Tag: Church of England

Sharing The Peace (Then Being Right Haddocks)

Jan 11, 2011

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KB

in Church, Emerging Church, Theology

Interesting piece by Damian Thompson in the Daily Telegraph (HT Dave Walker) about the perils of ‘sharing the peace.’ I particularly like ‘Spock Papist’s comment: I guess the idea is that you shake hands and show affection to your neighbour for 1 minute in the week. Then you can go back to being a right…
The Fundamental Thing About Women That Means They CANNOT Be Bishops

Jul 12, 2010

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by

KB

in Church, Emerging Church, Philosophy, Theology

I’ve been following the discussions that have been going on in the Church of England recently over the issue of whether women should be able to be bishops. It appears that the answer is going to be ‘no’. Or, at least, ‘not yet.’ What I’ve not quite been able to tease out is precisely why.…