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Middle East visit angers some
DESPITE A BUSY schedule that saw him
meeting with Christian and other religious
leaders and opening a church-run diabetes
clinic in Ramallah, Archbishop Justin
Welby was criticised for not visiting
Nazareth and Bethlehem and the Christians who live there during his visit to
Israel and the occupied territories last
week.
Hanan Ashrawi, a well-known Palestinian
politician as well as an Anglican, said the
Archbishop “should have reached out to
Palestinian Christians. He should meet
people and talk to them and see the impact
of the occupation and confiscation of land.”
Archbishop Welby began his visit to the
Middle East by going to Egypt where he
met the head of the Coptic Church, His
Holiness Pope Tawadros II as well as other
Christian and Muslim leaders. Pope
Tawadros and the Archbishop expressed
their delight that the Anglican-Oriental
Orthodox dialogue is to resume later in the
year.
On Wednesday the Archbishop flew to
Jordan where he met with the Jordanian
foreign minister. Last November King
Abdullah visited Lambeth Palace.
The following day the Archbishop flew to
Jerusalem where he prayed at the Western
Wall and visited the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre. At a reception at St George’s
Cathedral the Archbishop said it was
essential that Jerusalem remains an ‘open
city’ and that Christians, Muslims and Jews
have ‘full access’ to their holy sites.
The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, the Rt
Rev Suheil Dawani, told the Archbishop he
was ‘deeply grateful’ for his presence in the
city. The Archbishop told Christian leaders
gathered at St George’s that there was no
other way to peace than ‘finding each
other’s humanity, recognising it, and seeing in it the image of God’.
Travelling to Ramallah, where he dedicated a diabetes clinic, the Archbishop
passed through a checkpoint where he
spoke to observers from the Ecumenical
Accompaniment Programme in Palestine
and Egypt. Later he spoke of the need for
‘security and peace for the Palestinian people. It is a need that is shared by all the people of the region’.
Referring to the checkpoints that Palestinians have to pass through to move
between different areas of the West Bank
and into Israel, the Archbishop spoke of
the ‘frequent indignities that are suffered
by people who deserve only dignity and
respect, like all human beings should
have’.
Minister Ziad Bandak, adviser on Christian relations to Palestinian President,
Mahmoud Abbas, who attended the clinic
dedication, said: “We look up to the Archbishop of Canterbury to strengthen the
local church in Palestine and the Holy
Land, and to support the Christian presence in the land of Christ.”
As well as meeting Christian leaders,
President Shimon Peres and political leaders in Israel, the Archbishop also met with
the Chief Rabbinate and other religious
leaders.
He was given a tour of the Dome of the
Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque and visited
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Israel’s Holocaust memorial with his wife,
Caroline, and their son, Peter. The Archbishop’s Jewish family fled to the UK over a
hundred years ago to escape anti-Semitism
in Germany.
He described his visit to the museum as
‘an extraordinary emotional and personal
moment’.
Speaking to reporters he emphasised
‘his very clear emotions and feeling that
the state of Israel is a legitimate state’ and
that it ‘has a right to exist in security and
peace within internationally agreed boundaries’. He added that the same applies to all
people in the region ‘without exception’.
Lambeth Palace is understood to be concerned that the controversy over the Archbishop’s failure to visit Nazareth and
Bethlehem has overshadowed what was
considered to be otherwise a very successful visit.
There have been reports that Lambeth
Palace is to appoint a new Director of Communications to improve relations with the
media. It is usual for the local church to be
consulted before the Archbishop makes an
overseas visit. It is not known whether the
Diocese in Jerusalem advised the Archbishop of the importance of visiting
Nazareth and Bethlehem.
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Sunday July 7, 2013
News
Durham celebrates Gospel return
A 1,000-MEMBER choir sang in
a special concert in Durham
Cathedral on Sunday to welcome the Lindisfarne gospels
back to the North East. It was a
day of high emotion as the
gospels written by Eadfrith,
Bishop of Lindisfarne between
698 and 721, returned to
Durham University’s Palace
Green library, only a few yards
from the cathedral and Cuthbert’s tomb.
The gospels were taken by
the monks when they were
forced to leave Lindisfarne
because of Viking invaders and
after travelling around the
North of England found a home
in Durham, together with Cuthbert’s body, where they
remained until the 16th Century.
They are now kept in the
British Library but have gone
on display in Durham in a special exhibition for three months.
The Dean of Durham, the
Very Rev Michael Sadgrove,
told Sky News that the return of
the gospels was ‘a real Durham
homecoming’. He described the
event as ‘hugely significant not
only for Durham but for the
North East’.
More than 300 Lindisfarnerelated activities are taking
place throughout the North
East to coincide with the exhibition. They range from special
services in Durham Cathedral
to performances by international artists. The exhibition runs
from 1 July-30 September. More
than 21,000 tickets have already
been sold for the exhibition.
Other treasures are also on
display, including the copy of
the Gospel of John found by
Cuthbert’s head when his coffin
was exhumed. It is the oldest
surviving book in Europe with
passages thought to have been
read at the saint’s funeral service. It was sold last year to the
British Library for £9 million.
The Book of the Lindisfarne
Gospels was last seen in
Durham in 1987 when it was
displayed to mark the 1,300
anniversary of Cuthbert’s
death. It was exhibited in Newcastle’s Laing Gallery in 2000 to
mark the millennium.
In 2009 experts decided that
each page should be displayed
no more than once every five
years and that the book should
be loaned no more than one
year in seven. There is a longrunning campaign to secure the
book’s permanent return to the
North East.
News from
your diocese
Your Church
Hereford: A Shropshire church is inviting keen photographers to take part in a picture competition all about their
village and church. St John the Baptist church in Middleton Scriven, a village five miles south west of Bridgnorth
off the B4364, is taking part in the Festival of Churches.
They are asking anyone with a camera to choose a category and take pictures of the village and Parish, local landscape or flora and fauna of Middleton Scriven and enter
their competition. Exhibits will be on show during the Festival of Churches on 14-15 September. Organisers are willing to accept pictures up until 5pm on 13 September. “The
idea, once we have photos, is that visitors to the exhibition
vote for their favourites, so we are encouraging anyone
and everyone to take part so we have a good choice for
voters,” said Ann Constable, one of the organisers. “We
hope we will get some good entries because the best 12
pictures are going to make up the 2014 Middleton Scriven
calendar.”
Southwell & Nottingham: Nottingham Citizens, a new
broad-based alliance of civil society in Nottingham held its
Founding Assembly at the Albert Hall, North Circus
Street, Nottingham, last Thursday. Over 900 people, from
38 local institutions gathered to celebrate the founding of
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Nottingham Citizens and do business with political and
business leaders from the City and County. The alliance is
made up of churches, trade union branches, mosques,
schools, university departments, local federations and
associations. It is a dues-based organisation committed to
listening, planning and acting together for the common
good of the city. The Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham, together with Unison, Unite the Union, the Karimia
Institute, Himmah, Grace Church, St Nic’s, The Christian
Centre, Trent Vineyard Church, and Nottingham Trent
University were founding sponsors of the alliance, which
uses the model of broad-based community organising pioneered by CitizensUK. The Rt Rev Paul Butler, Bishop of
Southwell & Nottingham attended, saying: “I am thrilled
that Nottingham Citizens has reached this point. The Diocese has been pleased to be involved from the very outset.
I am convinced that Nottingham Citizens has a vital role to
play in the well being of our city and county in the coming
years.”
Winchester: At a service on 7 July at 3.30pm new tapestries will be dedicated for the High Altar of Winchester
Cathedral. Formed of a frontal and a dorsal, they have
been designed by Maggi Hambling CBE and made at the
Durham Cathedral and
below Lindisfarne
Gospels Community
Choir
Ateliers Pinton in the Aubusson region of France. The
result is fitting for the setting of the Cathedral’s High Altar
in front of the magnificent 15th Century Screen. The tapestries will be dedicated by the Dean of Winchester, the
Very Rev James Atwell, at this year’s Winchester Festival
Evensong. These tapestries, the artist’s first, reflect Hambling’s response to the energy of the sea. Each panel
depicts a long wave as it reaches the shore: the frontal at
night and the dorsal at either sunrise or sunset. These panels combine to produce a perpetual cycle of light to dark,
day to night, land to water and earth to sea. They take up
the image of creation in the first chapter of the Book of
Genesis and the power of the sea in the psalms. Maggi
Hambling said: “Each wave can be seen as a self-regenerative force, untamable by man, but speaking of the power of
God.”
York: The Vicar of Clifton, the Rev David Casswell, will be
exhibiting some of his art work at City Screen, York from
2-17 July. Dave’s exhibition, a mixture of portraits and life
drawings, will be on display in the Riverside Café-Bar at
City Screen. The Rev David Casswell said: “I have been
painting and drawing portraits and life drawing for about
15 years. I love charcoal, water colour and ink.”
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Oxford ruling prompts call
In response to last week’s sentencing at the
Old Bailey of seven men found guilty of
seriously sexually exploiting six girls in
Oxford, The Children’s Society chief executive, Matthew Reed, said: “We must make
sure that we never see a repeat of the years
of long-term abuse and many missed
opportunities we have seen in Oxford and
in places like Rochdale and Rotherham.
“Care homes, the police, social workers
and health workers all need to get better at
spotting the signs of abuse. And they need
to urgently change their attitude to vulnerable, exploited teenage girls, who are being
routinely dismissed as ‘troublesome’ or
‘promiscuous’ or as having made life style
choices.”
The Children’s Society has several programmes that directly support hundreds of
children and young people who are victims
or at risk of sexual exploitation.
Aid commitment defended by charity
The US-based International Religious
Freedom (IRF) Roundtable, a multi-faith network of organizations and
individuals advocating for
freedom of religion or
belief, published a letter
last week. They called on
the US government to
further protect and promote international religious freedom,
expressing the RF Roundtable’s concern “regarding the current state of
international religious
freedom (IRF), which is
one of deepening crisis.”
It includes recommendations “on how the United States can strengthen
its IRF policy such that
freedom of religion, conscience, and belief — the
foundation of human dignity — is protected and
promoted, resulting in
reduced persecution and
repression, as well as
greater security and stability worldwide.”
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Paul Cook, Advocacy Director for Tearfund, has responded to
last week’s comprehensive spending review by the government, saying: “This Government has bravely held fast to their
promise to allocate 0.7 per cent of our country’s income to
help the world’s poorest people to find their way out of poverty. Thanks to our country’s compassion, millions of children
will live beyond infancy and have the opportunity to build a
healthy and prosperous life and move beyond aid dependency.
“But climate change brings new pressures and we’re seeing
the effects of rapid and unpredictable changes to weather patterns in many low and middle income countries.
“Too often it feels as though our politicians prioritise short
term growth ahead of long term sustainability because of
immediate pressures but this is a false trade-off. We mustn’t
choose between economic, environmental and social development if we’re to live in a safe and prosperous world for years
to come.”
Adventurer Bear Grylls has sent a personal message
to young North-East cadets, penning a note to members of the Durham Army Cadet Force (ACF),
which was printed inside the cover of their free copies of his
new book: A Survival Guide for Life.
It says: “To the cadets and adult volunteers of Durham
ACF, enjoy the read! It is all about how to grab life and live it
boldly! Live more and fear less! Stay well, Bear.”
The Rev Michael Volland, padre to Durham ACF, said:
“Bear is an inspiration to millions of young people. His
strength of character, positive thinking and grounded faith in
God come across really well in this excellent book.
“Bear’s interest in our cadets is fantastic and I hope they
benefit from reading it.”
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Ahead of the last opportunity for the Welsh
Assembly to amend the Human Transplantation Bill on 2 July, a ‘soft opt-out’ of organ
donation, a ComRes poll commissioned by
the charity CARE has found that 94 per
cent of people say that when someone dies
without expressly deciding to donate or not
to donate, the family should either decide
what happens with respect to donation or
have a right to object to organs being
taken.
Dan Boucher, CARE’s Wales Public
Affairs Officer, said: “This poll reveals overwhelming support for the family being
involved in the decision about what should
happen to a relative’s organs when the
deceased’s views are unknown, which creates a major problem for the Welsh Government.
“Shockingly, in May it amended the Bill
to make it clear that where the deceased’s
views are unknown there is no role for the
family in deciding what happens to
organs.”
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Church anger over
Lawrence claims
By Amaris Cole
THE CHURCH of England says the latest
Stephen Lawrence allegations prove that
institutional racism is a ‘sickening reality’
for young black and ethnic minority
Anglicans, and calls for a full, open
inquiry into what went on.
The Committee for Minority Anglican
Concerns has released a statement following the claims that police tried to
smear the Lawrence family in the days
and weeks after the murder of their son,
rather than concentrate on finding his
attackers.
The Church group said: “These new
allegations do, sadly, resonate with the
belief of many black and minority ethnic
Anglicans that institutional racism within
UK policing is not simply an entry in the
history books, but a sickening reality
today.
“A reality they attest to through their
experience of encounters with police officers and which is statistically backed up
by the wholly disproportionate figures for
the use of ‘Stop and Search’ among young
black people. These are things that can
undermine confidence in all policing.”
The statement said the revelations have
undermined the public’s confidence in
the police’s pledge to tackle racism, and
that the ‘serious allegations that our
police services remain tainted by the
presence, across the ranks, of those who
are prepared to collude, right up to the
present day, in a cover up of massive proportions’.
“If true, the allegations that have
emerged in recent days would show
beyond doubt that we are not just hearing
the revelation that some police officers
behaved appallingly to the family and
friends of a murder victim 20 years ago.
“In the light of what has been alleged,
many people are now concluding that significant numbers of police officers, including some at senior level, knew of, and
approved of, what was happening. The
belief that this was not just a few bad
apples but a rottenness at the core of UK
policing needs to be tested by a full, open
and independent investigation, now,” it
said.
The group went on to offer its help,
pledging to ‘stand ready to play any part
we can in the process of discovery, admission of fault, penitence and commitment
to finding a new and better future which
lies at the heart of all that we, as Christians, stand for.’
Following the accusations, the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, has
announced that he believed he was
bugged and placed under surveillance by
the police during the Macpherson
Inquiry, which found the police to be
institutionally racist.
Church tackles banking problems
FOLLOWING Archbishop
Justin Welby’s attack on
payday loan companies
there are reports that he
has gathered a team of
experts to look at ways in
which the Church of England can deploy some of its
resources to assist credit
unions while the Church
Commissioners are said to
have joined a consortium
seeking to gain control of
the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Small, local groups
could be invited to use
church
premises
as
branches. A nationwide
campaign will encourage
church members to volunteer to help their local
credit unions. The church
is even looking at setting
up its own credit union.
Malcolm Brown, Church
of England Director of
Mission and Public Affairs,
told the ‘Sunday Times’
that the plan was to challenge payday lenders
through the market rather
than through regulation
and legislation. He commented: “This is probably
a 10-year project and we
are in about the third
month,” but added that
clergy have been pushing
the church to set up a
credit union for some time.
The Competition Commission has announced an
investigation of payday
loan companies, including
Wonga and the Money
Shop. There are more than
500 credit unions in
Britain, lending small
sums to their members
who must have a ‘common
bond’ to the other members such as living in the
same locality or working
for the same organisation.
Speaking recently in the
House of Lords, Archbishop Welby said that the
Church could play a role in
the development of credit
unions, making use of its
16,000 branches in 9,000
communities, ‘even more
than the banks’.
NHS trusts decline to maintain presence of chaplains
NHS CHAPLAINCY is in decline, according to research
carried out by BBC Local Radio. The research shows that
nearly 40 per cent of Acute Hospital Trusts have fewer
Chaplains than they did in 2009 and that 47 per cent have
reduced the hours that Chaplains are on duty.
BBC Local Radio sent Freedom of Information requests
to 163 Acute Hospital Trust, with 98 per cent (160)
responding.
A quarter of trusts have actually increased their chaplaincy hours but overall there has been a reduction in
hours of 8.4 per cent.
Where chaplains have left in the past five years they
have not been replaced in 36 per cent of cases. Where
chaplains have been replaced, 46 per cent of those appointed are on a lower pay band or fewer hours.
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Hospital chaplains come from a range of denominations.
Unlike the Prison Service and the Armed Forces, there is
no obligation for hospitals to appoint chaplains although
chaplaincy has been a feature of the NHS since its inception 65 years ago.
A spokesman for the NHS told the BBC: “Locally, NHS
trusts are responsible for delivering religious and spiritual
care in a way that meets the diverse needs of patients. Precisely how they do this is a matter for local determination.
There is guidance for the provision of chaplaincy services,
‘NHS Chaplaincy: Meeting the Religious and Spiritual
Needs of Patients and Staff’, to support Trusts and to
which NHS organisations are expected to adhere.
“Since responsibility for the service has been transferred to NHS England we are currently reviewing the
service, however it is still a matter for individual trusts and
faith leaders as to the level of service provided.”
Mark Burleigh, President of the College of Health Care
Chaplains, says that chaplaincy is part of the NHS duty of
care to patients. “The hospital is a secular place but
patients who come in, come with a religious faith. If the
hospital provides nothing for a person who has a religious
faith then they are failing that aspect of that person’s holistic care.”
He adds that: “I can’t say that Chaplaincy should be
immune from pressures faced by all departments in the
NHS,” but expresses his opinion that ‘safe and dependable
care’ can continue to be offered ‘as long as the understanding remains that the Chaplaincy service is a valuable
part of patient care’.
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Bishops call for
more safeguards
BISHOPS in the House of Lords have
called for additional safeguards in
equal marriage legislation to protect
Church schools and ensure that
expressing a traditional view of marriage did not in itself amount to discrimination or harassment.
The Bishop of Ripon and Leeds said
the Education Act 1996 placed a duty
on the Secretary of State to issue guidance designed to secure that when sex
education is given, pupils “learn the
nature of marriage and its importance
for family life and the bringing-up of
children”.
During committee stage in the
House of Lords of the Marriage (Same
Sex Couples) Bill Bishop John Packer
said the definition of marriage was
being redefined by the Bill and governing bodies and head teachers would be
required to have regard to the guidance using the new definition.
He said schools would have to teach
that legally marriage of same sex couples was lawful and there was no problem with that.
“As at present, homophobic bullying
must have no place in church or any
other schools,” he said.
“Discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation is usually expressly forbidden within a school’s code of
conduct and that must remain the
case.
“The Church of England’s established policy is that pupils should have
the opportunity to examine the full
range of views on same-sex relationships - including different Christian
views - and develop their own considered position.
“Within that atmosphere of open discussion, church schools must never-
theless be in a position to teach the
nature of marriage in a way that is in
accordance with the tenets of the
Church of England.
“The distinctive Christian ethos of
church schools will be undermined
unless that position is accommodated.
Exactly the same goes for schools that
belong to other religious traditions.”
He brought forward amendments to
the legislation to “achieve that accommodation”.
“What I seek is a provision which
ensures that the guidance itself
expressly recognises the need for
schools that have a religious character
to teach the nature of marriage in a
way that is in accordance with that
character,” he said.
“There is, rightly, guidance from the
Secretary of State about that policy,
and the school needs to take account
of it. It should not have to rely on the
Human Rights Act, but should actually
have it built into the guidance.
“Since we have guidance, it ought to
address this particular issue, rather
than the church schools being left in a
position of having to act in a way that is
not clear within the guidance.”
For the Government, Baroness
Stowell of Beeston said she was not
convinced there needed to be a change
in legislation to clarify the position but
she would continue to discuss the
issue with the Church.
Bishop Packer said he remained to
be convinced there was a not a problem and might return to the issue at a
later stage of the Bill’s passage
through the Lords.
The Bishop of Leicester called for an
addition to the Equality Act to make
clear expressing a traditional view of
marriage “does not of itself amount to
discrimination or harassment”.
Bishop Tim Stevens said some
recent high-profile cases had “highlighted where there is potential for risk
in a workplace context”.
He said: “If an amendment to the
Equality Act were introduced to put
beyond doubt that the expression by a
person of an opinion or belief about
traditional marriage did not of itself
amount to discriminating or harassing
another, that would provide reassurance and a degree of legal protection
for employers and employees and others who express their views in a reasonable way.
“Some may have concerns that this
amendment would give permission, as
it were, to those who wish to use language or justify practices that are antigay or homophobic. On these Benches
we are clear that we have absolutely no
truck with that.
“At root, this amendment is largely
about establishing cultural norms and
expectations about what will continue
to be acceptable in terms of public discourse about marriage.
