No. 8093 27 APRIL 2018 www.churchtimes.co.uk £2.40 treading the paths of the saints Fr John Musther’s defiant journey pages 20-21

NEWS exploiting the vulnerable? Alfie Evans’s legal team criticised by judge page 3

COMMENT a fight for democracy David Hirsh on Labour’s anti-Semitism problem page 15

REVIEWS gesturing to the depths Richard Holloway looks death squarely in the eye; plus reviews of Tom Wright and Marilynne Robinson pages 23-24

nominate a young interfaith champion page 2 TWENTYfor ONE TWENTYfor ONE 212 NEWS 21 27 April 2018 Know a young interfaith ambassador? We launch a search will select 21 of these — seven Jews, “With a combined audience of seven Christians, and seven Muslims more than 350,000 across the three to find people who — who will receive an award at a communities, we are uniquely placed ceremony in Lambeth Palace in to highlight the many glow ing ex- help to break down November. amples of positive interactions to our The deadline for nominations is readers and viewers, and to spread barriers between 29 June. Each of the media outlets awareness to wider society.” will profile the selected nominees. For more details and the nomina- faiths The judges are: tion form, visit: 21421.co.uk. Christian: the President of the Our partners: Methodist Conference, the Revd Jewish News is the biggest-distri- Paul Handley Michaela Youngson; the Most bution newspaper serving the UK’s Revd Kevin McDonald, Arch- 300,000-strong Jewish com mun- THE Church Times has joined forces bishop Emeritus of the Roman ity. It has an exclusive UK digital for the first time with the newspaper Catholic archdiocese of South- partnership with The Times of Jewish News and the TV channel wark and interfaith lead for the Israel, and has created a number British Muslim TV to encourage RC Church in England and of initiatives, including Night of young people involved in interfaith Wales; and a third judge to be Heroes, Jewish Living Expo, and collaboration. confirmed. Jewish School Awards. This week, the three media Muslim: the Islamic scholar British Muslim TV is a new TV organisations, together with Coexist and imam Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra; channel with a range of edu ca- House, an organisation that supports the writer and broadcaster Sarah tional and entertaining content. religious dialogue, launched “21 for Joseph; the Director-General of the Broad casting 24 hours a day, and TWENTY ONE21”: a search for 21 young people Scottish Ahlul Bayt Society, Imam TWENTY ONE available to watch free on Sky or who are making a significant differ- Sayed Ali Abbas Razawi. stream online, the station’s pro- ence to relationships between the Jewish: Rabbi Dr Harvey Belovski, gramming focuses on the British three Abrahamic faiths. of the United Synagogue; Rabbi Muslim community. forReaders are invited to nominate Laura Janner-Klausner, Senior Rabbi for Coexist House is a global centre people aged 35 or under who have of the Movement for Reform Juda- for transforming public understand- made a contribution to interfaith ism; and Rabbi Joseph Dweck, Senior ing of the practices and perspectives harmony in any field: dialogue, Rabbi, S&P Sephardi Community. of the world’s religions. It was study, social projects, politics, sport, Others: Jonathan Hellewell, special created in 2015 in partnership with etc. A distinguished panel of judges adviser on communities to the Prime the City of London Corporation, 21Minister; Sir Bernard Rix, chair of A spokesperson 21 for the four ward to shining a light on those the University of Cambridge, the trustees, Coexist House; and Michael partner organisations said: “The nar- demonstrating in their work and Victoria and Albert Museum, the Our cover: Fr John Musther in the Wakelin, director of program mes, rative of faiths in constant conflict is their lives how their faith makes Inner Temple, and the Coexist Foun- remains of a chapel in Bragar, on Coexist House. all too dominant today — often per- them more open, not less, to friend- da tion. the Isle of Lewis. Photo Phil Cope The judges will be chaired by petuated by the media. Through this ships and social action across cul- Andrew Gilbert. unique collaboration, we look for- tural boundaries. Leader comment, page 14

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PA Alfie’s parents are ill-advised, judge warns

Campaign ‘not in the was described by the judge as a “deluded and fanatical young man” couple’s best interest’ who had prepared witness state ments “littered with vituperation and bile”. says Supreme Court Mr Stroilov, who is not thought to be a qualified lawyer, also advised Mr Evans that he could remove Alfie Tim Wyatt from the hospital, which would have breached a Court of Appeal ruling THE activist legal group represent- and risked imprisonment for con- ing Alfie Evans, a terminally ill child, tempt of court. Mr Stroilov has sug- has been strongly criticised by a gested pursuing a private prosecu tion judge, Mr Justice Hayden. for murder against the doctors who Lawyers and others from the this week switched off Alfie’s life- Christian Legal Centre — connected support. to the conservative Evangelical lobby Not everyone in “Alfie’s army” of group Christian Concern — have supporters had the best interests of been arguing on behalf of Alfie’s Mr Evans and Ms James at heart, Mr Tom Evans, Alfie’s father, receives an embrace outside Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool parents through a series of legal Justice Hayden warned the couple. wrangles since last December. During an earlier hearing, he said Doctors at the Alder Hey Chil- that he was worried about “those dren’s Hospital, Liverpool, requested around that peck away at the good permission to turn off the 23-month- advice”. Foodbank demand still growing old’s life support and allow him to Police had to form a protective die, as they believed that his condi- cordon around the entrance to Alder tion — an unidentified degenerative Hey on Monday, as supporters tried Madeleine Davies effect in April 2016, means that absolute essentials like food and neurological disorder — was un- to storm the hospital in protest at the people are struggling to afford essen- housing,” the Trust’s chief executive, treat able. Prolonging his life would European Court of Human Rights’ DEMAND for foodbanks has in- tials, the Trussell Trust says. Emma Revie, said on Tuesday. be “unkind and inhu mane”, they refusal to take up his case. creased sharply by 13 per cent, two “Low income” is the most com- Trussell Trust foodbanks in areas argued. Alfie’s parents were earlier repres- years after MPs suggested that it mon reason cited by those referring where Universal Credit has been Alfie’s parents, Tom Evans and ented by MSB Solicitors. A lawyer might have plateaued. people to the trust, accounting for 28 fully rolled out for at least a year Kate James, have appealed repeat- there, Mary Holmes, has accused the The Trussell Trust reported on per cent of referrals. The second- reported an average increase in edly against rulings given in favour Christian Legal Centre of exploiting Tuesday that its 428 foodbanks gave commonest reason was benefit de - demand of 52 per cent. Foodbanks of the doctors, and have taken the the situation. “These people I don’t out more than 1.3 million packages lays (24 per cent), followed by bene- where it has been either not rolled case to the Supreme Court. They believe are in it because they love of three-day food supplies to approx- fit changes (18 per cent). out, or only partially rolled out, have argued that Alfie should be Alfie,” she told The Times. “When imately 666,476 people between 1 Not all referrals are logged elec- showed an average increase of 13 per transferred to the Bambino Gesu this case is over, they’ll move on to April 2017 and 31 March this year: a tronically, and those that are may cent. Hospital, in Rome, which is linked to the next. . . I just think they pick on 13-per-cent increase from the previ- not include detailed data. A sample A survey of 284 people referred to the Vatican, to explore new treat- the vulner able, and they are easy ous year. Eight new food banks were suggests, however, that the percent- a foodbank while experiencing an ment options. prey.” added to the network during this age of “low-income” referrals, where issue with Universal Credit found Mr Justice Hayden castigated Earlier this week, Italy granted period. the person is on benefits and not that, while waiting for their first some of those from the Christian emergency citizenship to Alfie in an In 2015, after the number of par- earning, has grown since 2016, while payment, 70 per cent found them- Legal Centre who have been making attempt to speed a transfer to the cels had increased by 2.3 per cent in the percentage for those who are selves in debt. the parents’ case; and he accused Bambino Gesu Hospital. a year, the All-Party Parliamentary earning and not on benefits has The Department for Work and others of exploiting the case for their A fresh appeal was due to be Group on Hunger suggested that fallen. Pensions said that this was a “small own political ends. heard at the Court of Appeal on demand might have “plateaued” “It’s hard to break free from self-selecting sample”, and was One activist who has been with Wednesday afternoon, after the (News, 11 December 2015). But the hunger if there isn’t enough money carried out before reforms came into the couple in court, Pavel Stroilov, Church Times went to press. freeze on benefits, which came into coming in to cover the rising cost of force.

