THE ORIGINAL CHURCH NEWSPAPER. ESTABLISHED IN 1828 The Christian THE case for Ukip p10 CHURCHOF ENGLAND Newspaper Why you may never need to wash again p8 NOW AVAILABLE ON  NEWSSTAND FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 2014 No: 6232 Immigration slows decline IMMIGRATION IS helping slow the rate of decline in growth of churches in London showing that 700 new attendance, similar growth has not been evident in the church attendance in Britain, according to new figures Pentecostal churches began there between 2005 and Diocese of Southwark, which also contains large num- to be released soon by Peter Brierley in the second edi- 2012, of which 400 were BMCs. bers of immigrants. tion of ‘UK Church Statistics’. The Redeemed Church of God in Christ has started As far as Anglicans are concerned, the Fresh Expres- Other factors helping churches to slow down decline 296 churches in the UK in the last five years: this is the sions movement has probably been the major factor in are the growth of black majority churches (BMC), espe- largest number for any denomination. at least slowing the rate of decline and in some dioceses cially in London, and the success of Fresh Expressions. Total church attendance for 2015 across Britain causing growth. Dr Brierley told one newspaper that According to Dr Brierley, the decline in church mem- (excluding Northern Ireland) is likely to 5,370,000 peo- Fresh Expressions gatherings, with just half of them bership he anticipated would occur by 2020 will not now ple, four per cent higher than forecast in 2010. On cur- taking place in church buildings, tended to attract be evident until 2025. He based this claim on an analysis rent trends total church membership will continue to young families. “The genius is that you get informality of data from nearly 300 denominations in the UK who decline by about one per cent every five years and will in an institutional setting,” he said. were surveyed in mid-2013. The results were then com- fall to eight per cent of the population by 2025. Dr John Wolff, who has carried out an analysis of pared with the 2011 census results for questions on reli- Dr Brierley’s statistics are in line with those released growth in London, has also pointed to a church share gion, ethnicity and immigration. for the Church of England, which suggest the rate of scheme that does not penalise growing parishes, the The main Churches to benefit from immigration are decline has slowed down and that some dioceses, creation of parish mission plans, and an emphasis on the Roman Catholics, with large numbers coming from notably London, have experienced considerable evangelism in making appointments as reasons why the Poland, the Orthodox with new members coming from growth. But C of E statistics also suggest that immigra- diocese has grown. Romania, and the Pentecostals who have benefitted tion may not have been a major factor in boosting In commenting on these statistics, Dr Brierley has been from African immigration. growth in Anglican churches. careful to point out that what he is talking about is a slow- Dr Brierley has already published material on the While the Diocese of London has seen an increase in ing down in the rate of decline, not dramatic growth.

YORK MINISTER was filled to capacity on Pen- new diocese was represented and the Lord tecost Sunday as 3,000 people gathered for a Lieutenants of North and West Yorkshire were service at which the Rt Rev Nick Baines official- also present. New Bishop of ly became the first Anglican Bishop of Leeds for The service was led by the Archbishop of the new Diocese of West Yorkshire and the York, Dr John Sentamu, who said he welcomed Dales and in which the new diocese was official- the first Bishop of the new diocese ‘with joy’. Leeds is enthroned ly inaugurated. “What an occasion – New Diocese, First Bish- Officially the new diocese is the Diocese of op! We have lift off!,” the Archbishop Leeds but it is being more commonly referred announced. to by the longer title. Bishop Baines admitted that he was both The service combined a legal hearing in excited and daunted by the task ahead. “In the which Nick Baines officially became the Bishop power of the Pentecostal Spirit we will show of Leeds with a Eucharist. Every parish in the that we have the nerve and the vision to do something new – with all the risks and opportu- nities this brings,” he said. Download our new free magazine Next month the new from newsstand via The Church Bishop will be enthroned of England Newspaper app on in each of three cathe- drals of his diocese in your Apple device. Bradford, Ripon and Wakefield. The new dio- Also available through the cese becomes one of the Pressreader largest in the Church of England with 656 app for Android and from our churches, 496 clergy, 248 website, church schools, and www.churchnewspaper.com 45,000 worshippers.

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Diocese of West CHURCHIN The ‘Tweeting Nun’ has written a book about reading the Bible in unusual Yorkshire & the Dales places. Sister Elizabeth Pio, from the Sisters of Bethany community in Southsea, has more than 2,700 Twitter followers. Now she has written a book entitled Bible To Go!, which encourages readers to take their Bible to The Rt Rev Nick Baines unusual places, such as an amateur football match or Sainsbury’s car park. became the first ENGLAND She says this approach allows God to speak through both the Bible and the Anglican Bishop of location. She said: “By embracing where you are instead of pushing away or Leeds on Pentecost disregarding your location, it seems you can be opening more channels for Sunday 8 June, for the God to speak through”. Bible to Go!, published by SPCK, is available for new diocese commonly £7.99 from Christian bookshops and online. known as West Yorkshire & the Dales. Before his inauguration, the former Bishop of Diocese of Gloucester Bradford said: “In the power of the Pentecostal Spirit we The Bishop of Gloucester, the Rt Rev will show that we have Michael Perham, is remembering those the nerve and vision to who died in conflict during a pilgrimage do something new - with from 8-14 June. The Bishop stopped at all the risks and war memorials along the route to bless opportunities this the families of soldiers killed and read a brings.” The service prayer. Starting in Whelford, he will combined both a have covered 89 miles and stopped at 26 Eucharist and legal churches in seven days to arrive at the hearing to make Bishop Cathedral in Gloucester on Saturday. He Baines the Bishop of has undertaken these walks since 2008. Leeds. In July, Bishop In 2011, a group was formed to ensure Baines will be that he would have walked through enthroned three times - every parish on the boundary of the in each of the diocese’s diocese by the end of 2014. This is the Cathedrals: Bradford, final leg of his pilgrimage. Ripon and Wakefield.

apply for a full grant of around Diocese of Gloucester £4million. This is complemented by a further £70,000 grant from Diocese of Sheffield the Friends of Gloucester Gloucester Cathedral has Cathedral. The project includes secured £320,000 in development the creation of a new public Sheffield Cathedral started a year of celebrations for their centennial with the Festival funding from the Heritage square and conservation of the Eucharist on 8 June, marking their first major event since the completion of the Lottery Fund for the first phase 15th Century Lady Chapel and refurbishment known as the Gateway Project. The Bishop of Sheffield commenced the of a 10-year capital project. its stained glass. In order to festival with a blessing of the Cathedral. Numerous celebratory events will take place “Project Pilgrim Phase One: the receive the funds, the Cathedral throughout the Sheffield Diocese. Doncaster Brewery created the Sheffield Diocese Heart of Gloucester” aims to will need to raise nearly £1.5m in Centenary Ale to be sold at events, Henderson’s Relish produced a special bottle design for reveal stories about the people partnership funding. Gloucester purchase, Asda on Chaucer Road donated 600 cupcakes to the Cathedral and Le Pla and events at the Cathedral. The City Council has pledged £50,000 Automation, Sheffield, engineered a special cross from local steel. The centenary funding will help the Cathedral towards this total. celebrations will conclude at the Cathedral in November. Diocese of Durham

Diocese of Southwark A Church-led project in Shildon, in County Durham, has awarded a grant of £2,500 to a local secondary school to help develop a sensory From Tuesday 27 – Friday 30 May, the Rt Rev Dr Michael Ipgrave, Bishop of Woolwich, led a garden. The money for Sunnydale Community College has come from youth pilgrimage around the boundary of his Episcopal Area. Bishop Michael set out from St John’s Church, which runs the Shildon Alive project. Shildon Alive Southwark Cathedral after Morning Prayer accompanied by a small group of young pilgrims. works to improve the health, confidence and skills of more than 2,000 However, during the first day, those numbers swelled to 80 walking in the pouring rain. Over local people through gardening and work experience. The church the next few days young pilgrims from parishes within the Woolwich Episcopal Area joined already provides two gardening spaces and Vicar, The Rev David the bishop on his 46-mile journey around the Area boundary. Bishop Michael later said: Tomlinson, said: “The sensory garden at Sunnydale very much fits in “Even though the weather wasn’t always encouraging, I was delighted that people came out to with the aims of our project. It will create a good space for the pupils. walk with us in such numbers. I feel privileged to have met so many committed young people We are always proud to develop partnerships which help the all the way around the Woolwich Area”. community flourish and we are delighted to support the school.” Now Booking 16 August 2014 Christian Aid is launching the Canterbury Trek, a new two-day walking challenge to raise funds for some of the world’s poorest communities and those affected by conflict. The 28-mile trek from Maidstone to Canterbury starts on 16 August and crosses the North Downs, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The route finishes with an exclusive Evensong service at Canterbury Cathedral. Participants will camp overnight in Charing Hill before setting off for Chilham and Chartham Hatch on the final stretch of the journey. There is a £60 registration fee and all participants are asked to raise a minimum sponsorship of £400. Everyone taking part will receive a t-shirt, nutritional and training advice, a fundraising pack and personalised help from the Events Fundraising team at Christian Aid. All meals and camping accommodation will be provided. To register, or find out more about the Canterbury Trek or other Christian Aid challenge events, visit: http://www.christianaid.org.uk/getinvolved/events/