“Its insertion into the Equality Act
2010 would signal that Parliament, as
ministers have often sought to reassure us, considered it to be acceptable
to maintain and express the traditional
understanding of marriage.
“As I go about the market towns and
villages of the heart of England in
Leicestershire, that is the view of marriage that people have grown up with
and are used to understanding. We
cannot expect those cultural assumptions and norms to change overnight
or at the speed at which legislation
may emerge.”
Call to extend civil partnerships
face losing their home.
Bishop Packer pointed to the “unfairness of the present
law with regard to both carers and also family members”.
The Government is already planning a review of civil
partnerships and he said the issue should be one of those
addressed.
“The point of having a review of the Civil Partnership Act
2004 is that, following the passage of this Bill, the circumstances of civil partnerships will be different,” he
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“That seems to me to be an ideal point at which to
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He questioned when, otherwise, the Government
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would look to “tackle the unfairness which everyone
seems to admit”.
THE BISHOP of Ripon and Leeds has called for the Government to consider extending civil partnerships to carers
and family members.
In the House of Lords some peers argued that, for
example, sisters who had lived together for generations
were penalised when one of them died because, unlike a
married couple, they had to pay inheritance tax so may
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New ways to get
youth working
THE BISHOP of Bristol
has highlighted the “huge
potential” of the social
enterprises to help cut
youth unemployment.
Bishop Michael Hill
said nearly one million
young people were out of
work and people want a
“different way of doing
business that is about creating shared value, not
just profit”.
He said in social enterprises the motivation was
about more than making
money as proceeds were
reinvested locally and
employees were actively
engaged in decisions
directly affecting them.
In a House of Lords
debate on creating sustainable jobs, he said: “I
am encouraged that the
Government, too, are
beginning to see the huge
potential of the social
enterprise sector.
“I urge the Government
to do all they can to maximise the contribution of
social enterprise to economic growth and sustainable job creation.”
He said Chancellor
George Osborne in his
spending review highlighted the need for
“growth, reform and fairness” and social enterprises met all three of those
concerns.
Bishop Hill said there
were around 70,000 social
enterprises in the UK,
contributing at least £24
billion to the economy
and employing more than
800,000 people.
Social enterprises created more jobs relative to
their turnover than other
types of business and 39
per cent of them operate
in the 20 per cent of most
deprived communities, he
said.
And he pointed to an initiative
set
up
by
Portsmouth cathedral to
support
entrepreneurs
and business start-ups.
“The Cathedral Innovation Centre provides
entrepreneurs with office
space, start-up loans and
mentors, helping to create
jobs at the same time as
providing a new purpose
for underused buildings,”
he said.
“There are already nine
businesses
at
the
Portsmouth
Cathedral
Innovation Centre, including a computer games
firm, a catering company
and a business that redevelops old land for wider
civic use.
“Together they occupy
14 desks and are currently recruiting three new
apprentices with support
from the centre. With
hardly any resources,
they have levered in-kind
support worth around
£500,000.”
RE ‘under strain’
RELIGIOUS education is under huge strain, the Bishop of Oxford has warned.
Bishop John Pritchard, the chairman of the Church
of England Board of Education, said it was impossible
to understand the world without understanding religion.
And he said the “malaise” in RE in schools was
“deeply damaging to the long-term health of society”.
“Good RE encourages respect, tolerance, participation, community building, charitable activity, social
engagement - all the things that we believe are part of
citizenship education as well,” he said during a House
of Lords debate on citizenship.
“Good RE creates active, informed and responsible
citizens.
“The trouble is that RE is under severe strain at present, not through the intentional actions of the Department for Education, but through the unintended
consequences of several key decisions.
“The English baccalaureate excludes RE; the reform
of the so-called national curriculum excludes RE; RE is
way down the list for GCSE reform; RE teacher training places have been halved in the last three years; bursaries for teacher training in RE have been removed;
and so on.
“This has resulted in a reduction in staff, in classroom time, in resources and in exam entries and a
deep fall in teacher morale. The British Humanist
Association is as concerned about this as the RE council of which it is a part.”
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News Sunday July 7, 2013
Plymouth
bishop goes
to Australia
THE SUFFRAGAN Bishop of Plymouth in the diocese of Exeter has
been named Bishop of The Murray in
the Anglican Church of Australia.
On 28 June 2013 the diocese
released a press statement saying the
July 2012 election of the Rt Rev John
Ford had been confirmed by the Archbishop of Adelaide and the Bishop of
Willochra.
On 24 September 2010, Bishop
Ford’s predecessor, the Rt Rev Ross
Davies resigned as Bishop of The Murray one day before a tribunal met to
hear nine counts of misconduct laid
against him by the Archbishop of Adelaide and Bishop of Willochra.
After two days of hearings, the tribunal found the former bishop guilty of
misconduct in absentia and recommended he be removed from the episcopate.
Bishop Davies was adjudged to have
subverted the Professional Standards
processes by failing to respond to allegations of sexual misconduct made
against his archdeacon. The tribunal
found he had displayed a lack of commitment to the Anglican Church and
acted at times in an abusive manner
“inconsistent with his pastoral role as a
Bishop of the Diocese.”
He was also found guilty of having
improperly influenced the composition
of diocesan council in order to gain
financial advantage “at the expense of
the interests of the Diocese.”
Archbishop Philip Aspinall deposed
Bishop Davies in June 2011 after the
former bishop was received into the
Roman Catholic Church.
A special meeting of the Diocesan
Synod in February 2012 was
unable to elect a new bishop, and
a Bishop’s Election Committee
was formed to make the selection. Their choice was forwarded
to the Metropolitan of the
province of South Australia in
July 2012, but the announcement
of the election was only made
public this week after it was confirmed.
Bishop Ford told the diocese:
“That I will love them, pray for
them and serve them to the best
of my ability.
“I am aware that recent history in the diocese has been less
than ideal for the mission of the
local church and I ask the whole
people of God in the Diocese of
The Murray to join together in
prayer for me that I might minister amongst you as a true shepherd and guide, faithfully
proclaiming the gospel of God
and that we might share joyfully
in our common calling to be disciples of Our Lord and therefore
rejoice in our vocation to worship, prayer and service,” he
said.
Bishop Ford will be installed
as the fourth Bishop of The Murray in Murray Bridge on 6
December 2013.
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Bishop pleads for
prayers for Egypt
HUNDREDS OF thousands of protesters
took to the streets of Egypt on 30 June calling for the ouster of Mohammed Mursi on
the first anniversary of the inauguration of
the Muslim Brotherhood leader as President of Egypt.
The collapse of the economy and dissatisfaction with the hardline policies of the government left Egypt on the verge of civil war,
warned the Most Rev Mouneer Anis, Bishop of Egypt and Presiding Bishop of the
Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the
Middle East.
On 27 June Dr Anis stated the “situation
in Egypt is very serious. I do not know
where this situation will take us. I feel that
Egypt is at the verge of violent demonstrations, another revolution, or civil war. We
do not know what is going to happen, but
we know that we are at the edge of something drastic.”
The state news agency reported violent
protests across the country. In Cairo a mob
set ablaze the party headquarters of Muslim Brotherhood, while a dozen deaths –
including an American college student
knifed while filming protests in Alexandria
– were reported.
More than 22 million signatures have
been gathered on petitions calling for President Mursi to resign. However the president and the Brotherhood have held fast,
while the army has remained in its barracks, deploying troops to protect only key
government buildings and the Suez Canal.
Dr Anis reported that after he took
power, many Egyptians hoped the country
“would move forward for the better. However things became worse and are now
very difficult.
“Egyptians became divided between
Islamists and non-Islamists. A constitution
that was written and approved in haste was
one of the main reasons for these divisions.
Other reasons were the exclusion of moderates and non-Islamists from participation
in the political life, and the appointment of
Islamists as ministers in the Cabinet and
other prominent posts. These divisions led
to instability, a lack of security, and many
demonstrations that in turn badly affected
the economy and tourism. People started to
complain from the rise of food prices, the
frequent power cuts, the sectarian clashes,
and lately the lack of fuel,” the bishop said.
A nationally televised speech by President Mursi last week did not dampen the
protests, Dr Anis stated. He could only
guess what turn events would take, but he
asked Anglicans everywhere to pray “for
Egypt and for the people of Egypt” in this
dark hour.
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AndrewCarey:
View from the Pew
A fractious debate ahead
In the next couple of years there is likely to
be a fractious debate over ‘blessings’ or
‘dedications’ of civil partnerships.
John Bingham, the well-sourced religious
affairs editor of the Telegraph, reports on a
‘behind-the-scenes’ shift among the bishops
(‘Church of England set to bury Synod
homosexuality debate’, Daily Telegraph, 29
June 2013). He writes: “They are thought to
be privately considering the possibility of
introducing ‘thanksgiving and dedication’
services – similar to those offered to
divorcees who remarry in register offices –
for gay couples in civil partnerships.”
The truth is that the House of Bishops is
in a mess over the issue as a result of the
ongoing gay marriage debate. So worried
are many of the bishops about being seen
on the wrong side of a deep-seated cultural
divide over gay marriage, they’ve been
singing the praises of civil partnerships as
an equally valid alternative to marriage – in
order to protect matrimony itself. This has
been a tactical, as much as principled, position because it’s undoubtedly true that marriage confers no greater benefits on
same-sex couples than civil partnerships.
Archbishop John Sentamu told the House
of Lords in committee last month that
though the Church blesses sheep and trees
it didn’t bless civil partnerships, indicating
that change was afoot. Lord Cormack, an
arch-traditionalist also signalled a change of
heart - that he would welcome blessing of
civil partnerships.
This sort of change will leave the Church
in a theologically incoherent and divisive
muddle in future years. Firstly, the same
theological argument against the marriage
of gay couples applies to the ‘blessing’ of
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civil partnerships. The Church of England
would be a laughing stock if it were to
naively insist that such ‘blessings’ applied
to ‘friendships’ rather than sexual relationships. You can’t ‘bless’ or ‘dedicate’ civil
partnerships without significantly changing the Church’s teaching on human sexuality. This would be a bridge too far for
most evangelicals in the Church of England.
Secondly, the practical difficulties are
immense. There is to be an immediate
review of civil partnerships by the government. One option in future is to abolish
them altogether, which would leave the
Church of England in the midst of a
debate over whether to ‘dedicate’ a nonexistent category of relationship. The
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other most likely proposal in future is to
allow heterosexual couples to become civil
partners.
This could open up legal difficulties for
the Church of England if they bless some
civil partnerships and not others. It also
changes the nature of ‘civil partnerships’
as far as the Church is concerned.
The ticking time bomb for the Church of
England when gay marriage comes into
being is that the legislation will allow civil
partners to convert their status to marriages. It may well be that no further ceremony and no vows will be needed – only a
change of name in exchange for a fee.
Under these circumstances the Church is
potentially blessing a future same-sex
‘marriage’.
There must be a better way
The rector of the parish church I go to has retired. Richard, and his wife Bryony, have
had an amazing and very busy 15 years in an isolated rural area. As a result of his ministry, the fabric and fellowship of five village churches is in very good shape for the
future and relationships between church and community are very strong.
The troubling thing for the future is that it is extremely doubtful that he will be
replaced. We will have to undergo an interregnum of at least nine months before this is
finally confirmed. For the next year it is likely that we will have less than a handful of
communion services in our village church and when we come under some kind of team
ministry in future that is unlikely to improve much.
I strongly doubt the wisdom of an interregnum under these circumstances. It leaves
significant anxiety and uncertainty for the future. Much better to reorganise from the
start and let parishioners know so that we can get on with mission and ministry in our
own area.
‘Bible Christian’ speaks out
Northwood to Nottingham
As they gather in York for General Synod some members will be pondering
the words of the Synod’s former Clerk, Dr Colin Podmore, who has recently
given the Commencement Address at Nashotah House in the US. Speaking as
someone brought up as a Cornish Methodist who is at heart a ‘simple Bible
Christian (well, some of the time, at least!)’ Dr Podmore, now Director of Forward in Faith, bases his powerful appeal for Anglicans to live together with difference on the New Testament. He points out that when the Act of Synod was
first introduced, bishops who had the right to prevent women ministering in
their dioceses opted not to do so. There were no ‘no-go dioceses’.
He quotes the late Roger Greenacre’s judgement that making provision for
continuing diversity and an open period of reception was a ‘necessary consequence’ of the Church of England’s understanding of itself as belonging to the
wider Catholic Church.
Dr Podmore regrets deepening separation and polarization for which he
thinks both sides must share the blame. He hints that life was not always easy
during the final years of his 25 years in Church House but commits himself to
finding a way forward in which women can be ordained as bishops but the
Church continues to be inclusive and provide a place for those who cannot
accept the development. Dr Podmore’s address can be read in full in the
biweekly magazine The Living Church.
Colin Buchanan has written widely on liturgy and on the need (as he sees it) for
the Church of England to be disestablished. In retirement he has continued to
hit the keys of his word processor, giving us an account of his years in General
Synod and now a history of St John’s College, Nottingham from the move from
Northwood to Nottingham in 1963 down to the present. This is a book that will
appeal even to readers who never studied at St John’s. With principals of the calibre of Michael Green, Robin Nixon, Anthony Thiselton, John Goldingay and
Christina Baxter, as well as Colin himself, and a teaching staff who have included George Carey, Julian Charley, Francis Bridger, Graham Dow and Stephen
Travis among many others, St John’s College has been at the forefront of theological education in the Church of England. The present Principal, David
Hilborn, describes Bishop Colin as a ‘walking archive’ of the college. Since none
of us is immortal it is good that he has committed at least part of his knowledge
to paper. C of E bishops who have been trained at St John’s include Pete Broadbent, Graham Cray, Christopher Cocksworth, Frank White and James Langstaff.
Other old students have served as bishops in the wider Anglican Communion.
One old student, Dick Rogers, lived in a small cell at St Martin’s in the Bull Ring
in Birmingham, subsisting on minimal rations for the whole of Lent in 1986 to
draw attention to the plight of the imprisoned Russian poetess, Irina Ratushinskaya, who visited St Martin’s after her release.
The Whispering Gallery
Happy tweeters
Justin Welby, Pope Francis, and Arun
Arora are all dab hands at it and it
seems they are happy doing it as well.
A new study shows that Christians are
happier at tweeting than atheists. A
study by two doctoral students in
social psychology at the University of
Illinois analysed the casual language
of more than 2million tweets from
more than 160,000 active users to discover that Christians tweet with a
higher frequency of words reflecting
positive emotions, good social relationships and an intuitive style of
thinking. Non-Christians are more
likely to use analytic words and words
associated with negative emotions.
Christians are more likely to use
words like ‘love’, ‘happy’, ‘great’, ‘family’, ‘friend’ and ‘team’. Atheists win
when it comes to words like ‘bad’,
‘wrong’, ‘awful’, ‘think’ and ‘question’.
The researchers suggest that atheists
are more likely to be sceptical or critical while Christians are guided by
intuition or emotion. They speculate
that analytical thinking ‘may diminish
the capacity for optimism and positive
self-illusions that typify good mental
health’. Atheists have been quick to
criticise the study. One blog on the
‘Friendly Atheist’ site called it ‘sloppy’
and ‘useless and misleading’. One of
the students behind the survey, Ryan
Ritter, described himself as ‘a happy
atheist’. He called on his fellow atheists to apply the ‘principle of charity’.
when evaluating his research.
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US forges ahead
Nate Silver has transferred his attention from analysing opinion polls to looking at gay marriage. With the recent Supreme Court decision, he claims, the
US has surpassed Europe in the proportion of the population who have access
to same-sex marriage. By August 95 million Americans out of 314 million will
live in states where same-sex marriage is legal, almost 30 per cent. In Europe
the figure is 169 million residents out of 736 million, or about 23 per cent. Altogether there are now 585 million people living in jurisdictions where same-sex
marriage is or soon will be legal. This is double the number for this time last
year. In Brazil (population 194 million) a judicial decision that could be subject
to appeal is seen as clearing the way for same-sex marriage. Canada has also
agreed same-sex marriage so at the moment, Silver announces, it is the New
World that has taken the lead. While American Christians are seeking to come
to terms with the Supreme Court decision they have been boosted by a comment by veteran columnist, Joe Klein (famous as the novelist ‘Anonymous’),
who wrote in ‘Time’ that you don’t see organised groups of atheists giving out
hot meals in disaster areas. Klein considers himself a ‘secular humanist’ but
his appeal to give religious groups their due has not gone down well.
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Comment Sunday July 7, 2013
Catherine Fox
A novel view of the week
And it’s farewell from me...
About 16 years ago I stood in the hallway of
the vicarage we lived in in Gateshead and
took a phone call from The Church of England Newspaper. I was wearing Doc
Martens at the time. I remember this,
because I was fending off my toddler with a
foot. He was three and liked to talk to people
on the phone. ‘My want to talk! My want to
talk!’ If I didn’t let him, he used to unplug
the phone from the wall, cutting me off in
mid-conversation. Hence the need to fend
him off.
So much has changed in 16 years. I no
longer wear Doc Martens for example.
They went from being edgy, to being the
predictable footwear choice for the feisty
clergy wife. I am currently living in my third
house since that Gateshead vicarage (Walsall, Lichfield and now Liverpool). I seldom
take important phone calls on the landline
in this age of email and mobile phones; and
that toddler is now 19 with a wild beard and
a tattoo and at this moment is sleeping off
his jet lag after six months in Australia and
Japan.
What was that important conversation
about? It was the sub editor of the paper
inviting me to write a weekly column. I had
just had my second novel published, and
was juggling two small children with the
demands of fiction-writing. Like a naïve
parishioner agreeing to help out with the
Sunday school, I said I’d take on the job for
four weeks. And here I am, slightly more
than 16 years later, finally bowing out. Oh
dear, this feels like my ‘Dear John’ letter to
you all, the loyal readers of the CEN: I’m so
sorry, it’s not you, it’s me. I will never forget
all the sweet times we’ve had together, but
it’s over between us.
I had to ask a dean I know how long I’ve
been writing this column. Motherhood ate
my memory for dates, I’m afraid. The dean I
know (or DIK—ah, how can I have been so
tardy in spotting that acronym?) reminded
me that I took up column-writing around the
time of the Labour Landslide in 1997. Of
course, he’s right. Now I think about it, I
remember concocting an anagram of Neil
Hamilton’s name and being told off for my
rudeness. Well, I feel we’ve all learned a lot
since then. We have learned that if you
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thought that was rude, you really need to get out more, (or cancel your subscription
for the next 16 years).
Another huge change in this time is the appearance of online anagram generators,
which has done away with the need to fiddle about with Scrabble tiles in order to be
rude about public figures. And may I take this opportunity to tell you that ‘Church of
England Newspaper’ is an anagram of ‘Newfangled Sappho Cruncher’? (I think we
can agree that this is far funnier than our oppos, the ‘Smirch Chute’.)
When I first started writing this column I used to print it off and dash up the road to
Gateshead library and fax it to the CEN. Some poor soul in the CEN typing pool then
had to type it up. Let us rejoice in the internet and all its benefits! I used to look things
up in dictionaries and concordances, or fall back upon that most basic of journalistic
skills, making stuff up. I’ve told you a whole pack of lies over the years, mainly flagging it up so that you’d realise I was kidding. However, it does occur to me that there
may still be readers out there who believe I’m a genuine clergy wife and mother, and
have never twigged that I’m really a fat bloke in Croydon writing as Catherine Fox. To
them, I would like to apologise.
For the first 15 years I was writing for this noble organ on a weekly basis. As the
sharper-eyed among you will have spotted, for the last year it’s only been monthly.
This was because I got a post teaching Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan
University. I also acquired a dean to run. Admittedly, the latter job is not too onerous,
as he is an extremely competent cleric and basically runs himself quite ably. There
are, however, certain small Mrs Deaning matters I need to attend to, such as persistent late-coming, locking myself out, sitting in the wrong seat at important services,
and failing to remember crucial names and faces.
I recently added a new skill to my Mrs Deaning repertoire: that of remaining nonchalant and poised in front of VIPs when the entire fridge door came off in my hand.
It is a very tall fridge, so this is no mean feat. Gracious hostessing is a knack, I’m sure
you’ll agree. It’s a matter of making people feel special and welcome, setting them at
ease. ‘Come in! Would you like a glass of Prosecco, Lady Thing?’ (gestures casually
with fridge door.)
And finally, some tearful thank yous, in the manner of an Oscar acceptance speech.