DIOCESE OF MANCHESTER Bench compan- ion: Jesus the Homeless , a sculpture by Timothy Schmalz, was unveiled outside St Ann’s, Manchester, on Sunday, by Dave, a homeless man. The Rector of St Ann’s, the Revd HAVE A Nigel Ashworth, said: “By giving the homeless LIFE-CHANGING Jesus space outside our EXPERIENCE church we are showing that we Our Journey With Us placement programme is an opportunity stand in solidarity for self-funding volunteers aged 18 to 80 to experience the with the poor and vulnerable.” life and mission of the church in another culture. Other versions of www.uspg.org.uk/journey the sculpture have been sited in Madrid, Washington DC, Dublin, and the Vatican 4 NEWS 27 April 2018

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THANKS to the generosity of £23.5m library our readers, this year’s appeal for the Church Times Train-A- Adam Becket Priest (TAP) Fund has raised more than £40,000. But we are CONSTRUCTION has begun on the new still some way short of last Lambeth Palace Library after the Archbishop year’s total, which came to of Canterbury broke the ground last Friday nearly £70,000. (right). So, if you haven’t already donated, please The library, which will be built in the con­sider doing so. Every penny that you do­­ gardens of Lambeth Palace, is the first new nate goes directly to ordinands, and, from this building at the site for more than 150 years, year, will be used exclusively to alleviate un­­­ and will cost at least £23.5 million (News, 27 foreseen financial hardship. May 2017). Archbishop Welby said that it was a “very exciting moment indeed”, and emphas­ How to give: ised the need for a new facility to look after the GIVING online is easiest for many donors, “extraordinary treasures”. and for us. Simply visit www.hymnsam.co.uk/ He said: “It marks the beginning of making train-a-priest.aspx. This is a secure page with sure that what the head of the National in south-east London. It is the second-largest E’s Director of Libraries and Archives, Declan clear instructions. Archives described as ‘the second most im­ religious collection in Europe after the Vat­ Kelly, felt “very strongly” that there was “no We also accept cheques, postal orders, cash, port­ant ancient library in Europe’ — not just ican, and contains records that go back to the point having these things if they’re never seen; and charity cheques, which should be sent to: in the UK — gets a proper home: a home ninth century. Plans to build a new library why have them if you just hide them away? TAP Fund, Church Times, 13a Hellesdon Park where it can be looked after, and where were announced in 2015 (News, 11 December “They tell us a huge amount about the Road, Norwich NR6 5DR. If you would like an scholars can come and it can be used pro­ 2015). history of the nation, particularly in the pre- acknowledgement, please enclose a SAE. UK perly.” Archbishop Welby said: “It is a huge Reformation period. And it testifies to genera­ taxpayers can boost their gift by making a Gift The current library at Lambeth Palace was, responsibility for the Church to ensure that tion after generation of disciples who loved Aid declaration. Please do this on our online he said, “completely unsuitable for preserving those [the archives] are kept, because they are and followed Jesus Christ. That speaks vol­ dona­tions page, or by enclosing the form on and keeping the extraordinary treasures. The national treasures. We need an up-to-date umes about the centrality of faith in the life of this page. [current] risk is fire, flood, and, above all, building that gives access to scholars, proper the nation over its history.” pollution from this road behind us, which is ability to visitors to see the best of the treas­ When asked what his favourite items in the Spread the word: seeping into the books and the other treas­ ures, and is somewhere that is purpose- collection were, Archbishop Welby mentioned PLEASE encourage other people to give to ures.” designed so what is there can be used, and the gloves that Charles I wore on the scaffold, TAP, too. A colour leaflet can be downloaded The collections include more than 5000 seen, and kept permanently.” the correspondence of the former Archbishop from the Church Times website; and we en­­ printed manuscripts and more than 200,000 The architects Wright & Wright are in of Canterbury William Temple, and the prayer courage churches to hold a special collection or books, which amount to 10km of archives. A charge of the project; the construction is being book that Richard III carried at the Battle of fund-raising effort. Please let us know about large part of the archives is housed at the carried out by Knight Harwood. Bosworth. your support, and your stories, if you are doing Church of England Record Centre warehouse, The Archbishop said that he and the C of www.churchtimes.co.uk/podcast so: we like to mention them in the paper. Trustee position