[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper www.churchnewspaper.com Friday June 13, 2014 News 3 Manchester Foodbanks deliver more than Cathedral’s new appointment 20m meals to starving Britons By Amaris Cole lished the report it commissioned the food poverty. previous year, Household Food Securi- The co-authors wrote: “Cuts to social THE USE of foodbanks has doubled in ty in the UK. security since April 2013 have had a the last year, a new report by Oxfam, In the midst of much discussion on severe impact on poor and vulnerable Church Action on Poverty and the whether food banks are supply- or families across the UK. Trussel Trust shows. demand-led, this report explicitly states These cuts have been coupled with an The UK is the seventh richest coun- that: “There is no systematic evidence increasingly strict and often misapplied try in the world and the Sunday Times on the impact of increased supply and sanctions regime – 58 per cent of sanc- reported last weekend that the richest hypotheses of its potential effects are tions decisions are successfully chal- 1,000 people have doubled their wealth not based on robust evidence.” lenged, suggesting that many people in the last five years. In a statement accompanying the needlessly suffer a loss of income Despite this, the charities have calcu- report its researchers further stated: through no fault of their own. lated 20,247,042 meals were given out “There is no evidence to support the “The abolition of the Social Fund has in 2013/14 – marking a 54 per cent claim that increased food aid provision prevented thousands of households increase on the previous period. is driving demand. All available evi- from being able to access crisis loans.” Niall Cooper, Sarah Purcell and Ruth dence, both in the UK and international- The problem of food poverty needs to Jackson, authors of the report, wrote: ly, points in the opposite direction. be addressed by a ‘greater sense of “People on low incomes have traded “Put simply, there is more need and urgency’. down and down again to the cheapest informal food aid providers are trying The report recommends the ‘urgent A TRANSGENDERED PRIEST has been food products; after which they simply to help.” drawing up of an action plan to reverse appointed a Minor Canon at Manchester have to buy less food. People using food banks who are fea- the rising tide of food poverty and to Cathedral. “We have spoken to people living on tured in the Below the Breadline report collect evidence to understand the scale The Rev Rachel Mann, 44, Vicar of St one meal a day, drinking hot water and spoke of the struggle to feed them- and cause of the increases in food bank Nicholas Church in Burnage, Manchester, lemon to tame hunger pangs, trying to selves and of deteriorating health. One usage’. was admitted by the Dean, the Very Rev think how they can survive on a house- woman described her situation as ‘like The organisations are also calling on Rogers Govender, at a service of Even- hold budget of £6 a week. living in the 1930s and through all political parties to reinstate the safe- song. Later the Dean tweeted: “Absolute “More than half a million children in rationing’. ty net principle as a core purpose of the joy and privilege to admit Rachel Mann as the UK are now living in families who The cause of this extreme food pover- social security system. a Minor Canon. Our Cathedral poet… well are unable to provide a minimally ty is credited to food prices in the UK Niall Cooper, Director of Church done Rachel.” acceptable diet.” increasing by 43.5 per cent in the eight Action on Poverty, said: “Protecting its Canon Mann was born a boy in the vil- Below the Breadline warns that there years to July 2013. people from going hungry is one of the lage of Hartlebury, where the Bishops of has been a rise in people turning to food The UK also has one of the highest most fundamental duties of Govern- Worcester lived in a castle until recently. banks in affluent areas. levels of housing costs in Europe, while ment. She finished transitioning to being a Cheltenham, Welwyn Garden City between 2010 and 2013 energy prices “Most of us assume that when we fall woman in 1995 and trained for ordination and North Lakes have seen numbers of for households rose by 37 per cent. on hard times, the social security safety at Queen’s College, Birmingham, and was users double and in some cases treble. Evidence shows that changes to the net will kick in, and prevent us falling ordained as a deacon in the Diocese of In February 2014, DEFRA finally pub- social security system are a driver of into destitution and hunger. Manchester in 2003 and as a priest a year later. Before ordination she taught philosophy Religious people ‘more charitable’ at Lancaster University and has written an account of her journey to her true self in PEOPLE WHO practise a cent of them holding this over half of people who prac- giving for each group being Dazzling Darkness. She has also published religion are more likely to opinion as opposed to 64 per tise a religion have heard almost the same. a volume of poetry: The Risen Dust. give to charity than people cent of those who do not that someone in their com- ComRes interviewed 2,606 In an interview with Ruth Gledhill for who do not, according to a practise a religion. munity is doing significant English adults by telephone Christian Today, Canon Mann said that in ComRes survey of charitable All in all, seven in 10 adults volunteer work, a figure that to car ry out the survey. her early 20s she felt ‘pursued by God’ and giving undertaken for the in England say they have falls to 35 per cent of those Commenting on the sur- was attracted by Jesus as ‘the ideal man’ BBC. given money to charity in the who do not practise a reli- vey, the General Secretary of although she was put off by the church. According to the poll, past month. Most people gion. the Methodist Church, Dr Then one day in her office in Lancaster three quarters of people in report that they prefer to be Online communities such Martyn Atkins, said that: she was overwhelmed by an urge to pray England who practise a reli- asked in person to give to as Facebook appear to be as “Religious faith should moti- and offered herself to God. To her sur- gion (77 per cent) have given charity rather than be solicit- successful as local communi- vate people to acts of gen- prise, she felt a response came back. to charity in the past month. ed online. This applies to 18- ties in making people aware erosity and it was good to see “God did not reject me,” she said. “I This compares to two thirds to 24-year-olds as well as to of charitable work being that in the statistics.” know part of the reason I resisted for so of people (67 per cent) who older people. done by friends or peers and He added that financial giv- long was the sense of how could God love do not practise a religion. A factor encouraging peo- in attracting support. Here it ing was only part of the pic- someone who identified as a lesbian, who Religious practitioners are ple to give is if they have seems that there is no differ- ture. “For some people a was trans. I had imbibed so much of that also more likely to believe heard someone from their ence between those who simple act of kindness can prejudice we see in the church.” that their friends and family community is doing volun- practise a religion and those mean more than any finan- Canon Mann thinks a shift donate to charity with 73 per teer work for charity. Just who do not with the rate of cial gift.” is taking place in views about sexuality in the same way as there was a shift in attitudes to slavery 200 years ago. She is part of a new group, Diverse, made up of young, gay evangeli- cals and pays tribute to Steve Chalke who she describes as a ‘pioneer’ who has helped to bring change. Manchester has the sec- ond highest LGBT popula- tion in the country behind London. When the Diocese outlined what it was looking for in a new bishop it listed a readiness to be sympathetic to the LGBT community as one of the qualities desired.

[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper 4 www.churchnewspaper.com Friday June 13, 2014 News Bishop makes plea Archbishop’s prayers ARCHBISHOP JUSTIN WELBY Chad and Niger and that he prayed with Nigeria’s President came close to securing the last week as his former col- release of one small group still in for more localism league at Coventry Cathedral Nigeria two weeks ago. He said continues his work trying to free one problem was that the mili- THE BISHOP of Leicester has called for more processes and that trust has dangerously erod- hostages held by Boko Haram. tants feared they would be power to be devolved from Westminster to local ed between the electorate and its representa- The Archbishop made a sur- arrested. authorities to halt a “dangerous” loss of trust in tives.” prise, last-minute visit last He claimed that mercenaries the political process. Bishop Stevens said localism had become an Wednesday to offer President from outside Nigeria had joined Bishop Tim Stevens warned that the results of “empty word” and pointed to the national Plan- Goodluck Jonathan his sympa- Boko Haram and they were recent council and European elections showed ning Inspectorate’s “habit of taking big deci- thy for recent events in the coun- responsible for slaughter in the people had begun to lose confidence in the polit- sions in the teeth of local opposition” and the try, including the abduction of villages, adding: “And I do mean ical process. capping of council tax. 200 schoolgirls who have now slaughter.” In a House of Lords debate on the Queen’s He also suggested a form of proportional rep- been missing for two months, Speaking by phone to Channel Speech, he said: “It is surely now vital that more resentation could be appropriate for local and the bombings in Jos. 4 he said: “Every indication is power should be devolved from the overly cen- authority elections “in view of the one-party Archbishop Welby, the Pri- positive but as we get close to a tralist and siloed Whitehall closer to communi- states that now appear in several cities and Lon- mate of Nigeria, the Most Rev handover I am sure there will be ties that have a stake in the success of places don boroughs”. Nicholas Okoh, and the Presi- interference from some parties and to where a real link between politicians and The Bishop of St Albans backed the call for dent prayed together. who do not want to see an end to positive action can be formed, as the report of more localism. He pointed to the promise in the The Archbishop has called the the conflict in the North.” Lord Heseltine recommended. Queen’s Speech to speed up the pace of delivery abduction of the schoolgirls an Dr Davis has warned against “My conversations in the east Midlands point in key areas of infrastructure but also safeguard atrocious and inexcusable act the use of force to free the girls to a clear consensus that the balance of power the need for communities to be involved. and appealed for their immediate and said the only solution is to between local and central government is not “Therein lies the tension that we are all trying release. negotiate for a peaceful outcome. right. to grapple with,” Bishop Alan Smith said. A former Canon of Coventry The Nigerian Government has “Councils are now placed in the impossible “I welcome the Government’s commitment to Cathedral, Dr Stephen Davis, now denied that Dr Davis is act- position of taking responsibility for abolishing responsible stewardship of public resources who is in Nigeria trying to ing as its agent. front-line services that are both wanted and through seeking to simplify planning and infra- secure the release of the Attacks on Christians in the needed by local communities. structure decision-making procedures. hostages has said that media North have continued to take “One of the clear messages of the recent elec- “Yet the importance of giving proper consider- links last week in a Sunday news- place. Two weeks ago Christians tions is surely that a large part of the population ation to those whose lives will be affected by paper about his activity have not in Attagara, near the Cameroon has begun to lose confidence in our political these changes must not be overlooked”. been helpful but that he remains border, were ordered into a hopeful. church compound and then fired He has now given interviews upon. Other villages have suf- to both Channel 4 news and to fered similar attacks. ‘Action needed on housing’ BBC Radio Four’s Sunday pro- There have been claims of gramme. In the interviews he involvement by the Nigerian mil- THE BISHOP of Rochester has rent”. our individual, familial and said that he had come very close itary and there have been used his maiden speech in the He said: “I am well aware societal well-being.” to securing the release of some rumours in the Nigerian press, House of Lords to call for the that the issues are complex Bishop Langstaff told peers: of the girls on at least three occa- denied by the Government, that Government to do more to and that there are no easy “It is hard at present to go even sions only to have each handover some army officers have been tackle the shortage of housing, answers, but I cannot rest con- 24 hours without being aware stalled at the last moment. charged with helping Boko particularly in the south east. tent for as long as there are of some comment, research The Australian priest told the Haram. In a debate on the Queen’s those without somewhere to report, announcement or other BBC that the girls were now in Asked by the BBC if he felt in Speech Bishop James call home and, more sharply, public contribution on housing- three groups and that the ‘vast personal danger, Dr Davis Langstaff welcomed Govern- without security in relation to related matters. majority’ were no longer in the replied: “I am not entirely happy ment initiatives on housing but the shelter over their head. “At some point, housing- country. about the situation.” said there was “an awfully long “I trust that the Government related questions impinge at He also said that more girls He added: “People are simply way to go regarding housing will continue to give these mat- almost every level on discus- had been kidnapped than just being slaughtered. The people supply” and “markets for hous- ters focused attention for they sions around the economy, the Chibok girls and that there who do this I find it very, very ing both for purchase and for are foundational, yes, for the family life, community well- might perhaps be twice as many difficult to imagine what must be econo- being, societal cohesion, wel- girls being held as was thought. going on in their minds that they my, but fare policy and much more He said girls were being held can do this to fellow human also for besides.” across the border in Cameroon, beings.” Faithful Sheep Ministries Call for Pentecost prayers By Amaris Cole to facilitate the outworking of the priority of ‘Intentional Evangelism’. The Archbishops are using Pentecost to call on the The Archbishop added: “Prayer has to be our first pri- Church to pray for new disciples of Jesus. ority, if we are to call more people to follow Christ, and The Archbishops of Canterbury and York are calling to invite others to share in the story of God’s love for the for evangelism this Pentecost in prayers for ‘those who world. TO EQUIP,TO ENCOURAGE have not yet encountered the love of God in Jesus “The wonderful news is God is always ready to hear Christ’. our prayers and to send his Spirit that we may proclaim The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, said: the good news afresh. I urge every church community www.fsmins.org “The task before us cannot be overestimated. We could and individual to set aside time to pray and to share easily be disheartened. We cannot do it God’s heart for all his people.” alone. But ... Alleluia! Members of the Archbishops’ Evangelism Task “For we are not thrown back on ourselves, Group have put together printed and online prayer but in, by and through the power of the Holy resources, which are available at www.usewords.org. Spirit, God brings forth life. It is right that as There is also a short video, which explores the ques- the Evangelism Task Group considers how it tion: “What is evangelism?” may resource the Church to bear faithful wit- The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, added: ness to Jesus Christ, the commitment to pray “Praying for others to come to know Christ is a privilege Subscribe to us via is the essential first step.” and a joy – and loving our neighbours and making disci- Pagesuite Lambeth Palace said this Pentecost mes- ples of Jesus is exactly what we are called to do. http://bit.ly/coendigital sage was the first task given to the Archbish- “At Pentecost we recall the wind and flame of the Holy ops’ Evangelism Task Group by the General Spirit coming upon the disciples, so let’s commit our- Synod of the Church of England in Novem- selves afresh to pray, for a new outpouring of the Holy ber last year. Spirit, and for boldness, simplicity, wisdom, and com- The Task Group was set up by the Synod passion in the proclamation of the Gospel.”