I’d like to thank all those parishioners who, over the years, have encouraged and supported the vicarage family, and unwittingly provided copy for this column. I’d like to
thank my sons, without whose subversive wit and strange take on the adult world my
writing would be much impoverished. I would also like to thank them for tidying their
rooms, but I can’t. I’d like to thank a VIK, a CIK and a DIK (three parsons in one
man). A big thank you to the editor and staff of the CEN for loyally not sacking me at
any point in the last 16 years, despite a great number of rude anagrams and opinions
out of kilter with those expressed elsewhere in the paper. And finally, I’d like to thank
you, dear readers, for sticking with me. It’s been a mad ride. Plenty of ups and downs,
yes; but sometimes from the top we have glimpsed heaven.
For a weekly shot of rudeness, you may follow my blogged novel Acts and Omissions (about a fictional diocese) here: http://catherine-fox-novel.blogspot.co.uk/
Ruth Gledhill
View from Fleet Street
A liberating experience
How to write about money,
debt, poverty and hard work
without sounding self-righteous, self-pitying or self-satisfied? Just tell the truth
perhaps.
We vicarage Gledhills had
a wonderful but rather odd
childhood. Our family background on my mother’s side
was landed, listed in Burke’s
no less, but by marrying
into the cloth she effectively
abandoned wealth for love.
What remained from generations past was tied up in
trust funds and inaccessible.
We lived in grand houses, as
rectories still were in those
days, but owned none of
them, let alone the land. Yet
neighbouring farmers were
technically our tenants on
the grass tied to the clergy
freehold.
We had sparse food and
often froze, with no coal
through the winter strikes.
Yet what little we had, we
ate with inherited silver
forks, off cracked bone
china. We rode cheap Welsh
ponies but could hardly
afford to have them shod, so
hacked to the forge for the
smithy to shoe them on site,
saving us his fee for coming
out. We even, at one point,
went to school by pony and
rag-and-bone cart.
My generation is often
envied for university grants,
and Staffordshire county
council generously funded
me for four years through a
change of mind, doing two
years at university then two
years at journalism college
and an HND. But accommodation and living costs
meant I still emerged saddled with debt that took
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many years of work to pay
off, as did most of my peers.
Mortgages followed, and
cars and televisions on credit. Looking back, I see now
that my debt increased in
proportion with my salary. It
was purely due to being in
permanent employment and
intermittent rises in property prices that I survived at
all.
But despite the occasional, small injection of capital
from the above trust funds,
I’ve never been properly
wealthy. Failed, like so
many, by the state education
system, I recently had to
take the decision to capitalise on the house we
owned in order to pay the
coming decade or more of
private school fees followed
by tuition fees in further
education for our only son.
(I would have loved more children, really
loved them, and for reasons beyond my
control could not have more. But even
this capitalisation could never have
financed the education of more than
one.)
Jesus did not give much advice to the
poor, although he gave plenty about
them.
“Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be
perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and
give to the poor, and thou shalt have
treasure in heaven: and come and follow
me.”
I have indeed sold nearly everything,
and am in the process of giving away
what is unsaleable. We are now living in a
flat above the shop. The capital is in the
bank, stored up against those years of
school fees. I did try and downsize into a
smaller, cheaper property but six months
of that process taught me the truth of
this: “For I say unto you, That unto every
one which hath shall be given; and from
him that hath not, even that he hath shall
be taken away from him.”
So now I’ve jumped off the property
ladder. It would not be possible if I was
not in a job that could finance the rent but
even so, it is less than I would pay with a
mortgage. For the first time in my adult
life, I have no debt at all and a reasonable
amount in the bank. This path is not for
everyone, of course. But for me, for our
little family, it is proving fantastically liberating.
When something goes wrong with the
roof, or the shower, or the washing
machine, it is Someone Else’s Problem.
How wonderful is that?
It was scary, jumping off that property
ladder. But a few weeks in, and I have to
say I feel like a different person. Give me
the needle as much as you like, because
if I were a camel, you would definitely say
I’ve lost the hump.
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Interfaith questions
Sir, Nigel Scotland makes interesting points
in his article, Engaging with other faiths:
What would Jesus do? (16 June). A close
reading is not possible here, but Scotland’s
insistence that Jesus was - and thought of
himself as - YHWH, GOD, and Father,
would be contested by many, on orthodox
grounds as much as because of any interfaith etiquette. He is surely right that Jesus
‘did not write off the Jewish faith’, but
thought that salvation is from the Jews
because the Jews worship what they know
(John 4.22).
Further, in the gospels there is indeed a
close connection between the Hebrew
Scriptures and fulfilment in Jesus. But to
say: ‘Jesus also clearly taught that he had
come in fulfilment of Old Testament
prophecies’ oversimplifies the case. One
has to ask: All prophecies? Which ones? If
they are the messianic ones, how are they
fulfilled in Jesus? Is this really the kingdom
of peace, justice, freedom and celebration?
If not, what then does ‘fulfilment’ here
mean?
Scotland also insists: ‘There were many
things in Judaism that Jesus did take strong
exception to.’ Really? Can he name the top
20? He continues: ‘For the most part they
were unnecessary extra laws, trivial ceremonies and traditions added on over the
centuries by Jewish leaders and teachers.’
Now, it is plausible to interpret Jesus in the
gospels as calling for a return to first principles on some issues (Sabbath and dietary
observance). But here Scotland does come
close to the traditional interpretation of the
Judaism of Jesus’ day as so obsessed with
finicky practice as to be spiritually dead.
The most obvious trouble with this is that
there are plenty of ‘detailed laws’ or commandments in the Scriptures Jesus knew
and loved. We cannot remove (say) Leviticus-Deuteronomy from our Christian Bible.
So it will not do to treat attention to the
details of commandments as corruption.
New Testament scholars are much clearer
that the fierceness of the gospel polemic
against the Pharisees is often because they
formed the group closest to Jesus’ own
movement, and that, within the complex
matrix of the Judaism of his day, Jesus was
himself observant.
There are thus two glaring anachronisms
in Scotland’s presentation. He seems to
think that Jesus founded a new religion,
which as such can be compared to others.
But he did not. He lived and died a Jew. But,
that said, what we know as Judaism is not
Second Temple Judaism but the religion of
the rabbis, formed over the first five centuries of the Common Era and codified in
Mishnah and Talmud. Contemporary Jews
are not God’s-people-stuck-in-aspic but
members of a vivid and vital community,
constantly seeking God’s grace, as Jewish
liturgy testifies most beautifully.
The Rev Patrick Morrow,
Programme Manager
The Council of Christians and Jews
London,
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Young people and promises
Sir, Recent comments on the appropriateness of making promises to God has brought
faith based structured youth work into focus.
In The Boys’ Brigade, celebrating its 130th anniversary in October, volunteer leaders sharing the Christian faith with young people has always been central to our
methodology. Currently partnering more than 1,400 churches in outreach, evidence
tells us that our members belong because of fun and challenging programmes, meeting with friends, developing new skills, receiving positive recognition and developing a
sense of achievement. Motivated by their faith, our volunteers want to make a real difference in the lives of young people, and we are seeing new groups start in all areas of
the United Kingdom.
We know that many churches struggle to attract and retain young people, but by
partnering with organisations such as BB, which will equip volunteers to be effective
Christian children’s and youth workers and provide resources to engage all young people, the tide can be turned. Why not give us a call to see if we can help?
Steve Dickinson,
CEO, The Boys’ Brigade,
Hemel Hempstead
Women in Israel
Synod and
evangelism
Sir, I was delighted to read two Reports circulated to General Synod members, ‘Making New Disciples: the Growth of the
Church of England (GSMisc1054) and
‘Challenges For the Quinquennium’
(GS1895) ahead of July’s York Synod. The
decision to put evangelism onto the agenda
of the church is to be greatly welcomed.
May I, however, encourage Synod members to consider something not mentioned
once in either report – the alarming gender
misbalance in our churches, where on average there are three women to one man in
our pews, and the fact that men are fast
becoming an un-reached people’s group.
Whilst there are, of course, exceptions,
the average line up at Confirmations continues to show that we are failing to reach men
with the gospel. Women in our churches
with non-Christian husbands long for them
to share their faith. Women in our churches wanting to marry a Christian man are
asking ’Where are the Christian men?’
Teenage boys in our churches are wondering where their mentors are?
As a Diocesan Missioner for Un-reached
Men in the Oxford Diocese, with the full
support of my Bishops, I have been acting
as a catalyst at deanery/parish level in
order to at least get churches asking why
men don’t come to church, and how we
might intentionally reach them with the
gospel.
If our pews contained one woman to
three men, we would rightly want to
address such a misbalance. Therefore my
plea to Synod members is let’s welcome
these Reports but please, let’s also remember that the good news is for every adult in
this country.
If we continue to go on as we are, men are
unlikely to hear the life-changing news of
the gospel, and that will continue to have a
negative impact on family life and our communities. Let’s please, be intentional about
reaching men for Jesus.
The Rev Paul Eddy,
Stanford in the Vale,
Oxfordshire
[email protected]
Sir, I do not agree with the statements
about the role of women in Israel made by
Barbra Streisand on her recent visit to that
country (30 June).
I lived and worked in Israel during 2006
and 2007 and found no hint of discrimination in the work place. I worked as a translator and editor for a number of
organizations, including the Hebrew University and the Universities of Bar Ilan,
Haifa and Beersheba in the Negev, as well
as the prestigious Academy of Arts and Sciences in Jerusalem.
In addition, I sang in the semi-professional Haifa Technion Choir, many of whose
members, including myself, are Orthodox
Jews. We made a CD of church music in
December 2006, accompanied by the Haifa
Symphony Orchestra.
For a time, I also worked at the Church of
Scotland School in Jaffa, training Arabs,
Jews and children of embassy staff from
around the world to sing in unison.
Later, in May 2009, whilst attending my
daughter’s wedding in Israel, I happened to
stay at the same Tel Aviv hotel as Tony and
Cherie Blair and was invited to join them at
the First Gala Dinner for the PalestinianIsrael Chamber of Commerce, at which Mr
Blair spoke very well.
The highlight of the evening however,
was the Jaffa choir, consisting of girls and
boys, Jews, Arabs and others, singing about
peace in Hebrew and Arabic, many of
whose members I had originally trained
two years earlier.
In conclusion, I never found being a
woman, or Orthodox Jew an impediment on
the public transport system, or as part of
the work force.
On one occasion, I was even invited to
give a sermon in an Orthodox synagogue in
the heart of Jerusalem, and was applauded
for my efforts in Hebrew by men and
women alike.
Sometimes, visitors to countries don’t see
the whole picture, as I’ve often found from
comments made about Britain by visitors,
especially those who hail from the USA.
Dr Irene Lancaster PGCE,
Chair: Broughton Park Theology Dialogue
Group, Salford
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PETERTIDE
2013
ORDINATIONS
Bath & Wells
Deacons
Hannah Alderson, Bridgwater,
Holy Trinity with Durleigh;
Simon Bale, Highbridge,
Huntspill and East Huntspill,
Mark with Allerton; Sally
Buddle, Combe Down with
Monkton Combe and South
Stoke; Clare Cowlin, Wells, St
Thomas with Horrington,
Chewton Mendip with Ston
Easton, Litton and Emborough;
Sharon Eldergill, Burnhamon-Sea; Simon Flint, Bath,
Weston All Saints with North
Stoke and Langridge;
Christopher Hopkins,
Somerton with the Charltons and
Kingsdon; Evelyn Lee-Barber,
Bath Abbey; Ian Rousell,
Keynsham Team Ministry;
Esther Smith, Bath, Walcot.
Priests
Elaine Brightwell, Pilton with
Croscombe, North Wootton and
Dinder; Keith Brindle, Deane
Vale Benefice; Denise
Calverley, Saltford with Corston
and Newton St Loe; Chloe
Kingdon, Winsmoor Benefice;
Christina MacDonald,
Minehead; Simon Robinson,
Freshford with Limpley Stoke
and Hinton Charterhouse;
Catherine Vaughan, Bath,
Marlbrook Team Ministry.
Birmingham
SHE’S dabbled with the occult, worked alongside
prostitutes and drug addicts, and looked after the
health of convicted murderers and paedophiles.
Now, Laura Cameron is starting work as assistant
curate in Shedfield and Wickham in Hampshire.
The 58-year-old mother-of-three’s great-grandfather was a Romany gypsy. Laura grew up in a normal family environment, but inherited some of his
spirituality. As a teenager she experimented with
Blackburn
Deacons
Deacons
Adrian Evans, St John
Walmley; Wayne Hamilton, St
John & St Peter Ladywood;
Mark Hopkins, St Hilda
Warley Woods; Elaine King,
Christ Church Burney Lane;
Gita Morse, St John Sparkhill;
David Pycock, St Laurence
Northfield; Matthew Simpson,
Christ Church Quinton;
Dominic Wright, St Martin in
the Bullring.
Priests
Michael Harmon, The Parish
of Aston & Nechells; Susan
Larkin, St Thomas Garretts
Green & St Peter Tile Cross;
Alexandra Lavin, St Giles
Sheldon; Philip Morton, The
Sutton Coldfield Group; Sally
Nash, St Philip & St James
Hodge Hill; Katherine
Pearson; St Bede Brandwood &
St Gabriel Weoley Castle; Nicola
Shephard, St Philip Dorridge
with St James Bentley Heath;
Diane Thompson, All Saints
Kings Heath.
Jane Atkinson, Kirkham, St
Michael; Calum Crombie,
H.M.Prison, Garth; James
Gwyn-Thomas, Leyland, St
Andrew; Steven Haskett,
Anchorsholme, All Saints; Judith
Kirkham, the Waterside
Parishes and Stalmine St James
with Pilling St John the Baptist;
Michael Kirby, Blackburn,
Cathedral Church of St Mary the
Virgin; Helen Leathard, Slyne
w Hest, St Luke and Halton, St
Wilfrid w Aughton, St Saviour;
Christine Morton, Marton, St
Paul; Terence Murnane,
Accrington St Andrew, St Mary
Magdalene and St Peter.
ouija boards, levitation and automatic writing. But
singing Away in a Manger at Christmas at school
still made her cry each year.
She trained as a nurse at Winchester and enjoyed
helping the hospital chaplain distribute Communion to patients. Some years later, after her marriage
broke down, Laura moved back to Southampton
and joined a church pre-school group. A friend
gave her a tape about the gospel, which Laura kept
for six months. Strange things then began happening in her house.
“It was like being haunted,” she said. “The more
interested I became in Christianity, the worse it
seemed to get. I remember sitting in the dark one
night and saying ‘If there really is a God, and Jesus
is really true, then reveal yourself to me and I will
give my life to you.’
“Then on 26 November 1986, I couldn’t sleep and
heard a voice saying ‘Go and listen to the tape’. I
ignored it, but heard the voice three times. I eventually put the tape on and listened as it described
what being a Christian was and how Jesus gave his
life for us. I felt so convicted and ashamed of what
I’d done, I began to cry.
“I felt Jesus was standing there in the room, but
couldn’t lift my eyes. But I asked him to forgive me,
to come into my life and be my Lord and Saviour.
Then I felt as though I was being wrapped in a heated blanket. It was the most wonderful experience.”
Laura’s vicar prayed in her house and the problems ended. Nearly 20 years later, having applied
previously, Laura’s application for ordination was
finally accepted.
“The experience of God coming into my life completely changed me,” she said. “I do feel drawn to
work with broken people, and to offer them God’s
love.”
Platt, Bispham, All Hallows;
Tracy Swindells, Lostock Hall,
St James and Farington Moss, St
Paul; Linda Tomkinson,
Blackpool, St John; Stuart
Tomlinson, Blackpool, St
Christopher and St Nicholas;
Andrew Whitehead, Clitheroe,
St Mary Magdalene; Sharon
Wilkinson, Scotforth, St Paul.
Priests
Craig Abbott, Lancaster, St
Thomas; Catherine
Braithwaite, Colne and Villages
Team; Tim Brampton,
Standish, St Wilfrid; Paul Bye,
Blackburn, Christ Church;
Christopher Coupe, secular
employment and Lower Darwen,
St James; Rebecca Crowe,
Penwortham, St Mary; David
Gerrard, Shevington, St Anne;
John Mountain, Appley Bridge
All Saints and Douglas in
Parbold Christ Church; Damian
Southwell and Nottingham
Bradford
Deacons
Frances Grasham, All Saints’,
Bingley; Malcolm Hendr y, St
Cuthbert, Wrose; Heather
Houlton, Linton and Burnsall
with Rhylstone; Joanne
Hustwick, Tong and Holme
Wood; Sandra Neale, St
Oswald’s Chapel Green and All
Saints’ Horton; Christopher
Phillips, St Margaret’s, Ilkley;
Beverley Sproats, St John,
Yeadon; Ian Widdowson, Christ
Church, Skipton with St Mary,
Carleton.
Priests
John Ineson, St Mark’s Utley;
Julie Roberts, Crossroads,
Stanbury and Haworth; Liz Moy,
Harden & Wilsden, Denholme
and Cullingworth; Lynne
Stevenson Tate, St John’s,
Farsley; Paul Wheelhouse, St
Mary’s, Burley-in-Wharfedale;
Ruth Dowson, St John the
Baptist, Clayton.
Bristol
Deacons
Helen Charlotte Baber,
Stratton St Margaret with South
Marston and Stanton Fitzwarren;
John (Dru) Drur y Arthur
Brooke-Taylor, Holy Trinity
with St James the Less and St
Peter, Clifton (known as Holy
Trinity Hotwells); David
Richard Caporn, Highworth
with Sevenhampton and
Inglesham and Hannington, and
Broad Blunsdon; Janet Mar y
Doyle, St Alban, Westbury Park;
Dr Araminta Jane Hull, St
Matthew and St Nathanael,
Bristol; Richard Anthony
Humphrey, Warmley, Bitton and
Syston; Helen Louise Johnson,
Bedminster, St Paul’s Church
and Whitchurch, St Augustine’s
Church; Janet Lee, Christ
Church Clifton with Emmanuel;
Ann Lloyd, Almondsbury and
Olveston and All Saints,
Compton Greenfield in the
Benefice of Pilning with
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Sunday July 7, 2013
Petertide Ordinations
BELEMO SUSAN ALAGOA (57) was
born in Nigeria and has lived in the UK
for the past 32 years. She studied law at
the Universities of East London and
Warwick. She worked as a housing professional in the public sector for twenty
years before beginning training on the
SEITE. She is now working in the home
healthcare sector and enjoys working
with older people. She feels enriched
by the conversations she has with
them, especially the way they understand the world around them, and is
looking forward to developing ministry
in this area. Belemo lives with her two
daughters. She enjoys listening to
music, reading, travel and eating in or
out with family and friends.
Compton Greenfield; John
Emanuel Monaghan,
Malmesbury with Westport and
Brokenborough, and Corston
with Rodbourne, the
Malmesbury & Upper Avon
Group; Gillian Elizabeth
Parkin, By Brook, and North
Wraxall within the Benefice of
Colerne with North Wraxall;
Michael John Salmon,
Bishopston and St Andrews;
Margaret Rose Staynings, to
hold the Bishop’s Permission to
Officiate St Mary Magdalene
with St Francis, Lockleaze;
Rebecca Ann Waring,
Stapleton, and Frenchay
(Frenchay and Winterbourne
Down); Patricia Rosemar y
Willson, St Gregory, Horfield.
Priests
Adam John Beaumont,
Westbury on Trym; Stephen
Paul Britton, Longwell Green;
Dr Angela Kathleen Cattell,
Stoke Bishop; Helen Marie
Collins, Christ The Servant,
Stockwood; Robert (Bob)
Conway, Filton; Christopher
Coombs, St Mary, Rodbourne
Cheney; Philip John Daniels,
Sherston Magna, Easton Grey,
Luckington, Alderton and
Foxley with Bremilham, and
Hullavington, Norton & Stanton
St Quintin (known as the
Gauzebrook Group); Trevor
Martin Day, Highworth with
Sevenhampton and Inglesham
and Hannington and in Broad
Blunsdon; Christine Elizabeth
Evans, Kingswood, and
Hanham; Anthony David
Everitt, St Martin, Knowle;
Wendy Doreen Gardiner, St
Luke with Christ Church,
Barton Hill and St Matthew,
Moorfields; Margaret Jennifer
Hall, Stoke Bishop; Daphne
Anne Hardwick, Christ
Church, Swindon; Teresa Mar y
Michaux, Parks & Walcot,
Swindon; Dr Andrew James
Murray, Christ Church with
Emmanuel, Clifton; Velma
Oxley, By Brook, and North
Wraxall (Colerne with North
Wraxall); Sarah Anne Pullin,
St Stephen w St James and St
John the Baptist w St Michael,
Bristol and St George, Bristol;
Dr Virginia Helen Royston,
St Saviour with St Mary, Cotham
and St Paul, Clifton; Anja
Thomson, St Mary, Fishponds
and All Saints, Fishponds; Hazel
Joan Trapnell, Stoke Bishop;
Paul Anthony van Rossum,
Almondsbury and Olveston;
Sarah Jane Wyman, Ashley,
Crudwell, Hankerton and
Oaksey, and Minety (Ashton
Keynes Leigh and Minety), and
Charlton (Garsdon Lea and
Cleverton and Charlton, known
as the Braydon Brook Benefice).