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Potential ordinands from and call the right people”), Bishop North maintained his criticism that it was delivering estate backgrounds are “a white executive-class priesthood” (News, 11 August 2017). It “feels to many people like put off, says Bishop North three days of being inspected at a public school”, he said. Bishop North’s comments resonated with Madeleine Davies the DDO for Manchester, Canon Nick Smeeton. “Cand idates describe feeling out of SELECTION procedures must change radic- place, and being ‘the only northerner’ at BAP ally if the Church is to expand its priesthood [Bishops’ Advisory Panel],” he said on beyond an “executive class”, the Bishop of Saturday. “There is too often a sense that Burnley, the Rt Revd Philip North, has said. advisers don’t ‘get’ them. On occasion, can- The current criteria deployed by those didates judged to be strong by our diocesan selecting ordinands “hugely favour eloquence team have been non-recommended at BAP. and education and confidence, over authenti- “More fundamentally, there seems to be a city and evangelistic gifts and genuine voca- huge over-emphasis on lived experience over tion,” he said last Friday. “It simply rewards and against potential. Candidates from less Church plant: a cherry tree outside St Peter’s, Aldborough Hatch, in Essex, burst into bloom those who have done professional jobs and affluent backgrounds are far less likely to have last week. It was planted in 2012 to mark the 150th anniversary of the church’s con secra tion have led teams.” There was “a widespread per- had the kind of life chances that enable them ception among northern DDOs [diocesan to evidence, for example, leadership skills.” directors of ordinands] that candidates from The Ministry Division is review ing the working-class backgrounds with northern selection process, and plans to collect more to train for ministry work full-time; so they are Blackpool, participants are a key part of accents are victims of prejudice”. data on the socio-economic background of quite flexible. The support is just tremendous.” outreach work by the Church of England in He was speaking after the annual meeting, candidates in future. On Monday, its director, deprived outer-urban estates. on Thursday of last week, of the National the Ven. Julian Hubbard, said that there was THE Ministry Experience Scheme, which The scheme is supported by the Allchurches Estate Churches Network, at which conversa- “more to be done to im prove. . . Changes in offers young people aged 18-30 year-long Trust, and has an equal number of women and tion about raising up local leadership domin- the style, culture, and format of the Bishops’ placements in churches, has trebled in size men taking part. Nearly one in ten participants ated, the Revd Andy Delmege, Vicar of St Advisory Panel are being considered to ensure over the past three years, a report confirmed last year was from a black or ethnic-minority Bede’s, Brandwood, who chairs the network, that all kinds of candidates, includ ing those this week. There will be 150 participants this background. To date, 46 per cent of those said. from estates, feel able to participate, and are year, compared with 47 in 2015. More than taking part in 2017 attended a BAP, and a “The Church of England has a dominant confident of a fair hearing.” two-thirds of dioceses in the Church of further 21 per cent went on to work or train culture that is often very different from the Panel advisers were “well-trained and able to England are now taking part in the scheme. In for lay ministry. cultures we find on estates,” Mr Delmege said see beyond the surface impression, and are on Tuesday. “This can be off-putting, especi- re quired to seek evidence from can didates ally for people who lack confidence. Putting to substantiate what they say”, he said. “It is people into a very middle-class setting can be right that selection panels are searching and really difficult, as well as our basic assump- personally demanding events for all who tions: that people can afford to take time off work to attend things; that people have access to computers and the internet; even that For a longer version of this story, people have credit on their phones.” The Alban He had spoken to ordained colleagues from see www.churchtimes.co.uk estate backgrounds who described having to “steel themselves before they enter diocesan offices or bishops’ palaces because they are so attend. . . It is equally important that they do removed from what they have come from”. not put any candidates at a disadvantage in Pilgrimage “A key task for us is removing these cultural that process.” and structural barriers so that people from all The Church of England’s head of disciple- backgrounds can answer God’s call to vocation ship and vocation, Catherine Nancekievill, said and leadership,” he said. “How can we estab- that the Church wanted to see more candidates 2018 lish a culture within our parishes and with in coming forward for ordination from working- the wider Church that allows this to happen?” class backgrounds. “We believe that work to While on some estate parishes this culture achieve this should start well before the selec- already existed, others reported that it was “too tion process,” she said. difficult”. Yet, “often, for people on estates, the Church can be one of the key places where MALCOLM HALL, who will continue to work t they can develop and flourish.” full-time as a vehicle-damage assessor in the n C i A comment that had elicited cheers last motor trade when he is ordained in June, a el S week was the suggestion that “lots of clergy describes a positive experience of selection and eb t ra irs selec ted, trained, and deployed under the training. When he began training at Lindisfarne te Britain's F current system are a liability. I don’t see [that] Regional Training Partnership, he had not local discernment and leadership development written an essay since his schooldays, 30 years is any more of a risk.” before. “At first, it was very challenging,” he While recognising that the selection process recalls. “I had never written an essay in a uni- was not the only factor (“it’s about the capacity versity style. But, over the years, with advice St Albannss of the wider Church to recognise leadership and guidance and support from tutors and peers, you build up that experience Saturday CHURCH OF ENGLAND and confidence required to get through the training.” 23rd June Mr Hall, a member of the con- gregation at St Mark’s, Shiremoor, had had thoughts about ordin- Preachers ation, but it was not until someone The Very Reverend Andrew Nunn else suggested it, while he was on a Dean of Southwark Cathedral church weekend away, that he went to see a vocations adviser. Stuart Burns OSB The local panel was “more of Mucknell Abbey daunting” than the BAP, he says. “It felt very strange and alien to

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with people, as I work in an St Peter’s Church environment where everyone is 8 together.” stalbanscathedral.org He praised his training: “They #AlbanPilgrimage Lauren Simpson, a Ministry Experience Scheme participant, are so supportive, and appreciate works in the Bestwood Park estate in Nottingham that a lot of people who do come

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DIOCESE OF CHELMSFORD Essex church flushed with pride at towed facilities

basic level of comfort to meet Adam Becket 21st-century expectations. I am blessed with a wonderful church A CLERGYMAN in Essex has found family. It is an absolute joy and priv­ a way to provide modern facilities ilege to minister to them. And every­ alongside a medieval church. A one is welcome in this church. mobile welfare unit is towed to “Other road users are very gra­ services by the Associ­­ ­ate Priest of St cious, and give way to me. But I got a Andrew’s, Hatfield Peverel, with All puzzled look from the driver of a Saints’, Ulting, the Revd Derek Clark- police car one Sunday, when he saw Mayers. this very long cabin coming towards Mr Clark-Mayers, a semi-retired him towed by a man on a tractor with farmer and former roofer, tows the a dog collar on.” 23-foot unit, which contains a lav­­ The unit will be blessed by the atory and kitchen facilities, to All Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt Revd Saints’, in the hamlet of Ulting, twice Stephen Cottrell, after a service on a month. Sunday at 9 a.m. Bishop Cottrell said: He bought the former show­ground “I have blessed many things in my cabin two years ago, and converted­ it. time, but this is a first for me.” “All Saints’ is a lovely medieval Mr Clark-Mayers said: “We have building in a beautiful location with enjoyed a pet service that the local the River Chelmer and Blackwater children asked for, and a concert of Navigation running by. It is tiny and music by the river. Bacon butties are charming,” he says. a definite hit. “But the church is a family. And “I am happy that the Bishop the church building is the place approves. The ribbon-cutting and where the family meets. I just wanted blessing will be a red-letter day for to give the church family at Ulting a us.” The Revd Derek Clark-Mayers sets off from his farm at Hatfield Peverel with the cabin in tow CMS venture hailed a success