[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper www.churchnewspaper.com Friday June 13, 2014 News 5 New charges laid against priest Priest attacked THE SUPREME Court of New Hampshire has However, the Diocese of Massachusetts said reinstated criminal charges brought against an it had not been “contacted by either civil or A LEGAL AID society in Pak- reports a watchman heard the Episcopal priest for child abuse. Church authorities in England regarding the istan reports that on 3 June cries of the family and roused On 30 May 2014 the Supreme Court ruled the 1994 charges there.” 2014 five suspected members the village to defend their pas- trial court did not have the authority to dismiss The Diocese of Lincoln confirmed Huntress of the Pakistani Taliban ran- tor. Five men were taken into charges against the Rev Franklin L Huntress and had been arrested, but the “charges were sacked the home of the Rev custody by police. ordered the matter for trial. dropped and the detail and the circumstances David Hanook, pastor of the However, relatives of the First arrested by Lincolnshire Police in 1994 for were unclear.” Huntress’ file “had been Church of Pakistan congrega- arrested men have threatened child abuse, Huntress was arrested in July 2011 destroyed as part of a previous archive policy” tion in a majority Christian vil- to burn down the village unless following a grand jury indictment for having sexu- at the time Massachusetts had requested “fur- lage near Okara in the Diocese Mr Hanook withdraws the ally assaulted a child under the age of 13 in Janu- ther information”, a spokesman said. of Lahore, holding the priest charges. ary 1984 and April 1985. Ordained in 1962, Huntress had served in and his family hostage for four “My family is not safe now in Claims the then 77-year-old priest molested a parishes in the US and from 1965 to 1967 at St hours. that village and I have request- child in 1974 prompted an investigation by the Dio- Mary’s, Chester, from 1967-1971 at Waltham LEAD (Legal Evangelical ed the Bishop of Lahore, to cese of Massachusetts that revealed Huntress had Abbey in Essex (Chelmsford diocese), from Association Development) transfer me some other Church been arrested by police for abusing a child in 1994 1975 to 1979 at St Gabriel’s Abbey in Leicester, director Sardar Mushtaq Gill congregation,” he said. while serving as vicar of St Matthew’s Church in and from 1991 to 1994 at St Matthew’s in Skeg- Skegness. ness. Egypt faith boost

THE NEW president of Egypt, New Bishop for Bishop dies Abdel al-Fattah al-Sisi, has reaffirmed the equal place of THE BISHOP of Gippsland in Australia has Christians in society, lauding the Philippines died after a brief illness. their contributions to the The Rt Rev John McIntyre died on 6 June country’s culture and national BISHOP RENATO ABIBICO of Northern Luzon has 2014 at Monash Hospital in Clayton of a res- unity. been elected the fifth Prime Bishop and Primate of piratory infection. He was 62. In his inauguration speech the Episcopal Church in the Philippines at the Synod Ordained in February 2006, Bishop McIn- broadcast to the nation on 8 meeting in Quezon City on 14 May. Educated at Trin- tyre gained an international reputation within June 2014 from the el-Quba ity College in Quezon City and the University of Edin- Anglican circles as an outspoken maverick, Palace, al-Sisi laid out an ambi- burgh, Bishop Abibico trained for the ministry at St calling for a coal-mining ban due to its safety tious plan of economic renew- Andrew’s Theological Seminary in the Philippines and environmental hazards as well as his sup- al. And he promised: “There and succeeds the Most Rev Edward Malacdon as pri- port for changing the church’s teachings on will no exclusion of any Egypt- mate. homosexuality. ian from our march.”

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Charity to be “the Christ, the Son of the Living Sir, The Rev David Stuart-Smith kindly Appropriate witness God” (v. 16). This Church Christ founds YOUR conveyed in a letter to me the substance Sir, I write concerning the article The will continue to the end for that is his of his current letter (6 June) in the death of Christian England by Peter promise that the gates or powers of hell CEN. I wrote to him my response. I Mullen (23 May, p7). In pointing out will not overcome it (v.18). TWEETS totally agree that there needs to be dangerous developments of the While Fr Galloway insists, regarding charity and support between groups in 1960s, he understandably points to the Eucharist, that the Roman Catholic the Church who disagree. St Paul Honest to God and the so-called ‘new Church has encouraged the Cup to the Diocese of Bristol @diobrizzle emphasised this between Jewish Chris- morality’ situation ethics. However, laity since Vatican II, I carefully stated It’s national #bloodweek. As the tians and Gentile Christians. However, in the next breath, he attacks new that the Liturgical norm is still to deny Church, let’s help raise the in the issue we are discussing we must Bible translations, liturgy and the cup to the laity. How come? While profile of blood donation face up to Anglican ecclesiology. hymnody. These hobby-horses need the liturgical norm prevails in tradition- bit.ly/1kK276E @fleshandblood That ecclesiology cannot be proved or critical analysis. al Catholic countries, in Protestant disproved from Scripture. It has devel- When starting my theological countries the Cup is indeed allowed to AllSaint’sLightwater oped by the Holy Spirit’s guidance over degree studies in 1960, and needing the laity. It was allowed under a special @AllSaintsLwater the centuries of catholic, church histo- to check my translation of Greek and Vatican provision from 1975 until it Praying for the Crown ry, like the three-fold order of ordained Hebrew, it was not the KJV that was lapsed in 2005 and since this time it has Nominations Commission as ministry. Anglicans as a Reformed recommended but the RSV (Revised had to be extraordinarily authorised at they meet to consider the new catholic tradition order their institution Standard Version). When I started the diocesan level. Bishop of Guildford this week on that ecclesiology. teaching RE in 1963 up to GCE “A” Alan Bartley, @CofEGuildford #prayer So, a diocese is a group of parishes, level, the examination text was the Greenford, Middlesex. with their clergy, in full communion RSV. Churches in the 1960s and ‘70s The Trussell Trust with the bishop of the diocese. He, or as that aspired to thoughtful biblical Tory apology @TrussellTrust maybe soon, she, has a unique position. preaching increasingly turned to the Sir, Adam Afriyie needs to realise that it The level of child poverty in Episcopal ministries may be delegated RSV (and later the NIV). It would is not just sufficient for the Tory party Britain is “a stain on our national to suffragans, or flying bishops (if they have been increasingly difficult to to apologise for the way it introduced conscience” via @Independent continue) but it is the bishop of the dio- find vibrant children’s and youth gay marriage. That was just one of ind.pn/SqUFBI #foodbanks cese alone who issues licences and ministry at that time that was wed- many liberal policies over a number of authority to minister. And to the dioce- ded to the KJV. years which have alienated the party Sally Hitchiner san bishop clergy are ultimately respon- At the same time, many of us were from people who hold traditional Chris- @SallyHitchiner sible. developing family or all-age services tian views. The party needs to change We’ve all just honoured D-Day If Christians in this country wish to and Pathfinders groups. New hymns its policies to reflect those of voters if it verterans but many homeless remain Anglicans they must accept this and songs were a valuable and much wants to tempt them back. people are ex-army. You never ecclesiology. loved resource. It was from these J Longstaff, know till you listen to their story I cannot imagine the Crown Nomina- sorts of churches that a majority of Woodford Green #supportnotspikes tions Commission recommending any the growing number of evangelical person to be bishop of a diocese who ordinands emerged. HTB Church @HTBChurch cannot ordain women or fully serve any It is a strange irony that in south ‘Present shower’ Remember being filled isn’t just parish in the diocese with women. The London where I exercised much of Sir, Please allow me to ponder a while. for #Pentecost. Go on being Church of England is not just “a good my ministry in the last 50 years, the If I have the spirituality of Mother filled with the Holy Spirit this boat to fish from” (as some have clergy who were liberal ‘south-bank’ Julian, the courage of St Polycarp, the week! thought) but a Church tradition with a in theology were often conservative compassion of Mother Teresa, the wis- formal organised system demanding and unimaginative in liturgy and min- dom of Socrates, the liturgical acumen Christian Aid @christian_aid integrity. istry, and invested relatively little of Cranmer, the preaching ability of St Brazil’s #World #Cup has been The Rev Canon Colin Craston, energy in youth work. Chrysostom, the heart for evangelism stolen. Tell FIFA to end rules Horwich, Bolton The legitimate discussion about of Billy Graham, the administrative abil- allowing huge tax breaks for whether or not it is true or useful to ity of Gladstone, the charisma of Man- sponsors: bit.ly/1jPvOCL assert ‘the death of Christian Eng- dela, and the commitment of Gandhi... #jogabonitoFIFA Ordinariate land’ needs more careful analysis. I would I still be written off as a bishop by Sir, I am glad that Fr Michael Galloway thank God for the new attention to your correspondent Bruce Patterson, Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband now understands that our positions dif- Bible translation, liturgy and song. who wonders why we “put up with the In 100 Days, Scotland has an fer such that I could not possibly con- They have, I judge, frequently present shower”? historic choice. Together we sider joining the Ordinariate (letters, 6 emerged from vibrant Christians and Tony Cullingford, created the NHS & the minimum June). churches sincerely seeking to Tewkesbury wage. Together we can keep We would both agree that the Church engage in appropriate witness and achieving social justice. of England is being led astray by those mission. teaching their own opinions in place of The Ven Dr Gordon Kuhrt, Changing times rob marshall @robmarshall33 Christ’s doctrines. The Roman Catholic Formerly Archdeacon of Lewisham, Sir, A priest of the Church of England Prayer for unquenchable light makes the necessary teaching authority and Director of Ministry for the commits adultery and is suspended by from God so that our darkness the Pope and Roman Magisterium Archbishops’ Council his bishop for five years. Another priest will be illuminated and the while Protestants believe that all true flagrantly contracts a homosexual ‘mar- darkness of the world will be believers are guided by the Holy Spirit riage’ and not an episcopal mouse stirs. made less. #Columba applying the Scriptures to us personally. the verbal or non-verbal emphasis of the In the first case the offender feels the In this context Fr Galloway refers us original Aramaic. Peter is “petros,” the firm hand of church discipline; in the Stephen Lowe to Matthew 16:18 where Christ appears small stone is contrasted with “Petra” second the entire bench of bishops is @BpStephenLowe to make Peter the foundation of the the big rock on which Christ will build struck dumb by the fear of upsetting Why does @bbc5live Church whereas the Protestant view is his Church. the all-powerful homosexual lobby. @StephenNolan interview hyper that this is untenable given Peter’s But what is the foundation? Else- ‘Homophobia’ now means an irrational conservative Christians like unsteadiness both before and after Pen- where in Scripture Christ is made the fear of doing or saying anything that Widdecombe & Stephen Green tecost. foundation of the Church (eg I Cor. might offend or ‘hurt’ homosexuals. & present them as Verse 18 in the Greek contains a play 3:11), so it follows that it is the same Martin Down, representative? on words that Matthew uses to capture here where Jesus was revealed to Peter Witney, Oxon