Canterbury
Chichester
Priests
Dr Christine Sabina Arnold,
St Peter-in-Thanet; Kenneth
Ian Royston Cox, St Laurence
in Thanet; Eileen Khean Geok
Harrop, Tenterden, St Mildred
with St Michael and All Angels
and Smallhythe, St John the
Baptist; Craig Adam Hunt,
Canterbury, St Mary Bredin;
Benjamin Mark Oscar Jones,
Folkestone, St John the Baptist,
Foord; Christopher James
Pickles, Canterbury, St Peter
with St Alphege and St Margaret
and St Mildred with St Mary de
Castro, and Canterbury, St
Dunstan with Holy Cross; Alan
Edward Pinnegar, Bearsted
with Thurnham; Nicholas Nick
Hugh Bernard Ratcliffe,
Chartham, and The Stone Street
Group.
Carlisle
Deacons
Mark Sydney Henr y Davey,
Herne Bay, Christ Church;
Christopher Thomas Alan
Hodgkins, G7; Christopher
Gavin Maclean, Walmer;
Elizabeth Barbara Resch,
Sittingbourne with Bobbing;
Judith Ann Shaw, Newenden
and Rolvenden; Ben Michael
Thorpe, Deal, St George.
Priests
Jenny Bate, Allonby, Cross
Canonby and Dearham; Tim
Edwards, Eden, Gelt and
Irthing Team Ministry; Annie
Gray, Lanercost, Walton,
Gilsland and Nether Denton;
Paul Kerr y, Houghton with
Kingmoor; Jonathan Moores,
St James Carlisle; Eileen Reid,
Caldbeck, Castle Sowerby and
Sebergham and Westward,
Rosley with Woodside and
Welton; Graham Skilling, Holy
Trinity Kendal; Rachel Stavert,
Penrith Team Ministry.
Chelmsford
Deacons
Jonathon Green, Windermere
and Troutbeck; Matthew
Hornby, South Barrow Team
Ministry; Ian Johnston, Holy
Trinity and St Barnabas Carlisle
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Team Ministry;
Lucie Lunn, Binsey Team
Ministry; Annette Miller,
Levens; Nicki Pennington,
Maryport, Netherton and
Flimby Team Ministry; Sandra
Ward, Orton, Tebay &
Ravenstonedale and Shap &
Bampton.
Deacons
Janet Allan, Thorpe Bay St
Augustine; Liz Barnes,
Tolleshunt Knights with Tiptree
St Luke & Great Braxted All
Saints; Rose Braisby, Great
Waltham with Ford End; Robert
Burden, Cressing All Saints
with Stisted & Bradwell juxta
Coggeshall & Pattiswick;
Denise Corley, North
Blackwater Parishes; John
Dickens, Maldon St Mary w
Mundon; John Fr y, Theydon
Bois St Mary the Virgin with
Theydon Garnon; Christine
Gorringe, North Blackwater
Parishes; Dr Anne Har vey,
Broomfield St Mary with St
Leonard; Eddie Howson, St
Osyth St Peter & St Paul; Dr
Juliet Jensen, Forest Gate
Emmanuel with St Peter Upton
Cross; James Knowles, High
Ongar St Mary the Virgin with
Norton Mandeville All Saints;
Jide Macaulay, East Ham
Team Ministry; Jonathan
MacNeaney, Hadleigh, St
James the Less & Hadleigh, St
Barnabas; Den Martin, All
Saints & St Andrew Woodford
Wells; Liz Paxton, Sible
Hedingham St Peter with Castle
Hedingham; Lydia Smith,
Saffron Walden and Villages
Team Ministry; Linda Porter,
All Saints, Walton on the Naze,
and to officiate Tendring; Steve
Poss, Leigh-on-Sea, St Aidan;
Rosemar y Potten,
Barkingside Holy Trinity; Jokey
Poyntz, Stanford-le-Hope St
Margaret with Mucking; Leslie
Rogers, Chelmsford,
Ascension; Tina Rollings,
Chingford St Peter & St Paul;
Gemma Stock, Southchurch
Christ Church; Peter Streete,
Copford St Michael with
Easthorpe & Messing with
Inworth; Astrid TiesemaSamson, Harwich Peninsula
Team Ministry; Christoph
Wutscher, Wanstead St Mary w
Christ Church.
Priests
Santou Beurklian-Carter,
Seven Kings, St John the
Evangelist; James Christopher
William Croucher, Harold
Wood St Peter; Katherine
(Katie) Elizabeth De
Bourcier, Great Baddow Team
Ministry; Sharon Michelle
Guest, Chigwell and Chigwell
Row Team Ministry; Sonia
Elizabeth Groombridge,
Hornchurch St Andrew; Young
Lee, Walthamstow Team
Ministry; Mandy Hewson,
Church of our Saviour, Chelmer
Village and Chancellor Park;
Kim Angela Lepley, Takeley
with Little Canfield; Susan
(Sue) Mar y Mann, Wickford
& Runwell Team Ministry;
Janet Elizabeth Nicholls,
Panfield & Rayne, also to officiate Finchingfield with Cornish
Hall End, Wethersfield,
Shalford; Mark Peter Petitt,
Langdon Hills St Mary & All
Saints; Michael (Mike) Power,
Romford St Edward the
Confessor; Lee Anthony
Taylor, Leigh-on-Sea St
Margaret.
Chester
Deacons
Chris Blunt, Chester St
Paul & Huntington St Luke;
Luke Briggs, Stalybridge Holy
Trinity; Jane Colley, Crewe All
Saints and St Paul & Crewe St
Peter; Chris Collins, Hartford
St John the Baptist &
Greenbank Christ Church; Paul
Deakin, Bramhall St Michael
& All Angels; James Durbin,
Barnston Christ Church with
Pensby St Michael; Barbara
King, Guilden Sutton St John
the Baptist & Plemstall St Peter;
William Marshall, Handforth,
St Chad with Christ Church,
Colshaw; Janet Owens,
Stockport St Saviour; Jon
Philips, Lache-cum-Saltney St
Mark; Gareth Robinson,
Marple serving GLO Church
Offerton; Gareth Thomas,
Chester St Paul & Huntington St
Luke.
Priests
David Black, Tattenhall,
Burwardsley and Handley;
Helen Browne, Runcorn St
Michael; Lore Chumbley,
Stockton Heath; Trish Cope,
Knutsford St Cross; Lynne
Cullens, Congleton Team
Parish; Lesley Cummins,
Poynton; Antony Dutton,
Malpas and Threapwood; Glyn
Jones, Chester Christ Church;
Mike Loach, West Kirby St
Bridget; Chris Moore, Stretton
and Appleton Thorn; Myles
Owen Bowdon; Norma
Robinson, Hyde St George;
Andy Stinson, Oxton; Gerri
Tetzlaff, Macclesfield Team;
Jules Walker, Audlem,
Wybunbury and Doddington;
Georgina Watmore, Hale.
Chichester
Deacons
Alex Baxter, Eastbourne, St
Andrew; Sarah Flashman,
Southbourne, St John the
Evangelist; Duncan Fraser,
Eastbourne, Holy Trinity; Dr
Alison Green, Chichester
Cathedral; Dr David Hadfield,
East Grinstead, St Mary;
Sunday July 7, 2013
Pauline Lucas, Sutton with
Seaford; Paul Mundy,
Barcombe, St Mary; Brian
New, Nuthurst and Mannings
Heath; Helen Rawlings,
Brighton, Good Shepherd;
Mischa Richards, Brighton, St
Martin; Tom Robson,
Angmering, St Margaret; Jill
Simpson, Ferring, St Andrew;
Carl Smith, Burgess Hill, St
Andrew; Imtiaz Trask, Frant
and Eridge; Alex Wood,
Brighton St Peter; Karen
Young, Chichester, St Paul.
Priests
Stephen Buckman, All Saints,
Roffey; Helena Buqué, St John
the Baptist, Findon, St Mary,
Clapham & St John the Divine,
Patching; Rosemar y Cattell, St
Margaret, Warnham; Rob
Dillingham, All Saints,
Crowborough; Timothy Ezat,
All Saints, Eastbourne; Ror y
Graham, Bishop Hannington,
Hove; Simon Horton, St Mary
& St Laurence, Goring; David
Jarratt, St Mary, Felpham;
Peter O’Connell, St Peter,
Henfield, St Giles, Shermanbury
& St Peter, Woodmancote; John
Percival, All Souls, Eastbourne;
Helen Rose, Good Shepherd,
Shoreham Beach; Emma
Stonham, St Swithun, East
Grinstead; Chris Styles, St
Pancras, Chichester; Sarah
Upchurch, St Peter, Ardingley;
Matt Williams, St Matthew, St
Leonards-on-Sea.
Coventry
Deacons
David Peter Benskin, Bidfordon-Avon and Salford Priors,
Exhall and Wixford, and Temple
Grafton with Binton, alongside
Rainsbrook Secure Training
Centre assistant chaplaincy;
Victoria Jane Bisiker,
Radford Semele and Bishop’s
Itchington; Robert John
Budd, Coventry, Holy Trinity;
Stephen William Hood, New
Milverton, St Mark; Khatun,
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Beverley Sproats, has been ordained as
deacon and will be working as a curate at
St John’s, Yeadon. Half way through her
training however, she was diagnosed with
breast cancer and the ordination comes in
between her chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment.
She says, “I’m delighted that the ordination occurs during a gap in the treament
and I can take part with everyone else.
The worst part was the shock of finding
out, but from the beginning I’ve been
helped by the words of Terry Waite, who,
when he was held in captivity in Beirut
vowed that he’d have ‘No regrets, no self
pity and no sentimentality’. And I’d add to
that being deliberately thankful each day that’s been really helpful in avoiding slipping into a spiral of negative thoughts.”
And she says she’s grateful: “I’ve had amazing prayer and practical support from people, and I’m
really grateful that the college has enabled me to carry on, almost as normal, without becoming
defined by the cancer. I’ve drawn closer to God, because I’ve felt completely dependent upon him,
and having never been ill before, I’ve got a better awareness of what that really means for people.
The treatment has also brought me into contact with loads of people I wouldn’t have met otherwise.”
Beverley’s been training at Ridley Hall, Cambridge, where she’s moved with her husband
Graeme and their three children.
She adds, “Life isn’t neatly packaged up and I’m still in the middle of a journey I hadn’t anticipated. Obviously there are good days and bad days, but I’m glad to be able to rejoice in the gift of each
new day and the assurance of knowing God is there, even in the darker moments.”
Hasna, Newbold Pacey with
Morton Morrell and Lighthorne
and Chesterton; Alison June
Massey, The Stourdene Group,
comprising the parishes of
Alderminster, Butlers Marston,
Ettington, Halford, Newbold on
Stour, Pillerton Hersey with
Pillerton Priors; Gillian Susan
Roberts, Napton-on-the-Hill,
Lower Shuckburgh and
Stockton, and Priors Hardwick
with Priors Marston and
Wormleighton.
Community, Licensed to
Westwood; Jennifer Anne
Ir vine, Pioneer Minister with
St. Aidan’s, Missional
Community, Licensed to
Westwood; Alexander Paul
Randle-Bissell, Eastern
Green, St. Andrew; Jean-Sacha
Slavic , Foleshill, St. Laurence,
Gloria Ann Vaughan,
Emscote, All Saints.
Derby
Priests
Kevin Paul Bernard,
Warwick, St. Nicholas;
Jonathan Leslie Fr yer,
Chilvers Coton, All Saints;
Philip Arthur Hanson,
Claverdon, Wootton Wawen,
Preston Bagot; Pamela Isobel
Anne Howell, Whitnash, St.
Margaret, Irvine; Gareth Iain
Ir vine, Pioneer Minister with
St. Aidan’s Missional
Deacons
Patrick John Douglas,
Walbrook Epiphany Team
Ministry (Pioneer Curate);
Benjamin David Griffiths,
Brampton St Thomas; Dr
Martin David Jones, Codnor,
Horsley and Denby, Horsley
Woodhouse (Morley w Smalley
and Horsley Woodhouse) and
Loscoe; Angela Plummer,
Melbourne, Ticknall, Smisby
and Stanton-by-Bridge; Paul
Martin Pritchard, Mickleover
All Saints and Mickleover St
John the Evangelist; Norman
William Shaw, Glossop.
Priests
Josephine Ella Barnes, Hope,
Castleton and Bradwell; Karen
Tracey Bradley, Walton; Janet
Elizabeth Fr ymann, North
Wingfield Team
Ministry;Frances Mar y Grant,
Etwall and Egginton; Derrick
Hesketh, Blackwell and
Tibshelf; John Michael
Overton, New Mills; Janet
Quick, Whittington; Alun
Geoffrey Rowlands,
Mickleover All Saints and
Mickleover St John the
Evangelist; Aron Brian
Simpson, Bakewell, Ashford in
the Water with Sheldon and
Rowsley; David Alan Todd,
Normanton-by-Derby; Andrew
(Andy) Peter Christopher
Trenier, Derby Cathedral;
Janet Elizabeth Tur ville,
Wirksworth Team Ministry;
Mar y Washbrook, Peak Forest
and Dove Holes.
Durham
Deacons
Chester
James Leigh, St Mary’s,
Horden; Paul Child,
Monkwearmouth Team
Ministry, Sunderland; Claire
Gibbs, Evenwood, Cockfield
and Lynesack; Glen
Macknight, Herrington (St
Aidan), Penshaw (All Saints) &
Shiney Row (St Oswald);
Catherine Mitchell, Croxdale
& Kirk Merrington; Joan
Robinson, St Cuthbert’s
Blaydon; Fiona Collin,
Sunderland; George Lackenby,
Harlow Green & Lamesley;
Caroline Ferguson,
Darlington.
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Kingscote.
Priests
Tom Worsley, Christ Church,
Felling, Gateshead; Dan
Christian, St Mary’s and St
Cuthbert’s, Chester-le-Street;
Tom Brazier, Holy Trinity,
Washington; Mark Miller,
Stockton on Tees, St Thomas;
Lesley Jones, North Wearside
Team Ministry. Alison Hobbs,
St Brandon, Brancepeth; Kate
Boardman, Heworth St Mary;
Sarah Jay, Stranton, All Saints;
Teresa Laybourne,
Washington Holy Trinity; Dan
Pierce, Stockton St James
(Hardwick) with Stockton on
Tees, St John the Baptist.
Ely
Deacons
Richard Alldritt, Holy
Sepulche (St Andrew the Great),
Cambridge; Lesley Nicole
Bland, Kym Valley Benefice;
Judith Bolton, Hemingford
Grey and Hemingford Abbots;
Geoffrey Dumbreck, The
Ascension, Cambridge; Peter
Myers, Christ Church,
Cambridge; Mark Scarlata, St
Mark’s, Cambridge; Simon
Tomkins, Little Shelford,
Cambridge; Berkeley Zych,
Grimshoe.
Priests
Simon Bradford, Milton, All
Saints and Waterbeach, St John
and Landbeach, All Saints;
James Hickish, Ely Team
The Revd Julie Roberts will be ordained as priest after a very challenging year: the day after her ordination as deacon last June, she
received a kidney transplant from her daughter, Rachael.
Julie, who’s curate at Haworth, Stanbury and Crossroads cum
Lees, only discovered she had polycystic kidney disease when
she sent off her medical form after being accepted to train for the
ministry. But she continued her training through the Bradford
Diocese and Mirfield College - along with her job as Sales and
Marketing Manager for an international chemical company and,
later on, undergoing dialysis 3 mornings a week.
Then, three months after the transplant, her life was seriously
threatened by a blood clot. But despite being hospitalised, she
found herself carrying out her new priestly role: “Because of my
dog-collared visitors, it became known what I did and I was often
asked to pray with people.”
Ministry; Richard Kellow,
Histon, St Andrew, and
Impington, St Andrew; Trudie
Morris, Fowlmere, St Mary,
Foxton, St Laurence, Shepreth,
All Saints, and Thriplow, St
George; Rosemar y Murrills,
Hartford, All Saints, and
Houghton with Wyton, St Mary;
Amanda O’Neill,
Trumpington, St Mary and St
Michael; Susan Potts,
Raddesley Group; Paula
Preston, Cambridge, St Martin;
Mark Smith, Little Shelford;
Andrew Taylor, Cambridge, St
Barnabas and as Ordained
Pioneer Minister; Janet
Tiplady, Warboys, St Mary
Magdalene, Broughton, All
Saints, Bury, Holy Cross, and
Wistow, St John the Baptist.
Europe
Ernest Austin, Kemble, Poole
Keynes, Somerford Keynes with
Shorncote, Coates, Rodmarton
and Sapperton with Frampton
Mansell; Rebecca Mar y Bell,
Charlton Kings, Holy Apostles;
Nathan John Charles,
Broadwell, Evenlode,
Oddington, Adlestrop and
Westcote with Icomb and
Bledington; Susan Patricia
Cooke, Barnwood; Gar y Brian
Grady, Cirencester with
Watermoor; Karen Margaret
Kemp, Gloucester Cathedral,
and Gloucester City with
Hempsted; Suzanne Elizabeth
Leighton, Charlton Kings, St
Mary; James Richard
Pickersgill, Winchcombe Team
Ministry; Susan Clare
Sobczak, Nailsworth with
Shortwood, Horsley and
Newington Bagpath with
Priests
Simon Antony Archer,
Gloucester, St Paul and St
Stephen; Josephine Anne
Goodwin, Stow-on-the-Wold,
Condicote and The Swells;
Rosalyn Greenhalgh, West
Cheltenham Team Ministry;
David Paul Ibbotson,
Tewkesbury with Walton Cardiff
and Twyning; April Elizabeth
Jones, Badgeworth,
Shurdington and Witcombe with
Bentham; Thomas Frederick
Keates, Thornbury and
Oldbury-on-Severn with
Shepperdine; Benjamin
Joseph Peter Thompson,
Moreton-in-Marsh with
Batsford, Todenham, Lower
Lemington and Longborough
with Sezincote; Clare Welham,
Stroud Team Ministry.
Guildford
Deacons
Michael James (Mike)
Barton, Claygate; Gareth
Roger Milroy Dicks,Cove;
Martin Leonard Gilpin,
Surrey Weald Benefice;
Jonathan Martin (Jon)
Hidden, Guildford, Christ
Church & St Martha on the Hill;
Julian William McAllen,
Epsom Common, Christ
Church; Anne-Marie (Anne)
Mitchell, Camberley St
Michael; Folorunso (Folli)
Olokose, Cobham & Stoke
d’Abernon; Barney
Pimentel, Woking, St Mary of
Bethany; Zoe Louise
Pimentel, Woking, St Mary of
Bethany; Margaret Ann
(Maggie) Stirling Troy,
Farncombe; Elizabeth Jane
(Lizzie) Toms, Crondall &
Ewshot; Vivien Andree
Elizabeth Turner, Banstead;
Dermot Henr y Verschoyle,
Merrow.
Priests
William Campbell (Will)
Bissett, Virginia Water; Elaine
Collins, United Benefice of
The Bourne and Tilford;
Russell William Gant,
Camberley St Paul; James
Campbell Ramsay Gibson,
Busbridge & Hambledon; Peter
Hewson, Milford; David
Jenkins, Busbridge &
Hambledon; Ruth Kidd,
Lightwater; Christina Nancy
(Chrissie) Lacey, Knaphill with
Brookwood; Barbara
McDonald, Great Bookham;
Amanda Sharon (Mandy)
MacVean, Banstead; Peter
(Pete) Matthew, Woking St
John; Daniel Natnael,
Goldsworth Park; Christopher
David (Chris) Owen, Walton
Durham
Richard Gardiner, St Boniface,
Bonn and All Saints, Cologne; Dr
Matthias Grebe, St Boniface,
Bonn and All Saints, Cologne;
Doreen Cage, St George’s,
Malaga; Dr John Barker,
Christ Church, Vienna with
responsibility for Yerevan.