and spread their faith. Ninety per now was the time for the PMC. itual journey in which they discover Tim Wyatt cent of churches said that they had “That’s why we want to see its ‘holy what God is doing in their context, A PROGRAMME used by the Church begun new partnerships with people habits’ practised as widely as possible and what God’s preferred and Mission Society (CMS) to encourage­­ outside the congregation. across England, certainly, but bey­ promised future is for that church churches to make greater mission ef­ Seven in ten people of those sur­ ond it, too, and definitely not just in and community”.­­ forts in their parishes has been praised veyed reported that the PMC had Anglican churches.” In the first year of the three-year by an independent assessment.­­ had a significant or very significant He described it as “a way of re­ programme, the church examines­­ its The TI Group has evaluated im­­pact on their discipleship, while connecting with our God and with context, history, and relationships­­ CMS’s use of the Partnership for more than three-quarters (76 per the world to which he sends us, that with the com­m­­unity, before, in the Missional­­ Church (PMC) pro­ject, cent) said that they had taken on together we may all experience the second year, beginning­ to experiment which began in 2011. It has now been new posts or respons­­ ibilities,­­ either healing and health of the Kingdom with making­­ new partnerships “to ad­ taken up by 82 churches across four in the church or in the community, of God”. dress common­ concerns with Chris­ dioceses. such as be­­­coming a school governor CMS says that the PMC — which tian faith at the heart of the interven­­­ The report finds that the venture or joining a home­­lessness initiative. was originally developed nearly 40 tion”. has been successful in encouraging­­ The executive leader of CMS, the years ago — is a “theological process In the third year, the church churches to reach out to parishioners Revd Philip Mounstephen, said that de­­signed to take churches on a spir­ creates documents that set out what it believes God’s vision to be for the future of its locality, and then holds itself account­able to working towards this. Throughout­­­­­ the pro­ DON’T MAKE A BIG MISTAKE cess, churches meet in clusters with those who are also going through the With anything you buy, you should want to deal with someone programme­­ near by. with whom you can trust, and this is especially important with a At the heart of the initiative are six “holy habits” that parishioners are large purchase, such as your next car. Priory Automotive the expected to grow into: dwelling in renowned Church suppliers have a highly experienced and the word, dwelling in the world, an­ knowledgeable team, who have many satisfied customers from nouncing the Kingdom, hospitality,­­ spiritual discernment, and focusing­ congregations up and down the country. This is testimony that on missional action. they will deliver on their promise of the best quality used car, at The process has been found a great price. challenging. The Rector of St Wilfrid’s, Wilford, in the diocese of Every car supplied by Priory has its history checked out, before Southwell & Nottingham, the Revd being prepared and serviced to the highest possible standard. Phil Marsh, said: “I’ve found the pro­ cess tremendously difficult: on one Nothing is left to chance, MOT, Valet, Warranty, Road Tax, these level because it was really de-skilling. are all completed before delivery, and of course you can be sure I know how to make events happen, I of no dark or hidden history on any car that they supply. Whilst know how to organise people, I can do that. Leading people in spiritual Priory is based in Sheffield, they deliver (free of charge) every car practices that actually shape their directly to their customer’s door, no matter where they are in the missional living is kind of new.” country, so it could not be easier. A Reader at St Wilfrid’s, Densel Davy, said: “We thought that we With their network of manufacturer contacts and bulk buying were a church for the community, but when we started the process we power, they can obtain great savings which can be passed onto dis­covered we were living in a you. If you are considering changing your car, have a look on cocoon.” their website or give them a call as the stock changes daily. The report has identified a few areas for improvement by CMS: the Please call 0114 255 9696 or visit amount and impenetrability of “jargon” needs to be reduced; and the www.prioryautomotive.com scheme must not leave those leading the process feeling isolated. 27 April 2018 NEWS 7

STEVE FAREHAM/GEOGRAPH/COMMONS Clergy meet to exchange ideas for seaside towns Conference discusses challenges. Eighty-five per cent of the workshop. William Bullin, of St the communities have an average Leonards-on-Sea, who observed that the empowerment of salary below the UK mean, and 25 “people have been shut down in per cent of the local authorities with schools from a very early age”, spoke coastal communities the lowest educa­tional levels are on of a need for “people who under­ the coast. There are also fewer stand the form of learning which clergy: 14 priests per 100,000 people, works in those communities. . . A Madeleine Davies compared with 20 nationally. Platonic theology has dominated, At a workshop on leadership, the and that style really doesn’t enable EMPOWERING those who have Team Vicar in the Great Yarmouth ordinary local people to say ‘Well, left school with few qualifications Team Ministry, the Revd Jemma what does that mean when they are and low confidence is part of the Sander-Heys, spoke of an “enormous trying to shut down my pier?’ or ‘We Church’s work in coastal commun­ skills-gap”. Great Yarmouth has the can’t afford to heat our homes well, ities, a conference at Lambeth Palace lowest percentage of people with or feed our children.’” heard this week. higher-education qualifications in Funding for those working for the Against a backdrop of calls to the country: 14.2 per cent, compared Church should also be considered, “liberate” the laity (News, 27 January with a national average of 27.2 per he suggested: “If you want to release 2017), clergy serving parishes in de­ cent. young mums to be able to work with prived seaside towns discussed how She was conscious of a lack of mums and toddlers, and there are no training, funding, and theology confidence, despite the prevalence of wages, there needs to be a mechan­ could serve those who were “shut gifts. “People who are fed a vocabu­ ism to supplement their income.” down” at school, or who were con­ lary of failure, and who are warned An example of an empowered tending with financial hardship. against taking risks and [are] often laity was given by the Revd Nick The discussions took place at put down, will not risk developing Nawrockyi, an interim minister at St Lam­­beth Palace, at the Coastal their gifts — may even come to Francis’s, Cleethorpes, which serves Towns Conference, convened by the believe that there are no gifts in their a growing housing estate. Renewal and Reform team and at­ identity,” she said on Tuesday. “And Threatened with closure during tended by 70 clergy, teachers, and lay people who are afraid of risk will the diocese of Lincoln’s now heavily leaders from coastal communities in warn others of potential risks and criticised “New Era” strategy, it was 15 dioceses. While emphasising the failures, perpetuating a climate of led by the laity between 2008 and variety among England’s 174 coastal anxiety and fear. . . It is a cyclical 2016; a priest was occasionally communities, a strategy analyst at illness, and only divine hope sup­ “parachuted” in to preside at the Church House, Tom Con­way, drew ported by community enables people eucharist. “Those eight years were on data from the Office for National to break out of that cycle.” not a time of decline . . . but a time Statistics and the Social Market Questions of training and theo­ of transfiguration,” Mr Nawrockyi The helter-skelter and big wheel, part of the funfair at Cleethorpes beach Foundation to highlight the logy were explored further during said. Police close the latest Bishop Bell investigation

