THE ORIGINAL CHURCH NEWSPAPER. ESTABLISHED IN 1828 A holiday in Aldeburgh THE could be CHURCHOF yours, p11 ENGLAND Newspaper Finding faith on a skateboard, NOW AVAILABLE ON  NEWSSTAND p10 FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2014 No: 6213 Mayor quizzed on ads

By Amaris Cole “The difficulty is that there is offence, as this advert clearly Stonewall breaches Transport Johnson, Transport for London now in evidence an email which did.” for London’s Advertising stan- and Stonewall are intent to shut THE MAYOR of London is unequivocally states that the Andrea Minichiello Williams, dards and is illegal. down the Christian side of the being questioned on whether Mayor instructed TfL to pull the Chief Executive of the Christian “Stonewall knows this but has debate by fair means or foul. his decision to ban adverts con- advertisement… Legal Centre, which has sup- brazenly decided to pursue its “It is a great relief that the sidered anti-gay from buses was “The need for examination of ported Core Issues Trust said: agenda. Master of the Rolls has ruled to politically motivated. the role of the Mayor is all the “The effect of such a ruling “In a mature democracy both hold to account arbitrary use of The Master of the Rolls ruled greater because (i) the 18.04 means that the past and present sides of a debate should be the exercise of power by a pub- on Monday that an investigation email shows that the Mayor’s campaign being run by heard but it seems that Boris lic authority.” must be launched into the rea- office contacted the Guardian son Boris Johnson intervened in immediately in order to make the campaign by Core Issues political capital out of the Trust during the 2012 Mayoral story; and (ii) arrangements Chelmsford completes a mosaic Elections. had been made for the Mayor If the Mayor made the deci- to appear on 13 April (the fol- sion to pull the adverts because lowing day) at hustings organ- he was ‘courting the LGBT vote ised by Stonewall. This is a in an attempt to ditch what it most unsatisfactory state of called the “toxic” history of the affairs.” Party’, as one Christian charity The report went on: “In my suggested, then the lawfulness view, it is in the interests of jus- of the move will be called into tice that a further inquiry be question. conducted by the court as to The posters were a response whether (i) the decision was to Stonewall’s “Some People instructed by the Mayor and Are Gay. Get Over It!” (ii) it was made for an improp- The Christian group respond- er purpose. ed with a slogan that read: “Not “As Christopher Clarke LJ Gay! Ex-Gay, Post-Gay and said during the course of argu- Proud. Get over it!”. ment, the only way this can be Although these adverts done properly is for the Mayor passed pre-authorisation, it is (on behalf of the GLA) to be claimed the Mayor personally added back as a defendant.” intervened to block the latter The Master of the Rolls adverts being seen across Lon- believes the case should be don buses. remitted to the judge for her The Master of the Rolls to make such an order and expressed concern this week then give appropriate direc- that the original trial judge was tions with a view to deciding not able to adequately investi- whether the decision was gate the political intervention by instructed by the Mayor and Boris Johnson. made for an improper pur- In the original case, Mrs Jus- pose. tice Lang had ruled that ‘if the The Mayor’s official motive of the decision was to spokesman said: “The Mayor advance Mr Johnson’s election is pleased TfL’s original deci- campaign, at the expense of a sion to ban the Core Issues proper exercise of TfL’s powers Trust advert has been upheld THE DIOCESE of Chelmsford has marked its individually and as “one humanity, inhabiting one and duties, this would call into by the Court of Appeal. hundredth birthday with a centenary service at world”. Every person is included as a sister or question the lawfulness of the “He agreed with TfL’s ban at Chelmsford Cathedral led by the Bishop of brother sharing equally in the good news of peace decision.’ the time and will continue to Chelmsford, Stephen Cottrell. The Bishop said and reconciliation which Jesus brings. Portraits In his judgment on the Appeal support the banning of adverts that Jesus “makes it possible, by his death and were taken of the 600-strong congregation, and case handed down on Monday that breach advertising policy resurrection, for every person in every age and in use to make the image of Christ, which was pro- morning Sir John Dyson said: and cause widespread public every culture to know him and receive him” both jected in the Cathedral.

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Peterborough Southwell CHURCHIN The Rt Rev Jonathan Meyrick, Bishop of Lynn, opened The new head teacher at the Christian Resources Exhibition on Wednesday, Hucknall National Church of singing songs from his charity CD including Wild England Primary School Thing, I’m A Believer, Sunshine Superman, Nowhere says it was wonderful that Man and Delilah. No stranger to the stage, Bishop the children there convinced ENGLAND Jonathan has her to take the job. Helen given renditions Bent, 46, said “When I came of 60s hits on to look around I got a good Radio 1 and ITV’s feeling about the place and Stars In Their was enamoured with the Eyes. “I’ve not children.” She will look to been able to go to improve teaching and a CRE for some learning across the school St Edmundsbury & Ipswich time,” he said, and link up with other Churches opening as night shelters in Ipswich are full every night with “so I’m delighted schools to work on joint homeless people. A total of 35 rough sleepers have stayed in the shelters to be invited to projects. A new national for at least one night or more, and volunteers have had to turn 19 away open the show in curriculum will be because the shelters are full to capacity. Seven church halls in Ipswich are Peterborough.” introduced in September and involved in the initiative that started on 4 December, and the shelters Open to the Miss Bent says the school remain open until March. The Rt Rev Dr David Thomson, Acting Bishop of general public, must prepare for that. It will St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, said: “The fact that all the beds have been the show have more emphasis on taken on some occasions, with a waiting list, shows that this is a real and includes a series speaking and listening and pressing need, and I am deeply thankful for the work of the 500 and more of more than 30 carefully targeted seminars, on the expected changes in volunteers, and all the organisers, donors and church authorities, who are subjects ranging from sound systems to story-telling, science “could be working so well together to make this service possible.” given by both regional and national experts. challenging”.

Gloucester Salisbury Durham The Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Rev Salisbury Cathedral is the The Anglican Parish of North Wearside in Sunderland is strengthening its team to increase Michael Perham, has announced the location for a sculpture church involvement in the life of the community. They are advertising for a part-time urban appointment of two new Ecumenical exhibition by John Maine RA, discipleship development worker in North Wearside, a large urban parish. Clergy in the area Canons of Gloucester Cathedral: the which can be seen from 8 say that they are already seeing signs of increased community involvement in church life and Rev James Tebbutt, Superintendent March until 23 July. Sanctuary hope to increase that by developing the use of church buildings and supporting those who Minister of the Gloucestershire Circuit comprises a number of stone use them. The parish has two churches that are open for worship on Sundays, Holy Trinity, of the Methodist Church, and the Rev installations in the Close. Southwick, and St Cuthbert’s, Red House. Richard Atkins, broadcaster and Sanctuary is curated by producer for BBC Radio Jacquiline Creswell, Visual Gloucestershire. Richard Atkins said: “I Arts Advisor at the Cathedral. was humbled by this invitation to The concept was triggered York become an Ecumenical Canon of when she saw John Maine’s York Minster will be Gloucester Cathedral and was very stone sculpture ‘After the first building in the pleased to accept. As a Methodist it has Cosmati’ at the Royal UK to use a always been a joy to work with and Academy. “I was reminded of revolutionary new alongside Gloucester Cathedral and the the sense of calm reverence I glass to protect one of Diocese of Gloucester.” James Tebbutt encountered while walking its medieval said: “It reflects the friendships between amongst the stones at masterpieces - the Anglicans and Methodists that exist at Avebury Ring and Great East Window. all levels, from the national Covenant Stonehenge - there is a path The groundbreaking between our Churches, to colleagueship that draws you in, through UV-resistant glass will and partnerships between individuals and around, inviting the be used as part of the and congregations.” The new Canons visitor to stay and engage with external protective will be installed by the Very Rev the setting. I felt there was a glazing for the 15th Stephen Lake, Dean of Gloucester, on resonance and connection century window, which Sunday 23 March at 3pm in Gloucester with the stone and geometry was designed by Cathedral. of the Cathedral.” influential medieval artist John Thornton. The work to conserve and restore the Great East Window is part of the York Minster Revealed project, which is due for completion in 2016. “We are delighted to be at the forefront of this new cutting-edge technological advance, which represents a wise investment in the long-term care of the building,” commented York Minster Revealed Director, Mark Hosea.

Bath and Wells National The decision by the Diocese of Bath and Wells to screen the controversial Martin Scorsese film, The Last Temptation of Christ, is being interpreted by The College of Bishops this week welcomed the Pilling Report and asked the Archbishops to Christian Concern as the ‘church endorsing a blasphemous film which set up a process for the ‘facilitated conversations’ the report called for. However, the distorts the Gospel message’. Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern, Bishops, while welcoming and affirming the presence and ministry of gay people in the warned that the screening at Wells Cathedral would spread a ‘wholly false Church, said that no change in the Church’s teaching on marriage is proposed. A statement message and obscure the New Testament history of the life and purpose of said they were united in acknowledging the need for the Church to repent for the Jesus Christ from his birth to his death on the cross’. Martin Scorsese’s homophobic attitudes it has sometimes failed to rebuke and affirming the need to stand controversial film was shown on Saturday, 25 January, as part of the Bath firmly against homophobia wherever and whenever it is to be found. Film Festival 2014. Further report online at www.churchnewspaper.com