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Paul Mundy
Former pub landlord, Paul
Mundy, started his residential training at Westcott House, Cambridge as
a weekly Boarder, and
even made it onto the
front of a magazine in
Chichester to tell his
story. He said, “I can’t
believe it’s been two years
since the article “Last
orders to
Holy Orders. The days,
weeks months have just
flown by.
“It’s been difficult at
times, especially being
away from family. I found
it particularly
trying, when in my first
term I snapped my
Achilles tendon playing
Hereford
Deacons
NicholasAdley, Ross w
Walford; Marjorie Brooks,
Bridgnorth Team Ministry;
Helen Clarke, Hereford, St
Peter w St Owen & St James;
Virginia Clements, Hope
Bowdler w Eaton-UnderHeywood, Rushbury &
Cardington; Sarah Hare,
Bishop’s Castle w Mainstone,
Lydbury North & Edgton; Ruth
Hulse, West Hereford Team
Ministry; Mark Inglis, Tupsley
w Hampton Bishop;
Christopher Johnson,
Weobley w Sarnesfield &
Norton Canon; Dr Frances
Pullen, St Weonards; Jane
Rogers, Cusop, Blakemere,
Bredwardine w Brobury,
Clifford, Dorstone, Hardwicke,
Moccas & Preston-on-Wye; Dr
Wendy Rylance, Highley w
Billingsley, Glazeley, Deuxhill &
Chelmarsh; William
Simmonds, Ledbury Team
Ministry.
Priests will be ordained at
Michaelmas.
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Leicester
Deacons
Pauline Ashby, Hugglescote
with Donington, Ellistown and
Snibston; Jacqueline (Jackie)
Bullen, The Fosse Team;
Stuart Cocksedge, St John,
Hinckley; Rosanne (Ros)
Cooper, The Bradgate Team –
Ratby cum Groby with Newtown
Linford (TM); John (Sami)
Lindsey, Holy Trinity with St
John the Divine, Leicester;
Robert (Rob) Marsh,
Whitwick, Thringstone and
Swannington;
John Owens, Billesdon cum
Goadby and Rolleston,
Skeffington, Keyham and
Hungarton; Simon Rowbor y,
Martyrs, Leicester.
Priests
Natalie Andrews, Emmanuel
Loughborough and St Mary in
Charnwood; Jema Mar y Ball,
Countesthorpe with Foston,
Peatling Magna and Willoughby
Waterleys; Linda Cox, The
Woodfield Team Benefice (Team
Ministry); Andrew (Andy)
James Humm, Emmanuel,
Loughborough and St Mary in
Charnwood; Louise Anne
Miranda Petheram,
Upper
Soar Benefice – Claybrooke cum
Wibtoft, Leire, Frolesworth,
Ashby Parva, Dunton Bassett;
Hilar y Ann Surridge, The
Fenn Lanes Group of Churches
– Stoke Golding, Dadlington,
Fenny Drayton, Higham-on-the-
Hill and Witherley; Jonathan
Mark Surridge, Hinckley St
Mary; Helena Whittaker, St
Peter’s, Braunstone Park.
Lichfield
Deacons
Michael Batchelor,
Willenhall, St Stephen; Lindsay
Clowes, Biddulph, St Lawrence;
Deborah Coatsworth,
Baschurch and Weston
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football against
Ridley Hall. I then spent
6 months hopping round
college in plaster, dependent on the grace of others.
On reflection it was also a
blessing, having no choice
but to learn to receive,
something I had not found
easy in the past.
Immersion into a pattern of daily prayer,
Eucharist, academic study
and life in
communion with those
around him, has challenged and strengthened
his faith.
“Those I have trained
alongside and been taught
by are truly amazing people, and many have
become firm friends.”
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Priests
Diana Rowlandson to serve
in St James’s, Gerrards
Cross
From clergy spouse to
clergy widow to clergy
woman: nothing could have
surprised this fulfilled mum
and physiotherapist more
than sensing God’s call to
ordained ministry. She
says: “While training I have
been on the staff at St
James’s, Gerrards Cross
developing
Alpha
and
resources for welcoming
newcomers into the church
and the community.”
Lullingfield with Hordley; Joy
Dale, Penn Fields; Darren
Edge, Werrington and Wetley
Rocks; Adam Gompertz, Little
Aston; Nicola Grey, Burton, St
Chad; Christopher Hassell,
Aldridge; Tommy Merr y,
Hanley, The Holy Evangelists;
Robert Heath, Heath Hayes;
Philip Mullins, Castlechurch;
Simon Oakes, Walsall, St
Gabriel; Heather Page, Hadley,
Holy Trinity and Wellington,
Christ Church; Gareth Regan,
Penn Fields; Maria Smith,
Bayston Hill; Josephine
Williams, Central
Wolverhampton.
Sunday July 7, 2013
Liverpool
Jeremy Bakewell, Aldridge;
David Bruce, Meole Brace,
Trinity Churches; Mark
Danks, Blakenhall Heath,
Christ Church; John Grice,
Wellington, All Saints with
Eyton, St Catherine; Douglas
Heming, Ashley, Mucklestone,
Broughton and Croxton;
Matthew Malins, Glascote, St
George’s; Pamela Merriott,
Colwich, St Michael & All
Angels; Trevor Raaff,
Biddulph, St Lawrence;
Jonathan Roberts, Cotes
Heath, Standon, Swynnerton
and Tittensor; Nigel Taylor,
Walsall, St Paul & St Luke;
Stephen Torr, Wilnecote, Holy
Trinity; Mar y Wade,
Albrighton, St Mary Magdalene;
Susan Watson, Central
Wolverhampton Team, St Chad
& St Mark.
Lincoln
Deacons
Alex Barrow, Frodingham;
Laura Cockram, Frodingham;
Chris Davies, St Mary and St
James Great Grimsby; Kevin
Dyke, Gainsborough and
Morton; Jacqueline Bell,
Grantham, Harrowby with
Londonthorpe; Andrew
Jackson-Parr, The
Bassingham Group; Michelle
Godbold, Boultham; Julia
Clark, Brumby; Terr y
Taggart, The Fen and Hill
Group; Michael Ongyerth,
Crowland; Jean Coates, The
Spilsby Group;
Andy Tappin, St John and St
Stephen New Clee; Mark
Hutson Barrow and Goxhill;
Teresa McLaughlin, The
South Ormsby Group; Carol
Jones, Nettleham, Welton and
Dunholme with Scothern.
Bury St Edmunds
Priests
Phillip Gration, St Botolph
Lincoln; St Mary Le Wigford
with St Benedict and St Mark,
Lincoln; St Peter-at-Gowts and St
Andrew, Lincoln; Julia
Hepburn, Springline, The
Owmby Group; Michelle
Houldershaw, Sibsey with
Frithville, The Brothertoft
Group; Kay Jones, St John and
St Stephen New Clee; Frankie
Lee, Spalding; Nicholas
Nawrockyi, St Mary and St
James Great Grimsby; Georgie
Machell, The North Lafford
Group; Paul Slater, Boston;
Cilla Smith, The Asterby
Group, The Hemingby Group,
The Horncastle Group; Mark
Thomson, Market Deeping;
Beth Weston, The Carr Dyke
Group.
Liverpool
Deacons
Christine Daniel-McKeigue,
Carr Mill St David and
Riverbank Cafe Church; Ian
Jones, Burscough Bridge St
John; David Owens, Clubmoor
St Andrew; Laura Pasterfield,
Liverpool All Saints; Matthew
Roberts, Haydock St Mark;
Pauline Rowe, Wigan All
Saints with Wigan St George;
Izzy Schafer, Ashton in
Makerfield St Thomas and St
Luke Stubshaw Cross; Neil
Stothers, Southport Emmanuel;
Sue Thomas, Formby Holy
Trinity and Altcar St Michael
and All Angels; Glyn Thomson,
West Derby St Luke; Harr y
Wood, St Helens Town Centre
Team.
Priests
Bill Addy, Fazakerley Team;
Helen Coffey, Ashton in
Makerfield St Thomas; Shirley
Cowan, Gateacre Team
Ministry; Sonya Doragh, Much
Woolton St Peter;
Sara Doyle, Liverpool St Luke
in the City Team; Harr y
Greenhalgh, Winwick St
Oswald; Dave Griffith-Jones,
Toxteth Team; Cuthbert
Jackson,
Skelmersdale
St Paul; Anne Lawlor, Everton
St Peter with St John
Chrysostom; Penny Leeman,
Kirkdale St Athanasius with St
Mary; Tracey McLoughlin,
Skelmersdale St Paul; Jude
Padfield, St James in the City.
London
Deacons
John Ash, St Michael Chester
Square; Matt Banks, Christ
Church Mayfair; Lesley
Bilinda, St Andrew Fulham
Fields; Tom Buchanan, St
Margaret Lothbury; Alex
Cacouris, St Stephen East
Twickenham; Simon Cuff,
Christ the Saviour Ealing;
Andrew Dand, St Stephen
Ealing; Andrew Downes, St
Nicholas Chiswick; Malcolm
Finlay, St John Southall; Mark
Fox, St Margaret Lothbury;
Phil Hoyle, Shepherds Bush
Missional Community and St
Stephen &St Thomas Shepherds
Bush; Tim Hughes, Holy
Trinity Brompton with St Paul
Onslow Square and St
Augustine Queen’s Gate; Mark
Jackson, All Souls Langham
Place; Dawn Jewson, St
George Southall; Karlene Kerr,
St Mary Harefield; Charlie
Lacey, St Ann South
Tottenham; Christopher
Landau, St Luke West Kilburn
and Emmanuel Harrow Road;
Sue Makin, St Anne Hoxton;
Melanie Marshall, St Michael
& All Angels Bedford Park;
Daniel Millest, Holy Trinity Brompton
with St Paul Onslow Square and St
Augustine Queen’s Gate; Gloria Naylor,
St Mary Islington; Johannes Roth,
Emmanuel Northwood; Keir Shreeves,
Christ Church Turnham Green; Robin
Sims-Williams, St John the Evangelist
Hyde Park; Richard Springer, St Peter
De Beauvoir Town; Richard Thomas, St
Paul Ealing; Car ys Walsh, St Luke and
Christ Church Chelsea; Phil Williams,
Holy Trinity Brompton with St Paul
Onslow Square and St Augustine Queen’s
Gate; James Yeates, St Michael
Highgate and All Saints Highgate; Diana
Young, St John-at-Hampstead.
Priests
Philip Allcock, Christ Church Mayfair;
Pamela Barrie, St Nicholas Shepperton
& St Mary Magdalene Littleton; David
Bell, St James Hampton Hill; Allen
Bower, St Mark Kensal Rise;
Christopher Bunce, St Peter
Hammersmith; Stefan Chr ysostomou,
St Mary-at-Finchley; Sue Colman, Holy
Trinity Brompton with St Paul Onslow
Square
and St Augustine Queen’s Gate; Charis
Enga, Christ Church Highbury; Al
Gordon, Holy Trinity Brompton with St
Paul Onslow Square and St Augustine
Queen’s Gate; David Green, St Martin
Ruislip; Philip Herrington, Christ
Church Cockfosters; Chris Hill, St
Gabriel Cricklewood; James
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Newcastle
Manchester
Deacons
John Carr, Jesmond Holy Trinity and
Newcastle St Barnabas and St Jude;
Carol Barrett Ford, Cowgate St Peter;
Allison Harding, Benwell Team
Ministry; Julie Mooney, Newcastle Holy
Cross; Julia Myles, Alnwick St Michael
and St Paul;
Chantal Noppen, Byker St Martin and
Byker St Michael with St Lawrence within Mission Initiative Newcastle East; Sue
Rendall, Kenton The Ascension.
Priests
Hughesdon, St Paul & St Mark Old
Ford; Anders Litzell, St
GeorgeHolborn; Simon Maddison, St
Alphage; Sandra McCalla, Poplar
Team Ministry; Alison Mathew, St
Mary Osterley with St Luke Hounslow
East; Adrian May, St Peter Notting
Hill; Chris Morgan, St Dunstan & All
Saints Stepney; Peter Nicholas, All
Souls Langham Place; Mark Jones
Parr y, Grace Church; Paul Sawrey,
King’s Cross Church, Pioneer Ministry;
Nick Stott, Holy Trinity Brompton with
St Paul Onslow Square and St Augustine
Queen’s Gate; Andrew Swift, St Mary
& Christ Church Hendon; James
Taylor, St Luke Hampstead.
Manchester
Deacons
The Revd Claire Gibbs, 37, has been
ordained as a Deacon to serve in
Evenwood, Cockfield and Lynesack.
She came to ministry after achieving a
degree and Masters in Archaeology,
followed by five years as head of a
museum. During that time, she spent
her days dressing children up as
monks, helping them explore the realities of life in the Anglo-Saxon period.
She said: “Having had two children
in quick succession, once it became
feasible to work again, I tried returning to museum education. This door
seemed very definitely shut but I was
surprised to feel happy about this, and
that God was saying he has something
better, something even more me, than
this job I had wanted to do for many
years. So in the meantime, I set out to
make my hobby, of stained glass, into
an income generator. My work - teaching, and working to commission - was
always well received, but never made
a profit. At the same time, I began on
this journey. It all started with my
vicar asking me if I’d ever considered
ordination. I explored it further,
prayed that God would shut the door if
it was the wrong thing, but it swung
wide open. It is exactly what I felt
called to do.”
Julie Anne Barratt, St Mary,
Rawtenstall and St Paul, Constable
Lee; John Brett, Holy Trinity,
Rusholme; Mark Roy Glew, Holy
Trinity, Rusholme; Renate (Natty)
Katharina Gray, Deeplish and
Newbold; Mark Richard
Hewerdine, Christ Church, West
Didsbury and St Christopher,
Withington;Michael (Mike) Scott
Howarth, St Andrew, Dearnley;
Christopher (Chris) Donald
Jamieson, Christ Church,
Walmsley in the Turton Moorland
Ministry;
Penelope (Penny) Ann King, St
Elisabeth, Reddish; Joanna (Jo)
Elizabeth McKee, Christ’s
Church, Harwood; Carol Masters,
St George, Dane Bank (Christ
Church, Denton); Ottmar Bernd
Morett, St Michael, Flixton;
Stephen Carl Nolan, St John the
Baptist, Hey in the Medlock Head
Team; Sheila Mar y O’Flaherty,
the Heatons Team; George
Edward Charles Reeves, The
Good Shepherd, Ashton-under-Lyne
Team; Katherine (Katie) Vive
Reeves, St Lawrence, Denton;
Alan William Saunders, St Peter,
Halliwell; Simon Whitworth
Schofield, St Matthew, Stretford;
Huw Daniel Thomas, Sacred
Trinity and Saint Philip with Saint
Stephen Salford; Christine Emily
Threlfall, the West Bolton Team;
Caroline Patricia Tracey, Holy
Trinity, Horwich in the Horwich
and Rivington Team.
Priests
Malcolm William Bristow, St
Bede, Bolton le Moors; Janet Mar y
Butterworth, St John the Baptist,
Heaton Mersey in the Heatons
Team; Lorraine Mar y Cooke, St
Martin, Droylsden; Daniel
Douglas Critchlow, Firswood with
Gorse Hill; Michael John (Mike)
Dyson, St Paul, Kersal Moor and St
Andrew, Carr Clough; Victor (Vic)
James Daniel Fletcher, Holcombe and
Hawkshaw; Gwyneth Siân Humphreys
Gasson, The Saviour, Collyhurst; Kim
Elvin Lafferty, Horwich and Rivington
Team Ministry; Lloyd Han Lee, Christ
Church, Pennington; Luke Karl
Maguire, Salford All Saints Team
Ministry, Rochdale; Steven (Steve)
Paul Openshaw, Ramsbottom and
Edenfield Team Ministry; Sarah
Frances Peppiatt, St Mary, Moston;
Deborah Sharon Agnes Sandercock,
St Matthew with St Luke, Chadderton;
Christine Krogh Sandiford, St James
& Emmanuel, Didsbury; Karen
Elizabeth Slayen, Atherton and
Hindsford with Howe Bridge Benefice;
Karsten-Eric Joachim Wedgewood, St
Mary the Virgin, Davyhulme; Ann
Marie Whittleworth, St George,
Unsworth and St Andrew, Hillock;
Simon Andrew Wright,
St Mary the Virgin, Davyhulme.
Peter Dobson, Christ the King Team
Ministry; Yvonne Greener, North
Shields Team Ministry; Julie Robson,
Corbridge St Andrew with Halton and
Newton Hall.
Norwich
Deacons
Hilar y De Lyon, Swaffham and Sporle;
Martin Hartley, Tas Valley Team
Ministry; Julia Hemp, Earlham; Peter
Herbert, Cromer; David Palmer,
Lowestoft, St Margaret; Helen Rengert,
Norwich, Thorpe Hamlet, St Matthew;
Andrew Slater, Wymondham with
Silfield and Spooner Row; William
Warren, Norwich, Heigham, Holy
Trinity.
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Priests
Julie Boyd, Dersingham,
Shernborne & Anmer; Mark
Capron, Pakefield, Carlton
Colville & Mutford; Zoë
Ferguson, Trunch Team
Ministry; Andrew Jones,
Sprowston with Beeston St
Andrew; Margaret McPhee,
Stalham, East Ruston,
Brunstead, Sutton & Ingham;
James Monro, Saxon Shore;
David Smith, Thorpe Episcopi;
Graham Wilkins, North &
South Wootton.
Oxford
Deacons
Sally Bailey, Great Chesham;
Tim Barnard, Amersham, St
Mary’s; Alastair Blaine,
Witney; Sam Brewster, St
Mary’s, Maidenhead; Wendy
Bull, Marlow; Alistair Gibbs,
Oxford, St Ebbe’s; Alec Gill,
Thatcham; Lisa Holmes, The
Ray Valley Benefice, including
Islip and Woodeaton; Vivian
Inch, High Wycombe; Alison
Jones, Burghfield; Jennifer
Jones, Sunninghill and South
Ascot; David Joynes, Benefice
of the Cookhams; Jane Lewis,
St James, Southlake (Woodley);
Richard Lightbown, Schorne
Team; Trish Mander, St
Mary’s, Haddenham; Coralie
Mansfield, Olney; Carol
Morgan, St Matthew’s, Reading;
Richard Phillips, Holy Trinity,
Walton; David Pickersgill, St
Lawrence’s , Reading; Emma
Rackleyeft, Thame Team
Ministry; Diana Rowlandson,
St James’s, Gerrards Cross;
Levy Santana, High Wycombe
Deanery; David Spence, Shill
Valley and Broadshire;
Samantha Stayte, St Michael
and All Angels, Summertown;
Ben Thorndike, Arborfield
and Barkham; Jonathan
Vaughan, St Andrew’s, Oxford.
Barnabas; Jonathan Drake,
Wargrave with Knowl Hill;
Elizabeth Newman, Earley, St
Nicolas; David Ramsbottom,
Crowthorne; Simon Steer,
Abingdon; Terence Winrow,
Newbury;, Dominic Keech,
Wantage; Thomas Albinson,
Littlemore, St Mary and
Nicholas; Mark Brickman,
Oxford, St Aldate’s; Sarah
Northall, Iffley, St Mary’s;
James Stickings, Headington
Quarry, Holy Trinity; Kevin
Beer, Beaconsfield; Tim
Dawson, Newport Pagnell with
Lathbury and Moulsoee; Ian
Herbert, Haddenham with
Cuddington and Kinsey and
Aston Sandford; Michael Hunt,
Wendover and Halton;
Christoph Lindner, Gerrard’s
Bross and Fulmer; Sue
Morton, Hambledon Valley;
Richard Rugg, Buckingham;
Julie Wearing, Upton cum
Chalvey; Katherine Cooke,
Eynsham and Cassington;
Phillip Cooke, Harborough
and Freeland; Lucy Gardner,
Wheatley; Nick Pike, Cogges
and South leigh and North
leigh; Peter Wright, Bicester
with Bucknell, Caversfield and
Launton.
Peterborough
Deacons
Lynda Davies Oundle w
Ashton & Benefield w
Glapthorn; Lorna LavarelloSmith, Billing (Anglican,
Methodist and Roman Catholic
LEP); (William) Nick
Trenholme, Wollaston w
Strixton & Bozeat & Easton
Maudit; Rebecca Winfrey,
Barnack w Ufford & Bainton;
Helpston and Wittering; Jackie
(Jacqueline) Wiegman,
Longthorpe & Bretton; Simon
Kaye, Eye & Newborough &
Thorney; Mr Owen Williams,
Uppingham w Ayston & Belton
w Wardley.