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The British establishment has been wary of engaging with Islam in any serious and honest way, especially after the “9/11” invasion of Iraq and ‘war on terror’. Policy has been full of fear and favour, and basically created by Tony Hell is Blair’s Government with its war-mongering and its open door migration policy, coupled to the hard line ‘multi-cul- tural’ agenda. The police have been immersed in ‘diversi- ty’ training and the judges waste no opportunity to declare that the UK is a ‘secular’ state that does not acknowledge Christian values, while having to protect minority reli- gious rights and customs. The British Army then policed consigned to Basra in the South of Iraq, where a liberal western culture existed until the Bush-Blair conquest. After the fall of Sad- dam Hussein hardline Muslims took over Basra’s cultural norms and soon women were being forced to dress in full Islamic fashion, with British Army soldiers doing nothing to stop the coercion. No doubt to the hardline Muslim men enforcing this change, it was a welcome return to the dustbin Arab norms, to the women it was brutal bullying under British observation. The Trojan Horse inquiry has just released a ‘damning’ Peter Mullen while denying individual sin. This view is inco- report on a conspiracy to take over schools by Muslim herent and absurd – because all corporate bodies hardliners, by packing the governing bodies, pressuring Jesus said: “And he shall set the sheep on his are made up of individuals. The church is thus head teachers to leave and replace them with fellow trav- right hand and the goats on the left. Then shall not living in the real world. Is it too late for us to ellers, removing teachers who objected to the hardline he say unto them on the left hand, Depart from get real? Islamic agenda. The report now issued has pointed, for me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for Back to the Bible. Here there are two words example, to a ban on music in primary schools as being the devil and his angels.” usually translated as “hell.” One is Sheol, the unIslamic, to guest speakers who promote hardline Islam, But now we have it straight from the Thought place of departed spirits, a dreary underworld of that a very conservative Arab-style dress code is imposed, Police: by his promising hell for unrepentant sin- faded subsistence, like Hades. The other word is along with separation of boys and girls. A very conserva- ners, Jesus was guilty of a “hate crime.” I refer to Gehenna, an image derived from the ever-smoul- tive Muslim agenda is implemented, rather than a liberal goings-on at Attleborough Baptist church in dering rubbish tip on the outskirts of Jerusalem. or ‘moderate’ Islamic influence. Nuneaton and its poster featuring the fires of hell Local housewives used to complain that the These are not ‘faith schools’, but are located in Muslim- beneath the words, “If you think there’s no God, smoke dirtied their washing. populated areas. Mr Gove has argued that this kind of you’d better be right.” Throughout Christian history there have been ultra-conservative Islamic culture is a fertile soil for The poster was reported to the police by a sen- those who have denied the reality of hell and ‘extremism’, or anti-western Islam in education. Mr Gove sitive young fellow called Robert Gladwin, who declared instead that the loving God could never regards Islam as an ‘Ummah’, a global family of the faith, a said he was “hurt” by it. consign a single sinner to everlasting punish- continuum, with violent Jihad at the extreme end, con- Now, whether our fantastically progressive and ment. Sometimes the attempts to deny eternal nected to very hard theologico-political Islam as a control- terrifically enlightened and really very nice 21st punishment have been very strenuous and have ling worldview. Mrs May disagrees and thinks that it is Century likes it or not, the fires of hell – or the even provoked amusement. very ‘moderate’ for Muslim parents to want to dress their lake of fire, if you wish – as the just punishment For example, in 1860 there was published a daughters in full Arab covering, if not quite burka. Indeed, for the wicked is decreed by Our Lord and by his book Essays and Reviews – a collection of chap- Mrs May thinks that to criticise such education will make apostles St Peter and St Paul. The Thought ters by notable representatives of the liberal or the local Muslims angry, as they regard this Islamification Police and the whole politically correct establish- broad church. Two essayists – Williams and Wil- as good and normal. ment had better take note. son – stated their opposition to the doctrine of So what is ‘moderate’ and what is ‘extreme’ Islam in Hell is not going to go away just because they eternal punishment. They were arraigned for schools? We do know that Muslims in the UK used to find it not quite nice. We live in the age of wishful heresy and convicted in the ecclesiastical courts. think of a minimal headscarf as ultra conservative some thinking and neurotic unreality. We want But they appealed to the Privy Council and were 30 years ago. But the importation of non-English speaking rewards but not punishment. But if we are not acquitted. Imams in their hundreds has led to ghettos and to ‘nor- willing to be blamed when we go wrong, we can- A wit wrote at the time that “The Lord Chan- malisation’ of full Arabic dress and avoidance of western not expect to be praised when we do what is cellor dismissed hell with costs and has taken literature and music in schools. Is it now naïve to hope for right. And those who live by the euphemism will away from orthodox members of the Church of the UK developing a self-critical, free thinking, liberal die by the euphemism. England their last hope of everlasting damna- western version of Islam? Modern society, including the church, has tion.” Comment abandoned the wholesome dogma of Original We have come a long way since 1860 and there Sin and replaced it with the new dogma of Origi- are few (if any) in our touchy-feely hierarchy or The Church of England Newspaper nal Niceness. 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In his new biography of Roy Jenkins, John Campbell describes his subject as ‘not hostile As more and more bookshops close it is encouraging to find some resisting to religion but quietly agnostic’, echoing words Jenkins applied to his own father, Arthur the tide and fighting back. Foyles are opening a sparkling new shop on the Jenkins MP. But the Labour, later Lib Dem, politician was not without his own links to the Charing Cross Road and Church House Bookshop in Westminster has C of E. In his autobiography, A Life at the Centre, Jenkins hailed the Church for its recently had a revamp that has improved its appearance and made it opposition to Thatcherism, claiming that together with the ancient universities, the possible to hold more stock. It is now the best religious bookshop in the House of Lords and the monarchy, it provided an ‘island of liberal urbanity in a sea of country and has just won an award as ‘Independent large Retail shop of the selfish materialism’. Now Campbell reveals that Michael Alison, an Anglican evangelical year’ from Christian Resources Together, which was originally established layman who served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Mrs Thatcher and then as by the Bible Society and aims to encourage Christians in business and Second Estates Commissioner, lodged with Jenkins and his wife when he was a young ministry. Other sponsors include such publishers as IVP, HarperCollins, man. Alison would not have known that Jenkins had an affair with his sister, Barley, and Lion, and Zondervan. Church House Bookshop received the award as a remained good friends with her. Barley was the only woman Jenkins had an affair with result of a vote by publishers and suppliers. Factors taken note of in who was single. His other relationships were with married women, usually wives of making the award included customer care, good stock turn, originality and friends. Barley was a publisher, strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher, and a supporter of the creativity in presentation, and ministry impact. SPCK, the Church Union Social Democrat Party Jenkins helped to create. They remained friends after the affair Bookshop and, to all intents and purposes, Mowbrays have gone. Famous was over. Michael Alison’s son, James, is a Catholic priest and well known as a theologian names have disappeared but Church House Bookshop is bucking the and advocate of Church acceptance of homosexuals. His godfather was John Stott... trend. Congratulations to Frank Nugent and the team! Perhaps some Cathedral shops could take heart from this and find space for Christian books alongside the bottles of jam, place mats, and icons they sell at present. Devastating Review Theologian in Kenam Malik must be licking his wounds after reading John Gray’s review in the New Statesman his latest book The Quest for a Moral Compass: a Global History of Ethics. Happy Valley Malik, a regular on BBC Radio Four where he presents Analysis and Nightwaves, is criticised for philosophical confusion and for being starry eyed about the Enlightenment. Gray, a former professor of European thought at the LSE, Happy Valley, a crime series set in West Yorkshire, has proved to be condemns Malik, a one-time Trotskyist activist, for clinging to a view that is one of the BBC’s big hits of 2014. Scriptwriter, Sally Wainwright, says ‘essentially Marxist without being able to draw on any of the metaphysical British crime dramas should stop modelling themselves on and religious traditions that made Marx’s thinking such a powerful system American shows and pay attention to British policing methods. of ideas’. Malik has little time for religion but nonetheless believes that Critics have worried about the degree of violence in the series. while values change over time ‘there is a certain logic to historical The policewoman, Catherine Cawood, played by Sarah change’. Gray rightly responds that: “Unless you think history has a Lancashire, is first kicked and punched almost to death by built-in goal or purpose of some desirable kind, there is no reason to the chief villain, Tommy Lee Royce, and then in the final think a process of historical change need be any way benign.” episode she lays into Royce, refusing his request that she On Gray’s interpretation, the conviction that history will in the kill him but giving him a brutal thrashing. Lancashire is end turn out for the good was one that Marx borrowed ‘illicitly’ widely predicted to be in line for a Bafta award for her from religion. Malik is just one of a number of fervent performance but other actors deserve credit as well. secularists who have made the same move. Gray’s criticism The press reported that James Norton, the young actor applies to a good many humanist and atheist thinkers. As he who played Tommy Lee Joyce, picked up a Yorkshire puts it, ‘somewhere in the heavens above the stale air of accent after spending some time in that part of the Trotskyist meeting rooms’ there floats ‘a serene Cheshire-cat- Whispering world. He did – as a student at Ampleforth from where like being, more nebulous than the gods of the past, but he went on to read theology at Fitzwilliam College, seemingly capable of casting a glimmer of meaning into the The Gallery Cambridge. Norton, who has also appeared in Doctor lives of disoriented ex-members of extinct revolutionary Who, Death Comes to Pemberley, Rush and the stage sects’. version of Journey’s End looks like having a very successful career.