[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper www.churchnewspaper.com Friday January 31, 2014 News 3 Poirot star sees Bible dream fulfilled By Amaris Cole to read the whole Bible aloud for people to listen to. Church is still ‘Tory ACTOR David Suchet will That year he gave his life see his dream fulfilled when to God, following his his audio recording of the epiphany on reading St entire Bible is released this Paul’s epistle to the Romans, Easter. in which he proclaims: “If Party at prayer’ Ever since he became a God be for us, who can be Christian in 1989 after read- against us?”. Suchet joined VOTING PATTERNS inherited strongly supported by Catholics but not as decisively as Muslims. ing a Bible in a hotel room, the band of leading British from the past still hold in the UK’s with Irish roots. Most Jews vote Conservative and the Poirot actor has wanted actors who have recorded churches, according to a report When Scotland is not taken into Buddhists are predominantly Lib- parts of the Bible for Hodder. by the think tank, ‘Theos’. The account the gap between Labour eral Democrat. But nearly 30 years later, in Church of England was once and Conservative supporters The report also examines the between filming the final known as ‘the Tory party at among Roman Catholics is nar- views of those of no religion and episodes of Poirot, he has prayer’ and self-identified Angli- rower, with 36.3 per cent voting attitudes to such issues as censor- spent over 200 hours in the cans are still more likely to be Labour in 2010 and 32.4 per cent ship, the death penalty, welfare recording studio to finish the supporters of the Tory party with voting Conservative. and benefits. It finds frequent project. an average of 47.8 per cent of Self-identified Nonconformists attenders of all churches ready to This will see Suchet them voting Conservative in the show greater fluidity than either support spending on welfare even become the first single period between 1959 and 2010 as Anglicans or Catholics but they if it means increased taxes British actor to record an opposed to 35.5 per cent voting have a marginally stronger associ- although Catholics are more entire audio version of the Labour and 15.4 per cent Liberal ation with the Liberal Democrats enthusiastic than Anglicans. NIV Bible. Democrat. than members of the other On authoritarian issues such as The 80-hour recording will Anglicans who attend church Churches. the death penalty and censorship be available on MP3 and CD. are even more likely to lean to the The Theos report finds no evi- nominal Anglicans were the most Tory party, with an average of dence of American-style values hardline, while people of no reli- Report says priest was ‘bullied’ 64.9 per cent of them voting Con- voting in Britain on such issues as gion are the most likely to be servative between 1983 and 1997. abortion or same-sex marriage. opposed to censorship. A REPORT BY the former Bishop of Hulme, the Rt Rev However the report cautions that Bread-and-butter issues such as Summing up the significance of Stephen Lowe, comes down heavily on churchwardens and we should not see a uniform ten- the economy or immigration influ- the report, Nick Spence said: some parishioners at St Faith’s Great Crosby in the Diocese dency and points out that there is ence the religious vote. “Every five years or so, someone of Liverpool after the priest, the Rev Simon Tibbs, was forced a pattern of Anglicans following The report was produced by claims that this or that religious out. general movements of opinion Nick Spencer, Theos Research (or non-religious group) might Fr Tibbs, a former curate at Old St Paul’s in Edinburgh, and being more ready to vote for a Director, and Ben Clements, who swing elections. Politics isn’t like who gained a doctorate at Newcastle University and trained wining party. In 1997 a majority teaches Politics at the University that, however ,and this report for the ministry at Westcott House, took charge of St Faith’s voted Labour. of Leicester. shows that religious block votes in January 2013 but soon ran into trouble with a powerful There is some regional influ- To write the report they do not exist in Britain as many say group of parishioners. ence on the Anglican vote with analysed survey data produced by they do in America. In his report Bishop Lowe says that a small group of pow- Anglicans in the South of England the British Election Survey and “It does show that there are erful individuals have tried to control the life of the church being more likely to lean to the the British Social Attitudes Sur- clear and significant alignments and to prevent any changes. They objected to attempts made right than those in the North. vey. between various religious and by Fr Tibbs to cut down on alcohol consumption at church Self-identified Roman Catholics Less survey material is avail- political camps, of which politi- events, to minor liturgical changes and to the replacement of are more likely to be supporters able about other faiths but for the cians should be aware. At a time a very elderly Sunday school teacher. of the Labour Party. The number past two elections there has been when mass party membership, Fr Tibbs admitted that he was guilty of some ‘clumsy han- of Catholics who vote Labour is a survey of voting by members of political ideology and party tribal- dling of issues and people’ and Bishop Lowe says that he was particularly high in Scotland, other religions. This shows Mus- ism are at a low ebb, we should ‘not always as collaborative as he should have been’ but he leading to an ironical feature of lims to be strong supporters of pay attention to the big political describes the response of key members of an ‘inner circle’ at the Scottish referendum cam- the Labour Party. Hindus AND values that shape our voting St Faiths as being totally out of proportion. paign in which the union is Sikhs also lean towards Labour behaviour.” “I believe Simon’s enthusiasm, energy and drive threat- ened in the minds of some elderly lay leaders a far more rad- ical change in the church than in fact took place,” he writes in Channel Islands separated from Diocese of Winchester his report. He accuses those who opposed Fr Tibbs of seeing St Faith’s as “a social club for its members who enjoy Anglo- By Amaris Cole ‘seriously’, and is grateful for the part he has played Catholic worship of a traditional kind but who have little in this development. interest in church growth. THE CHANNEL Islands are to be separated from “When you cross that 120 miles of water, you are the Diocese of Winchester in a historic move that fol- coming to a different country.” Welby on Africa trip Denis Duncan dies lows months of conflict. Mr Key said: “We look for relationships with trust THE ARCHBISHOP of Canter- The Rt Rev Tim Dakin, who was previously that will enable Jersey and Guernsey to contribute to bury admitted that the Angli- responsible for Jersey and Guernsey, has handed the wider Church of England family and continue can Communion will ‘never be Episcopal oversight to the Archbishop of Canter- with mission and ministry in these very beautiful yet unified’ and this could ‘tear the bury. very different Islands.” Church apart’. The Bishop of Dover, the Rt Rev Trevor Willmott, In his pastoral letter, the Bishop of Winchester Speaking on the BBC, Justin will assume the role on Justin Welby’s behalf ‘in a says he presented the idea of handing over the Welby said it was ‘not exactly matter of weeks’. Islands to the Archbishop last year, following ‘ten- startling’ that there is disagree- Sources from Jersey blame the move on a break- sions’ over safeguarding. ment across the Church on down of trust between Islanders and the Bishop of Bishop Tim Dakin said: “I am all too conscious of issues such as gay marriage. Winchester following the safeguarding case, which the additional, fundamental issues that have been The Archbishop said he is saw the Dean of Jersey, the Very Rev Robert Key, raised and I believe they also warrant urgent and full not trying to get everyone to temporarily suspended for his handling of the issue. attention. agree, because it would not be “For any relationship to flourish you need trust,” “Equally I believe that the best way of achieving possible to align the conserva- an Islander said. “That has now completely gone.” the reconciliation that we all want is for me to step tive views of the African THE DEATH has been The report of Dame Heather Steel cleared the back for now from the tensions that have arisen and provinces with the more liberal announced of the Rev Dean of any wrongdoing, however, and he was rein- allow for fresh, external input.” American Church, which has Denis Duncan, a stated. The Dean is calling for the safeguarding A statement from Lambeth Palace said: “The inter- ordained a gay Bishop. Church of Scotland reports by both Dame Heather and the former Bish- im arrangement is also entirely separate from issues The Archbishop is visiting Minister, who was edi- op of Chelmsford, John Gladwin, to be made public, to do with the Islands’ formal relationship with the South Sudan, Burundi, Rwan- tor of the Church of and he says the Archbishop of Canterbury agrees. Church of England. da and the Democratic Repub- Scotland-owned news- The Dean looks forward to this new relationship, “The Archbishop intends to appoint a Commission lic of Congo to meet Primates paper British Weekly believing the Bishop of Dover is the right man for to look at the relationship between the Islands, the of the Anglican Communion, in from 1957, and later the job. Diocese of Winchester and the wider Church.” a five-day visit to the region also its proprietor when For the Islands to flourish, he believes the tradi- The Dean said: “You cannot micro-manage Jersey that started last Thursday. the Church of Scotland tions of both Jersey and Guernsey, with their sepa- and Guernsey from the other side of the Channel.” Archbishop Justin plans to sold the title in 1967, rate Canon laws, needs to be respected, and more While the future of the Channel Islands are uncer- visit all of his fellow Archbish- until 1970, when it came than that, ‘celebrated’. tain, commentators suggest they could either ops around the Anglican Com- into the Christian Weekly Praising the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Dean remain under Canterbury’s control for the long munion. Newspapers fold. said that Archbishop Justin takes these differences term, or move to be a part of the Diocese of Europe.

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THE FORMER Bishop of His successful amendment Second Reading, the Electoral stituency lines. Ministers have, though, Oxford has continued the fight would mean only spending on Commission said in effect that it “Thirdly, a number of cam- agreed a range of concessions in the House of Lords against handing out leaflets or phoning was unworkable and unenforce- paigns - for example, against a following pressure from chari- the Government’s new lobbying electors in a constituency would able. hospital closure or a motorway ties. proposals. count to the new limit. Its exact words were that, extension, let alone HS2 - cross Under the original terms of Lord Harries of Pentregarth Lord Harries, who chairs the even if it were given extra a number of constituency the Bill, the amount charities in inflicted a second defeat on min- Commission on Civil Society resources, ‘it will be challenging boundaries. England could spend on cam- isters over the legislation, which and Democratic Engagement to obtain robust evidence to “It would be difficult to allo- paigning deemed to be party has been branded the ‘gagging representing more than 100 determine and sanction breach- cate expenditure in a transpar- political during the “regulated” bill’ by some charities. organisations fighting against es in specific geographical ent way that could be policed by period leading up to a general Under the Transparency of the legislation, described the areas, for example, regarding the regulator.” election before they had to reg- Lobbying, Non-Party Cam- Bill as an “appalling piece of leg- the effects of a leafleting cam- Earlier in the month, Lord ister with the Electoral Commis- paigning and Trade Union islation”. paign or mobile advertising in Harries’ amendment that would sion would have been cut from Administration Bill, a charity or He told peers: “I recognise different constituencies ... it is remove the “background staff £10,000 to £5,000. other group would be able to the great importance of con- likely to be difficult to demon- costs” associated with holding But ministers introduced a spend up to £9,750 on political stituency limits, and believe that strate that a breach meets the events such as press confer- string of amendments that will campaigning in a constituency there should be real restraints necessarily high test for using a ences and rallies from the instead raise the limit to in the run-up to a general elec- in place to stop large sums of stop notice to intervene to halt spending thresholds and includ- £20,000. tion. money distorting an election campaigning activity’. ing the lobbying of special They have also conceded that But Lord Harries argued it result at constituency level. “Secondly, campaigning advisers in new regulations was for the next general election in would be too complex for chari- “There is therefore no dis- groups have pointed out many also backed. May 2015, the regulated period ties and the Electoral Commis- agreement about the purpose of times that for the most part they However, both defeats were for third parties — which would sion, who are responsible for this clause. However, as the are not organised on a national overturned when the Bill normally be 12 months — will policing the new arrangements, original draft did, the current basis, and it would be a huge returned to the House of Com- start on 19 September 2014, the to work out which constituency version has grave drawbacks. administrative burden to divide mons setting up a new show- day after the Scottish referen- money had been spent in. “First, in its briefing before up national expenditure on con- down in the Lords. dum. More action is needed on metal thefts, Government is told Government chided on flooding THE COUNTRY is lish national criteria to response both to the THE BISHOP of further funding the work of the task lacking a coherent respond to future chal- practical problems Ripon and Leeds has beyond March this force maintained?” strategy to deal with lenges, wherever they that we face and to the urged the Govern- year. Lord Taylor said natural catastrophes may occur. problems that the ment to continue its At question time in the task force and such as flooding, the “In doing so, we world is going to face efforts to tackle the the House of Lords, legislation had Bishop of Ripon and often set one part of over the next century “epidemic” of lead Bishop John Packer added greater pro- Leeds has warned. our country against and beyond. being stolen from said: “The metal tection to historic Bishop John Packer another — ‘Why are “We need in particu- church roofs. theft task force has buildings. called for a less “piece- they being helped lar adequate succes- A metal theft task been of inestimable “I have, myself, meal” approach and when we are not?’.” sors to the millennium force led by the value in checking been on the roof of also more focus on He said the issues goals, and I welcome British Transport the epidemic of lead Northampton town combating climate needed to be set in the the Prime Minister’s Police, along with theft from churches. hall to see how change. context of climate commitment to those new laws on scrap “Stripping of lead encoding of the lead In his final speech in change. goals. metal dealers, have from church roofs on the roof protects the House of Lords reeled from the “The climate change “However, I wish been widely credited has caused extensive that metal,” he said. before retiring, he effects of the east initiatives seem to that the climate with cutting the rain damage to his- “I think you will said: “Society has coast floods. In west have flagged over the change proposals crime wave. toric interiors.” admit that ecclesias- always recognised the Yorkshire, we know past two or three were more strongly Figures released He asked Home tical insurers are need to combat the the power of Pennine years,” he said. emphasised by the in November Office minister Lord now looking at the destruction caused by streams, bringing “Unless we respond Government and showed there had Taylor of Holbeach: premiums they have water, and to do so havoc to Hebden to the need to reduce linked in to our deal- been a 40 per cent “Will you consult to charge as theft coherently. Bridge, Sowerby our and the world’s ing with flooding and drop in recorded English Heritage, from churches has “This winter, we Bridge and others. carbon footprint, we tidal surges, now and metal thefts between the Churches Con- been greatly have expressed our “Yet I do not yet shall continue to place in the future. April and June 2012 servation Trust and reduced. concern for those who sense a national and sticking plasters “They need to be and January and the cathedrals and “I am pleased to have suffered, particu- coherent policy to where damage is part of a single strate- March 2013. church buildings say that a gang of larly in the southern respond to natural caused. gy that also includes But the Govern- division of the Arch- thieves in my own river basins - the calamities.” “Therefore, the Gov- green energy, rural- ment, which has bishops’ Council as diocese of Lincoln Thames, the Brue in He added: “We tend ernment need to make proofing, transport funded the task force to how the destruc- was sentenced very Somerset and the Sev- to go for a piecemeal it clear that their cli- issues as well as since January 2012, tion of our heritage heavily for the dam- ern, for example. approach and to patch mate change issues involving the has yet to commit to can be combated and age it had done.” “In the autumn we up, rather than estab- emphases are a food chain.” Affordable housing efforts ‘thwarted’ by lack of help CHURCH ATTEMPTS to provide more affordable buildings and properties appear to be impossible for porters in this enterprise.” housing are being thwarted by the lack of help from registered providers to contemplate today, and this Bishop Packer said there was a particular need for local authorities and other organisations, the Bishop of seems an immense waste. rural housing. Ripon and Leeds has warned. “Churches are not the only organisations with under- “The statistics abound - from a need for 11,000 new Bishop John Packer said the project Faith in Afford- utilised land and property that could be released for rural houses a year to the provision of just over 1,000 able Housing was designed to help release church land affordable housing. such houses by registered providers in 2011-12,” he and property for affordable housing. “However, in the case of churches, such develop- said. The project has worked with the Gloucester diocese ments can also provide new meeting places, worship “The one thing on which there seems to be agree- to provide flats for young homeless people on a derelict areas and places that can be developed for community ment is that there needs to be far more than are cur- vicarage site. use and needs. rently being built.” But in a House of Lords debate, Bishop Packer said: “Faith in Affordable Housing is seeking to raise the He added: “We may be talking about small absolute “It has had modest success but is having difficulty in vision of churches to make such provision, but time and numbers in terms of rural housing but they are key to finding partners for more challenging developments. again it appears to be too complex for local authorities the life of our rural communities in this country.” “Some of the earlier, very positive uses of church and registered providers to become partners and sup-