Priests
Priests
John Aldis, Newbury; Mark
Bodeker, Didcot, All Saints;
Andrew Bond, Pangbourne
with Tidmarsh and Sulham;
Neil Dominic Br yson,
Maidenhead All Saints Boyne
Hill; Sue Cooke, Sunningdale;
Penelope Cuthbert, Reading
St Agnes with St Paul and St
Ruth Bond, Irthlingborough,
Great Addington, Little
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Cathy Brazier, Thrapston, Islip
and Denford; Dominic Coad,
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Peterborough; Jenny
Opperman, Peterborough
Cathedral; Greg Shaw, Yardley
Hastings, Denton and Grendon
with Castle Ashby & Whiston;
Paula York, Earls Barton.
Portsmouth
Priests
Stephen Boon, Tunbridge
Wells, St John; Julie Bowen,
Bexley, St John the Evangelist;
Stephen Broadie, Welling, St
John the Evangelist; Sharon
Copestake, Chatham, SS Philip
& James; Sophie Sutherland,
Chevening, St Botolph; Simon
Taylor, Tunbridge Wells, St
Philip; Rachel Wilson,
Dartford, St Edmund King &
Martyr.
Deacons
Dawn Banting, The Cathedral
Church of St Thomas of
Canterbury, Portsmouth;
Laura Cameron, Shedfield, St
John the Evangelist and
Wickham, St Nicholas in the
Wykeham Group Ministry;
Lewis Connolly, West Leigh, St
Alban; Damon Draisey,
Warblington, St Thomas a
Becket and Emsworth, St
James; Steven Marsh, Crofton,
Holy Rood and St Edmunds Old
Church; Janet Trevithick,
Titchfield, St Peter.
Priests
Veronica Brown, Newport,
The Minster Church of Sts
Thomas, Newport and Newport,
St John; Thomas James,
Petersfield, St Peter with
Buriton, St Mary; Peter
Lambert, Gosport, Holy Trinity
with
Christ Church; Anne
McCabe, Portsdown, Christ
Church;
Dawn Oakley, Shanklin, St
Blasius; Christine Prior-Jones,
Steep, All Saints and Froxfield
with Privett; Mark Tariq, Liss,
St Mary; Keith Wickert,
Fareham, Holy Trinity with St
Columba; Alice Wood,
Farlington, St Andrew with
Farlington, the Church of the
Resurrection.
Ripon & Leeds
Deacons
.
Benjamin Askew, Kairos;
Mark Bradford, Holy Trinity
Ripon; Sarah Feaster,
Manston; Ian Johnston, Adel
& Ireland Wood; Sheena
McMain, Rothwell;
Christopher Mitton, Holbeck.
St Albans
Deacons
Andrew Croft, Langleybury St
Paul; Peter Crumpler,
Sandridge; Virginia (Ginni)
Dear, Hertford Team Ministry;
Nevsky Everett, Norton;
Matthew Graham, Little
Heath; David Short,
Chorleywood Christ Church;
Catherine (Kate) Sharples,
Stevenage St Peter Broadwater;
Shaun Speller, Harpenden St
Nicholas; Nicholas Walsh,
Luton Lewsey St Hugh; David
Warner, Abbots Langley;
Robin (James) Webster,
Broxbourne w Wormley;
Joshua Young, Welwyn Garden
City.
Priests
Paul Boddam-Whetham, St
Albans Christ Church; LesleyAnn Craddock, Hatfield Hyde;
Lucy Dallas, Welwyn Team
Ministry; Lucy Davis,
Redbourn; Nicholas Jones,
Frogmore; Chrichton Limbert,
Ouzel Valley Team Ministry;
Keith Murphy, Ware Christ
Church; Mark Newman, Eaton
Socon; Rachel Pennant,
Biggleswade; Michael
Pilavachi, Watford St Peter
(Soul Survivor); Thomas Plant,
Great Berkhamsted, Great
Gaddesden, Little Gaddesden,
Nettleden and Potten End.
St Edmundsbury
& Ipswich
Deacons
Priests
Linda Boon, St John’s, Sharow;
Mar y Bradley, Meanwood;
Kathr yn Fitzsimons, St
Aidan’s, Leeds; Timothy
Laundon, Wetherby; Andrew
Patrick, Harrogate St Mark;
Hannah Smith, Holy Trinity,
Leeds.
Rochester
Sharron Dawn Coburn,
Stanton, Hopton, Market
Weston, Barningham and Coney
Weston; Carl Nicholas
Melville, Bury St Edmunds,
The Cathedral Church of St
James and St Edmund; Philip
Hugh Owen Miller, Beccles St
Michael and St Luke; Toby
James Tate, Ipswich St
Matthew with Triangle and All
Saints; Mark Jason Woodrow,
Lavenham with Preston.
Priests
Deacons
Pam Alexander, Rochester, St
Margaret; Simon Couper,
Tonbridge, St Peter & St Paul;
Andrew Fearnley, Sevenoaks,
St Nicholas; Andrew Hobbs,
Bromley Common, St
Augustine; Tina Kelsey,
Beckenham, St George;
Christopher Kilgour, Chalk, St
Mary; Laurence Powell,
Strood, St Mary.
David Carpenter, Christ
Church Moreton Hall, Bury St
Edmunds; Maria Antoinette
(Manette) Crossman,
Haverhill with Withersfield; Ian
Geoffrey Daniels, Ipswich St
Augustine; Elizabeth L.
Gregor y, Sole Bay; David
Peter White, Felixstowe St
John with St Edmund.
Salisbury
Deacons
Ben Dyson, New Borough &
Leigh St John; Tom Coopey,
Salisbury St Francis & St
Lawrence Stratford sub Castle;
Sue Linford, Bride Valley;
Belinda Marflitt, Wimborne
Minster; Sue Miles, White
Horse benefice; Stephen
Partridge, Canford Magna;
Daniel Newman, Radipole and
Melcombe Regis; Mark
Phillips, Portland Team
Ministry; Richard Wyld,
Sherborne Abbey; Ruth Wyld,
Queen Thorne.
Priests
Colette Annesley-Gamester,
Spire Hill; Anne Bond, Corfe
Castle, Church Knowle,
Kimmeridge & Steeple with
Tyneham; Roger Butcher,
Wyke Regis All Saints with Saint
Edmund; Keith Charnley,
North Bradford on Avon and
Villages; Dave Gingell,
Sturminster Newton, Hinton St
Mary and Lydlinch; Alice
Goodall, St Bartholomew;
Ruth Mecredy, Broughton
Gifford, Great Chalfield and
Holt St Katharine; Jemma
Sander-Heys, Royal Wootton
Bassett.
Sheffield
Deacons
Philip Leslie Barringer,
Rivers Team Ministry; Toby
Paul Bassford, St Thomas at
Philadelphia; Stephen Andrew
Beck, All Saints, Woodlands;
Daniel James Brown,
St Thomas at Philadelphia;
Karen Colley, Sheffield Manor;
Sarah Marianne Colver,
All Saints, Aston-cum-Aughton
and Holy Trinity, Ulley; Barbara
Anne Cushing, St James,
Anston; Richard Grant, St
Thomas, Crookes; Ann
Rhodes, Christ Church,
Hackenthorpe; Nolan Daniel
Rhyl Robson, St Thomas,
Kilnhurst.
Priests
Michael Campbell Burn,
Rotherham Minster; Carl Lewis
Chapman,St Polycarp, Malin
Bridge; Garr y Alan DawsonJones, Christ Church,
Hackenthorpe; Hannah Louise
Jackson, Christ Church,
Pitsmoor; Ian Maher, Sheffield
Cathedral; Martijn Mugge, St
Mary, Wombwell; Catherine
Staziker, Holy Trinity,
Millhouses and St John,
Abbeydale; Louise
Tinniswood, Holy Trinity and
St Oswald, Finningley.
Sodor & Man
Deacons
.
Iaen Macdonald Skidmore,
Marown, Foxdale and Baldwin.
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Bilborough with Strelley; Louise
Holliday, Edwinstowe,
Perlethorpe and Clipstone; Paul
Savage, Bawtry with Austerfield
and Misson;
Jo Tatum, Steve Silvester at
Nottingham St Nicholas;
Elizabeth Wild, Bulwell, St
Mary; Chris Youngman,
Radcliffe on Trent and Shelford.;
Truro
Deacons
Heather Jane Aston, Meneage;
Jane Bradbur y, Helston and
Wendron; Peter Graham
Butterfield , Ludgvan, Marazion,
St Hilary and Perranuthnoe;
John Christopher Jukes,
Saltash.
Priests
Truro
Priests
Jeanette Estelle Hamer, St
George, Douglas.
Southwark
Paul Franklin, Kidbrooke, St
Nicholas; Christopher
Griffiths,
Wimbledon
Team Ministry; Ann Lynes,
Barnes Team Ministry;
Christopher Moore, Croydon
Minster; Sharon Prentis,
Redhill, St Matthew ; Sandra
Schloss, Addiscombe, St
Mildred; Kate Tuckett, Merton
Priory Team Ministry; Alwyn
Webb, Richmond, Holy Trinity.
Deacons
Priests
John Adams, Wimbledon,
Emmanuel; Belemo Susan
Alagoa, North Lambeth Team
Ministry; Phil Brooks, Oxted &
Tandridge; Jessie Daniels
White, Charlton Team Ministry;
Jenny Dawkins, Peckham, All
Saints; David Evans,
Lewisham, St Mary; TiffanyAlice Ewins, Brixton, St Paul
with St Saviour;
Elizabeth Franklin,
Blackheath Park, St Michael;
Herbert Aparanga,
Blackheath, St John; Benjamin
Brown, Cheam Team Ministry;
Richard Boothroyd,
Southfields, St Michael & All
Angels; Alison Brunt, South
Croydon, St Peter w St
Augustine; Tom Carson,
Mortlake with East Sheen Team
Ministry; Gregor y Cushing,
Wandsworth, All Saints with Holy
Trinity; Mark Hatcher,
Brockley, St Saviour; Alice Hole,
Brixton, St Matthew with St Jude;
Sarah Jackson, Wandsworth, St
Mary; Susikaran James, Tulse
Hill, Holy Trinity; Gill O’Neill,
West Dulwich, All Saints; Hazel
O’Sullivan, Reigate, St Mary;
Joshua Rey, Streatham, St
Leonard; Adam Rylett, South
Croydon, Emmanuel; Louise
Seear, Vauxhall, St Peter; Cyril
Showers, North Dulwich, St
Faith; James White,
Addiscombe, St Mary.
Southwell &
Nottingham
Deacons
Maureen Collins, St Wilfrid’s,
Wilford; Michael Johnson, St
Mark’s Woodthorpe; Georgie
Hadley, Retford; Sam
Hustwayte, St Mary’s, Arnold;
Debbie Lord, St Peter’s Toton;
Wendy Murphy, Carlton in the
Willows; Stephen Parker,
Worksop Priory of St.Mary and
St.Cuthbert with Carburton;
Lynn Raynor, St Peter’s
Ravenshead; Bruce Rienstra,
St Peter and St Paul, Warsop.
Priests
Anna Alls, Bestwood Emmanuel
with St Mark’s; Carol Dunk,
Tuxford with Weston and
Markham Clinton; Nicola
Fenton, Nottingham St Ann
with Emmanuel; Gill Hall,
Bilborough St John and
Paul John Beynon, Boscastle
and Davidstow; Caspar James
Barnard Bush, Perranzabuloe
and Crantock with Cubert;
Angela Jean Cooper, St Just in
Roseland and St Mawes; Annie
Henr yHolland, Ludgvan,
Marazion, St Hilary and
Perranuthnoe; Neil John
Potter, Redruth Team Ministry;
Nicholas John Widdows,
Fowey.
Wakefield
Deacons
Jonathan Bish, Halifax
Minster; Guillermo Cavieses,
St Giles Pontefract; David
Clark, St Peter Gildersome & St
Paul Drighlington; David
Dodgson, St Catherine Sandal;
Brian Duxbur y, St Peter
Gildersome & St Paul
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Sunday July 7, 2013
Healey, Ampfield, Chilworth
and North Baddesley; Kathr yn
Elizabeth Hicken, Holdenhurst
and Iford;
Nicholas Paul
Hutchinson, Thornhill; Lynn
Diane Power, North Hampshire
Downs;
Juliette Elizabeth
Charmaine
Robilliard,
Guernsey Ste Marie du Castel,
St Matthew Cobo; Philip John
Spiers, Darby Green and
Eversley; Peter Sheridan Stark
Toller,
Dibden;
Sarah
Elizabeth Yetman, Yateley.
Priests
Worcester
Drighlington; Ian Jamieson,
Emmanuel Team; Kevin
Greaves, Castleford Team;
Johanna Kershaw, St Mary
Todmorden; Stephen Oakley,
St Mary Magdalene, Lundwood;
Joan Viles, St James Thornes.
Priests
Keith Freeman, Benefice of
Shepley and Shelley; Lesley
Greenwood-Haigh,
Almondbury with Farnley Tyas
Team Parish; Andrew Hall, St
Martin, Brighouse & St John,
Clifton; Matthew Hunter, The
Minster Church of St John the
Baptist, Halifax; Clifford Kay,
St Hilda, Halifax & St John,
Warley; Gill Page, St Mary,
Todmorden; Darren Percival,
St John the Baptist, Dodworth;
Ailsa Brooke, Upper Holme
Valley Team Parish; Stuart
Kilpatrick, St Anne,
Southowram & St Thomas,
Claremount; Paul Fox, St
Cuthbert, Ackworth.
Wales
Wales
Wales
Monmouth
St Davids
Swansea & Brecon
Deacons
William Lambert, Ebbw Vale;
Rufus Noy, Blaenavon;
Andrew Harter, Grosmont,
John Waters, Caerwent;
Elizabeth Kerl, Benefice of
Bassaleg; John Collier,
Mamhilad.
Priests
Allan Davies, Magor; Dr
Alison Littler, Caldicot; Dr
Arthur Parkes, Cyncoedl;
Martyn Evans, Tredegar;
Elizabeth Jones, Tredegar;
David Prime, Trellech &
Penallt
Rhian Prime, Trellech &
Penallt.
Wales
St Asaph
Wales
Bangor
Deacons
Huw Adrian Br yant, Curate in
Bro’r Holl Saint; Philip Wade
Keeble, Bangor Cathedral..
Priests
Tracy Jane Jones, Plwyf
Seintiau Braint a Chefni.
Deacons
Lorraine Badger-Watts,
Petryal and Betws yn Rhos;
Samuel Erlandson, Llay,
Rossett & Isycoed.
Priests
Elaine Atack, St.Asaph; Lesley
Cooke, Hawarden.
Deacons
Deacons
Sulin Milne, Catheiniog; John
Marcus
Zipperlen,
Haverfordwest; Patricia Gladys
Sylvia Rogers, Llanrhian &
Mathr y w St Edren’s &
Grandston w St Nicholas &
Jordanston; John
Richard
Cecil, Hubberston; James
Christopher
Rollinson,
Carmarthen St Peter; Delyth
Anne Richards, Carmarthen St
David.
Julie Wagstaff, Waunarwlydd,
Swansea.
Priests
Victoria Kay Jones, Llangwm
and Freystrop and Johnston;
Alexandra
Grace, Tenby;
Benjamin
Stanley
Read,
Carmarthen St Peter; Professor
Noel Stanley Bertie Cox,
Llanbadarn Fawr; Dr David
Ceri
Jones,
Llanfihangel
Genau’r Glyn & Llangorwen w
Talybont.
Priests
Petra May Elizabeth Broome
Beresford-Webb, East Radnor,
Knighton;
Christopher Peter Bowler,
Upper Ithon Valley, Llanbister;
Steven Leo Bunting,
Oystermouth, Swansea; Carol
Ann Davies, Llwynderw, West
Cross, Swansea; Ann Elizabeth
Mar y Evans, Three Cliffs,
Gower, Swansea; Andrew
Perrin, Morriston, Swansea.
Winchester
Victoria Ashdown. Whitchurch
with Tufton with Litchfield;
Clare
Elizabeth
Challis,
Bursledon, Mar y Catriona
Copping,
Winchester
St
Matthew; Kathr yn
Alison
Flenley, Bentworth & Lasham &
Medstead & Shalden; Tim
Gleghorn. Winchester Christ
Church; Neil James Hopkins,
Highfield; Simon Alexander
McMurtar y,
Four Marks;
Gillian
Mar y
Nobes,
Broughton with Bossington &
Houghton
&
Mottisfont;
Richard Bruce Partridge,
Christchurch;
Alexander
Michael Pease, Itchen Valley;
Margaret Thelma Scrivener,
East Winchester; Richard John
Sutcliffe, Hurstbourne Priors &
Longparish & St Mary Bourne &
Woodcott;
Karen
Ann
Wellman, Basingstoke.
Worcester
Deacons
Tom Fish, Christchurch in Lye,
Carey Saleh, Bromsgrove;
Bridget Woodall, Brierley Hill;
Peter Davies, All Saints in
Worcester;
Nick
Daw,
Worcester South East Team;
Barbara Wheatley, Bowbrook
Group of parishes.
Priests
Deacons
Matthew
Edward
John
Barrett, Guernsey St Michel du
Valle; Adrian Datta, Guernsey
St Philippe de Torteval: St Pierre
du Bois: St Saviour: Ste
Marguerite
de
la
Foret;
Rebecca Susan Fardell, Itchen
Valley; Sally Louise Goodson,
Winchester St Bartholomew, St
Lawrence, St Swithun-uponKingsgate; Hilar y
Louise
Wales
Llandaff
Deacons
Richard Bubbers, Ipsley,
Redditch; Hazel Charlton,
Worcester South East Team;
Richard Tweedy; Martley and
Worcester West.
York
Deacons
Richard Battersby, Brayton;
Richard Brown, North
Thornaby; David Charlton,
Whorlton w Carlton & Faceby;
Ben Doolan, St Michael Le
Belfrey; Jackie Doyle-Brett,
Tadcaster; Aian Macpherson,
Drypool; Christopher
Johnson, Pickering; John
Telford, St Peter’s Anlaby and
St Mark’s Anlaby Common.
Priests
Christopher Lee, Caerau with
Ely; Rachel Simpson Llantwit
Major; Wendy Tayler Neath;
Rhys Jenkins, Roath.
Priests
Andrew Highway, Llanishen;
Craig Vaughan, Newton
Nottage Porthcawl; Sue
Pratten, Caerphilly.
Southwark
Peter Hallsworth, Bridlington;
Stuart Grant, Driffield and
Langtoft Benefices; Ned Lunn,
Acomb;
George McCleave, Stokesley
with Seamer; Linda Robinson,
Hull; Barbara Ryan, Hessle;
Dan Sladden, Ingleby
Barwick; Justine Smith,
Elloughton & Brough; Matthew
Strand, Linthorpe,
Middlesbrough; Adam Young,
Saltburn; Martyn Weaver,
Selby Abbey.
Leader & Comment Sunday July 7, 2013
Comment
Christ crucified and risen is the
basis of the Church and ministry
The Petertide ordinations in dioceses up and down the land are always
a focus of rejoicing in the churches for the newly ordained deacons and
presbyters to serve in our congregations. As John Calvin said: “For neither are the light and heat of the sun, nor meat and drink, so necessary
to sustain and cherish the present life, as is the apostolical and pastoral
office to preserve a Church in the earth.” We need our ministers for
the wellbeing and life of the congregations, and this has been true
right back to the earliest Christian communities. Ordinations traditionally happen on St Peter’s Day at the end of June when the text recording Peter’s famous confession ‘You are the Christ’ is read, indicating
the key place of witness to Jesus as the Messiah at the core of the
church.
While Peter did have this flash of insight about who Jesus really was,
he also made some real mistakes, beginning with his refusal to accept
that Jesus’ ministry was to include suffering and death, evoking Jesus’
rebuke ‘get behind me, Satan’ to Peter. Peter also denied that he knew
Jesus after his arrest, three times refusing to accept his discipleship of
Jesus, before the cock crowed and Peter wept bitterly at his betrayal.
The Church of Rome has developed a claim that her bishop stands in
the shoes of Peter the apostle, a claim very hard to sustain historically,
but any ‘Petrine’ church must also be a very fallible and repentant
church, if it stands in Peter’s place. All churches therefore need to be
Petrine, to be repentant and acknowledging sins.
Alas we hear from David Willey, the BBC Vatican Correspondent of
scandal and skulduggery at the Vatican, asking ‘Can Pope Francis call
a halt to the corruption gnawing at the heart of the Catholic Church?’ A
high-ranking Vatican official has been arrested by Italian fraud police
suspected of organising money laundering for criminal organisations.