Tim Wyatt cerns, and that, there­fore, no further investiga­ tion is necessary. SUSSEX Police have closed their latest in­ A spokeswoman for the C of E’s national vestiga­tion into the late former Bishop of safeguarding team said that they had been Chichester George Bell, after fresh infor­ conducting their own separate investigation mation was passed on to them by the Church since the new information was received in of England’s national safeguarding team. January: “We cannot make any further com­ The latest police investigation began after ment until the investigation is completed.” the C of E’s national safeguarding team After the existence of the fresh allegation announced, in January, that they had been was made public, Lord Carlile criticised the given new information about Bell after the decision. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, he publication of the Carlile review in December said that it was “unnecessary and foolish to (News, 2 February). issue a press release in relation to something The Carlile review, which looked into how that remains to be investigated, and which was the Church had handled the original allega­ not part of the material placed before me over tion that Bell sexually abused a young girl in the period of more than a year in which I the 1950s, accused officials of “rushing to carried out my review” (News, 2 February). judgement” and of failing to follow a fair and A key part of his criticism­ of the Church’s equitable process (News, 22 hand­­­ling of the original December). Lord Carlile, HOWARD COSTER allegation was that too who led the review, did not much credence was placed express a view on whether on believing “Carol” — the Bell was guilty or not, pseud­onym for Bell’s because this was not part of accuser — and not enough his remit. on considering the reputa­ On Monday, Sussex tion of the long­-dead Police said in a statement bishop. Alleged abusers, that they were closing their whether alive or dead, inquiries. “The in­­for­ma­ should not be named pub­ tion was assessed and a licly unless an in­­vesti­ga­ting proportionate in- core group found a “proper ves­­tiga­tion has been car­ basis of evidence” for the ried out to clarify the cir­ claims, he said. cumstances. . . Of course The lead bishop on safe­­­­­­­ fur­ther police investiga­tion guarding, the Rt Revd Peter or action is not possible as Hancock, insisted, however, Bishop Bell died 60 years that the Church would al­ ago.” ways seek to put trans­par­ The statement makes it ency before keep­ing al­­leged clear that the police have no perpetrators anon­­­­­­­­y­­mous current safe­guarding con­ Bishop George Bell, portrayed in 1953 (News, 22 December). 8 NEWS 27 April 2018

PA Royal issue: the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge present ‘ A dog collar is like a key their newborn son, outside St Mary’s Hospital, London, on to everyone’s front room’ Monday