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The primary school of which I am a parent governor never expect to become very rich. has just received the dreaded phone call from Ofst- Such is the lot of the modern teacher yet they are ed. The two-day visit by inspectors is to start the generally a cheerful and uncomplaining bunch. next day. The headteacher has taken his class hiking Though Michael Gove is a figure of hate in the coun- Limiting Ofsted on Dartmoor: I can only imagine his discomfort as try’s staffrooms, and they have had several years of he is caught away from school unable to do those occasional one days strikes, they are for the most The recent headlines about a ‘Trojan Horse’ attempt by last-minute things that every teacher wants to do. part an apolitical group of people. They are devoted Islamists to gain influence in Birmingham’s state schools A note of hysteria is creeping into the voices of to the welfare of the children they teach and they should not be an excuse for delivering more powers to Ofsted. administrators, teachers and even assistants. The tend to be good parents themselves. The government is seeking the power literally to undertake children can hardly be immune from the change of There should be a liturgy and prayers that the dawn raids on schools so they can’t pull the wool over the tack. Thank goodness that this atmosphere lasts Church of England offers to schools which are com- eyes of inspectors. only a few days, once every few years. The school is ing up to an Ofsted inspection. ‘Deliver us from In Birmingham schools, both academies and ‘maintained’ ‘good with outstanding features’, according to its last these wicked Inspectors’ could be the opening lines schools, have seen some classrooms segregated and some Ofsted report. It features in the country’s top 100 pri- of the litany. subjects, like arts, music and biology marginalised. Though mary schools on results and value-added criteria. Yet In reality, the school will endure the Ofsted inspec- evidence has yet to emerge of a conspiracy, it is clear that a negative Ofsted judgement would feel like disaster. tion and undoubtedly come out well. The children some teachers and some governors have had their own In particular, I worry about the teachers and the will hardly notice the Inspectors have been there. Islamising agenda. stress this puts on them. I have always found teach- And the teachers will emerge on the other side of Some of the schools vigorously deny the Ofsted claims and ers to be a rather odd and admirable bunch – this unpleasant experience with a few more grey blame them on former disaffected teachers, but inspectors remarkably like clergy. Their profession is under hairs. Yet I wish the experience could be slightly reveal that staff have made private and confidential com- constant inspection. They are used to having their more helpful, less negative and confrontational. plaints about the pressures put on them to comply and the fail- classrooms under observation from untrained gov- All inspections should be carried out with the ure of governance at some of the schools. ernors, to colleagues, students and the dreaded intention of helping schools develop and improve The important thing is that any attempts at Islamisation of inspectors. As if this stress was not enough, they rather than seeking to catch them out. Inspectors state schools are brought into the open. It must be acknowl- have parents questioning their decisions and gov- should visit schools individually on a half-day basis, edged that Muslims form a majority in some schools but no ernment ministers doing them down. With every building relationships with staff and becoming part- segregation can be allowed and no predominating influence of change of government they have a change of meth- ners with schools. Only schools with poor results Islamic cultural mores should be permitted on teaching stan- ods and a change of paperwork. They spend more and facing special measures should see a team of dards. time filling in forms than teaching and they can inspectors launching dawn raids. The message of Paul Richardson Ukip for politicians Church and World Ukip’s failure to win Newark should not elections by running hustings and get- ty within Britain and to combat the sense the right. The hereditary principle cer- have surprised anyone who had seen ting candidates to debate issues that are that it is a metropolitan elite who are tainly seems to apply to columnists on beyond the over-reaction to its perform- likely to be discussed in the Parliament. both reaping the fruits of globalisation The Guardian. Polly Toynbee, Seamus ance in the European and local elections. A European election should not just be a and running the country. Milne, Simon Jenkins, Martin Kettle and Ukip’s vote in the council elections fell chance for people to express their dislike In 2008 a study by the Institute of Fis- George Monbiot are all offspring of peo- from 23 per cent it achieved last year to of politicians. cal Studies revealed that the average pre- ple well known as writers or politicians. 17 per cent this year (partly because of The EU needs reform as those com- tax income of the richest 0.1 per cent of David Runciman, Professor of Politics London). In the European elections it mitted to the UK’s continuing member- the population (47,000 in number) was at Cambridge and the son of a prominent gained 27.5 per cent but unfortunately ship admit. Douglas Alexander has £780,000 a year while the average sociologist, has told how when he was at many people seem not to mind who rep- called for states to have the ability to income was around £25,000. The top 1.00 school at Eton there were two contempo- resents them in the European Parlia- extend the possible time limits on people per cent, 420,000 of all taxpayers, earned raries who aimed to be Prime Minister. ment. coming to work in them from countries an average of £155,000. During the reces- They were David Cameron and Boris Ukip’s vote is a protest vote that is like- newly joining the EU, action to stop child sion many wage earners have seen their Johnson. ly to decline at a General Election but benefit and tax credit being sent abroad income fall while CEOs have seen their Acknowledging his own privileged this does not mean it should not be taken to children not living in the UK, more incomes rise. A survey in 2012 showed the background Runciman admits there are seriously. Disillusion with the EU is a fac- savings in the EU budget and a greater pay of CEOs in FTSE top 100 companies disadvantages in having a narrow politi- tor but other causes are at work. Many say for national parliaments in EU policy rose an average of 12 per cent in the pro- cal class cut off from the rest of the pop- voters make a protest vote at European making. ceeding year although it is hard to see any ulation. This is an issue elsewhere as elections because they fail to see that MPs like Frank Field and others who evidence of increased productivity. well as Britain. A factor behind the revolt decisions of the European Parliament say that immigration from Europe is put- Before he resigned, Bob Diamond, of the Tea Party was a desire to wrest have an impact on our lives and we need ting pressure on housing and services CEO of Barclays, received £20.9m in control of the Republican Party from to be represented by MEPs who take an are making a valid point but you cannot bonuses and remuneration in a single such elite figures as members of the active and intelligent part in its proceed- have a free market without the free year. Bush family. People consider Ed ings. movement of peoples and Britain bene- Money buys power and influence. Lord Miliband ‘weird’ because they think he The record of Ukip MEPs is appalling. fits from being part of Europe’s single Oakeshott was in a position to spend lives only for politics and seems to have They have taken the salary and expenses market. It is the free movement of goods, £20,000 in his bid to unseat Nick Clegg. little in common with ordinary people. Brussels provides and done little in services, capital and people that under- Most ordinary party members do not The fact that he is believed to have return. The Financial Times revealed pins this market. have that kind of money. Children of the stabbed his brother in the back to that Nigel Farage has attended only one Educating people about the advan- rich go to the top schools and win a big achieve power doesn’t help. meeting of the Fisheries Committee tages of EU membership is not going to advantage in life. It is extraordinary how Europe is only one factor behind the where he sat looking bemused and be easy but a referendum campaign will many people in politics and the media rise of Ukip. What we are witnessing is a abstaining in almost all the votes. give the chance to do that. However, as are following in the steps of their par- popular rebellion against growing Churches could play a part in promot- well as making the case for Europe we ents. inequality and a political elite widely ing an intelligent interest in European also need to do more to reduce inequali- This applies on the left as well as on regarded as out of touch.

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By Robert Leach Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1962 to keep out black take a stand on reducing the need for either? people from the Caribbean. In 1968, the Labour The EU, according to its own figures, adds 4 per cent As a Christian who not only voted for the UK government tightened up the law in a way that had little to costs with the 120,000 regulations, growing at about Independence Party (Ukip) but has been approved as a impact on white Commonwealth citizens but made it 8,000 a year. We have unnecessarily expensive energy national candidate, I have been disturbed by some very difficult for black Kenyans to enter. Having and food. Every day, the UK gives £55 million (and recent comments made by fellow Christians. blocked black immigration, within 10 years they had receives back less than half) to other countries. The I believe you can be a Christian in any political party. I enacted EU legislation to allow in predominantly white government takes £11 billion from families to support value the fellowship I enjoy with those of different people from Europe. corrupt governments in Sudan, Pakistan, Syria and views. However, I do believe that all Christians should Far from being racist, Ukip wants to get back border elsewhere. We give financial support to countries that tell the truth about each other and refrain from control so that black and Asian people can have the persecute Christians. gratuitous abuse. same rights of immigration as white Europeans. The European Union represents a colossal exercise of Can you imagine the outcry if a bishop said that mis-stewardship of resources. Muslims were racists, or if a General Synod member said that gay people were neo-Nazis? They did not. They European Union The daft comments made the comments about their brothers and sisters in The EU is not a brotherhood of nations working happily It is very difficult ever to have a grown-up discussion of Christ who have decided to vote Ukip. Such comments with other brotherhoods. The EU is a protectionist Ukip policies as interviews tend to concentrate on are unacceptable, and do nothing to advance the cartel of 29 nations that gangs up against the other 220. unfortunate remarks made by a minority of Ukip Kingdom of God. Argentina found that it could no longer sell beef to the supporters. You would think that none of the other The essence of Ukip is that Britain should leave the EU, where taxpayers’ money was wasted on vast parties ever had naughties who went to jail. In fact, 17 European Union so that British laws are again made by overproduction. It then found it could not sell beef councillors from the three old parties were arrested in those that British people elect. It is difficult to see why outside the EU because the EU had dumped its excess the two weeks before the European election, yet not one this view attracts such odium. production on those markets. One of the biggest helps leader was questioned about them. the UK could make to help developing countries is to Godfrey Bloom of UKIP used the term “bongo bongo abolish protectionism. land” and made sexist comments. He was immediately Race and immigration The World Trade Organisation is moving to a single suspended from UKIP. Alan Clark MP was a Let us start with immigration. All parties agree that the free trade zone of 250 nations where companies trade Conservative minister who also talked of “bongo bongo country has benefited from immigrants (Nigel Farage according to the quality and price of their products, not land” and not only made sexist comments about women has a German wife, and I am married to the daughter of on the basis of political alliance. but brazenly published them in his diary. He remained a a refugee) but that further immigration should be The EU had honourable intentions but has moved government minister. controlled. from a Common Market to a federal bureaucracy. It is a Michael Heseltine happily sat in the Commons with Net immigration last year was 210,000 people. To wasteful gravy train, riddled with extravagance and Peter Griffiths MP who was first elected to Parliament accommodate such a number either means concreting fraud, whose accounts have not been signed off for 19 with the slogan “vote Liberal or Labour, get a n***** for over 18 square miles of countryside each year to build years. your neighbour”. houses and infrastructure, or tolerating more One obscure Ukip parish councillor said that the overcrowding. I have yet to hear anyone advocate floods were God’s anger at gay marriage. This was either. Spend, spend, spend endlessly recycled as supposed Ukip policy. On the day As for the race issue, a little history would not come The Church of England has a commendable record in of the European election, The Times reported that NHS amiss. The Conservative government passed the developing food banks and credit unions. 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“The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass: Adrian Plass and the Church Weekend” It happens to the best of us. A month ahead of Father’s Day you make a By Adrian Plass mental note to look for a gift. But then life gets busy and before you know Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton it it’s the big day and you have nothing to give. Before you pull out your Price £14.99 hair, have a look at our last-minute gift guide. If you can’t get hold of Adrian Plass is back with another instalment of the Sacred them in time, an IOU is better than nothing! Diary of Adrian Plass: Adrian Plass and the Church Weekend. The series continues with the somewhat bemused Anglican, now aged 62-and-three-quarters, reluctantly agreeing to run a “50 Great Myths About Religions” church weekend. Your father will find himself laughing out By John Morreall and Tamara Sonn loud as he reads about Anne’s allocation to a bunk with a Publisher: Wiley Blackwell schizophrenic recovery group and Adrian’s conversation about Price: £16.99 birdlife leading to a harassment claim. The book is equal parts heart-warming as humorous and shows God’s love for the mixed-bag of people in a For fathers who prefer to sit down and enjoy a church. nice academic book, look no further than 50 Great Myths About Religion written by “Ready, Steady, Grow: Equipping Today’s Faith on the Streets goes into the history and professors John Morreall and Tamara Sonn Gospel Churches” experiences of these modern-day Good from William and Mary University in the US. By Ray Evans Samaritans. The book explores the origins and spread of 50 Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press religious myths as well as discussing why they Price: £10.99 myths can be questioned. The authors examine Books are always a good option, but myths from Christianity, Judaism and Islam as Perhaps you’ve heard your father grumbling of sometimes if your father isn’t the reading type well as Western and Eastern religions, such as voodoo and atheism. late about the dwindling size of his local we have provided additional gift ideas to get church. Ease his concern and spur him into your old man. “The True Herod” action with Ray Evans’ new book. Mr Evans By Geza Vermes examines the realistic challenges facing o mix up gifts for a bookish father, Publisher: Bloomsbury congregation growth from confusion, numbers, consider getting him a Tree of Life Price: £20.00 or online at complexity and complaints. But he strays from Tbookend hand-carved from sheesham Bloomsbury for £18.00 a methodological and simplistic answer in wood in India. The wooden leaves can hold up favour of employing biblical insights and his books and create some order amongst a Fathers who are history buffs but still common-sense. He says: “Many have learned cluttered bookshelf. The pieces are 17.5cm enjoy a little controversy will take to The how to lead what they have, but they don’t high and wide and 9cm deep. The bookends True Herod, written by Geza Vermes know how to take it forward. You don’t see the come from Asha Handicrafts, which sells the and published posthumously by glass ceilings until you crash into them, and work of thousands of artisans and producer Bloomsbury. Mr Vermes challenges the the splinters bring pain everywhere.” groups throughout India. This particular piece villainous portrayal of Herod and looks is available on traidcraftshop.co.uk for £30.00 into his role as a political leader and under Men’s Gifts. http://bit.ly/1pdgQHC man of culture. The book also examines “Faith on the Streets: Christians in Action Herod’s legacy of extensive building Through the Street Pastors Movement” ometimes the best gifts aren’t the physical works, including the Temple in Jerusalem and Masada. For those By Les Isaac and Rosalind Davies ones. Instead of buying a tie or gadget for with fathers who are visually inclined, have no fear for photos are Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Syour father, consider the gift of charity. intermixed with Mr Vermes’s lively prose. Price: £13.99 Present Aid allows people to donate something as simple as blankets and bed linen all as Fathers interested in social change, taking necessary as a mobile doctor to people living in Christianity into their own community or the poverty in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Good Samaritan story will form a connection Caribbean, and the Middle East. Gifts vary in Over £50,000 available for with this book. The Street Pastors initiative, prices from a £7 emergency kit to a £230 founded by Mr Isaac in 2003, has put 11,000 bamboo shelter. You can get the gift in his trained volunteers on night-time high streets in name or give him a gift card so he can decide innovative church projects 280 towns in eight countries. Volunteers have what to donate. Visit Present Aid online and handed out 100,000 pairs of flip-flops, defused look for Father’s Day under gifts for occasion tensions and helped people home safely. for more options. http://bit.ly/1pntZQH The 2014 Mustard Seed Awards. The Mustard Seed Awards aim to reward the best projects devised by individual Christians or Christian organisations who arepassionate about This is a one-off opportunity finding new ways to share the good news of Jesus in their communities.

