

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    Anonymous

    Re: Pic
    Well, who knows what a consecration really is? It was put about in this diocese that a consecration was the combination of an Episcopal ordination and the installation of a bishop in his cathedra. However, the Edinburgh diocesan site claims that +Brian was consecrated when he became a suffragan.

    Other dates should be added to the wikipedia page by those who know them.

    Also, I realised last night that there is no wikipedia page for +Richard H – action needed by someone.

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