[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper www.churchnewspaper.com Friday January 31, 2014 News 5 West African Primate dies Anger rises over THE PRIMATE of the Church of the Province of West Africa, Archbishop Tilewa Johnson, died last week of an apparent heart attack whilst playing tennis. He was 59. The Most Rev Solomon Tilewa Johnson (27 February 1954 – 21 January 2014) was born in Bath & Wells plans Bathurst in the Gambia and educated in Nigeria and at the University of Durham. Ordained dea- A DECISION by the Church Commissioners to move the residence at the Palace whilst a full and proper consulta- con in 1979 and priest in 1980, in 1990 he was Bishop of Bath and Wells out of his historic palace to a tion about the long-term plans for the Bishop’s residence elected the sixth Bishop of the Gambia, the first five-bedroom former Georgian vicarage, which has been and office arrangements takes place,” the statement con- Gambian elected to the post. on the market for £900,000, has been heavily criticised cludes. An avid sportsman, Archbishop Johnson was a both by leading figures in the diocese and by the wider Despite this unprecedented statement by senior dioce- member of the Gambia national basketball team community. san officials, Sir Tony Baldry MP, Spokesman for the from 1970 to 1977. A statement signed by the Bishop of Taunton and the Church Commissioners in the Commons, told a public Archbishop Johnson attended the 2013 Gafcon Archdeacons of Wells, Taunton and Bath and Wells, the meeting in Wells that the decision to move the Bishop will conference in Nairobi, but had not joined the Bishop’s Chaplain, the Dean of Women’s Ministry, the not be rescinded. organization’s primates’ council as of the time of Diocesan Secretary and the Chair of Diocesan Board of “It would be disingenuous of me to suggest the decision his death. In November 2013 he was elected to the Finance accuses the Commissioners of taking a unilateral is going to be changed,” he told a hostile public meeting central committee of the World Council of decision and failing to undertake effective consultation. at the Wells Museum. Churches at the group’s 10th Assembly in Busan, They say this has ‘cast a shadow over the announcement Sir Tony struggled to answer the questions thrown at South Korea. of our next Bishop’. him. There were cries of ‘answer the question’ after In a letter of condolence, Archbishop Justin The statement goes on to say that the signatories can- numerous people asked why the palace was no longer Welby wrote that Archbishop Johnson’s “gifts not support the decision made by the Commissioners for suitable. Very few were convinced when told that this was were not confined exclusively to the Church, and which they say no ‘persuasive case’ has been made. because the Palace was now a tourist attraction. he had an active role within the national life of “We call upon the Church Commissioners to allow the Liberal Democrat MP for Wells, Tessa Munt, backed a Gambia. next Bishop of Bath and Wells to begin his new role in motion proposing that the decision be reviewed. “I know that all my colleagues, the people of the Church of England, and especially those in the Diocese of Chichester, with which the Diocese of Archbishop calls for reform of World Bank the Gambia is linked, as well as your brothers and sisters across the Communion, will be holding AS INTERNATIONAL business lead- and have too much power. “Power and says there needs to be a return [the Church in the Gambia] in prayer and love at ers and politicians gathered at has to be constrained,” he said. to what Maynard Keynes intended this time,” Archbishop Welby wrote. Davos, the Archbishop of Canter- The Archbishop’s comments when he drafted the Bretton Woods bury called for new curbs on the appear in next month’s issue of the system, of which the IMF and the power of the International Monetary international accountancy magazine World Bank are a part, 70 years ago Mock ‘Wall’ is Fund and other institutions that over- Financial Management. The maga- this year. see the global economy. zine is not yet available but the inter- Asked whether the World Bank His comments may signal a new view was trailed in last Sunday’s and IMF should play a dominant role ‘not anti-Semitic’ phase in his campaign to reform issue of The Observer. in steering the world to an ethical financial institutions, indicating that In the past there have been strong and stable economy, the Archbishop THE CONSTRUCTION of a mock “Wall” outside he is concerned not just about banks criticisms of both the World Bank said: “They are certainly part of the St James, Piccadilly, was not an anti-Semitic act, and payday loan companies in Britain and the IMF for trying to impose pri- answer but the history of central the Second Church Estates Commissioner told but about global issues as well. vatisation and a free market agenda planning and government wisdom Parliament, but a condemnation of Israeli govern- Criticising the IMF, Archbishop on developing economies that have says that they need to be only a part ment policies. 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A Lent challenge ery, however, was not based Sir, As I’m sure you are aware, The myths of Fresh Expressions on proof texts but on the Lent begins in early March Sir, Some of your readers may have heard the BBC Radio 4 Sunday Programme’s substantial cov- thrust of the biblical wit- this year. For many Christians erage of the topic of fresh expressions of Church [fxC] on 19 January. This followed a national ness. Amongst the haul of this is a time of fasting and report on the subject, presented in London on 16 January by Church Army’s Research Unit. Gentiles, some will turn out abstinence that traditionally As the author of the report, and knowing the influence of Dr Alison Milbank, I was disturbed by to be gay. Need this be a included not eating meat. her deep concern that both the wish of the fxC themselves, and the tenor of our report, marked problem in the long-term? Coincidentally, March is also a desire for them to become independent of parishes in particular and the Church of England in Serena Lancaster, National Veggie Month and general. It would be a tragedy, and travesty of the facts, if this fear should be thought by others to Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos. this year Animal Aid is urging be grounded in reality. All the evidence points the other way. people to take part in the Big We worked with 11 dioceses. In each case the list of leads we worked with came from those dio- Veg Pledge, a project where ceses. They are cases already connected to and recognized by their diocese. We submitted Silvester’s views people promise to go meat- spread sheets and written reports on the overall picture back to the dioceses on our findings of Sir, I believe in a God who free for the whole of March their fxC. This whole exercise has strengthened the relationship between the fxC and their dio- chooses to actively involve whilst receiving all the help, cese. himself in the affairs of his support and information they Half the fxC are led by diocesan clergy, which itself models connection to the wider church. Creation (otherwise, what’s need to do so. The lay leaders were often at pains to tell us that they had been supported by the parish, and that the point?), be it for blessing If any of your readers would they referred back major policy decisions to the PCC. or for judgement - the Holy like to revive the Christian tra- Dr Milbank seems to misinterpret the ‘Three-Self’ criteria, which is consistently described in Bible is our evidence. So I dition of abstaining from meat our report as a measure of progress to ecclesial maturity, never as a path to independence. The can empathise with David during Lent, and save the lives report is now freely available on our website www.churcharmy.org.uk/fxcresearch and readers Silvester’s observations of animals by doing so, they can consult section 4.4.1 Steps to ‘three self’ maturity and form their own opinion. about our increasingly bad may wish to sign up for the Dr Milbank is a doughty advocate of the virtues of the parish. What is very odd is that she weather seemingly being Big Veg Pledge at www.veg- would wish a parish to take responsibility for its own finances and pay its way as much as it could. God’s Judgement vis-à-vis giemonth.com or by calling She would expect a parish to govern its corporate life by partnership between an incumbent and our making gay marriage 01732 364546 ext 227. its PCC. Does such being self-financing and self-governing make them ‘independent’ of the dio- legal. Ben Martin, cese? Yet this is being argued is the aim and trajectory of fxC, because they grow in taking In fact, last September I Animal Aid responsibility for finances and decision-making, like their parent body. wrote to Mr Cameron and Our 10 criteria for inclusion of cases, on page 10, is explicit about what three self thinking does told him that his humiliation not mean. ‘They are not to be interpreted as indicators of congregationalist independency, or at losing a parliamentary Baffled breakaway tendencies.’ vote (about military inter- Sir, I am baffled by the storm We deliberately asked whether any cases had gone down the road of independency. We found vention in Syria) was direct- in a teacup over the new £2 two out of 518 had left the Church of England over the 20-year period. Our report on p. 96 notes ly related to his coin which features Kitchener this with sadness. Such numbers are hardly a rush and we are clear on our view of it. single-minded pursuit to get and Recruitment, which some Lastly I turn to experience. I and my team conducted the interviews, not Dr Milbank, and I can the same-sex marriage bill people see as glorifying war. I assure her and any who share her view, that in the conversations with the leaders of these fxC, on the Statute Book. note that these £2 coins are usually lasting around 40 minutes, we picked up no desire to be totally independent of the parish And more recently I have usually produced twice a year, that gave them birth, or to leave the Church of England. mused that the recent and is it not appropriate to pro- Let us put down this nonsense about independency once and for all, and as a wide and inclusive weather disaster in the duce such an image for 2014? church warmly welcome the Anglican fresh expressions of Church that we now know so much Philippines could well be a By the time we reach 2016 I more about. consequence of many in that hope that an image such as Canon Dr, George Lings, country being active in the that of the Thiepval Monu- Sheffield sex tourist industry of the ment near the Somme will be most horrid kind. featured, while the following I mean, does the Almighty year Tyne Cot outside Ypres versation with a gay friend, he love. Presumably, they would such a life must be celibate, just sit back with his arms would make us aware of the accepted that what gay people want to put such couples bearing in mind that ‘It is not folded and ‘Tut-Tut’? Or does scope of the losses. “Those want from marriage which ‘asunder’, believing that God good that man should be he occasionally give his Cre- who do not remember the they did not have with civil would see this as leading to alone’? ation a ‘nudge’ now and then past are condemned to relive partnerships was this public their flourishing, despite hav- Our understanding of God’s with the intention to make us it”, and the wave of enthusias- act of commitment. ing allowed them to develop will at any one time must reflect and think about repen- tic volunteering in response to Lord Williams also attacked differently in this one respect. remain tentative, as new tance? Kitchener’s call is “dulce et the romanticising of marriage. How this difference arises is knowledge must impact on Andrew E Bloxham, decorum” (to take that partial Perhaps this is partly what still not fully understood. The our theology, which should Emsworth quotation totally out of con- has led to the Bulls, a devout latest research suggests that a remain theocentric and Trini- text). couple who ran a Bed & pregnant woman’s ‘lifestyle’ is tarian. Jesus said to his disci- Tony Cullingford, Breakfast, losing their liveli- a contributory factor and that ples that he had more to Tewkesbury hood and to Sir Paul a raised level of the stress hor- teach them than they Coleridge, a principled judge, mone can affect the produc- were ready to hear losing his position. As our tion of foetal sex hormones. It and promised that Relationships neighbours, one can recog- has also found that the greater his Spirit would Sir, During a discussion on nise their integrity and sympa- number of older brothers a lead them ‘into all marriage, the former Arch- thise with the personal cost of boy has, the greater the truth’. The ser- bishop of Canterbury said that their stand, without agreeing chance that he will be gay. pent continues to there is much still to celebrate with their opinion of equality This is borne out in the case of delight in making in society’s attitude to relation- legislation. Wishing to defend the footballer, Thomas Hit- us question God’s ships. “People still want their traditional marriage uncritical- zlsperger, who has five older voice, which still relationships to be more than ly, they believe on biblical brothers and one sister. Blam- comes to us Th is we ek: he ar David Su c he t casual or private...The cultural grounds that this necessarily ing anyone seems totally inap- through the many talk ab ou t h is ne w Bible pro jec t strength of the desire for pub- entails rejecting its extension propriate but a life still has to voices of the lic acts of commitment hasn’t to include same-sex couples, be lived with the conse- Bible. A changed changed.” Recounting a con- regardless of their steadfast quences. Is it God’s will that attitude to slav-