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By Stuart Robinson, Royal School of Church Music

The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) has launched a new course for clergy and lay worship leaders to give them more confidence in managing music in their parish churches. Strengthen for serv- ice, which will take place in mid-September in Salis- bury, Wiltshire, is a three-day course for those in training or in the early stages of their ministry. Rosemary Field, the RSCM’s Head of Education explains more about the course, and why, in her view, it is necessary.

A curate in the early stages of ministry is sitting in the study faced with a pile of hymn books, feel- ing somewhat bewildered. The Vicar who usually looks after the choice of hymns is away, so guess

who has to do it? This is not an uncommon situation for many clergy who are new to the job. Many people who lead worship and choose the music for it have not had the opportunity to study issues of music and liturgy in depth during their theolog- ical training. That isn’t a criticism; the timetable is packed with Biblical Studies, Pastoral Studies, Hebrew, Apologetics, Ethics and more - so there isn’t room for much Music and Liturgy. At the RSCM we feel that we can help by offering a ‘beginner’s guide’ for newly ordained clergy and readers. The first of these crash courses is designed particu- larly for Anglicans, and will help those like our imaginary curate, who might later be faced with the task of supporting and possibly running a music team. Over two days we will be exploring a wide range of relevant topics such as run- ning a music team, recruiting musicians, and an exploration of different forms of music – from plainsong at one end of the musical spectrum to worship songs at the other. We will also be preparing a Timeline of Musical History; this will avoid any “clunkiness” in the planning process. During the course there will be some practi- cal sessions, but this course is not primarily about learning how to sing - the emphasis here is on helping participants to make good musical choices, along with the business of managing and facilitating a church’s music. That point made, we can give help with singing if anyone needs it. Other management issues such as safeguarding and copyright will also be cov- ered and there will be clinics to address specific issues and questions brought by participants. We have a fantastic musical heritage stretching back over two millennia, and using it effectively for church services is a vital element in inspiring, uplifting and moving all those involved. This course will help those “taking the lid off” the many developments in musical styles and traditions down the centuries. Strengthen for service will take place from 16–18 September at Sarum College, which just happens to be the home of the RSCM’s administrative centre. With the college just a stone’s throw from the cathedral and within the walls of the cathedral close, this is a beautiful setting in which to start learning about the practicalities of leading a musical tradition. There will be opportunities to take part in worship in the college chapel and in the cathedral.

For more information about the course and booking information go to the RSCM website www.rscm.com/courses, where you can see a short video about the course. Alternatively email [email protected] or telephone 01722 424843.

Rosemary Field is the RSCM’s Head of Education www.churchnewspaper.com Friday June 13, 2014 The Register 13

THE 2014 BIBLE CHALLENGE ANGLICAN CYCLE OF PRAYER to Barrow Deanery, has been appointed (Salisbury). Team Vicar in the benefice of the South The Rev Colin Hurst Barrow Team Ministry (Carlisle). will retire on 4th October 2014 Friday 13 June. Psalm 128, Exod. The Rev Stephen Osman, (Liverpool). Day 164: Ezra 1-3, Psalm 133, 1 40:17-33. Delaware - (III, The Episcopal Priest in Charge of Herrington, Penshaw The Rev Barbara Judith Jeapes, Corinthians 8 Church): The Rt Rev Wayne Wright & Shiney Row, to be Vicar of at present Non-Stipendiary Team Vicar Day 165: Ezra 4-6, Psalm 134, 1 Saturday 14 June. Exod. 40:34-38. Herrington, Penshaw & Shiney Row in the benefice of Egremont and Haile Corinthians 9 Delhi - (North India): The Rt Rev Sunil (Durham). Team Ministry (Carlisle), is to retire Day 166: Enjoy hearing the Scriptures Singh The Rev Carl Peters, with effect from 30 June 2014. read aloud in church Sunday 15 June. Trinity Sunday. Team Vicar of Leek & Meerbrook The Rev Canon Jeremy Oakes, Day 167: Ezra 7-9, Psalm 135, 1 Psalm 1, Acts 3:1-9. PRAY for The (Coventry), to be Priest in Charge of is resigning from his appointment as Corinthians 10 Church of the Province of Myanmar Brandon & Ushaw Moor (Durham). Vicar of Canford Cliffs and Sandbanks. Day 168: Ezra 10, Psalm 136, 1 (Burma): The Most Rev Stephen Than The Rev Lynn Purvis-Lee, His appointment ceases 1 November; his Corinthians 11 Myint Oo, Archbishop of Myanmar and Chaplain of North Tees and Hartlepool last service is 21 September (Salisbury). Day 169: Nehemiah 1-3, Psalm 137, 1 Bishop of Yangon NHS (Durham), to be Vicar of Penhill The Rev Robert Edgar Read, Corinthians 12 Monday 16 June. Psalm 2:1-8, Acts (West Yorkshire & The Dales). Incumbent of Gatley St James in the Day 170: Nehemiah 4-6, Psalm 138, 1 3:10-26. Derby - (Canterbury, England): The Rev Magdalen Mary Smith, deanery of Cheadle (Chester), to retire Corinthians 13 The Rt Rev Alastair Redfern; Derby – Currently Assistant Curate (known as with effect from 30 September 2014. Repton: The Rt Rev Humphery Associate Priest) in the parish of The Rev Susan Helen Shewring, Southern Wilmslow St Bartholomew in the Chaplain, Queen Elizabeth Hospital APPOINTMENTS Tuesday 17 June. Psalm 3, Acts 4:1- deanery of Knutsford, to become Birmingham, Diocese of Birmingham, to 12. Derry & Raphoe - (Armagh, Diocesan Director of Ordinands and retire with effect from 31 March 2014. The Rev Ann Ayling, Ireland): The Rt Rev Kenneth Raymond SSM Curate (known as Associate Priest) The Rev Christopher Spencer, Assistant Curate of Bridport, is to be Good remaining in the parish of Wilmslow St has resigned from his appointment as Associate Minister (Salisbury). Wednesday 18 June. Psalm 4, Gen Bartholomew (Chester), with effect Assistant Curate of Southbroom St The Rev Gary Birchall, 2:4-14. Diocese in Europe - from 01 September 2014 James; his appointment ceased 1 May. Vicar of Burnopfield (Durham), to be (Canterbury, England): The Rt Rev Dr The Rev Jonathan Taylor, He is also resigning from his Vicar of Boldmere St Michael Robert Innes; Suffragan Bishop of the Curate, Caludon Team Ministry appointment as Foundation Governor of (Birmingham). Diocese in Europe: The Rt Revd David (Coventry), to be Vicar, Bibley St Devizes the Trinity Primary School; his The Rev Christine Brooks, Hamid; Europe - (II, The Episcopal Bartholomew. appointment ceases 31 July (Salisbury). Associate Priest of Kinson and West Church): The Rt Rev Pierre Whalon The Rev Olaf Trelenberg, The Rev Pauline Whitmarsh, Howe, is to be Team Vicar (Salisbury). Thursday 19 June. Psalm 5:1-8,11-12, Priest-in-Charge of Sandiacre (Derby) is retiring from her appointment as The Rev David Brown, Gen 2:15-25. Eastern Kowloon - (Hong will be instituted as Rector of Sandiacre, Associate Priest of Forest and Avon Priest-in-Charge, Budbrooke, to be Kong): The Rt Rev Louis Tsui following the lifting of suspension, on (Salisbury). Her appointment ceases 30 Vicar, Budbrooke (Coventry). Thursday, 17th July by the Bishop of June. The Rev Patrick Coleman Derby in his chapel at Duffield. The Rev Denise Williams will be instituted as Vicar of Chesterfield Canon for Reconciliation Ministry, The Rev Julie Wing, will retire on 11th February 2015 St Mary and All Saints (Derby) on Coventry Cathedral. Team Vicar of Great Aycliffe, to be (Liverpool). Friday 18 July. The Rev Philip Hodnett Buss Rector of Usworth (Durham). The Rev Shaun Conlon, has been given Permission to Officiate LAY & OTHER APPOINTMENTS Incumbent of Prittlewell St Mary in the Diocese of Canterbury for three RETIREMENTS (Chelmsford), to become Priest in years with effect from 2 June 2014. & RESIGNATIONS Charge of Ashton upon Mersey St The Rev Beth Hutton, Sir John Parsons Martin in the deanery of Bowdon, with currently holding Permission to The Rev Rosemary Bassett, has been appointed Lay Canon of effect from 5 September 2014 (Chester). Officiate, is to be Associate Priest is resigning from her appointment as Peterborough Cathedral. He will be The Rev Kenneth Crawford, licensed to the Rural Dean of Devizes Associate Priest, Dorchester. Her installed on 6 November 2014. Vicar of Holy Cross, Pershore (Salisbury). appointment ceases 6 June. She will (Worcestershire) to be Priest in Charge The Rev Robert George Iveson, have Permission to Officiate in of Darlington St James (Durham). Minister in Charge of Cheadle Hulme Dorchester (Salisbury). DEATHS The Rev Julia Dallen, Emmanuel in the deanery of Cheadle, to The Rev John Beaney, Assistant Curate with the Netherexe become Incumbent of Davenham St Priest in Charge of Norton (Runcorn) St Churches Mission Community in the Wilfrid in the deanery of Middlewich Berteline and St Christopher in the The Rev Beryl Morgan Exeter Diocese, has been appointed (Chester), with effect from 8 September deanery of Frodsham (Chester), to Died on Sunday 1 June 2014. House for Duty Priest on Sark 2014. retire with effect from 30 September The Rev Robert Thorn, (Winchester). The Rev Eleanor Jeans, 2014. His appointment as Rector of Bride The Rev Jo Davis, Assistant Curate at St Luke’s Thurnby The Rev Canon Michael Bradley, Valley (Salisbury) ceased on 8 April. He Assistant Curate of the Inglewood Group (Leicester) has been appointed Vicar, Flitwick (St Albans), to retire on 1 died in service. (Carlisle) is to be Chaplain of Milton Associate Vicar of Christ the King October 2014. The Rev Preb Kenneth Toovey Abbey School (Salisbury). Kettering (Peterborough). The Rev Adrian Brook, Died on Sunday 1 June 2014. The Rev Canon John Dobson, The Rev Robert Kenway, is resigning from three appointments: The Rev Thomas James Virtue, Vicar of Blackwell All Saints and Team Rector of the Marden Vale, is to be Assistant Curate of Pimperne, Retired Priest died 12 May 2014. Salutation and Priest in Charge of Assistant Rural Dean of Calne Stourpaine, Durweston and Bryanston; Formerly Incumbent at Great Sutton, Coniscliffe (Durham), to be Dean of (Salisbury). Chapter Clerk of Milton and Blandford; Mr Virtue retired in 1997 with Ripon Cathedral (West Yorkshire & The The Rev Jennifer Elizabeth Mayo- and Chaplain to Gypsies and Travellers Permission to Officiate in Chester Dales). Lythall, (Salisbury). He will be Team Rector of Diocese. The Rev Neil Dunlop, Currently Transforming Lives Together North Moor Ministry (Exeter). His Chaplain, North Warwickshire and Development Officer (Diocesan Post) appointment ceases 20 July. Hinckley College, to be in addition, and also to be SSM Assistant Curate The Rev Keith Ernest Hine, Curate, Arden Marches Group (known as Assistant Priest), at Offerton Incumbent of Tarporley St (Coventry). St Alban in the deanery of Stockport Helen in the deanery of The Rev Peter Findlay, (Chester), with effect from 9 July 2014. Malpas (Chester), to Vicar, Westwood St John and Priest-in- The Rev Nicholas Mercer, retire with effect Charge Canley St Stephen (Coventry), Assistant Curate of Gillingham and from 31 August to be Senior Leader, Network Church Milton on Stour, is to be Assistant 2014. Sheffield (Sheffield). Chaplain of Sherborne School The Rev Robert The Rev Michael Firbank (Salisbury). Fielding will be instituted as Vicar of Gresley The Rev Canon Christopher Morgan- has resigned as (Derby) on Thursday 4 September. Jones Chaplain at The Rev Tom Glover, has been given Permission to Officiate Mersey Care NHS Curate of Durham North, to be Rector of in the Diocese of Canterbury for three Trust with effect Winlaton (Durham). years with effect from 1 June 2014. from 31st July 2014 The Rev Dr Alastair Kirk, The Rev Edward Northey, (Liverpool). Anglican Chaplain at the University of at present Curate in the benefice of St The Rev Martin Warwick and Diocesan Inter-faith Mark’s, Barrow in Furness, has been Howard, Adviser (Coventry), to be Vicar, Burley- appointed Hospital Chaplain Site Team has resigned from in-Wharfedale St Mary (West Yorkshire. Leader - Anglican/Free Church, based his appointment The Rev Dr Sarah Hills, at Furness General Hospital (Carlisle). as Team Rector of Bishop’s Adviser in Pastoral Care and The Rev Joanna Elizabeth Northey, Hampreston. His Reconciliation and Hon Asst Curate, St at present Curate in the benefice of St appointment Peter and St Oswald Sheffield, to be Mark’s, Barrow in Furness and Curate ceased 13 May