IICSA interim report religion, it remained hugely difficult participants”, and that 57,795 pages of to continue to practise their faith. evidence were pro duced. includes quotations The report concludes: “The In- The next significant IICSA invest- quiry has heard that some victims igation into the Church will focus on from survivors and survivors continue to practise the case of the former Bishop of their religion or spiritual beliefs to Gloucester, Peter Ball, beginning in ensure that their children grow up July. Bishops condole after Saudi coach crash Tim Wyatt having faith. Others try to use their “One of the issues it will ex am- religion or spiritual beliefs as a way ine”, the interim report says, “is THE Bishops and Archdeacons of the diocese of Blackburn have said that REFLECTIONS by survivors of of dealing with the sexual abuse they whether there were inappropriate they are “deeply saddened” by news of a coach crash in Saudi Arabia in which clerical child abuse form part of an suffered as a child but can find it attempts by people of prominence to four Muslim pilgrims were killed. Raj Begum Hussain, 70, from Blackburn, interim report from the Independent challenging and be left feeling disil- interfere in the criminal justice died alongside an elderly man and a mother and her grown-up son, all from Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse lusioned.” process after Peter Ball was accused Preston. “Christians understand the importance of making a pilgrimage — it (IICSA), published on Wednesday. Although the Chichester case-study of a sexual offence. It will also con - is a time of deep significance for those making the journey. For such a terrible The Inquiry has been examining was completed too late for its content sider the Church’s decision to allow incident to occur at this of all times is particularly harrowing,” the joint abuse within the Church as one of its to be included in the interim report, Peter Ball to return to a ministry, statement said, promising prayers for the families. strands of investigation, culminating the report notes that there were a total following his conviction for a sexual most recently in a three-week in- of 18 days of hearings and 41 “core offence.” Dean of St Albans shortlisted for see again depth study before Easter of the diocese of Chichester. THE Dean of St Albans, the Very Revd Dr Jeffrey John, is one of four candi d- Although the conclusions from ates shortlisted for the office of Bishop of Brechin, in the Scottish Episcopal those hearings have not been in - Church, after speaking out about his experience of an episcopal election in cluded in the interim report, it does GPs asked to provide Wales last year (News, 24 March 2017). The other three are the Dean of feature the reflections of several Brechin, the Very Revd Dr Francis Bridger; the Rector of St John the Evangel- survivors and victims of abuse in the ist, Edinburgh, the Revd Markus Dünzkofer; and the Dean of Argyll & The Church, collected as part of IICSA’s Isles, the Very Revd Andrew Swift. The election will take place on 2 June. Truth Project. spiritual healing PA The report suggests that survivors respond to clerical abuse largely by Supporter: the Archbishop of Wales, either questioning their religious was part of their job; others accepted the Most Revd John Davies, has paid beliefs or using their faith as a coping Adam Becket that it was becoming more es sent ial. tribute to Carwyn Jones ( pictured), who mechanism for recovery. One GP said: “I think so many of is stepping down after nine years as It quotes one unnamed survivor DOCTORS are increasingly being us . . . prescribe when we ought to First Minister. Mr Jones has been under who said that her experience ruined seen as the “new clergy”, as patients just be slowing down and looking at pressure since the suicide in December her faith for good. “I think the other come to them with spiritual de mands these deepest inner needs or spiritual of Carl Sergeant, a Welsh Assembly bit I’d really like on record is how and questions alongside physical and needs, and accepting that we are the minister who was dismissed over much harm it’s done to my faith, you mental-health queries, new research new, in some ways, the new clergy, harrassment allegations. Archbishop know. . . I also can’t go into church suggests. the new priests that people come to, Davies praised the First Minister’s because I’ve lost all my faith, I don’t A report, published in the British and embracing that because we’re “consistent support” for faith even know any more whether I Journal of General Practice last week, good at it, but going that wee bit fur- communities believe in a god.” interviewed 19 GPs in Scotland to ther into the spiritual issues.” But it also includes the reflections investigate the issue. It argues that There were multiple reasons, Dr of another survivor, who has found family doctors need to become more Appleby said, why GPs would tackle some measure of solace and healing fully aware of spiritual issues and be spirituality with a patient. He said on from Christianity. better at dealing with them. Tuesday: “It is sometimes about “I do go to church and I’m asking One of the authors of the report, approaching death, and realising that Dr Walker calls for further change to two-child limit for the power of religion for help Dr Alistair Appleby, who is a prac- life is finite, or it is about the death of and, believe you me, it is a pain- tising GP, said that spirituality was a relative or child. It can be to do THE High Court has ruled unlawful government regulations limiting when stakingly slow process for healing.” “something that we would all benefit with mental health: they can feel carers of children are eligible for some benefits.The Bishop of Manchester, Dr Another victim told the Truth from talking about more openly, trouble or disturbed by their David Walker, has welcomed the decision. Currently, families who take in a Project that there had to be stronger both in the health-care pro fes sion thoughts. Or it can be issues to do relative’s child and have children of their own are exempt from the two-child vetting for anyone who wanted to and in society more gener ally”. with guilt or shame, difficulty finding limit on benefits only if the child is the third or subsequent child. Those who enter the priesthood. “Screening of The inspiration for the study identity or significance, and locating have children of their own after taking in a child remain subject to the limit. those wishing to enter the priesthood came, Dr Appleby said, when “I felt I affirmative relationships. Dr Walker said that the C of E’s Bishops would continue to oppose the two- and become vicars is very important: wasn’t meeting some patients’ needs. Another of the doctors inter- child limit for all families, because of “the hardship it will cause to children a person with good interpersonal There were several occasions when I viewed for the study said that, quite and the damage to family life”. skills can get in anywhere. A dog was with patients when it was fairly often, they would talk about issues of collar is like a key to everyone’s front clear that I had not made the human spirituality as a patient approached Archbishop Sentamu urges police to root out racism room in the parish.” connection that they hoped for.” death: “It is important that I . . . Some survivors told IICSA that, Some of those interviewed sug- reinforce whatever beliefs they have EVERY police force in the country should revisit the recommendations of the while they had not abandoned their gested that they did not feel that it regarding an almighty, eternal being, Macpherson Inquiry into the Metropolitan Police investigation of the killing and that that is a being who seeks of Stephen Lawrence, the Archbishop of York told Radio 4’s Sunday pro- their best interest, and will be a gramme this week. After describing his own experience of being stopped source of help through this horrible, numerous times by the police, and being called a “black monkey” by a man literally once-in-a-lifetime experi- who did not want him to take a funeral, he called for training and “more ence.” vigilance” by the police. Stereotyping resulted in the “invidious” situation in Another participant in the study which “because people may be white you assume they are guiltless, and when said, however: “I think the answer is, you are black you assume they must be guilty”. I don’t: I don’t go there [spiritually]. I don’t really understand the concept. Former Lincoln housemaster sentenced Intellectually, I can get the fact that some people have spiritual crises, as ROY GRIFFITHS, 82, of South Street, Sherborne, who was charged as part of they might be called, whereby they an investigation into historic child abuse in Lincoln diocese (News, 5 May are doubting their beliefs, or are 2017), has been sentenced to six years and seven months in prison, after some way feeling that they’ve failed admitting six charges of indecent assault while a housemaster at Lincoln their God or whatever, and that’s a Cathedral School. The Dean of Lincoln, the Very Revd Christine Wilson, said bit of a pity. But . . . there’s probably that it was “deeply shameful that those who were abused have had to spend not much I can do about that.” most of their lifetime dealing with the aftermath of the abuse perpetrated Dr Appleby said that medical against them. . . The victims and survivors of Griffiths’ horrendous crimes, professionals had found spirituality a and the families of those who have died before justice could be served, have “very difficult” subject to talk about shown enormous courage.” together. “It has been treated as something quite private . . . so, with Corrections. The Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Paul Bayes, spoke at the this study, I’m allowing GPs to see launch of the Ozanne Foundation, not the Bishop of Leeds (News, 13 April). into each other’s consulting rooms.” The Bishop pictured in our report of the Church in Wales Governing Body meeting on page 9 was the Bishop of St Asaph, not the Bishop of Llandaff Comment, page 15 (News, 20 April). 27 April 2018 NEWS 9 Farmer clears up error on land ownership BILLY PIX/FARMERS WEEKLY Tim Wyatt THE diocese of Birmingham has resolved a dispute with a Warwick­ shire farmer over who owned a 16-hectare piece of land. The farmer, Richard Tyacke, who is 74, first dis­covered that the diocese had reg­istered its freehold ownership of the land when he saw estate agents inspecting it six years ago, without his permission. Although his family had bought the land in 1942 from the Church, the diocese had registered itself as the owner of the 16 hectares — roughly the size of 22 football pitches — with the Land Registry in 2011. When Mr Tyacke’s lawyers pre­ sented the diocese and Registry with documents dating back to the sale, in 1942, of the entire farm to the Tyacke family, the diocese conceded that it was not the owner and backed down. The confusion apparently arose because the Tyacke family were ori­ gin­ally tenants on the Church’s land and separately paid an annual £30 fee to the diocese, historically intended to supplement the local priest’s income. “It was clear the diocese didn’t own the land, and I have no idea how they managed to come to the conclusion that they owned it,” Mr Tyacke’s land agent, James Collier, told Farmers Weekly. “They submitted the applica­ tion . . . based on nothing more than an assumption by their advisers that the £30 annual payment showed a landlord/tenant relation­ship.” The farmer Richard Tyacke, who has settled a dispute with the diocese of Birmingham over who owned a 16-hectare piece of land in Warwickshire Mr Tyacke said that the Church had acted in an “extraordinary” way. “It’s about half-a-million pounds of land in today’s values,” he told the magazine. “If I had died not knowing, AI needs ethics, my family would have been left in such a difficult position.” But, despite accepting the real says Dr Croft owner­ship of the land, the diocese of Birmingham has declined Mr Tyacke’s request for compensation, and said, Adam Becket instead, that the error was made by the Land Registry in wrongly accepting ARTIFICIAL intelligence should be shaped by a “strong their registration in 2011. ethical base” led by the UK, the Bishop of Oxford, Dr A spokeswoman for the diocese Steven Croft, has said. said that the Church of England had Coinciding with the publication of a report on Mon­ an “ancient right” to a regular annual day of last week by the House of Lords Select Committee payment in lieu of tithes, previously on AI, of which Dr Croft is a member (News, 28 July paid to the local Rector. It was this 2017, Comment, 19 January), he said that a new ethical Frances Ashton Charity right that the Land Registry “mis­ framework should come from Europe “with its strong takenly registered as ownership”, she foundation in Christian values”, and, most of all, the UK. Help for serving and retired members of the Clergy of the Church of said. “The Land Registry has now cor­ The report, AI in the UK: Ready, willing and able?, England and widow(er)s of clergy now deceased. rected their mistake and compen­sated argues that the UK is in a strong position to be a world Mr Tyacke. As a gesture of goodwill, leader in the development of AI. Since 1747 Frances Ashton’s Charity has been helping those who spend their lives the diocese of Birmingham also wrote Dr Croft wrote in a blog that the new ethical frame­ to Mr Tyacke, agreeing to waive the work for AI would not come from large technology serving God and their parish. right to any future payments on the companies in Silicon Valley, because they “seek the land.” minimum regulation and maximum freedom”; nor The Frances Ashton Charity will consider a modest grant for almost any purpose She said that the registration in would it come from China, which had a “very different which is causing financial hardship. For example, we could help with: 2011 was made in good faith and with view of how personal data should be handled. . . It is most the best information that the diocese likely to come from Europe, with its strong foundation in • The cost of a new pair of glasses had to hand at the time; but given the Christian values and the rights of the individual and • A respite care break for a disabled family dependent concern that the incident had caused most of all, at present, from the United Kingdom, which • The cost of a family holiday the farmer, the diocese was “happy to is also a global player in the development of technology.” offer an apology for our part in this He told the news website Politico on Monday of last • The cost of repairing a broken boiler mistake”. week that “because the actual application of artificial Particular priorities for support include unforeseeable emergencies, medical or care But a spokeswoman for the Land intelligence has outstripped public awareness of what Registry said that it was not at fault, artificial intelligence can do, we are in a situation where needs for the applicant or their dependents. In some cases, the trustees may be able although it has paid some compensa­ ethics become extremely important.” to help at any point during the year. There are a few exceptions where the Charity is tion to Mr Tyacke to cover his legal There was “immense potential for good” in AI, such as unable to help, for example private education. costs because they were caused by an driving up productivity levels and allowing for advances error in the register. “When con­ for medicine, but also “significant risks”, such as the way If you are a serving or retired member of the clergy of the Church of England or the sidering each applica­tion, we use the personal data might be manipulated, Dr Croft wrote. widow/widower of a member of the clergy who has passed away and you have a hard- Land Reg­istration Act and Rules to The Lords report sets out five core principles­ for the decide if an ap­­­plication can be regis­ new Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation to use as a ship, please ask us for an application form and the full guidance notes. tered,” she said. starting-point for its work: that AI should be “developed “When an error occurs in this for the common good and benefit of humanity”; that it For an application form and guidance please contact: process, we use the same Act and should “operate on principles of intelligibility and Frances Ashton Charity, Beech House, Woolston, Somerset BA22 7BJ Rules to determine what action should fairness”; that AI should not diminish data rights or be taken and whether we can rectify privacy; that all citizens should be able to be educated to Telephone: 07775 717 606 Email: [email protected] the register. Anyone who suffers loss enable them to flourish along with AI; and that the Website: www.francesashton.co.uk because of an error in the register can “autonomous power to hurt, destroy or deceive human apply for compensation.” beings should never be vested” in AI. 10 NEWS 27 April 2018 Clergy and laity doubt accuracy of letter to the States