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Tony Blair’s Observer article announced the creation a new online forum and database run by his Faith Founda- The enduring tion, which he plans to become the world’s leading source of information and debate about religion and conflict, with the aim of promoting religious tolerance worldwide. Toby Helm, the Observer’s political editor, said that Mr Blair’s article about religiously fuelled conflict was not a ‘mea relevance of CS Lewis culpa’ for his interventionist foreign policy in Iraq and Afghanistan, which he now seems to admit led to sectarian violence. By J John quote of his: “All that is not eternal is eternally The article predicts that religious ‘difference’ will cause out of date.” global conflicts, and that only the inculcation of tolerance CS Lewis (1898–1963), who lectured in English Second, Lewis was always aware of the real among religions can mollify this, and can lead to the literature at Oxford for most of his life, was a pro- world. Given that for most of his life, he was an acceptance of democracy as a way of thinking. It is ‘in the lific writer in many areas and a man who power- unmarried man working in relative seclusion at centre of Islam that so many of the issues around how reli- fully and eloquently defended Christianity. Half a the very highest level of education you might gion and politics coexist peacefully will be determined’, he century after his death many of his books remain well assume that his writings were ‘academic’ in says, and also thinks that Islamic extremism is a perver- bestsellers: one, Mere Christianity, sells a quar- the worst sense of the word, being irrelevant and sion of that faith, although he speaks as an outsider to it ter-of-a-million copies a year. incomprehensible to all but a few. The reality is and does not ask the question as to whether a Sharia-lov- Why have Lewis’s books endured? There are the exact opposite. Lewis was a gifted communi- ing Muslim would prefer theocracy to democracy. several reasons. For a start, he was a brilliant cator and went out of his way to include, rather Given the vast amount of funding available to this foun- writer who used English to maximum effect. He than exclude, people in his writings, something dation, and the backing of such powerful educational insti- was also an enormously intelligent and creative he managed without being condescending. tutions as Yale and Harvard, it will be surprising if Mr man capable of analysing problems from differ- He gave talks on Christianity to ordinary sol- Blair’s website does not begin to assume Google and Ama- ent angles, courageous enough to tackle difficult diers in the Second World War, wrote books for zon proportions of power and influence in the world of reli- topics (for example, two of his books are called children and painstakingly replied to every letter gious studies and policies. His assumption is that all Miracles and The Problem of Pain) and creative he received with thought and concern. (Some- religions are the same in terms of love of tolerance and enough to branch out into children’s fantasy (the one has estimated that he personally answered mutual acceptance. This however looks like a politicians’ Narnia Chronicles). Yet although these are all over 12,000 letters during his lifetime.) People in wish list, rather than a serious analysis of religious history important in explaining the lasting popularity of Lewis’s profession are often alleged to live in an and doctrine. And of course Mr Blair himself moved to the CS Lewis, I think there are other factors and they ‘ivory tower’, a place excluded from the trials and Church of Rome from the Anglicans, giving the message are all to do with how he saw the world. tribulations of day-to-day life. You will find no of the superiority of one over the other. First, Lewis was always intensely aware of the sense of that in Lewis’s writings. His books, full The politicization of religious studies is already a grow- past.There is a tendency in our culture to dismiss of realism and overflowing with a sense of life’s ing tendency in western education for political reasons, to dead authors as ‘irrelevant’. Such views were joys, hurts and griefs, contain profound insights keep the civil peace. This overriding drive threatens to alien to Lewis, a remarkably well-read man, even into the peculiarities of human nature. push aside academic assessments of each religion in post- by the standards of his contemporaries at Oxford Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Lewis Enlightenment critical fashion. Questions of the historicity and Cambridge. So when he grappled with an was aware of the spiritual world. From the of religious leaders and of core values at the basis of reli- issue such as miracles he was able to bring to moment of his somewhat surprising conversion gions, risk being quietly forgotten in favour of community- bear not just his own thinking but the accumulat- to Christianity in 1930 he was careful to think building and equivalence as the Blair doctrine indicates. ed wisdom of the past. and write about everything that he did in the A few days before Mr Blair’s article, Larry Siedentop, of He saw his own Christian faith not as some light of his faith. Quietly, sensibly, in a very mat- Keble College Oxford, had written in the FT a rather dif- recent invention but as merely the latest addition ter-of-fact way, he wrote about God, Christ, ferent reading of how the West should understand itself in to a nearly 2,000-year-old tradition. His grasp of angels, heaven and hell. While some religious engaging with the Islamic world. The democracy and lib- the ‘big picture’ of Christian history and philoso- writers display an awkwardness when they eralism enjoyed in the west is rooted in the Christian tradi- phy meant that he was able to keep contempo- switch between ‘ordinary life’ and ‘spiritual mat- tion: ‘It was nothing short of a moral revolution, and it laid rary issues in perspective. So although The ters’ there is no trace of any such gulf in Lewis’s the foundation for the social revolution that followed. The Screwtape Letters, his brilliantly imagined fantasy writings; both worlds were real individual gradually displaced the family, tribe or caste as of the correspondence from a senior to a junior to him. the basis of social organisation’. Siedentop rightly reminds devil, was written in the darkest days of the Sec- Lewis was a great writer. us to remember these Christian roots underlying individ- ond World War, Hitler and the Nazis are barely In all that he stood for he is ual human rights, notably for women, and freedom from mentioned. It was a wise move; Hitler has gone an antidote to our age, with apostasy laws: ‘That would strengthen the west, making it but the devil remains. its haste, shallowness and better able to shape the conversation of mankind’. Mr The same awareness of history encouraged materialism. Reading Blair could profit from reading these words. Lewis to step back from many of the debates Lewis encourages Comment within the Christianity of his day. He called his believers and chal- great defence of belief Mere Christianity pre- lenges sceptics. 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Janey Lee Grace Live Healthy! Live Happy! The dangers of juice It’s all over the press like a rash this week: sugar is evil, mummy like me to have a serious re-think. it is likely over 50 per cent of the population will soon be I’m always banging on about going back to nature, and obese and a diabetes crisis is looming. if given the opportunity to eat an orange it would most We’re all aware of the dangers of sweets, processed likely be just the one, and it would be fibre, pulp and all, cakes and pastries, not to mention fizzy drinks, but did it certainly wouldn’t be the equivalent of the five or six you realise the humble carton of orange or apple juice oranges needed to fill a glass of juice. was so awful? Me neither, I thought it was ok to give my One mother did her own (not an entirely scientific was in the apple juice had all but rotted away com- kids juice – in fact I thought government guidelines rec- study) by placing seven of her child’s milk teeth into jars pletely. Ouch! That’s one item taken off the shop- ommended it as one of your ‘five a day’. Well, not so. It filled with beverages, lemonade, cola, their diet counter- ping list then, back to water in our house. seems the way it converts in the body leads to a serious parts, water, an energy drink and apple juice. They were Steady on, though… a study out today by the Uni- spike in insulin levels in just the same way as a fizzy left for around six weeks and in the water, not surpris- versity of East Anglia and Kings College London drink would. ingly the tooth remained intact. says along with chocolates and strawberries, red A school headmistress in Essex sparked an outcry The other teeth in the fizzy drinks all rotted or eroded wine could guard against diabetes due to the when she announced that pupils were no longer allowed slightly and were discoloured, some to a greater and Flavonoids — the antioxidant compounds found in to bring juice to school, they were to drink water instead some lesser extent (the one in the energy drink actually plants as well as in chocolate, berries, tea and red and yet when nutritionist, after doctor, after expert came turned blue). wine. Phew! The kids can have water, we can stick on the airwaves in her defence it caused many a naughty But the most surprising result was that the tooth that to the wine! ‘Man of the Left’ Meet the Press

Buried in the recently released Cabinet papers is evidence of just what Lambeth Palace was packed last week for the Archbishop of Canterbury’s customary annual Mrs Thatcher thought of Bishop David Jenkins. In his enthronement reception for the press. This year the proceedings were enlivened with music from a jazz trio sermon in Durham Cathedral the Bishop called on Ian MacGregor, from a local school. Media celebrities were there in droves, among them Dermot Murnaghan, whom he described as ‘an elderly imported American’, to stand down Adam Boulton, Jeremy Vine, Charles Moore, Judy Etchingham and Sophie Raworth. Breaking as Chairman of the National Coal Board. He also called for Arthur with tradition, the Archbishop spoke a few words, confessing that the press made him uneasy Scargill to resign so there could be a compromise although his and that his staff were on the lookout to make sure he said nothing he shouldn’t say. He statement ‘the miners must not be defeated’ showed where his real worried that people were writing down his impromptu remarks although here he probably sympathy lay. Peter Walker, Secretary of State for Energy and a underestimated the spirit of seasonal celebration that meant most reporters were more practising Anglican, entered into a correspondence with the Bishop. concerned to enjoy themselves than record the Archbishop’s words. One newspaper, The This led to a meeting between the two and a report went to Thatcher. Evening Standard, did report one of the Archbishop’s comments: ‘I can see my daughter is The report described the Bishop as a ‘man of the left’ and as sticking her tongue out at me. I’m not quite sure why. Perhaps she’ll text me. Like every other unrepentant. Thatcher read the document with her customary close family these days, we communicate by text. Even when we’re sitting at the same table’. Known attention. She initialled it ‘MT’ and there are many underlinings. The to be a regular reader of the Financial Times the Archbishop surprised reporters from CEN by phrase ‘man of the left’ is underlined several times. Perhaps she telling them that he had just read last week’s paper and liked it. wondered why she appointed such a man to a leading see. Did it make her more careful in future? Is this why Jim Thompson had to stay in Stepney as long as she was in Downing Street? Blog worth reading