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‘If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead us to a different dimension where we see all time is r dwells in you, he who raised Christ from the dead sacred and we learn to see it as God’s time. Thus SUNDAY SERVICE will give life to your mortal bodies also through his every day is holy, an opportunity of grace and we o Spirit that dwells in you,’ (Rom 8:11). can learn to recognise these with the help of God’s 1st Sunday after Trinity - Sunday 22nd June 2014 t Spirit at work within. Matthew 10:24-39

c A little note in the lectionary informs us that ‘ordi- Many of us will have had sermons on Whit Sun- Romans 6:1-11 nary time’ resumes on Monday 9 June. Perhaps day reminding us of the need to go on being filled Jeremiah 20:7-13

e you didn’t notice, especially if you were still caught with the Spirit. It is learning to live in the world with

r up in the heights from the previous day, Pentecost. the Spirit’s eyes and ears that keep us attuned to The readings this week are about identity and

i It seems rather a sudden descent from the mighty this other dimension. In the church I go to there is identification, how our new life in union with Christ wind and tongues of flame to be reminded that this a modern stained glass window at the front depict- cuts us off from the world, the flesh, and the devil,

d is just another ordinary Monday. Yet most of us ing the disciples on the Day of Pentecost when the and how painful that disconnect can be. l will have done what we usually do on Mondays: go Holy Spirit fell in power and rested on each one as a The Gospel reading emphasises that being disci- to work, get children off to school, read the post, tongue of fire (Acts 2:1-4). The disciples are face- ples of Jesus is a radical calling that takes priority a By the Revwa Dr Liz Hoare shed and dressed an elderly relative or looked less, which I like because it enables me to place over all our other relationships and commitments. out of the window and wondered if anyone will call myself there and relive in my imagination that A disciple and their teacher will be identified u today. amazing moment of Holy Spirit outpouring along together, even as the one imitates the other. To get t Life can be special everyday or it can be ordinary, with Jesus’ first disciples. It reminds me that today, our prepositions straight, we are not above our i it depends how we look at things. once again I need to ask God to touch me, purify Master, but in him, and if in him then like him as r Maybe the afterglow of Whit Sunday made this me and fill me with his Spirit in order that I may go far as others are concerned. We will be maligned i Monday a bit more special, but how long will it last? out and live in the midst of ordinary and extraordi- along with him because of our close association. Personally I quite like ordinary time, for a bit of nary experiences, whatever the coming week Yet that is not something of which to be afraid, for p routine keeps me grounded. But it doesn’t mean might throw up. our Master is a loving and caring Father, and we

s that God is asleep or off doing something some- There may also be times when we long for a bit of should not censor ourselves nor keep quiet about where else. If we can’t find God in the ordinary we the ordinary as light relief because life is filled with him for fear of others.

e won’t find him at all. Grace is usually discovered in struggle and God’s ways seem completely hidden As a military friend of mine said to me once, hurt surprising places and the Holy Spirit moves in hid- from view. Those times can be difficult for prayer, and fear are minefields in which the enemy spiritu-

h den ways as well as in wind and fire. but if the only prayer we can manage is ‘Fill me with ally eviscerates many believers. Since he had just

t The whole point of liturgical time is that it takes your Spirit today, Lord,’ he hears us, (Luke 11:13). surveyed the D-Day battlefields in Normandy, the image had some resonance and power. Realistical- ly, there will be division on earth if our primary focus is on our Father in heaven: it will even set members of the same family against each other, Jesus said. But a Christian’s primary identity is no Church decline put back! longer their earthly family; the one we are to love above all others, and acknowledge before all, is the By Peter Brierley 5.2 million and 2020 as 4.9 million. These figures are now one who took up his cross for our sake, to show us estimated respectively as 5.4 million and 5.0 million, with the way to life, a path out of the minefield. The recent growth of Fresh Expressions and especially a 2025 forecast of 4.8 million, these being improvements In Romans 6, Paul’s basic point is that if we are the many immigrant and Black Majority Churches of nearly four per cent on the 2015 and 2020 figures. Christians, we are cut off from sin because of our [BMCs] naturally offsets the general membership decline new identification with the one who died to sin. across the UK church as a whole. Other groups are also The impact of immigration God’s grace, his undeserved favour towards us, growing – some fairly small in numbers like the Cathe- It is sometimes difficult to get a feel for the impact of the does not give us an excuse to wallow in our sin. We drals and Lutheran Churches (the latter mostly because many immigrants who have come to Britain these last few have been baptised into Christ, completely identi- of immigrants), and others involving thousands, the years. From the 2011 Population Census, English people fied with him. That outward physical sign points us Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Churches in were 80 per cent white-British, which means that 20 per to an inward and spiritual reality: as far as sin is London which have started at least 35 different language cent came from other backgrounds. In 2001, English peo- concerned we are as dead as Jesus was on Good congregations for immigrants from different countries, as ple were 88 per cent white-British, which means that the Friday as they laid him in a tomb. He died to take confirmed by their latest published statistics. number of white-British people in England has actually the punishment that we deserve for our sin. He “Fresh Expressions” is increasingly becoming a generic decreased in the inter-censal decade (by 3.3 million peo- lived the life we could not live, and died the death name for all kinds of usually fairly informal gatherings ple), while the population as a whole has increased by 1.0 that we deserve but he didn’t. like Messy Church, Pub groups or Café Churches, mis- million, giving an extra 4.3 million people in England in There are times when we may doubt it, when sion-minded churches, Churches Without Walls (espe- 2011 who were not white-British, in addition to the 6.5 mil- walking in newness of life with Jesus day by day cially in Scotland) as well as those specifically named as lion already living here, and giving a grand total of 10.8 isn’t going as well as we’d like it to, and when trou- Fresh Expressions. The BMCs “explosion” has been sig- million people, or 20 per cent, of the entire population. In bles come in battalions to knock us off course. But nificant, especially in Greater London where of the 700 other words the non-white-British contingent in our popu- if we are with Christ, in him, immersed in him, he new churches that began between 2005 and 2012, at least lation increased by two-thirds, 65 per cent, in the 10 years is not going to let us go. We are bound together, 400 were BMCs. The Redeemed Christian Church of God 2001 to 2011. and so must consider ourselves dead to sin and alone has started 296 new churches in the UK in the last That shows something of the scale of the immigration alive to God. He is our new king, so sin does not five years, the largest number for any single denomina- that has occurred and, because a number of these immi- reign over our bodies in the here and now and in tion. grants are “Christian” people, or come from countries the life to come it will have no dominion over us. The phenomenal growth of Fresh Expressions has notionally Christian, an indication of the impact they have Sin will not win, it is not the final victor, and so we been noted and analysed in some detail, especially by Dr had on our church life. resist its claims of sovereignty over us because of George Lings of the Church Army. This movement, while The precise ethnic background of British church mem- the prior claims of another. formally launched by the Church of England in 2005, has bers is not known, so only guestimates can be made when Jeremiah reflects some of this alluring power of been applied (as a name) retrospectively to previous con- specific information is lacking, which it is with many grace. When the Lord overpowers and entices us, gregational starts and is now a collective force, difficult to groups. Church membership has been significantly drawing us to himself, others may mock and heap quantify precisely, but without doubt drawing many new impacted by immigration for much longer than this past scorn upon us. But something like a burning fire people into the churches. decade, but the data to measure it almost certainly does- deep within our bones compels us to go on speak- Dr Lings’ research estimates that, across 10 published n’t exist. ing, and indentifying ourselves with his word. Dioceses in the Church of England, two-fifths (41 per Amidst denunciation and attempts to charm us cent) of those attending are new to the church. Dr Peter Brierley may be contacted on away, we can sing of his deliverance and know that The latest analysis of UK church membership, to be [email protected] persecution will not in the end succeed. published in the forthcoming second edition of UK Church Statistics, shows that overall numbers across the Total UK church membership, Dr Lee Gatiss is Editor of the NIV Proclamation UK continue to decline. However, the good news is that 2005 to 2025 Bible and Director of Church Society the rate of decline has lessened significantly and the mem- (www.churchsociety.org) bership level previously anticipated for 2020 will now most likely not be evident till 2025. The numbers are illustrated in the graph, where the estimated 2020 membership on the blue line (the 2010 trend) is about the number for 2025 on the red line (the HYMN SUGGESTIONS 2013 trend):