said that there had not been time to as he acknowledges, his response is riage between a man and a woman is week said that the response of LGBT Lack of consultation consult the wider Church, and that it simply the fruit of conversations contrary to God’s will”, was a people to developments in the “reflects discussions among staff of held among a small cadre of profes- “sweeping assertion” that could not Episcopal Church “often seem absent and transparency the Church’s Archbishops’ Council sional staff. As a governance matter, be substantiated, given that the in your pronouncements”, and that only”. This raises questions of gov- this will not, we think, do.” Church had “never asked her regular the Anglican Communion had been also questioned ernance, says a letter to the Church Canon Simon Butler, Vicar of St worshipping community what it used “as an excuse for our failure to Times, signed by more than 110 Mary’s, Battersea, and a member of thinks and believes about this”, the acknowledge the diversity of views in members of the clergy and laity, who the Archbishops’ Council, confirmed Church Times letter says. the Church of England, and to speak Madeleine Davies say that they wish to “dissociate” online last Friday that Mr Nye’s Another letter, from members of with integrity and courage the truth THE accuracy of a letter sent by the themselves from Mr Nye’s response. letter “does not reflect the views of the General Synod Human Sexuality of our people”. secretary general of the Archbishops’ “Unless the content of the letter is the Archbishops’ Council. We have Group points out that Mr Nye’s “We saw in ECUSA’s brave and Council, William Nye, to the Epis- tested synodically, he surely cannot never been asked. . . As a Council responses had not been reported to costly decision some hope that copal Church in the United States, claim to speak for the Church of member I was not even made aware the General Synod in February, or change might come for us, too,” it and the lack of consultation and England as a whole,” they write. “Mr of the existence of this consultation, published by a C of E body. It was, says. transparency accompanying it, have Nye’s letter, written on Archbishops’ let alone asked to comment.” “at best, an over-simplification of The Bishop of Willesden, the Rt been criticised. Council stationery, gives the im- Mr Nye’s suggestion that “for a opinion within the Church of Revd Pete Broadbent, argued online In a response to a consultation by pression that he was acting as an majority . . . in the Church of England”. that Mr Nye was “stating the existing the Episcopal Church on same-sex agent of the Council and its trustees England, Holy Scripture is held to A letter from OneBodyOneFaith position of the Church of England”. marriage (News, 20 April), Mr Nye and writing with its authority. But, rule that sexual activity outside mar - to Mr Nye published elsewhere this Letters, page 16

SEAN HAWKEY/WCC Water challenge: 18-year-old £2.7bn aid Yanina Avila, the daughter of an assassinated to stop rise Tolupán in - digenous leader, in Montaña de of malaria la Flor , Honduras. The photo is part of staff reporter an ex hibi tion “The Blood THE leaders of the Commonwealth Flows and the have pledged £2.7 billion to try to River Runs Dry”, halt the resurgence of malaria. that portrays At a summit convened by the Bill the need for and Melinda Gates Foundation in the water justice in run-up to this Wednesday’s World Latin America, Malaria Day, Commonwealth leaders at the World were asked for a commitment to Council of halving the number of malaria cases Churches’ over the next five years. Six out of ten Ecumenical cases around the world occur in Centre in Com monwealth countries. Geneva until 2 The latest figures from the World May. Health Organization show that in www.oikoumene. 2016 there were 216 million malaria org cases globally, an increase of five million cases since 2015. In 2016, 445,000 people died from the disease. Bill Gates told the summit: “If there is one lesson we have learned . . . it’s that we have to keep in novating to control malaria, because condi- tions evolve.” He called for more investment in satellite monitoring of mosquitoes, to allow scientists to identify strains of malaria parasites and track resist- ance, and to create more specific inter vention packages. His foundation pledged an ad- ditional £700 million over the next five years to fighting the disease. Tasmania diocese sells properties to fund redress The UK Government has said that it will also invest £500 million a year Muriel Porter survivors of child sexual abuse. In a pastoral letter, the Bishop of tion, and support of survivors of for the next three years in eradicating The plan, to go before the dio- Tasmania, Dr Richard Condie, said sexual abuse”. malaria. Australia Correspondent cesan synod in June, will involve the that the redress money would be Describing it as “an extraordin- New treatments for the disease are THE diocese of Tasmania will sell sale of churches, halls, houses, and raised through a proportion of the arily painful exercise”, Dr Condie being developed, including the first more than 120 church properties in land — estimated to be about half sale proceeds, and from parish funds, said that it would mean that “a malaria vaccine, which will be used a bid to raise the estimated $A8 the property owned by the diocese, and two ministry funds. He has number of our parishes will be to protect young children in selected million required to make new and which comprises 48 parishes across commented that the diocese is significantly altered, and many areas of three countries in Africa additional redress payments to the island state. committed “to the justice, recogni- ministries will be disrupted.” The where the vast majority of cases and sales would occur over the next three deaths from the disease occur. to four years. He continued: “Sadly, More than one million people die