For years the Holy See, legally a state, has been using its diplomatic
immunity to keep Italian authorities at bay, but now all is revealed.
Pope Francis, or ‘the bishop of Rome’ as he likes to be called, is
indeed a man to deal with such corruption, to call for repentance at this
betrayal of Gospel life, and to call his church back to the path of Jesus.
Indeed his very first homily as bishop of Rome made the ringing summons to look to Christ crucified as the way forward for the church, a
summons we all can heed this Petertide. “When we walk without the
Cross,” he said, “when we build without the Cross, and when we confess a Christ without a Cross, we are no longer disciples of the Lord.
We are worldly. We are bishops, priests, cardinals, Popes, everyone,
but we are no longer disciples of the Lord.”
Without Christ at its core, the church is only another NGO, said
Francis: as disciples of Christ crucified and risen, we can say Amen to
that!
Why the protests
worldwide?
James
Catford
Why the protests? Across Europe, the Middle East,
and now parts of South America, global demonstrations are leading the news as young adults take to
the streets. What the UK violently experienced two
summers ago, other places are facing today. Leaders of countries not yet affected are gripping on to
their seats of power, bracing themselves in case
they are challenged next.
It is hard to join the dots across the world and
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provide a narrative for the causes and concerns we
see around us. Is it the near collapse of free-market
capitalism as reported by Paul Mason, economics
editor of Newsnight? Or is it the pursuit of a new
kind of freedom by a growing middle class dissatisfied with government and religion alike?
Running through all the uprisings appears to be
mass mobilisation; a kind of social network on the
move. However, such groupings lack organisation
and are more convinced about what they are
against than by what they are for. Once their
demands are met their cohesion quickly fractures and the home-made bombs are often turned
in on themselves.
One plausible explanation for all this comes from
the Canadian social observer ES Michaels. In contrast to the popular belief today that there is no ‘big
story’ that explains how we live together, Michaels
recovers the notion of a grand narrative driving our
culture. In her highly readable book Monoculture
she explains ‘how one story is changing everything’.
Her argument is surprisingly simple. At one time
religion was the monoculture that underpinned
how we understood the world. This was replaced by
a scientific monoculture that has gradually been
gobbling up our thinking and behaviour for more
than a century. Over time science has made ever
larger and bolder claims over us, while reducing
humanity to the causal effects of atoms and genes.
Largely unrecognised until now has been a
third empire of thought slowly taking hold amongst
a younger, more educated section of society. “In our
time,” writes Michaels, “in the early decades of the
21st century, the monoculture isn’t about science,
machines and mathematics, or about religion and
superstition. In our time, the monoculture is economic.”
In this new world of thought even truth, beauty,
goodness and justice are subsumed into a drive for
economic growth; realising the material aspirations
of an urbanised and less rooted generation. But as
we know, the love of money is also the root of all
kinds of evil. Ultimately the economic story doesn’t
satisfy the deepest longings of the heart or the sickness of our souls.
If this diagnosis is anywhere close to how the
Bible might view the events of our day, how well
placed is the Church to explain it to our fellow
human beings about their searching through the
rubble of our society for answers? According to
observers of the evangelical scene the situation is
mixed.
In Egypt evangelicals have made a noticeable
contribution to the protests in Tahrir Square, while
the Christian activist Jim Wallis of Sojourners has
engaged with members of the Occupy movement in
both London and New York. But, unlike the overthrow of the undemocratic regimes of Eastern
Europe in the 1980s, the Church has played a far
less significant part in the protests.
Unsurprisingly perhaps, the spiritual and religious lives of younger adults in the United States
have been described by some commentators as
‘Moralistic Therapeutic Deism’. Don’t be put off by
this academic sounding term. All it means is that an
emerging generation of Christians wants to be
good and moral, and tolerant. They want to offer
therapeutic benefits so that people feel good, experience less pain and fear, and can deal with life’s
traumas.
According to Rick Richardson this section of the
church believes in ‘a form of deism, in that God
does not need to be particularly involved in one’s
life except when needed to solve problems. Otherwise people are on their own to pursue the endless
activities’ and virtual social relations ‘that are such a
ubiquitous part of life in the twenty-first century.’
Often it is the big-named speakers and writers in
the US that influence the attitudes and behaviours
of evangelicals around the world. This thought
leadership could be significant in mobilising a truly
Christ-like response to the protests we see. But
against the backdrop of a Church that increasingly
doesn’t know what to do with the Bible, or how to
live life in deep intimacy with Christ, there is still
much to be done.
Given the level of interest by the American
church today in matters of social justice, it is surprising that there has not been a stronger response
to the protests from influential figures such as Rick
Warren and Mark Driscoll. This may change if
widespread civil unrest spreads to cities across
America in the face of economic austerity and a perceived failure of the Obama project.
At times like this the world often glances at the
Church to see if we offer a better way to navigate
through life. A critical moment may be approaching
but the question hangs in the air like the tear gas
and water cannons. Will we have anything meaningful to say?
James Catford is Group Chief Executive of Bible
Society. Email him at
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Sunday July 7, 2013
Comment
Janey Lee Grace
Live Healthy! Live Happy!
InjuryProne?Here’s
howtoavoidit...
I’ve never been one for running but recently I
decided it really was time to get a bit fitter.
Fast walking is great but maybe I should
break into a jog? I found the rather excellent
free programme that comes courtesy of the
NHS – ‘From Couch potato to 5k in 9 weeks’ –
that seemed perfect for me, I downloaded it
onto my MP3 and a lovely personal trainer
encouraged me though a strictly timed
regime of walking with interspersed bouts of
running (interval training or ‘fartlekking’ is
allegedly the technical term).
Day one then and I was a few seconds into
my first 60-second run when I slipped and
came crashing to the ground. I managed to
drag myself up from the canal foot-path – I
took note that the rather more professional
runner who pounded by me and had to
swerve barely paused to care…
With grazed hands and bleeding knees I
hobbled home and asked my bemused children to apply plasters and sympathy.
Perhaps I was merely tuning in to some
karmic energy, because it seems even
amongst pro athletes an injury epidemic has
hit Wimbledon with tennis players literally
dropping like flies.
As Andy Murray said in his BBC Sports
column last week: “As athletes, you spend a
lot of your time carrying injuries of one sort
or another.
“I’d say there are three categories: about 20
per cent of the time your body feels great and
you feel nothing; quite a bit of the time you’ll
have something that might be a bit sore, but
it doesn’t affect your tennis at all; the rest of
the time you can be carrying something that
means you have to compensate and make
adjustments to your game. Everyone has to
deal with it.”
It seems its rather a hazard getting sporty, more than 20 per cent of
all reported accidents are sports-related and its seems that by being
‘active’ we increase our risk of serious injury and potentially a lifetime
of problems.
But what can we do to prevent injuries and to help heal once we have
them? I do believe there is a connection between nutrition and our ‘performance’. Athletes often fill up on carbohydrates for energy, it is common for marathon runners to eat a couple of plates of pasta before a
race.
At the risk of being controversial I’d suggest that you can’t build
strong tendons on refined foods, white flour, sugar and salt and what’s
really needed is protein, nutrient- and mineral-dense foods and rich
sources of essential fatty acids. You need to avoid the sugar in energy
drinks too, instead try something like Coconut water, which is naturally sweet, full of electrolytes to rehydrate and has NOTHING added. My
favourite one is Tiana (I’m not on commission!).
As for me? Well I won’t make the 5k in nine weeks, may be heading
back to the couch…
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Across
4
1
3
5
9
10
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13
14
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20
21
23
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Norse god of thunder (4)
'But among you there must not
be...impurity...greed, because these
are -------- for God's holy people'
[Eph/NIV] (8)
Shrove Tuesday in New Orleans
and other places (5,4)
Chi- ---, early christogram using the
first two letters in Greek of Christ's
name (3)
Unnamed biblical queen, Balkis or
Bilkis in the Quran [2 Sam] (5)
Slender tower with balconies, often
a part of a mosque (7)
One of the Anglican daily services
(7,6)
Apocryphal book; part of Daniel,
according to the Vulgate (7)
'Elam, attack! -----, lay siege!
[Isa/NIV] (5)
Female who has taken her final
vows (3)
'Great is the Lord and most worthy
of praise; his --------- no one can fathom' [Ps/NIV] (9)
'And she had strong rods for the ------- of them that rule...' [Ezek/KJV]
(8)
'He himself bore our ----' [1
Pet/NIV] (4)
Down
1
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'The Spirit clearly says that in later ---- some will abandon the faith...' [1
Tim/NIV] (5)
'And all that handle the ---, the
mariners...they shall stand upon the
land' [Ezek/KJV] (3)
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'Sinful' woman Jesus healed of evil
spirits [Mark] (4,9)
'The Lord has ---- and has appeared
to Simon' [Luke/NIV] (5)
'Before your very eyes Jesus Christ
was clearly --------- as crucified'
[Gal/NIV] (9)
'Before the ------- crows, you will disown me three times' [Matt/NIV]
(7)
Hindu celebration held in November (6)
'Surely you know how it has been
from old, ---- ----- mankind was placed
on the earth...' [Job/NIV] (4,5)
Members of an ancient ascetic Jewish sect flourishing at the time of
Jesus (7)
'But where in this ------ place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?
' [Mark/NIV] (6)
'For...those who get drunk, get
drunk at -----' [1Thess/NIV] (5)
Port of Mysia visited by Paul [Acts]
(5)
Priest who died hearing of the loss
of his sons and the Ark of the
Covenant [1 Sam] (3)
Solutions to last week’s crossword
Across: 5 Seraph, 7 Impure, 9 Congregation, 10
Ethiopia, 12 Idea, 13 Flea, 15 Overturn,
17 Bring to an end, 19 Guimpe, 20
Easter.
Down: 1 Revolt, 2 Thee, 3 Vicarage, 4 Bronze, 6
Anglicanism, 8 Philistines, 11 Ploughed,
14 Labour, 16 Render, 18 Omen.
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Anglican Life/Register Sunday July 7, 2013
Looking towards
GAFCON2 in Nairobi
Paul Perkin
The Anglican Communion at its best is still a marvellous
entity providing a ‘family connection’ feel across Christian
cultures worldwide, analogous to the Commonwealth.
FCA is at its heart.
The Northern hemisphere Anglican provinces are
declining both numerically and in vibrancy and confidence
of faith, but the Southern hemisphere Anglican provinces
are growing in both regards. In the Global South the place
of FCA, albeit fluctuating in health and effectiveness
organisationally, is gaining reputation as a prominent voice
of the Southern Anglican Communion. Member provinces
and dioceses have joined since Gafcon 1 in 2008. Three
FCA provinces alone, Nigeria (20 million), Uganda (11 million) and Kenya (5 million) account for nearly half the
Communion’s membership. Probably between 80 per cent
and 90 per cent of the whole Communion is classically biblical as expressed in our Canon A5, and the majority of
those are within FCA.
So it is significant that the second Gafcon conference will
be in Africa, and in Kenya specifically. The focus will be on
the calling to biblical faithfulness and mission in the power
of the Holy Spirit, in the context of the challenge of both
external pressures and internal heterodoxy facing the
Communion.
The global Anglican Communion needs us.
The global Anglican
Communion, and Fellowship
of Confessing Anglicans
The Church of England is still held in honour and has a
significant place, in the world as well as in the Anglican
Communion, not least because of the treasure of biblically
faithful, orthodox Anglican tradition and experience held
and practiced in many places. It is a rich legacy that the
rest of the communion still draws upon.
The suffering church in the world suffers for two reasons, often combined - poverty and persecution. In the
decline of Western, especially North American, funding for
the suffering Communion provinces, the global church
needs our support more than ever. Even in North America,
Anglicans for different reasons and on a different relative
scale are experiencing ejection and confiscation of properties.
Western organisations, political, commercial and NGO,
provide some measure of protection across the world for
Christians, albeit uncertain and insecure. But when an
independent Pentecostal church leader is murdered in
prison in Eritrea (as my finance manager’s father was) no
one gets to know, whereas when an Archbishop Luwum is
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murdered the whole world knows.
So the orthodox churches in the global Communion
need evangelicals in the UK to uphold orthodox faith, and
are watching and listening. We may not be adequately
represented here in the formal structures of the Church.
Nevertheless, our voices are vitally necessary, distancing
ourselves from, for example, the recent House of Bishops’ agreement to (avowedly celibate) bishops in civil
partnerships. Without minority reports and the elasticity
of ‘collegiality’ it will be concluded that the Church of
England in its entirety has gone the way of TEC, and global fellowship with the CofE will be impaired.
FCA is currently the most coherent show for uniting
the Communion
Alongside others in the Global South, FCA is the most
effective remaining focus of unity since the breakdown of
agreement on the authority of the traditional four instruments - the Lambeth Conference, the Primates’ meeting,
the office of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Anglican Consultative Council, all at present hampered as
instruments of Anglican unity. Moreover FCA, with its
creedal Jerusalem Statement and Declaration, is the most
effective instrument for discipline following the demise of
the Windsor process. Attendance of Gafcon 2 therefore
assumes affirmation of the Jerusalem Statement and Declaration.
Recent commendable attempts to recover Anglican unity
across the world will make progress if they grapple with
the discipline of the North American episcopal provinces.
Until then FCA occupies not merely the central position
but the only focus of real, spiritual, rather than merely
administrative, unity. FCA flies the one rallying flag for
contemporary Anglicans, rooted as it is in Scripture,
affirmed in Canon A5 and the origin of historic Anglicanism in the reformed Anglican tradition.
FCA also assures Anglican recognition of those of the
orthodox in the UK who are in impaired relationship with
the structures of the church. Through the FCA Primates
Council globally, and the Anglican Mission in England
nationally, it is one link in the immediate future for Anglican authorisation of orthodox expressions of church in
this country.
APPOINTMENTS
ANGLICAN CYCLE OF PRAYER
RETIREMENTS &
RESIGNATIONS
New Archdeacon of Stansted
The Rev Canon Robin King,
Vicar, Bures with Assington and Little
Cornard (St Edmundsbury and Ipswich):
to be Archdeacon of Stansted (Chelmsford).
Sunday 7 July. Pentecost 7. Psalm 37:1-11, Mt 23:1-12. On the Niger - (Niger, Nigeria): The Rt Rev Owen Chidozie Nwokolo
Monday 8 July. Psalm 37:12-29, Mt 23:13-28. Ondo - (Ondo, Nigeria): The Rt Rev
George Lasebikan; Suffragan Bishop of Ondo - (Ondo, Nigeria): The Rt Rev Christopher Tayo Omotunde
Tuesday 9 July. Psalm: 38:1-9, Mt 23:29-39. Oxford - (Canterbury, England): The Rt
Rev John Pritchard; Oxford - Buckingham - (Canterbury, England): The Rt Rev Dr
Alan Thomas Lawrence Wilson; Oxford - Dorchester - (Canterbury, England): The Rt
Rev Colin William Fletcher; Oxford - Reading - (Canterbury, England): The Rt Rev
Andrew Proud
Wednesday 10 July. Psalm 38:10-22, Jer 11:1-14. Orlu - (Owerri, Nigeria): The Most
Rev Bennett Okoro
Thursday 11 July. Psalm 39, Jer 11:18-23. Oru - (Owerri, Nigeria): The Rt Rev Geoffrey Chukwunenye
Friday 12 July. Psalm 40:1-10, Jer 12:1-6. Pacong - (Sudan): The Rt Rev Joseph
Maker Atot
Saturday 13 July. Psalm 41, Jer 13:20-27. Osun - (Ibadan, Nigeria): The Rt Rev
James Afolabi Popoola
The Rev Janet Bromley,
Rector, Dursley (Gloucester): to retire with
effect from 31 August 2013.
The Rev Canon David Cook,
Priest-in-Charge, Chipping Campden with
Ebrington (Gloucester): to retire with
effect from 28 August 2013.
The Rev Rosemar y Franklin,
NSM (Associate Priest), Cirencester
(Gloucester): to retire with effect from 31
July 2013.
The Rev Adrian Gabb-Jones,
Vicar, Minister Lovell (Oxford): to retire
with effect from 30 June 2013.
The Rev Michael Jeffer y,
Assistant Curate (Priest-in-Charge), Bedminster (Bristol): to retire with effect from
9 September 2013.
The Ven Norman Russell,
Archdeacon of Berkshire (Oxford): has
retired with effect from 31 May 2013.
New Archdeacon of Barking
The Rev John Perumbalath,
Vicar, Perry Street; and Diocesan Church
Urban Fund Link Officer (Rochester): to
be Archdeacon of Barking (Chelmsford).
New Archdeacon of Southend
The Rev Wilhelmina Smallman,
Team Vicar, Barking St Margaret with St
Patrick (Chelmsford): to be Archdeacon of
Southend (Chelmsford).
The Rev Linda Cronin,
Chaplain of All Saints’ Academy (Gloucester): is now also NSM (Associate Priest),
Cheltenham (same diocese).
The Rev Brian Dunlop,
NSM (Assistant Curate), South Cheltenham (Gloucester): to be NSM (Associate Priest).
The Rev Yousouf Gooljar y,
Assistant Curate, Greenwich St Alfege
(Southwark): to be Chaplain, Dagenham
Park Church of England School; and Assistant Curate (Associate Priest), Beacontree
South (Chelmsford).
The Rev Christopher Hill,
Assistant Curate (Church Planting Director), Warfield (Oxford): to be Priest-inCharge, Ely (Ely).
The Rev James Hill,
Assistant Curate, Coventry Holy Trinity
(Coventry): to be Assistant Chaplain, Ams-
terdam with Den Helder and Heiloo (The
Netherlands, Europe).
The Rev Garr y Hinchcliffe,
Vicar, Hampsthwaite and Killinghall and
Birstwith (Ripon and Leeds): to be Rector,
Knaresborough (same diocese).
The Rev Julia Hook,
NSM (Assistant Curate), Winchcombe
(Gloucester): to be NSM (Associate Priest.
The Rev Stephen Hotchen,
Priest-in-Charge, Altofts (Wakefield): to be
Priest-in-Charge, Badsworth; and Diocesan Advisor on Disability Issues; and Chaplain, Princess of Wales Hospice (same
diocese).
The Rev Dr Emma Ineson,
Partership Priest, Inner Ring Partnership;
and NSM (Associate Vicar), Bristol St
Matthew and St Nathanael; and Tutor,
Trinity College, Bristol (Bristol): to be
Chaplain to the Bishop of Bristol (same
[email protected]
diocese). Remaining NSM (Associate
Vicar).
The Rev Veronica Jane (Poppy) Hughes,
Assistant Curate, Dulwich St Clement with
St Peter (Southwark): to be Priest-inCharge, Tetbury, Beverston, Long Newnton and Shipton Moyne (Gloucester).
The Rev Dr Susannah Hester Everett
Jones,
NSM (Associate Minister), Bristol St Mary
Redcliffe with Temple and Bedminster St
John the Baptist (Bristol): to be NSM
(Priest-in-Charge), Abbots Leigh with
Leigh Woods (same diocese).
The Rev Stephen Hunter,
NSM (currently Acting Associate Vicar),
Ecclesall; and Bishop’s Adviser for Self
Supporting Ministry (Sheffield): to be
Diocesan Director of Ordinands (same diocese).
THE 2013
BIBLE CHALLENGE
Day 188 Enjoy hearing the Scriptures
read aloud in church
Day 189 Job 7-9, Psalm 148, 2 Corinthians
7
Day 190 Job 10-12, Psalm 149, 2 Corinthians 8
Day 191 Job 13-15, Psalm 150, 2 Corinthians 9
10
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You begin as a maid and end as a
model, or begin as a model and end
as a maid. “Not me!” storms Andrée
Heuschling (Christa Théret), breaking plates painted by “le patron” in
biopic Renoir (cert. 12A).
Artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(Michel Bouquet) is in his 70s,
arthritic fingers clasping his brush,
but still taking joy in “the flesh” –
and adding quite a bit of flesh to the
naked reality if Andrée, one of the
models for “The Bathers” (the late
one), was as portrayed here.
Installed for his health at Cagnessur-Mer on the Côte d’Azur, Renoir
purchased a farm, Les Collettes,
where he was cared for by family
and servants, and continued to
spend most days painting. The film’s
story begins with the arrival at the
farm in 1915 of Andrée, 15 in reality
but played as older in the film, recommended as a model by Renoir’s
wife, who has since died (though
elsewhere Henri Matisse is credited
with sending her).
