All 44 dioceses have voted and the results are in. The Women Bishops legislation will return to Synod in the new year and will see the critical decision. Which way will the vote go? At first, looking at the results…
Month: November 2011
Women Bishops – The Numbers
Posted in Church of England, Featured, Women Bishops Tagged with: Bishops, Canterbury, Carlisle, Clergy Laity, Coventry, Critical Decision, Dioceses, Ely, Exeter, General Synod, Gloucester, Guildford, Hereford, Ipswich, Norwich, Peterborough, Salisbury, Sodor, St Albans, Synod, Synods, Wakefield
New Commenting System
The new commenting system has been in place for a week or so. Would welcome feedback below. What’s good? What’s not good? What other systems have you seen elsewhere that you think might be good? Take it away.
Posted in Website
A Nazi Analogay
About time I commented on this story do you not think? Last week the Church of England Newspaper published a column by Alan Craig, the head of the Christian People’s Alliance. You can find the piece here. Needless to say,…
Posted in Gay Marriage, Secular / Christian, UK Politics Tagged with: 28 October, Alan Craig, Church of England, Church Of England Newspaper, Civil Partnerships, Counsellors, East London, Educational Establishment, Foster Parents, Gay Rights Campaigners, Gay Rights Groups, Homosexual Community, Hotel Owners, Labour Government, Legal Equality, New Labour, Ordin, Sated, Sexual Orientation Regulations, Wehrmacht
Government Final Paper on Civil Partnerships in Churches
Posted in Civil Partnerships, Secular / Christian, UK News Tagged with: Churches, Civil Partnerships
Rob Bell’s New Movie
Sorry. Couldn’t resist. H/T Stand Firm.
Aber mit der Heimat
geht man immer herum,
durch die Welt,
dort und dort
Peter Handke
No one could describe
the Word of the Father;
but when He took flesh from you, O Theotokos,
He consented to be described, and restored the fallen image to its former beauty.
We confess and proclaim our salvation in word and image.
Kontakion of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