One blog on a religious site has gone viral after a plug in the New York Times. When David Brooks wrote a column on a blog posted on the Best Book Shop website of the radical evangelical magazine, Sojourners, it became the most emailed column on the New York Times site. The While the religious media was thronging to Lambeth Palace, religious remarkable blog was written by Catherine Woodiwiss, who publishers were gathering across the Thames in Westminster for the was hit by a car riding her bicycle and had to endure a number blessing of the newly refurbished Church House Bookshop. of operations just after her sister Anna was thrown from her Representatives of Bloomsbury, SPCK, Kevin Mayhew, Lion, and horse in Afghanistan and killed. Catherine lists 10 things she Canterbury/SCM were all present to hear the outgoing chairman has learnt about trauma. Among the lessons, she of the trustees, Patrick Coldstream CBE, say that he hoped that mentions that other people should be ready to be the shop would be a ‘microcosm of the church, welcoming, there. We shouldn’t think people going through inviting and colourful’. He said the trustees had deliberately trauma need space to sort things out. She also warns intended the shop to have a ‘de luxe’ makeover. As well against telling people we have had similar as chairing Hymns Ancient and Modern, Coldstream experiences. Each trauma is unique. Non-verbal has also served on the board of the Church Urban Fund. expressions of love are just as healing as words. He paid deserved tribute to the leader of the bookshop Whispering Catherine’s mother, Mary, appreciated the gift of a staff, Frank Nugent, commenting that people who bath mat. It’s wrong to tell people they will get over

entered the shop to buy one book usually left with three. The Gallery a tragedy because a tragedy changes everything. The Bishop of London was also enthusiastic about the If you’re going to help people passing through shop, saying he had just seen the new life of Thomas trauma you need to be both a fire fighter and a Cromwell by David Loades on its shelf for the first builder, someone who is ready to drop everything time. He didn’t actually leave with a copy. Perhaps he at the time of crisis (fire fighter) but ready to give is waiting for the book on Cromwell by Diarmaid long term support. Catherine warns it’s wrong to McCulloch due out later this year but the Bishop did say a tragedy is all for the best or that it is possible catch everyone by surprise when he used a Greek to make sense of what has happened. This is a blog doxology at the end of the blessing. that is worth reading.

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A clash between the head of Ofsted, Sir Mr Gove has added more testing on top of View from the Pew Michael Wilshaw, and the Department of SATs in the form of national phonics tests Education highlights how poor relation- at key stage one. He has introduced fur- ships are among all departments and fac- ther measurements, in the form of the bac- tions in the world of state education. calaureate, to school league tables though The latest reports concern claims that arguably to encourage a raising of academ- officials from the Department of Education ic standards. are conducting a ‘dirty tricks’ campaign, At the same time, teachers still live in Not the way to against the head of Ofsted. None of us have day-to-day fear of an Ofsted visit. Such any idea whether that is true. inspections should be aiming to help teach- Sadly, both the Department of Education ers. Inspectors should be mentors and handle disputes... and Ofsted are bodies that teachers have advisers rather than critics and judges. good cause to resent. There has been a Most teachers feel powerless in the face of constant disparagement of teachers in Ofsted. They regard Ofsted’s judgements Oh dear. The Diocese of Liverpool has given an object lesson in how not to recent years. The resulting effect on their as capricious and subjective. They feel handle pastoral difficulties. Towards the end of last week there was extensive morale has a great deal to do with the cack- powerless in the face of an inspection coverage in the national press of a pastoral breakdown in a Liverpool church handed and insensitive way in which gov- regime that they believe is hostile rather between priest and his PCC. A visitation report written by the former Bishop ernment and Ofsted, a creature of than helpful. of Hulme, Stephen Lowe, was full of juicy gossip about a drinking culture and government, has conducted itself in recent There is much that is good in the the church being treated as a social club. There were also hints of a political years. unrolling of academy status to more division between a left-leaning priest and some extreme right-wing laity. The The tendency has been for teaching to schools. But the Department of Education Visitor himself took great exception to these right-wingers. become much more centralised with such and Ofsted have yet to learn the lesson that Though I’m a passionate advocate of greater openness in the Church, Bish- a rigid testing and inspection regime to for the policy to be effective, education op Lowe’s report should never have been released. He presents little or no drive even the most talented teachers to must be much less centralised in future. evidence to support his main conclusions, and his report seeks to heal no distraction. In contrast, Michael Gove has Autonomy to local schools must mean that wounds. His account of events is not supported by careful note-taking and claimed that his policy of free schools and teachers are given much greater freedom enquiries, merely a number of unrecorded interviews. He has given the laity academies aims to give freedom and auton- and responsibility than they now have. he interviewed no opportunity to respond to pejorative remarks before publi- omy back to teachers. In reality, he gives The micro-management of classrooms cation. The next Bishop of Liverpool, when he comes to office, is sadly left with one hand, and takes with the other. by Ofsted, and politicians must stop now. with an even more fractured relationship in one of his parish churches. Offering a reason Paul Richardson for the hope in us Church and World

Just before Christmas The Guardian published a story Lindbeck has drawn a distinction between cognitive All this means that as well as offering authentic wit- about an atheist with a PhD in Physics who worked on manifestations of Christian faith and a more ‘performa- ness and cultural relevance, Christian apologists have Wall Street called Chris Arnade. Arnade enjoyed poking tive’ dimension, between ‘knowing how’ and ‘knowing to be ready to offer a reason for the hope that is in them. fun at the Bible and Christian belief and regarded that’. There are plenty of ‘cultured despisers’ around. Bulli- Richard Dawkins as a hero. He decided to quit his well- In Britain Lindbeck’s teaching has been taken up by vant quotes a World Values Survey that shows the bet- paid job to photograph homeless people in New York. Elaine Graham, who sees the apologetic task as identi- ter educated people are, the less they are likely to be The drug addicts and prostitutes he met undermined fying those areas where God appears to be at work in religious believers. his atheism. For most of them it was faith that got them the word and helping those Christians working to care The fact that the same survey shows a strong correla- through life. for others and to promote justice to clarify and articu- tion between educational attainment and belief in “I’ve been reminded that life is not as rational as late their convictions. telepathy should warn us that it is probably not the Richard Dawkins sees it,” Arnade commented. “Per- It is hard to quarrel with any of this just as it is hard to intellectual weakness of the Christian faith that is the e haps atheism is an intellectual luxury for the wealthy.” quarrel with the conviction of the ‘Fresh Expressions’ problem so much as fashion among the intelligensia. People come to faith for many different reasons but movement that Christianity suffers from a cultural gap Faith is no longer part of the social fabric as it was when one very important reason is the witness of others. Mal- between the church and the lives of ordinary people. people of my generation born just after World War II ef colm Gladwell’s conversion to Christianity has aroused Attempts to bridge that gap are to be welcomed were growing up. Far fewer novelists, for example, deal a good deal of interest. The best-selling author of The although we should not lose sight of the fact that there with religious themes as was the case when Evelyn Tipping Point discovered in writing his latest book, are aspects of the church’s life and worship that cannot Waugh, Flannery O’Connor, Graham Greene or Rose David and Goliath, a study of the way underdogs be changed without changing our understanding of the Macaulay were writing. achieve success, that spiritual strength was important. gospel. Contrary to what some missiological gurus There are no knock-down arguments for Christianity He was particularly impressed with a Mennonite couple maintain, form and meaning cannot be entirely separat- or proofs for God’s existence but what the apologist can in Canada who had been able to react to the abduction ed. attempt to show is that that there is a ‘cumulative case’ and death of their daughter without bitterness and But while witness and inculturation are important, in for the truth of the gospel. The late Basil Mitchell anger. the end people look for reasons to believe. A recent argued the case for Christianity is more like the brief a Even if atheists are not converted their attitudes can YouGov poll showing only nine per cent of people in the lawyer makes in court or a literary critic makes for a change as the result of Christian witness. One of the UK under 25 believe in the incarnation should be a particular interpretation of a book than a piece of strict moving features of the film Philomena is the way Martin wake-up call. Given the kind of Christian teaching (or deductive or inductive reasoning. Sixsmith comes to respect if not to share the faith of lack of Christian teaching) many will have been Religious experience, the impact made by Jesus, the Philomena Lee. exposed to, you cannot blame young people for being fine-tuning argument, questions philosophical material- Bishop Lesslie Newbigin used to argue that the sceptical. Believing Christians often forget how scan- ism cannot answer about truth and consciousness, the strongest evidence of the truth of Christianity was a dalous are the claims of faith. After all, Paul called the contingency of the world and its inability to explain Christian community living by the teachings of the gospel ‘foolishness to the gentiles’. itself, the objective nature of moral claims - they all gospel. More and more apologists are stressing that the In a recent book, Faith and Unbelief, Stephan Bulli- seem to point in one direction. test of Christian truth is not so much its correspon- vant writes that ‘most believers do not quite realise the Against the cumulative case argument it is said that dence with propositional truth but its ability to foster a outrageous character of the most basic and taken-for- many leaky buckets don’t hold water. That is true but genuinely fulfilling way of life. Yale theologian George granted hallmarks of Christianity’. many strands make a rope stronger.