The continuing decline is not turning into a U-turn Above all powers because, even if one puts all the growth together, it is still In Christ alone only a small fraction of the whole. But, as Tesco’s slogan From whence this fear and unbelief? says, “every little helps.” It remains the case that for every A mighty fortress is our God one person who joins the church about four people die. Do not be afraid, for I have redeemed you The previous rate of decline has clearly slowed. In 2010 total UK church membership for 2015 was estimated as

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Oscar Grant III (Michael B Jor- a made-up scene where Oscar dan) was a 22-year-old black tends a pit bull dog injured by a man shot on a station platform car. Coogler suggests it’s to par- on New Year’s Day, 2009, by a allel fear of a dangerous dog policeman of San Francisco’s with a stereotype fear of young Bay Area Rapid Transit system black men. (BART). Writer-director Ryan Oscar’s devout Christian Coogler’s film, Fruitvale Station mother (Octavia Spencer) frets (cert. 15), recreates Oscar’s day for him, especially in a flash- leading up to that moment. back to a prison visit that sets up Then from around 2am the a crucial later moment. When film shows events roughly in he calls her from a car, she real time, from a fight on a train insists he stops driving while he to watching Oscar lying, face speaks, and she encourages down and handcuffed, and – him to take the BART for the videoed. It’s one of those phone New Year’s Eve revels as it video clips that we see first, would be safer than driving. before we start the dramatic As he lies critically ill in hospi- piecing together of Oscar’s his- tal, she leads his friends in tory. prayer for him. It’s good to see His girlfriend Sophina (Mel- such explicit faith given promi- onie Diaz) has caught him with nence, yet the prayer seems for- reaction grant’s mother). sion becomes a defence It’s obvious the film is meant another woman, he’s lost his job lorn. The videos and the film show (though the aftermath is dealt to stir action – the official web- for unreliability, his relationship In the States, the film was that the BART cops (played by with only in closing inter-titles). site has links to campaigns for with young daughter Tatania released while George Zimmer- Kurt Cotton, Nicholas Crispen, Coogler, who has a sideline as justice – and we need more of (Ariana Neal) is good but has man’s trial for killing Trayvon Dustin Miller, and Sergio Valle) a counsellor with young offend- that sort of cinema. What takes been disrupted by his time in Martin was nearing its conclu- were dealing with a charged sit- ers, won the Grand Jury Prize at skill is to get an audience to prison (for dealing drugs) - sion, and it’s impossible to uation, with a lot of shouting by the Sundance festival with this, engage emotionally with the other than that he seems a nice escape the racial aspects of this them and at them from train his debut feature film. It is a story, and – ignoring some guy. Some right wing American story. On YouTube, Oscar’s passengers. It’s a bit confused, stunning attempt to give context claims that it’s merely manipula- critics of the film even say he’s mother can be seen making a but how Oscar comes to be shot to a crime, and to show a flawed tive – Coogler has that talent, to depicted as some sort of hero. scripture-rich and God-depend- in the back when the officers young man becoming a victim searing effect. That’s partly because there’s ent plea for justice (Google: had Tasers is where the confu- to police violence. Steve Parish

In Search of Authority, “pervaded much Anglican thought well into the next attention to Butler’s emphasis on probability and the Paul Avis century.” continuing influence this has had on such Anglican Bloomsbury, pb, £65.00 One of the trends that is apparent reading this philosophers and apologists as Basil Mitchell and Ian survey is the increasing importance of reason as one Ramsey. In his treatment of Burke Avis touches on a The Tradition of Liberal of the sources of authority for Anglicanism. A theme theme that might have repaid further attention: the Authority, that Avis stresses is the importance of not seeing the common law’s appeal to custom and precedent and Michael J Langford Enlightenment in Britain as anti-religious in the way the influence this has had upon theology in England. Eerdmans, £11.99 it became anti-religious in continental Europe. Michael Langford is keen to situate his own study Although Avis does not make the comparison, the of liberal theology within the broader history of Paul Avis has launched a same is true of the Enlightenment in America, a Christianity and within the traditions of Anglicanism. series of three books on the point that has been made by Gertrude Himmelfarb. As he makes clear there is a difference between the sources of authority in The range of thinkers Avis discusses is impressive forms of ‘liberal orthodoxy’ he espouses and some of Anglicanism with a volume and so is his readiness to offer his own interpretation the more extreme varieties of liberalism or that examines the topic of their work. Most of the time he is convincing but radicalism. from the Reformation to the every so often he makes a mistake that raises He claims liberalism is an ‘old truth’ and traces the Enlightenment. A second questions about his command of the sources. Both tradition back to Justin Martyr and Origen and volume will take the story Gladstone and John Wesley would be surprised to among the Anglicans he lists in the period covered down to the present and in read they attended Pembroke College, Oxford, by Avis are Elizabeth I, Hooker, Chillingworth, John a third volume Avis will set rather than Christ Church. It was at Christ Church Smith, and Jeremy Taylor. Although not liberal in out his own understanding that Wesley helped to start the Holy Club. Richard Langford’s eyes, William Law is praised for his of theological method. Swinburne left the Church of England for Orthodoxy understanding of redemption. This first volume makes not for Roman Catholicism, a choice that was in line Langford is clear that suspicion of authority and a fascinating and lively reading. One important point with ideas he propounded in his book on Revelation. stress on reason are features of the liberalism he that Avis makes at the very beginning is that we One of the major scholars Avis has to consider is advocates but he does not agree that a reasoned should not see scripture, tradition and reason as Jean-Luis Quantin, the French historian who has approach to religion must necessarily be in tension separate, discrete sources of authority. Although argued that the early church fathers did not really with what is believed from revelation - a point of view modern biblical criticism and historical research become an important authority for Anglican that surely places him in the Anglican mainstream. combined with a greater understanding of how theologians until the 17th Century. Together with Modern movements such as Radical Orthodoxy or culture shapes our thinking have meant that all the Diarmaid MacCulloch and others he has offered a post-liberalism would not be entirely in agreement sources have come under close scrutiny, Avis shows revisionist account of the English Reformation that with the position Langford outlines but he takes this is not a new development. stresses its Protestant aspects. Avis rightly some well-aimed shots at a major authority in An important feature of the book is the attention comments that Quantin gives too much emphasis to modern theology and subjects Karl Barth’s views on Avis devotes to scholars who were not primarily the cerebral and intellectual life of the church and the Israelite settlement of Palestine and theologians and to some who are not always thought that we have to recognise there have always been homosexuality to critical analysis. The discussion of of as Christian. Avis makes a case for seeing Hobbes, Anglican identities rather than one single, Barth is one of many highlights in a well-argued Hume and Gibbon as believers in God if not as confessional identity. account of liberalism in theology, one which, despite orthodox Christians. Hobbes is described as a Avis takes four major figures as Anglican the appeals to Origen or Abelard, sees it as primarily significant figure who ‘changed the rules of the exponents of the Enlightenment: William Law, John a British tradition. game’. “His brand of rationalism,” Avis tells us, Wesley, Bishop Butler and Edmund Burke. He draws Paul Richardson

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But what causes this common meltdown MILEY CYRUS JUSTIN BIEBER of child stars? The Disney Golden Girl was famed for In trouble with the law over drug use and offending many “You’re a child who is working. You have a job. playing Hannah Montana, the daughter of with a leaked video that many view as racist, JB’s crown is That job is a hard job. Everybody thinks being Billy Ray and God daughter of Dolly slipping. Once the YouTube breakthrough star from a a child star is glamorous. But when you’re on a Parton. But then next thing we knew, she Christian family, the 20-year-old is in the media more for his show, you are often carrying a whole show and cut off her hair, broke up wild antics than his work. Despite you know that. You have to pull it off. You have with her fiance and invented all the headlines, Justin has to know your lines. People are making money the Twerk. She knows what always professed his faith. off you,” says Tia Mowry, who co-starred on she’s doing, though. On Last month, it was announced he the series Sister, Sister with her twin, Tamera, THAT VMA performance, would feature in a new rap video at 16. she says: “I know what I’m #iPledge by Brandon Burke, “And then, you have to go to school. You miss doing. I know I shock you.” where he talks openly about his out on a lot of things. I had to miss my prom. So is this rebellion all just appreciation for the tenet of You see these kids on Disney and it seems like an act? She told Rolling $tone forgiveness in the Christian faith. so much fun. At the same time, it’s an 8-year-old magazine: I do these hearing The video is part of Burke’s with a J-O-B. It’s a lot of pressure.” aids for deaf kids in Haiti. We campaign to raise one million “If the parents are able to keep every other go to the schools and fit the pledges for God and Bieber is aspect of the child’s life controlled and normal kids for hearing aids, and putting his name and advocacy and there are continued boundaries and rules, then go back and give them behind the crusade. those are the kids that do well,” says psycholo- to them. It’s the craziest Reports also suggest the artist gist Ginger Clark, an associate professor of experience, because you go in and it’s so wanted to get baptised at Easter by the Hillsong Church, clinical education at the University of Southern quiet, because no one’s ever talked. There which he has often praised and tweeted about. So will he California. are people who are 90 years old who’ve return to his good boy ways? At the tender age of 20, we “If you don’t have a really stable parental unit never talked at all. And then you leave, and think he still has time to get back on the straight and narrow. that’s setting limits ahead of time, then the it’s so loud! They’re all yelling over each An insider to Page Six in the USA: “Justin is serious about his roles get flipped easily and the child becomes other, because they can hear. It’s so awe- Christian faith, and after recent events, he needed to take a the parent. They’re not ready for the responsi- some.” pause.” bility. And you see kids spin out a little bit.”

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