3 responses to “So out of touch”
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The *other* half of that `presbyterian model’ quote is truly barf-worthy especially given several unpleasant incidents hitting the press in the past 6 months.
I think `Whenever there are progressive values around’ might be happening at the level of society as a whole, not just in churches, though.
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I’d rather like to think that it would be obvious to people in the various churches that no one system owns a “reflection, consultation, debate and discernment” model. Such ways of working can be found in different churches. Failures to work in such ways call also be found in different church systems.
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We are hijacked by people who scream and scream until they are sick (they can, you know) and lack the guts to say ‘Here is the bucket’. The attempt to ‘keep all the balls in the holes’ shows a total lack of any grasp of what leadership means.
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Shoe roundup
A quick roundup of news on the shoe question. Eileen the Episcopali-fem has posted a glorious gallery of footwear which might, or hopefully in some cases might not, be seen in the sanctuary. Madpriest thinks it is all a question of context. Tim, over in Canada has posted a pic of the most glorious liturgical…
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Tell the PM
The news is full this morning of the story that a prominent cleric has written to the government threatening to close adoption agencies if the government proceeds with its perverse idea that everyone in the UK should be treated equally. So, unless the government does what he wants, he will take actions which will cause…
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Shoes again
I somehow knew that the Brown Shoes topic would generate so many comments. Debate continues here: http://thurible.net/20070119/brown-shoes/
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Sermon – Epiphany 3
It is just about a year since I came here to meet the vestry for us to discern together whether I should offered the call to be the Provost here. A day had been arranged for a number of candidates to meet the vestry, to chat to the other clergy, to meet the office staff…
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