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Having dabbled in Satanism as a teenager who knew my head up. recognised as a church in 2010 with a nothing about Jesus, Carl Firth, 21, shares with us how One night at Sorted, when I was Bishop’s Mission Order. he came to faith through Church Army’s Sorted project in 16, I asked Andy to pray for me as I As part of my role I help to lead Bradford and has recently started work there as a couldn’t keep living that way Sorted 2, which includes a Friday Christian youth leader... anymore. When he prayed for me it evening youth club, Sunday night felt like I was being released from worship and Bible study groups. The I first heard about the Sorted project when I was 13 all the bad stuff and afterwards team and I also go into the nearby years old – although at that point in my life I hadn’t things seemed beautiful, light and secondary schools two or three times ever really thought about God or faith. Instead I was joyful. each week to spend time mentoring the more interested in skateboarding and spent a lot of Life after that night was still up pupils and running lunch clubs. Another time hanging out with my friends practising our and down, but slowly God began to change me, and as highlight so far for me has been taking a group of skateboarding tricks. my love for Jesus grew so did my love for others. My young people to the summer festival Soul Survivor, One day at school, Immanuel Community College, sense of self-worth also grew as I realised I was where several of them made commitments to Jesus for my friends were in the playground when a Church valuable to God. And my family, none of whom are the first time. Army Evangelist, Andy Milne, who was visiting the Christians, could see the change in me. I’m really excited about what the future holds for school, came and chatted with us. He told us about a At this point, Sorted as a project had also been Sorted – it is providing young people with a fresh and new group he was starting on Friday evening for growing, and had now become an established youth relevant Christian community and a gateway for them young people to get together and skate, play football, church run by the young people for young people. So to find out about Jesus. Most of the teenagers and listen to music and talk about God. as my faith grew I began to get involved in young adults we work with have no clue about Andy himself was a great skateboarder and we volunteering and helping to lead groups. Christian things and many of them have troublesome wanted to learn from him, so a friend and I decided to Andy and another Church Army Evangelist at the home lives. go along, although that first evening when Andy did a project, James Hawksworth, really invested time in me But here at Sorted, we tell them that they aren’t short talk about faith, we did wonder what we’d got and eventually taught me how to write and give talks worthless, and my dream for each young person we ourselves into! for Sorted and how to pray for people. I am so grateful work with is to see them come to faith and grow and After that, my journey of coming to faith was a bit of to them, because if it wasn’t for Sorted I wouldn’t have be nurtured into the Christian leaders of the future. a bumpy road. For a while I was in a really dark place been saved. and got in with a group of friends who were into This past year has also been really important for me, If you want to read more inspiring stories like Carl’s, Satanism. Things began spiralling out of control and as I’ve been employed as a Sorted youth leader, which sign up to Church Army’s Shareit! magazine by visiting eventually I reached a point where I realised what it is brilliant. I just love it! Sorted has now grown to two www.churcharmy.org.uk/shareit or was doing wasn’t any good for me and it was messing youth church congregations and was officially telephone 0300 123 2113. Baptismal Integrity Ditch the dated but keep the faith By John Hartley cake is not ‘sinful’ in the way the but isn’t it also the service of attenders, who exercise a lively Jesus would extend to all chil- baptism service means. Words commitment and nailing one’s faith in Jesus and are the back- dren? like ‘naughty’, ‘wicked’ and ‘evil’ colours to the mast? bones of your church life and Here at Eccleshill we too get It can be hard to preach a fresh have changed their meaning. Today I had already scripted fellowship … in which case can’t vast families to our services of and lively sermon when the Worse than that, phrases like out my definition of sin (“that lit- their friends and extended fami- Thanksgiving and Blessing – Bible readings come round ‘bad behaviour’ raise all sorts of tle word with an ‘I’ in the middle lies already see something of and we don’t have any problems again year by year, but Tim philosophical hackles nowa- of it”) and my six steps the real difference Jesus makes about unpacking hard words: Stratford and Pete Broadbent days: is someone’s behaviour to approach to repentance (realize, in the lives of those who follow instead we have a glorious helped me today. They gave me be punished for its badness, or admit, apologise, compensate, him? opportunity to explain how the a new twist on John the Baptist’s corrected for its inappropriate- resolve, change) (for I’m only Or are all these people really kingdom of God is on offer to all exhortation to repent, as they ness; or rather to be understood half as well-organized as Alco- there just because it is done – a who will accept it the way a little discussed the experimental bap- as a consequence of upbringing, holics Anonymous!). But I was bit like the ‘we have Abraham as child will accept good gifts from tism liturgy on Radio 4’s ‘Sun- and so worked around by adapt- forced to review my preaching: our father’ in John the Baptist’s his or her parents. day’ programme. For the new ing the environment? when did I last explain in detail service has (I’m told) taken out But I could definitely see that ‘total depravity’ means ‘less “repent”, “sin” and the “devil”. Pete’s points as well. Repen- good than I could be in all areas They are both my old spar- tance is a real part of disciple- of life’ rather than ‘as bad as I ring partners: never suppose we ship, and if people want to follow could be in all respects’? who call ourselves evangelicals Jesus they do have to bite the And do I really hold up a right are all clones! Tim I remember bullet of his demand for a balance, and constantly empha- particularly from General Synod change. It isn’t just saying, but sise that Jesus’ forgiveness is as we debated whether the meaning; it isn’t just agreeing freely available to the worst of Apocrypha should feature in the with the good, but also standing sinners, without distinction, and “pillar” lectionary for Cathedral against that which is wrong. solely through trust? Thanks, daily services (I said it should- Jesus calls us to turn away from Tim and Pete, for making me n’t, but Tim’s view prevailed). one way of life and start living think. Liverpool Anglicans have another. But finally, about the baptism asked for a baptism service that This aspect of the decision service, I wondered about the speaks to modern people in lan- mustn’t be lost, and the new context. “When I’ve conducted guage they understand and use, service doesn’t give an ade- services in which we have four instead of archaic terms that quate alternative explanation of baptisms, and each baby has have become the focus of fun. what the word ‘repent’ used to about 70 friends and family, and As Tim spoke, I could see what denote in the old service. The I get to the traditional questions, he meant. The red and horned challenge to clergy is to explain I can see the shutters go up in You can read the Church of England Newspaper on any cartoon logo on a tee-shirt is a and unpack what the words people’s faces,” said Tim. dayAndroid, … in whichBlackberry, case, Windows shouldn’t or Apple device by simply far cry from what Christians mean, rather than to expunge But Tim, why are you doing youinstalling be giving the free themPressReader the service appThe from Rev the John appstore. Hartley Single is vicar mean by ‘the devil’, and a partic- them from the service. Yes, bap- that? Are all these babies really whichissue costsreally just does 69p express the of Eccleshill and a member of ularly thickly-layered chocolate tism is the service of welcome, the offspring of your regular unconditional welcome which Baptismal Integrity

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Last year was the 100th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten. He’d lived in Aldeburgh since 1947 (though he’d settled in Snape, around five miles away, in a windmill he’d had converted, from 1937). So, though born in Lowestoft (also in Suffolk) he became very much a local, and so much of his work was inspired by his native county. In Aldeburgh, he lived first at Crag House on Crabbe Street (George Crabbe, the poet and clergyman, was born in the town) on the beachfront. But as his national and worldwide fame increased, there was a lack of privacy — people peered into the windows — and in 1957 he moved into The Red House, a mile or so inland. There’s something of a Benjamin Britten industry, culminating in the summer Festival in June, events in Aldeburgh, with the main concerts at The Maltings, Snape. The Britten-Pears Foundation is Aldeburgh Moot Hall based in The Red House, which can be visited, restored to how it was in the mid-1960s when they lived there. Access hours are somewhat complex: to north along the coast path to Thorpeness. (Around find out, see the website, www.brittenpears.org, or three-quarters of an hour, pausing to visit Maggi call 01726451700. Hambling’s giant steel Scallop, half way to the sea, The Foundation helped, in association with local commemorating Britten.). Thorpeness is a fantasy community groups, to set up a map and guide of holiday village built by a rich Scotsman between 1912- places loved and associated by the composer: it can 1936. Mock Tudor, Jacobean, it is delightfully dotty. be downloaded on www.brittentrail.org. It starts There’s the “House in the Clouds” built atop a high appropriately, at the parish church of St Peter and St water tower to crown surrounding trees. You can Paul, which stands on the small ridge overlooking actually stay for a holiday in this folly. the town, and is flooded with light — all the windows Then there is The Meare, an extensive artificial on its south side were blown out by the blast from a boating lake, inspired by Peter Pan. Shallow for safety, German bomb in 1941, and were replaced by plain children can visit islands and channels with such glass. No other damage of substance. A memorial locations as Wendy’s home and the Pirates’ lair. A window to Britten designed by John Piper is on the thrilling contrast: go to the beach, and there, on the far north side. The body of the church is mainly from the salvage money, later, charities paid them. horizon, what appears to be the sails of a great fleet. first half of the 1500s. Continue walking south to Slaughden to view the This is the Greater Gabbard windfarm, 12 miles Descend, a few minutes, to the town and the sea. To Martello Tower’s fortification, with the River Alde offshore, the second largest in the world. It is claimed the left, The White Lion Hotel, its seafront on Market slow-flowing here in a wide estuary through marshes that it provides clean electricity for around 530,000 Cross Place, is offering the winner of our competition a inland from Snape. homes each year. night’s stay for two. It occupies adjoining 18th century Return, turning off left at Crespigny Road into the buildings looking onto the wide shingled beach. Walk High Street, where you will find some of the highest- south along the path. rated fish and chips in the UK from the takeaway at The great thing here, the houses that immediately No. 226: enjoy at the beach, a minute away. There are face the sea, and the High Street behind is the human good restaurants for this too. PRIZE COMPETITION: scale. Some can be rented for holiday homes. Buses will take you to Snape Maltings. You can walk, One of the first sights, on the like Britten often did, by The Sailors’ The White Lion — see above — is offering a stay beach, is the 1520-40 Moot Hall, Path: note, it is almost six miles! of bed and breakfast for two, to the winner, with a timber-framed, so dismantled and How to get to Aldeburgh Click on www.snapemaltings.co.uk sea-view room, if available on arrival. Again subject carried inland as the sea for a PDF map. to availability, between Sunday and Friday nights, advanced on past Aldeburgh. It is By rail: I took Greater Anglia’s East The oldest buildings date from the valid until 30 November 2014. Rooms are still used for civic functions, and Suffolk lines to Saxmundham, thence mid-1860s, a local industry built to comfortable and traditional. The restaurant is has a small museum. the 64A bus serving Aldeburgh convert barley into malt. This ceased superb, yet reasonably priced, and overlooks the At the beach side are (seven minutes past the hour). It in 1965. Britten’s organisation saw its beach. The staff were universally charming. fishermen’s huts, selling fresh takes 30 minutes and passes the opportunity, and in 1966 acquired the To enter answer the following question: fish. On the great shingled Snape Maltings. To get train site, converting the largest building Name the river that skirts Aldeburgh. pebbles, their boats are parked. information call 08457 48 49 50, for into a Concert Hall. Splendid Send your answer on a postcard to Aldeburgh So was the lifeboat, until 20 years connection bus services and times acoustics, you can go in if there are Competition, The Church of England Newspaper, ago, when the splendid 0871 200 22 33. no rehearsals. 14 Great College Street, London, SW1P 3RX. boathouse was built: walk up the By road: The main access road to There are all-year musical events. You can also enter by emailing your answer to public viewing platform. The the mid-Suffolk coast, the A12, runs Otherwise: to quote The Maltings’ [email protected], putting ‘Aldeburgh’ North Sea can be very around six-and-a-half miles inland. In own leaflet: “Seven acres of Victorian in the subject line. However you apply, please dangerous. the vicinity of Aldeburgh, with a car, buildings filled with independent ensure you include your contact details, including Before the advent of the RNLI venture to other great churches to shops, galleries and eateries, situated name and telephone number. First correct entry rescue was by companies of the north, such as Southwold’s St alongside the River Alde”. Something drawn will win. beachmen, who had tall Edmund’s and Holy Trinity of a chic Mall. There’s modern watchtowers — two here — and Blythburgh “Cathedral of the statuary (Barbara Hepworth). I liked Entries must be received by Monday 17 February. rowed out into the storm in Marshes”. the walk through the reed beds. Normal CEN rules apply. longboats. Their reward was Finally, from Aldeburgh, a walk