There’s a sort of feeling that she
and the elderly Renoir might have
found love (“too soon, too late” he
murmurs at one tender moment).
Instead she falls for his son, future
film director Jean (Vincent Rottiers), when he returns from service
in the cavalry, badly wounded – but
not so badly that he doesn’t then
sign up for the air force, leaving
Andrée wounded that he would
rather return to combat than stay
with her.
Jean’s elder brother Pierre (Laurent Poitrenaux), also war-wounded,
and moody younger brother Claude
(Thomas Doret), nicknamed Coco,
complete the ménage, each with
their own hopes and desires.
Andrée disparages her own talent as
an actress – but, having married
Jean, she made 15 silent movies in
America (as Catherine Hessling),
before their separation in 1931.
In terms of basic plot, that’s about
it. Pierre’s grandson Jacques Renoir,
himself a cinematographer, is the
source for much of the material,
from his family memoir “Le Tableau
Amoureux” (2003).
The Self & Its Shadows: A Book of Essays on Individuality as Negation in Philosophy and the Arts
Stephen Mulhall
Oxford, hb, £35.00
When we read a novel
or go to the cinema, we
rarely do so in order to
learn philosophy. However, Stephen Mulhall
claims that some films
and novels do in fact
philosophise — and
seeing films or reading
novels in this way can
even help us better
understand
them,
indeed, provide us with
a picture of what it
means to lead a fulfilling life.
Mulhall’s previous
books On Film (Routledge 2008) and The Wounded Animal (Princeton 2009) deftly explore the significance of
seeing the arts as philosophy, and his latest book is a
further case in point.
In this brilliant collection of essays, Mulhall uncovers
core concerns of philosophical writers like Friedrich
Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ludwig Wittgenstein
through various films like The Bourne Identity and The
Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and in various literary works by authors like Fyodor Dostoevsky, Franz
Kafka, David Foster Wallace, and JM Coetzee. The primary theme that Mulhall traces throughout this book is
the desire for personal identity — that is, the problem of
the divided self en route to moral perfection: paradoxically ‘being what one is not and not being what one is’
(p. ix).
Classifieds/Media
Essentially, director Gilles Bourdos seems to be seeking to recreate
the love of light and colour (and love
of flesh) that characterises the
painter’s work. It is indeed visually
sumptuous, and you can forgive the
thinness of the story.
Stories We Tell (cert. 12A) is a
very different way of exploring a
family history. Canadian actress and
director Sarah Polley (Away from
Her, Take this Waltz) was aware
from childhood that her actress
mother Diane, who died of cancer
when Sarah was 11, might have had
an affair and that her father Michael
might not be her natural father.
In a remarkable series of interviews with family members and others who might shed light on the
truth, mixed with recreated
moments as if archived from Super
8 home movies (including supposedly at Diane’s funeral), Polley
traces the story. Weirdly, Michael’s
role, admitting his own marital failings toward Diane, forms a large
part of the film as he movingly and
skilfully (he’s an actor) narrates his
own lengthy version of events.
The affair – or love story - was
while Diane (played by Rebecca
Jenkins) was acting in a play called
“Toronto” (in Montreal). Film producer Harry Gulkin – who had produced a Golden Globe winner, Lies
My Father Told Me – becomes a key
player in the story.
After Michael has observed, “we
must find a way to make it funny”,
it’s left to the first name in the frame,
Geoffrey Bowes, to provide a decent
punch line. I think he was acting.
Initially quite confusing, by the
end it’s become a unique sort of documentary – with a release delayed
to qualify for next year’s Oscars. It’s
certainly “revelatory cinema”, as
Harry explains the difference
between recollection and truth cinéma not quite verité.
Steve Parish
Readers of St Augustine and St Paul will note an echo
of an ancient theological theme here.
The central theme of the self’s non-coincidence is
brought into focus by the form of the book itself. Mulhall has spliced the essays in such a way that (if read
sequentially) the reader will begin one, be led into
another without fully finishing the previous one, and
only later in the book will the reader come back to finish
the initial one — much like the form and fold of articles
in American newspapers. So, depending upon which
plot the reader wishes to follow, the book’s format will
make more obstinate readers skip around in the book in
order to stay with the same essay.
But Mulhall is clear that this format is not merely
ornamental, but rather internal to the argument he
wishes to make about how philosophy should be done
— indeed, about the picture of the divided self seeking
moral perfection with and under the condition of modernity. Hence, Mulhall invites the reader to dialogue with
these various texts, authors, and films in a conversation
about what it means to lead a fulfilling life.
What is perhaps most striking about Mulhall’s
approach in this book, is how periodically he sets aside
the straightforwardly academic format and instead in
his ‘Sartrean Scenes’ takes up a narrative format — as if
with a turn of the page, the reader suddenly finds herself in the middle of a novel. Besides demonstrating that
Mulhall probably could write a very good novel, this
way of engaging the reader pushes them off balance, as
it were, as an indirect communication that gathers up
aspects and characters of the whole book. This
approach expects more from the reader, but rewards
the reader who tarries with its upbuilding, even edifying
manner of proceeding.
Readers interested in philosophy, literature, and film
will benefit greatly from the guidance and verve of
Britain’s finest philosopher writing today.
Joshua Furnal
Sunday Sunday July 7, 2013
‘The man believed the word that Jesus spoke
to him and started on his way,’ John 4: 51
THE SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR
Do you ever wish you had been able to
meet Jesus in the flesh thinking that it
would be so much easier to trust him if you
had seen him perform a miracle or heard
him speaking? This brief episode, which
follows Jesus’ meeting with the woman of
Samaria, is John’s second of his account of
seven signs. John has chosen it because it
contains some crucial things about signs
and faith in Jesus.
The central character is a royal official,
an important person used to ordering people about (note he owned a number of
slaves, v51), but one who does not try to
capitalise on his social standing before
Jesus. He came to Jesus and ‘begged’ him
to come down and heal his son who was at
the point of death. He was desperate and
simply brought his need to the one he
hoped could help.
By the Rev Dr Liz Hoare
What will this strange prophet with
supernatural powers who demonstrates
compassion in his demeanour do?
Perhaps to our surprise Jesus’ first
response is to issue words of harsh rebuke
and they seem misdirected at this point.
After all the man isn’t looking for anything
more than healing for his beloved son. He
isn’t trying to test Jesus or make up his
mind whether to become a disciple. He just
wants his son’s life saved. No doubt questions could come later, but not at this
moment. He simply persisted in his passionate plea and prevailed.
In the end he did get his sign and he
SUNDAY SERVICE
Seventh Sunday after Trinity (Sunday 14th
July)
Amos 7:7-17 Colossians 1:1-14
Luke 10:25-37
Each of our readings this week, in different ways, concerns how we embrace
those different to us, and what this reveals about our obedience to God’s word.
In Amos chapter 7, the rugged herdsman from the South meets the proud
upper crust of the North. Amos, the working class hero, confronts Amaziah, the
establishment priest of Israel’s schismatic breakaway kingdom. Amos sees a
plumb-line, which reveals the lop-sidedness of Amaziah’s religious regime, unable
to bear the weight of the prophetic word. He hears the sentence of exile and
destruction against it. On hearing this condemnation of his high places and sanctuaries, Amaziah goes straight to the top and complains against Amos to the king,
painting him as a subversive conspirator, a danger to the stability of the state.
He also tries to banish and silence Amos himself, telling him to “go home” and
preach his unwelcome message somewhere other than in the national church
where it is not wanted by the leadership of “the king’s sanctuary... a temple of the
kingdom.”
In this context, Amos, though he renounces the dignified title of “prophet”, is
persistent in faithfully preaching the word he has been given by God, despite the
threats and the vilification it brings. He reveals in the process that the religious
establishment which clings too closely to the corrupt practices of the state and
people it serves will itself share, perhaps rather personally, in the approaching
judgment.
The parable of the neighbourly Samaritan again touches on the raw nerve of
how to embrace those different to us. As so often, it is a story that subverts the
worldview of those listening, but all the more so because it is not actually a direct
answer to the question the lawyer asked. Jesus teaches him how to be a neighbour, not how to identify who his neighbour is, which is rather more personal and
pointed than perhaps the man was expecting. By using the illustration of a Samaritan loving a (presumably) Jewish victim of roadside crime, the Lord certainly
challenges the accepted racial/religious prejudices of his day. By adding the
priest and Levite to the story, Jesus (like Amos 7) also provides a searing critique
of establishment religion, too concerned to maintain its status and privileges truly
to have mercy on those suffering at the hands of a coercive, brutal, and injurious
culture.
The apostle Paul had never met the predominantly Gentile Christians of Colossae. Yet this former Pharisee shows just how powerful the grace of God in Christ
can be by his response to their newfound faith in the Messiah. He thanks and
praises God for it, and he puts it into global perspective: all over the world Gentiles like you are coming to know and love the Lord Jesus, he says, and expressing
it in faith, hope, and love. The gospel is bearing fruit and growing, expanding
across national and ethnic and racial borders. And just as it has borne fruit in your
conversion, he says, I pray that it will continue to bear fruit in your good works
and increasing knowledge of God.
This opening section begins in a “we - you” vein, which could emphasise the distance between the Colossians and Paul (and his co-author, Timothy). But it ends
in verses 13-14 with a spectacular confession of what the Father has done for “us”,
Jews and Gentiles together: he rescued us and transferred us to the kingdom of
his beloved Son, so that we together now have redemption and forgiveness.
Lee Gatiss is Director of Church Society, and
Editor of the NIV Proclamation Bible.
HYMN SUGGESTIONS
O Lord, all the world belongs to You
Not far beyond the sea
O Thou who camest from above
To God be the glory
God has spoken — by the prophets
23
believed (v53). But the important point
John makes is that he believed the word
that Jesus spoke to him (v51). This is what
John wants us to grasp. It is likely that
Jesus’ sharp words are meant for the
crowd who are already getting hung up on
the miraculous and seeking more demonstrations of power. It is an issue for all of us.
Do we follow Jesus because of what we get
out of being his disciples?
Well, to a point, yes. We can point to the
benefits of knowing him: peace, forgiveness, hope, life in all its fullness and so on.
It may have been one of these that attracted us to follow him ourselves at first. The
miraculous signs in John are important.
They point to who Jesus is. If we get stuck
on the sign pointing to Jesus instead of
going on to Jesus himself, however, we will
have missed their purpose.
It would be rather like getting so interested in the clues on a treasure hunt
instead of letting each one lead us to the
treasure itself. John comes back to this
essential aspect of following Jesus at the
end of the Gospel when he records the
meeting of the risen Jesus with Thomas in
the upper room. ‘Blessed are those who
have not seen and yet have come to
believe’ (20:29).
The official who believed the word that
Jesus spoke, is a model for faith in that
same word today.
The Rev Dr Liz Hoare (née Culling) is
tutor in prayer, spirituality and mission at
Wycliffe Hall
Just a min Justin
Alan Edwards
If, after failing to achieve a third major literary
prize, Hilary Mantel decides that she’d like to
portray a ‘nasty’ other than Thomas Cromwell,
she might consider Archbishop John Morton
from an earlier Tudor period, that of Henry
VII.
Should she follow my suggestion and eventually come up with the treble, I’m sure she’ll
remember this article (she’s bound to be a
‘CEN’ reader) and reward my tip to her with
one for me.
With holidays looming, a tip for readers.
More ‘Brits’ are discovering Northern France,
as fuel prices make the dash South too expensive. Do also discover Deux Caps beer, brewed
in a microbrewery at Tardinghen. It’s bottleconditioned - CAMRA readers will approve and is as palatable as the excellent wines Graham reviews. Maintaining an Anglican via
media, I recently toasted UKIP’s electoral success with Deux Caps as well as Kentish ale.
Mais revenons a nos moutons - or Mortons.
John Morton was an Archbishop of Canterbury, chief advisor to Henry VII, who doubled
up as Chancellor of the Exchequer and devised
a plan to reduce the government deficit.
Sounds familiar? If you’re reading this George
Osborne, sit up and take notice.
Morton conducted a survey. If it indicated
you were wealthy, obviously you must be able
to pay more tax than you were currently paying. If, on the other hand, you declared that
you had little income or savings, this was conclusive proof that you had been going in for tax
avoidance (sounds familiar as you sip your coffee in Starbucks?) and so you could afford to
pay more. Whichever way you jumped, the
Chancellor could pin you down. This no-win
situation was known as Morton’s Fork.
Jumping ahead five centuries to the present,
we’ve again got an Archbishop of Canterbury
who is a respected financial expert. So much
so that, despite the heavy burdens of his Lambeth Palace duties, he’s nipped across Lambeth Bridge to the Palace of Westminster and
there serve upon Parliament’s Banking Commission. This body looks at an industry about
which Archbishop Welby has ventured several
very critical comments.
Given Archbishop Justin’s career mobility to
date, could it be that he is about to ‘do a Morton’ and pitchfork his way into the Chancellorship of the Exchequer? After all, there’s no
obvious promotion for him beyond Archbishop
until Francis imitates Benedict and takes early
retirement. Thus doubling up for a while could
be an alternative to moving up.
Over the course of time Morton’s Fork, as an
expression, moved from being a description of
an early Tudor taxation policy to meaning a situation where two contradictory positions could
be held at the same time.
Let’s apply that to Archbishop Justin’s criticism of the undoubted mess into which the
banking industry got itself. Then we need to
look at the state of the organisation whose
leader criticised banking’s woeful state. Could
it be possible that the CofE itself also has some
difficulties? Ask a silly question.
Let’s try another approach. Some of the
banking industry’s problems came from adopting strategies that seemed, at first glance, to
have market appeal, without having considered the overall market or opinions outside the
circle that devised the strategies.
Sounds familiar again? Let’s spell it out. Ordination of women was an idea with an immediate appeal to majority public opinion in
England. Equal rights legislation had pointed
the way ahead. So, let’s run with it, said the
Church of England’s proponents of the new
departure, as the bankers ran with the popular
tactic of reckless lending.
Majority support on home ground, but the
big players in the ecclesiastical market, Rome
and Orthodoxy, wouldn’t come in on the deal.
Result? The CofE is as isolated as was RBS. But
unlike RBS no government bail out. Instead
government criticism of the CofE for not backing gay marriage.
So the CofE, as well as the banks Justin criticises, is impaled on the pitchfork. Time to cancel the Archbishop’s cab to future Commission
meetings?
Milestones
Church and World
What do these
protests really tell us?
Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere
is the title of a book by Paul Mason
on the widespread protests that are
now a feature of the 21st Century.
Actually they are not kicking off
everywhere: ‘Occupy’ failed to win
much support in Britain or America
and, with the exception of Greece,
European countries so far have been
quieter than might have been expected considering the austerity meas-
ures to which they have been
subjected.
It is the Arab world and the emerging markets that have seen the most
widespread protests. There are
important differences between them
(people in Brazil are not worried
about Islamic extremism like the
demonstrators in Cairo or Istanbul)
but they do have features in common.
As many commentators have
rushed to point out, protests that
have occurred in Brazil, Russia, India
and Indonesia are a good example of
the way rising incomes, not grinding
poverty, feed expectations and fan
discontent. In India and Indonesia,
where average incomes are around
$5,000pa, protesters have focussed
on the price of basic necessities such
as fuel. In Brazil, Turkey or South
Africa, where incomes are in the
range of $12,000 and above, they
want improved public services and
greater personal freedom.
Everywhere the social media has
encouraged people to congregate
and occupy public places. One protester in Brazil said the movement
was like Wikipedia; everyone has a
contribution and no one is leader.
There is a suspicion of politicians
and ruling elites. Corruption and
police brutality are targets for
protest. The demonstrators are often
non-political. They do not seek to
advance the agenda of either the left
or the right but they are suspicious
of governments, even those in Brazil
or Turkey that can claim a democratic mandate.
The protests are very much an
urban phenomenon and they are
usually the work of young people. In
some cases young people are disillusioned because the economy does
not provide the jobs for which they
have been educated. Growing up in a
digital age they are used to communicating freely with others and resent
restrictions on their personal freedom. Living in cities with rich neighbourhoods close by they are aware of
the immense gaps in income
between the middle class and those
at the top. In Turkey or Egypt, urban
youth resent being dictated to by
socially conservative governments
that derive their mandate from religious rural voters.
“We the Church, with
25 years’ experience of
addressing racism in
our structure, stand
ready to play any part
we can in the process
of discovery,
admission of fault,
penitence and
commitment to finding
a new and better future
which lies at the heart
of all that we, as
Christians, stand for.
This is the way
forward to which we
now urgently
commend all with
responsibility for our
‘
PAU L
RICHARDSON
Finding the right response to the protests
will not be easy. Because they have no leaders the demonstrators often have little in
the way of a coherent policy. It can be a
minor issue, like the threat to a park, that
sparks their rage and they are usually more
united on what they are against that what
they actually want.
One crucial lesson that does need to be
learnt is that there must be limits to majoritarian democracy. Winning an election does
not confer a mandate for politicians to do
what they want. Freedom of speech, the
rights of minorities, independent courts,
and equality before the law are all essential
elements in a liberal democracy.
Political corruption and nepotism are rife
in too many countries. In Britain we have
been hearing a lot from the Archbishop of
Canterbury and others about the need for
bankers to operate by a moral code if they
are to win back respect. In many parts of
the world this is a lesson politicians also
desperately need to learn.
It is easy to point to contradictions in
what the protesters say. They want to get
the government off their backs when it
comes to their personal lives but they want
the government to provide better social
services. But the contradiction does not
run deep. What people in Brazil are saying
is that they want a government that works
for the good of its people but which at the
same time respects their rights and dignity.
It will take time for the protests to run
their course, for the emerging economies
to provide the kind of services their people
expect and for Muslim nations to find ways
of enabling the devout and the not-sodevout to live together.
In the meantime religious leaders need to
ask what lessons the protests have for
them. People who are suspicious of governments are also suspicious of religious institutions. David Barrett and his team who
compile statistics about Christianity have
concluded that nearly a quarter of Christian
believers today are independent – they
belong to no historic Protestant, Catholic or
Orthodox Church. In religion as in other
areas of life, the digital media facilitates the
growth of networks rather than institutions.
Churches linked to a corrupt church like
the Orthodox Church in Russia, churches
that spend most of the energies on internal
disputes like the Anglican Communion,
churches with an over-powerful but dysfunctional bureaucracy like the Roman
Catholic Church, and churches like many
evangelical groups in America that seem
more concerned with political campaigns
than with advancing a religious message
have little appeal.
As he prepares to fly to Brazil for World
Youth Day, Pope Francis has given signs
that he recognises all this. There are
grounds to hope that he and Archbishop
Justin Welby will try to move their creaking
organisations in a new direction. They need
to act quickly.
New research shows that the NHS Chaplaincy
service is in decline with nearly 40 per cent of
Acute Hospital Trusts in England having fewer
Chaplains than they did in 2009... The number of
Church weddings is falling, with the Office of
National Statistics announcing that the provisional number of religious ceremonies in 2011
was 73,290, a decrease of 6.2 per cent compared
with 2010... The UK Government has
announced its decision to press ahead with proposals to allow a controversial IVF technique
that will result in the creation of children with
three genetic parents... A group of MPs has
signed an Early Day Motion calling for a ban
on therapy for those dealing with unwanted feelings of same-sex attraction... The US Supreme
Court has issued its decisions for the two cases
challenging the constitutionality of California’s
Proposition 8 amendment and the federal
Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which
defines marriage as between one man and one
woman, was unconstitutional and violated
“equal protection principles applicable to the
federal government”....
policing.”
Statement on Stephen
Lawrence allegations
from Church of
England’s Committee
for Minority Ethnic
Anglican Concerns
‘
People
The Bishop of Liverpool presided over his last
ordinations before he retires this year, ordaining
10 candidates as Deacons on Sunday... The Rt
Rev Dr Alastair Redfern, Bishop of Derby, has
welcomed the European Union’s new guidelines
on promoting and protecting freedom of religion
and belief and warned that they must not be ‘left
on the shelves of EU missions gathering dust’...
The Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, the Rt Rev John
Packer, has announced the appointment of
Canon Keith Punshon to take on the role of SubDean of Ripon Cathedral until a new dean is
appointed. It follows the sudden death of the Very
Rev Keith Jukes in May...
Next Week’s News
The Same Sex Marriage Bill returns to the
House of Lords for its Third Reading on Monday
8 July... The General Synod will consider allowing election to the House of Laity and diocesan
synods to be done electronically in the future,
with the provisions for the next two quinquenniums being moved online and nominations for the
General Synod to be made via email...
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