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www.churchnewspaper.com Friday January 31, 2014 Classifieds & Register 13 CLERICAL CONTINUED (Oxford). Diocese of Chichester ANGLICAN CYCLE OF PRAYER The Rev Annabel Copeland, Eastbourne Deanery Team Vicar of St Paul’s Church, Great Baddow Team Ministry (Chelmsford), is to be Rector of Tidworth St Wilfrid’s,Lower Willingdon and Chaplain Wellington Academy (Salisbury) A Conventional District of the parish of St John’s Polegate Friday 31 January. Psalm 37: 3-8, I Cor. 3: 10-23. The Rev Ian Cooper, The Bishop of Chichester seeks to appoint a dynamic, mission-minded Ankole - (Uganda): The Rt Rev Sheldon is Learning for Discipleship Support Officer for the evangelical candidate to build on the growth and vision of this lively and Mwesigwa; North Ankole - (Uganda): The Rt Rev Diocese of Salisbury until August 2015. independent worshipping community, forming part of the parish of St John’s John Muhanguzi The Rev Elizabeth (Libby) Dady (formerly Polegate on the northern edge of the conurbation of Eastbourne and at the foot Psalm 145: 17-end, I of the South Downs. Saturday 01 February. known as Martin) Cor. 4: 1-13. Antananarivo - (Indian Ocean): The Assistant Curate at St Faith’s, Gaywood LEP is to be The successful applicant will: Rt Rev Samoela Jaona Ranarivelo; Antananarivo - Rector of the Glaven Valley Benefice (Blakeney, •have both the vision and heart for the gospel in relation both to church Tulear - (Indian Ocean): The Rt Rev Todd Andrew Cley-next-the-sea, Glandford, Letheringsett w growth and wider outreach and mission. McGregor; Antsiranana - (Indian Ocean): The Rt Bayfield, Wiveton) (Norwich). •be aperson of prayer, immersed in God’sWord, who lives, preaches and Rev Dr Oliver Simon The Rev Jan Delaney, teaches according to Scripture. Sunday 02 February. The Presentation of our is to be Rural Dean of Lyme Bay (Salisbury). •be an easy communicator,able to collaborate, share responsibility and Lord: Candlemas. Psalm 93, Prov. 1: 2-7. PRAY for The Rev Alicia Dring, work with ordained and lay colleagues with a view to fostering full The Anglican Church of Burundi: The Most Rev Vicar of Littleover, to become Assistant Rural Dean participation by all in the life and work of the church. Bernard Ntahoturi, Archbishop of the Province of (Derby). •be enthusiastic for collaborative ministry in the widest sense amongst all ages and with local schools. Burundi & Bishop of Matana The Rev Mark East, . Psalm 1, Prov. 1: 20-33. Priest in Charge of Haughton le Skerne (continuing) •be willing to be avisible presence and to take part fully in wider Monday 03 February community life and that of the deanery. Argentina - (Southern Cone): The Rt Rev Gregory to be Priest in Charge of Sadberge (Durham). •have apassion to lead people to faith in Christ and to become his disciples James Venables The Rev Kathryn Fleming, Tuesday 04 February. Psalm 103: 13-18, Prov. Team Vicar, Stroud Team Ministry [Gloucester] to Full details are available from 2: 1-15. Argyll & The Isles - (Scotland): The Rt be Canon Pastor, Coventry Cathedral (Coventry). The Archdeacon of Lewes & Hastings Rev Kevin Pearson The Rev Anthony Gilbert, The Ven. Philip Jones at The Archdeaconry, High Street, Wednesday 05 February. Psalm 32: 1-8, Prov. Chaplain to the Royal Air Force, is to be Team Maresfield East Sussex TN22 2EH 01825 763326 3: 1-10. Arizona - (VIII, The Episcopal Church): Rector of the Three Valleys Benefice (Salisbury). [email protected] to whom completed applications should be sent The Rt Rev Kirk Smith The Rev Sarah Godfrey, Thursday 06 February. Psalm 50: 1-6, Prov. 4. is resigning from her appointment as Associate Enhanced DBE is required Closing date: 28 February Arkansas - (VII, The Episcopal Church): The Rt Priest of Puddletown, Tolpuddle and Milborne with Rev Larry Benfield Dewlish (Salisbury) to be Rector of Milborne Port Interview date: 17 March with Goathill and Charlton Horethorne with Stowell ECUCATIONAL VACANCIES (Bath and Wells). The Rev David Allen Green, THE 2014 BIBLE CHALLENGE Priest in Charge of Thorne St Nicholas (Sheffield), Bury Church of England High School, Haslam Brow, Bury BL9 0TS to be Vicar of Thorne St Nicholas (Sheffield). PERSONAL, HEALTH, SOCIAL, The Ven John Green, CITIZENSHIP AND ENTERPRISE (PHSCE) Day 31. Exodus 28-30, Psalm 26, Matthew 27 Archdeacon Pastor, to be In addition: Associate LEARNING ASSISTANT (Grade 7) Day 32. Exodus 31-33, Psalm 27, Matthew 28 Minister Coventry St. Mary Magdalen (Coventry). Required as soon as possible Day 33. Enjoy hearing the Scriptures read aloud in The Rev Canon David Herrick, Hours of work are 37 per week, term time, plus 5 days church has been appointed Diocesan Warden of Readers We require someone to work closely with our PHSCE Departmentto Day 34. Exodus 34-36, Psalm 28, Mark 1 and Licensed Lay Ministers (St Edmundsbury & support the learning of pupils at both Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 in all aspects of PHSCE includingthe running of our Flexible Friday PHSCE Day 35. Exodus 37-39, Psalm 29, Mark 2 Ipswich). He will remain Lay Ministry Training days, the production of materials, availability to participate in after school Day 36. Exodus 40, Psalm 30, Mark 3 Officer and Canon of the Cathedral Church of St activities, administrative tasks, supervision of classes, maintenance of Day 37. Leviticus 1-3, Psalm 31, Mark 4 James and St Edmund. good order and purposeful atmosphereand undertaking tasks to enhance the learning environment. Also to deliver the school’s careers and work The Rev Luci Heyn, experience programme on a day to day basis. Supervision of pupils at Curate in Training, Benefice of Goring and Streatley break and lunchtime, delivery of collective worship and the registration APPOINTMENTS with South Stoke, Henley Deanery, to be Team of classes, and the provision of hospitality would also be a requirement. Vicar, Hermitage Team Ministry (Newbury), GCSE English and Mathematics at Grade C or above and an A level qualification in a PHSCE related discipline are essential as is the effective (Oxford). use of IT and the ability to apply this to the learning of PHSCE. The post New Bishop of Exeter The Rev Christopher Hutton would suit a newly qualified graduate. The Rt Rev Robert Ronald Atwell, Curate at St Mary’s Southgate, Crawley in the Appointment is subject to a satisfactory enhanced disclosure from the Suffragan Bishop of Stockport, to be Bishop of Diocese of Chichester to be Rector of the Earsham Disclosure and Barring Service. Exeter in succession to the Rt Rev Michael Laurence benefice (Norwich). The school is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff to share this commitment. Langrish. The Rev Donald Jones, Application forms and further details obtainable from The School Office: Vicar Nuneaton St. Nicolas & PiC Weddington & Tel No: 0161 797 6236 Fax: 0161 705 1872 or via the school website: The Rev Canon Nicholas Anderson, Caldecote to be Associate Minister Atherstone St. www.burychurch.bury.sch.uk and returnable to Revd. C. Watson, Vicar, Rainhill, St Ann (Liverpool), to be Vicar, Mary (Coventry). Headteacher, Bury CEHigh School, Haslam Brow, Bury BL90TS or via e-mail to: [email protected] by noon on Monday 3rd Harpenden, St John (St Albans). The Rev Elaine Jones, February 2014. The Rev Helen Margaret Bailey, Vicar of Binley (Coventry), to be Vicar of Peterlee Closing date: noon on Monday 3rd February 2014 Stipendiary Assistant Curate in the Benefice of (Durham). Christ Church, High Harrogate (Ripon and Leeds), The Rev Lesley Kaye-Besley COMMUNION WINES APPEAL to be Stipendiary Rector of the Benefice of Permission to Officiate (Guildford) to be Non Minchinhampton with Box and Amberley stipendiary Assistant Curate (Gloucester). St Mary & St Paul, East Molesey (Guildford). The Rev Christine Blakesley, The Rev Gareth Lane, #0// 1-$ ($++-)& $( Vicar of Darlington St Herbert (continuing) to be Curate in Training – Stipendiary, to be Team Vicar 0. 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Is God trying to tell you to slow down or get getting a move on? It’s true that we miss so r r a move on? much when we are in a hurry. But there are other instances when it SUNDAY SERVICE

o You may be forgiven for being confused seems that we are constantly being left which it is because both are strongly advo- behind. God has got up and left while we t cated at different times and in different con- dally and do nothing. There are great exam- 4th Sunday before Lent (Proper 1) - Sunday 9 February 2014 texts. In 1980 a Japanese theologian named ples of men and women who have been Isaiah 58:1-12 c Kosuke Koyama wrote a book called Three- gripped with the urgency of preaching the 1 Corinthians 2:1-16 mile-an-hour God in which he suggested Good News as they look around at fields Matthew 5:13-20 e that we are prone to rush ahead and go so white and ready for harvest and so few

r fast with our plans that we quickly get out of labourers. There are people who will not All three readings this week bring an unexpected change of

i touch with a God who takes time and is rest until they have done what God is call- perspective to surprise their worldly audiences and jolt them never in a hurry. This was the era of the so- ing them to do and their example has made into a change of heart and life.

d called Slow Movement. There was slow a significant difference to the world. But Isaiah 58 exposes a supposedly religious people, who claim

l food, slow travel, slow parenting and many many of us need a wake-up call. to delight in God’s ways and seek after him, but whose out-

By the Rev Dr Liz Hoare more areas of life where people were being How many opportunities are missed ward righteousness hides a quarrelsome spirit. While fasting, told to slow down and live more deeply. It because we have no sense of urgency? The they fight. Their focus is on their own interests, not those of a was and is a call we need to heed for speed 20th century Welsh poet RS Thomas wrote others. The fasting God requires, on the other hand, more is not necessarily good. about the God who had always just left as than orthodox religious conformity. It involves freeing the u In the Bible God seems to take his time we arrived and is forever beyond us. Jesus oppressed and taking care of the vulnerable. God refuses to

t on many occasions. The prophets, who also displayed a sense of urgency in his mis- hear the prayers of those who point the finger at others but do

i looked forward to a future realm where sion while on earth. ‘Like a mighty tortoise nothing for the cause of true freedom. Light, healing, vindica-

r God was acknowledged as king, knew that moves the Church of God’ is the parody of a tion, guidance, and satisfaction are all promised here but only

i they were speaking about things in the long well-sung hymn and it rings true as we look to those who reorientate their lives around God’s revealed pri- term. The people of Israel who were in such at the Church’s reluctance to get in step and orities. Those who persist in self-seeking, self-serving, and a hurry to get to the Promised Land had to keep in step with the Spirit of God. We miss worldly piety will have no access to the inextinguishable foun- p go at God’s pace and it took 40 years. so much when we take too long to get up tain of divine strength. God cannot be manipulated into bless- Jesus himself often seemed in no hurry and move on. ing and restoring those whose eyes are only on themselves. s and deliberately waited to act at different So which is right? Slow down or hurry The shock in the Gospel reading is that true righteousness times: going to see the sisters of Lazarus or up? We have to learn to move at God’s pace is still to be public. The salt of the earth and the light of the e performing his first miracle for example. and being a God who will not be pinned world must do their thing in the public square. The response How many times did the disciples wonder down the only solution is to stay close and to the condemnation of public hypocrisy, such as in Isaiah 58,

h why he lingered with individuals instead of keep in step with him. is not to hide away and do nothing but to be more clearly what

t God made us to be. We must not shrink but shine. Yet the focus is not on “to thine own self be true”, a gospel of self-real- isation through which I can attain fame and celebrity; but “let include Christy Wimber from them see your good works and glorify God.” Yorba Linda Vineyard in Califor- Yet again Jesus shocks by not lowering the standard, as he Slow Down… nia, Alan Scott from Causeway is often thought by many to do. He did not come to abolish the from New York. All are incredible Ten Commandments, or to lighten the impact of Isaiah’s cri- communicators, deeply rooted in tique of our godliness. If we wish to be great, the law and the Mark Bailey, be pressurised into taking on all the Word of God and open to the prophets point the way to advancement in the kingdom of New Wine sorts of new tasks, and it doesn’t leading of the Spirit; and they heaven. Indeed, only righteousness that exceeds the meticu- take long before we feel exhaust- come to us both as reflectors and lous legalism of Pharisaic expectations is good enough to Do you remember the Summer ed or, worse, burnt out. While we practitioners who will help us on open the gates of that dominion. An intolerable burden for us Olympics in Athens, Greece in know that we’re working to our journey of leadership develop- sinners to bear, were it not for the one who spoke these words 2004? Specifically, the quartet of encourage others to encounter ment. becoming sin for us, so that in him we might become the Natalie Coughlin, Carly Piper, and follow Jesus, if they lived the righteousness of God. Dana Vollmer and Kaitlin Sande- life we’re living, would they really Works in Progress Paul’s bolt from the blue is to undercut the Corinthians’ no from the USA who won gold in want it? ‘Leadership is a journey’ is clearly expectations of a great preacher. He had no lofty words, no the women’s 4x200 freestyle Of course, Jesus’ rhythm of life a tired metaphor for many of us, oratorical skill. In his letters he was weighty and forceful, but swimming relay? This is the race points us in a different direction. but it’s still a truth. I don’t know in person he was weak and pathetic, they said. Yet just such a where each swimmer completes He demonstrated to us, again and where you are on the journey: man demonstrated the power of the Spirit as they — even two laps. again, the importance of connec- maybe you’re an emerging leader, they! — put their faith in the crucified God he proclaimed. I was reading about it recently, tion with the Father, and then maybe you’ve recently become a This is unworldly wisdom, which the rulers and philosophers and learning how Natalie Cough- being part of a supportive com- leader and you find yourself in of every age have struggled to comprehend without a spiritu- lin started out well, but seemed to munity before engaging in a wider positions of strategic leadership al paradigm shift that makes them appear foolish in the eyes slow down and fall out of the lead, ministry to others. and with a real sense of the adven- of the Chatterati. Rather than lose face, lose position, we pre- but ended up regaining it right at ture beginning. Maybe you have a fer to crucify the Lord of Glory. We avoid his weakness, to the end. Then Piper dived in for Time Out sense of unfulfilled potential, a avoid looking weak. the second leg, and on her first Over the years at New Wine we’ve desire to do more, be more and Paul wants this divided church to appreciate that true spiri- lap was caught by the Chinese discovered the value of making contribute more, with a desire to tuality: not an expansion or enhancement of worldly ideas, the athlete, but she too came out space in our diaries for time away seize the opportunities ahead. baptism of our cultural ideals; but a Spirit-revealed secret only ahead. On Vollmer’s first lap, it together. The New Wine Leader- And then there are others of us grasped by the truly mature. No other eye, no other ear, no again looked like the Chinese and ship Conference has the express who perhaps feel like we’re sea- other human heart can even conceive of it. But those who do, German swimmers might catch focus of gathering together those soned leaders. Of course, it can be rest their faith hopes in God alone, not their own feeble her, but Sandeno finished the race at different levels of leadership in argued that the best leaders never efforts and strategies. by breaking the longest standing the life of the local church. It’s arrive, they never get there. world record by 23 seconds. where we find space from the Maybe the best description of a Lee Gatiss is Director of Church Society and Editor of the NIV During an interview after the busyness to spend time in the seasoned leader is someone Proclamation Bible race the team were asked how presence of God, to encourage who’s got themselves out of the they’d done it. Their response and pray for one another, and to way and is focussed on helping was fascinating and, in many discuss, share, learn and grow in others to develop and grow. ways, counterintuitive. In summa- a safe environment. No matter what stage we’re at, I ry, they had kept telling each The purpose is to release us believe it’s vital that we give our- other to slow down. Why? To give back into the ministry environ- selves space and solitude, com- themselves the energy and focus ment, refreshed and equipped to munity with others, and time to HYMN SUGGESTIONS to finish well and, in the end, put into practice the principles retreat and reflect. So I encourage achieve something that no one that we’ve been reflecting on in you to be part of the New Wine else had ever done. specific ministry areas. Whether Leadership Conference in Harro- Men of faith, rise up and sing Slowing down is often the we are in urban or rural or village gate this March. fastest way to accomplish great ministry, whether we’re involved I’m absolutely convinced Thou, whose almighty word things. But if you’re anything like with children or youth, church there’ll be fuel for advancement me, you’ll always be tempted to planting or worship, leading larg- and increased contribution to Let us praise God together take on more, trying to squeeze er churches or involved in estab- Kingdom activity; and being ever- increasing amounts of busy- lishing new ministries – this is an alongside others who are sharing Blest are the pure in heart ness into ever-decreasing arena where we can withdraw and in the journey will make it much amounts of time. We’re tempted be inspired and encouraged by more fun! Here I am to rush into engaging more in inspirational leaders in all of these mission and ministry, thinking different areas. The Rev Canon Mark Bailey is that it must be God’s will. We can This year, our keynote speakers Lead Pastor, Trinity Cheltenham

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Reinventing Liberal Christianity, Theo Hobson Eerdmans, hb, £19.99 Understanding Theology for Liberal Protestants, Douglas F Ottati Eerdmans, pb, £25.99

For a long time the dominant narrative in American religion has been the decline of mainstream liberal Llewyn Davies Protestantism. In terms of numbers that is still true with bodies like the Episcopal Church continuing to The Coen Brothers can be relied on for strong sto- haemorrhage members but with major rylines, but Inside Llewyn Davis (cert. 15) expects a evangelical Churches like the Southern bit of sympathy for its main character, and he’s not Baptists also starting to report falls in that sympathetic. Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) is one half membership attention is shifting to the of an early 60s folk duo, struggling after his partner contribution liberal Protestants have Mike commits suicide. made to American culture. According to historian David A Llewyn’s solo album (same title as the film) is Hollinger they put ecumenism, cosmopolitanism and selling badly and his agent Mel (Jerry Grayson, tolerance at the heart of American values. who’s since died) isn’t getting him any gigs, though The social gospel, civil rights, environmental ethics, he can guest occasionally at the Gaslight club in feminism and many other movements show strong liberal New York’s Greenwich Village. Short of money, Protestant influence. Barack Obama may have come to he’s sofa-surfing at various friends’ apartments, faith in a black church but his Unitarian grandmother had including former girlfriend Jean (Carey Mulligan), a major influence on him and a person who is likely to be a who’s now married to Jim (Justin Timberlake). strong contender for the US presidency, Methodist Hillary He gets the chance of a lift to Chicago, hoping to Clinton, stands firmly in the liberal Protestant tradition. see the manager of the Gate of Horn club Bud Both Theo Hobson, a British journalist living in New Grossman (F Murray Abraham). It’s not essential York and teaching at General Seminary, and Douglas to know that an Albert Grossman really ran the club Ottati, a Presbyterian theologian and author of many and managed some of the great names of the folk books, aim to advance the cause of liberal Christianity. scene, including Peter, Paul and Mary and Bob They have both written books that deserve to be widely Dylan. read. The road trip to Chicago is made with beat poet Hobson writes as a liberal Anglican who thinks a major Johnny Five (Garrett Hedlund) and jazz musician problem of liberal Christianity is its rejection of theological Roland Turner (John Goodman), whose drug habit traditionalism and sacramental practice. Another problem doesn’t excuse his attitude. He’s not keen on folk Hobson acknowledges is liberal Christianity’s readiness to music, keeps calling Llewyn “Elwyn”, and even has embrace reason and philosophy at the expense of what he a snide remark about Mike’s choice of bridge to terms theology’s own grammar. Hobson puts his finger on jump off. a problem here he does not really solve. Liberal The trip is not exactly a success. Grossman hears Protestantism has never quite managed to relate faith and Llewyn sing and innocently tells him he should reason or natural theology and revelation in the way they reform the duo with Mike. are related in, say, the Thomist system so that one is not There’s a lot going on throughout – an unwanted sacrificed to the other. Deism is a perennial danger. pregnancy, a lost cat, a lost son, and a row over gal Street”, the posthumous memoir of Dave Van Hobson quotes a good deal from Christopher Insole but Llewyn’s unpaid union dues when he wants to Ronk, recalling this era before the folk scene really ignores Insole’s contention that Anglicanism is really return to his former job as a sailor – and the mix of took off, symbolised by a background shot of Dylan ‘reformed Thomism’. new and classic folk songs adds to the period feel. (Benjamin Pike). Thankfully, the story does not For Hobson what really impresses him about liberal Other acts are based on real singers including rely on knowing the specialist subject, though Christianity is the way it has given birth to the liberal state (obviously) the Clancy Brothers and (less so) Tom knowing some of the songs may help, not least in that both affirms a degree of pluralism and the rights of Paxton (Stark Sands as “Troy Nelson”). the moving scene when Llewyn sings “Shoals of diverse communities and yet upholds liberty as an ideal for The principal source is “The Mayor of MacDou- Herring” for his ailing father. everyone that binds society together. Hollinger and those who celebrate the contribution of liberal Protestantism to American culture would probably agree with him here but August: Osage County (dir. John the case John Courtney Murray made for a Catholic Wells, cert. 15) started life as a the- contribution should not be forgotten. atre play in Chicago, then moved to Despite his emphasis on sacramental practice Hobson is Broadway and the National The- not blind to the failure of liberal Christianity to foster atre in London. Playwright Tracy popular piety, unlike evangelicalism or Catholicism. In Letts won a Pulitzer Prize for Britain, he admits, popular devotion focuses on the drama, and he’s adapted it for the monarchy. I suspect this is a bigger weakness than he screen - so any supposition that the realises. lead part was written for Meryl Douglas Ottati’s work is the first of two volumes of a Streep is misplaced. liberal Protestant systematic theology. It might be more Yet it is Streep’s part. She plays accurately described as ‘liberal Presbyterian’ and much of Violet Weston, widowed after her it is written in dialogue with Calvin and the Reformed philandering, alcoholic poet hus- tradition although process theology also leaves its mark band Beverly (Sam Shepherd) (without being fully embraced). dies, possibly taking his own life, This first volume deals with method in theology and with and as the family members arrive she manages and manipulates events. the doctrine of creation. Ottati describes his basic position Her daughters come with their own baggage. Barbara (Julia Roberts) is separated from husband Bill as ‘theistic humanism’ and he argues that God and the (Ewan McGregor), Karen (Juliette Lewis) has a new boyfriend (Dermot Mulroney) in tow, and Ivy world are to be understood in and interpreted in (Julianne Nicholson) has a secret relationship that carries a bigger secret than she knows. relationship to each other. Violet’s sister Mattie Fae (Margo Martindale) arrives with husband Charlie (Chris Cooper) but their Ottati sets out his case clearly with a series of son “little Charles” (Benedict Cumberbatch) is late for the funeral, and manages to drop his mother’s propositions that are then carefully expounded. He argues casserole when they get together for a post-funeral family meal. This begins with Charlie saying a long that scripture alone cannot be decisive and that past rambling grace (even more rambling than on the trailer) but it’s not a precursor to harmony round the statements and traditions need to be understood in terms table. of how they envisage the world and humanity in Violet has mouth cancer but you suspect that her acid tongue predates the illness, and her insistence relationship to the Creator-Judge-Redeemer disclosed in on “truth-telling” (or being obnoxious to everybody) stems partly from her addiction to a cocktail of pills. Jesus Christ. Accounts of the world that make it merely Standing outside the squabbles is her native American help Johnna (Misty Upham), but Johnna’s inter- the stage for the redemption of human beings are firmly vention in one incident prompts the unravelling of the daughters’ tolerance of Violet’s behaviour. rejected. Streep - often with little make-up and sporting under-the-wig hair that suggests chemotherapy - of This is a book by an accomplished theologian that can course gets another Oscar nomination (and Julia Roberts best support). The stage origins are at times be read with profit by those who do not share his liberal plain, but it’s no less powerful for that. Protestant convictions. Steve Parish Paul Richardson

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