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Jed was your typical disaffected youth – tracksuit, cap on back to front, and a cigarette behind one ear. He was 11 and small for his age but managed to command a following of six lads who were older “than him. They hung around smoking and drinking outside the church where I was running a three-day sports holiday club.

They were there for the sport – there’s not much to do on a run-down housing estate. But they made it clear that church and God weren’t for them. We shared testimonials and Bible messages on the theme of forgiveness. You couldn’t tell whether they were taking any of it in.

But on the third and final day of the club, we were playing basketball in the hall, and Jed asked me, ‘Can I be forgiven?’. I told him ‘Of course – God’s here to save us and anyone can be forgiven – me and

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A few weeks later, I saw him and his gang outside the local

supermarket. In front of his mates who were listening in, he told me how he’d raced home after the club to tell his mum, ‘I can change my life, I can be forgiven!’ and how he and his mum had gone to church the following Sunday. Sports ministry is a brilliant way to introduce kids to the gospel – it “ was how I found Jesus as a teenager. It can reach the kids that are hardest to engage with. Jed had never heard about Jesus, but he has now. His mind has been opened, and I can see he’s hungry for more.

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REUTERS Priest murdered in his church in Mexico A ROMAN Catholic priest, Fr Ruben Alcantara Diaz, was stabbed to death in his church, Our Lady of Carmen, in Cuautitlán Izcalli, Mexico, last week, becoming the 22nd priest to be killed in the country in the past six years. He was about to begin the mass, the Catholic Herald reported. The assailant alleged abuse in his shouts and fled the scene, the Mexican newspaper Reforma reported. Two priests were killed in Mexico in February (News, 9 February). A report last year said that the assassination of 31 priests had been registered in the past ten years, including 15 in the past four years, alongside threats, extortion, kidnapping, and torture (News, 7 April 2017). Canadian same-sex resolution could be amended THE Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, the Most Revd Fred Hiltz, has said that the resolution to change the marriage canon to allow for same- sex marriages might itself be amended to include protections for those with opposed views. Archbishop Hiltz said last week that it was a “possibility” that the resolution, passed at first reading at the last General Synod in 2016, will be amended at the next Synod in 2019 to that end. Another possibility is that another resolution will be made to change the canon so that it “would enable the Church as a whole, as a General Synod, to say something clearer to conservatives who want to remain in our Church”, Archbishop Hiltz said. Preparations for the second reading were a crucial topic at the meeting of the Canadian House of Bishops this month, he said. Anglican fabric torn, say GAFCON Primates GAFCON’s Primates’ Council has warned that the 2017 Primates’ Meeting in Canterbury “has contributed to a deepening of the divide in our beloved Communion”. In a communiqué released this week after a meeting of An interfaith service is held at a makeshift memorial to victims of the van attack in Toronto, on Tuesday GAFCON in Uganda, the Primates said that, having received a report from those who attended the Canterbury meeting, they are “grieved that the Communiqué from that meeting did not accurately describe the relation­ ships that have been broken by The Episcopal Church in the United States, the Anglican Church of Canada, and the Scottish Episcopal Church” over same-sex marriage. “These provinces have torn the fabric of the Anglican Hiltz: ‘Toronto weeps’ Communion. They are not walking together with us.” ANGLICAN ARCHIVES Canadian Primate Officials and police are yet to link “It is hard to comprehend such the attack with any particular mo­ violence.” leads prayers after tiva­­­tion, although they have said that He continued: “In the midst of it appeared deliberate. such trauma, in the fear and con­ van attack kills ten Archbishop Hiltz said: “As people fusion, anger and heartache, may we of faith, our first response is to know that God is with us, with up­­hold all those affected by this mercy and justice, healing and com­ Installed: the new Primate of Adam Becket tragedy in prayer: those who died passion. As the events unfold, may the Episcopal Church of and their grieving families; the we find ways to comfort one another South Sudan, the Most Revd THE Primate of the Anglican injured and their families who keep in grief, and support each in our Justin Badi Arama, before his Church of Canada, the Most Revd vigil at their bedsides, and their resolve to be a community of free­ inaugural service in All Fred Hiltz, has led prayers for medical teams; the leaders of faith dom, unity, and peace.” Saints’ Cathedral, Juba, on Toronto after a van attack left ten communities, and all who provide The Roman Catholic Archbishop Sunday dead and 15 injured on Monday. support through accompaniment of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Col­ Archbishop Hiltz said on and counsel. . . lins, also expressed his condolences Tuesday: “As Toronto weeps, we “To that day when violence shall after the attack. He told Vatican Kachin Christians released from prison in Myanmar know so many others weep with us. no longer be heard and seen in our News on Tuesday: “It’s very sad As we turn to God for consolation, streets, we look with hope; and for what has happened, when all these TWO ethnic Kachin Christians, Dumdaw Nawng Lat and Langjaw Gam we know so many others turn with its coming let us pledge our best innocent people going about their Seng, have been released after being jailed in Myanmar in 2017 for assisting us and we are grateful.” efforts so that the safety of all people, daily life have been struck down in journalists reporting on the bombing of a Roman Catholic church by the A suspect, Alek Minassian, was the freedom of our neighbourhoods, such a tragic way — I certainly pray country’s army. They were among 34 political prisoners released on 18 April, charged with ten counts of first- the peace of our cities can be se­ for them, for all of their relatives — Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported. The charity’s East Asia team degree murder and 13 counts of cured.” when this violence came just out of leader, Benedict Rogers, welcomed the prisoners’ release, but said that they attempted murder on Tuesday after The Archbishop of Toronto, the nowhere.” should never have been arrested. “We urge the government of Burma to a rented van ran down pedestrians Most Revd Colin Johnson, offered Churches around the scene of the release all remaining political prisoners, to reform or repeal repressive laws, on a busy pavement in the Canadian prayers “for those who are physically attack have been opened for “prayer and to stop arresting journalists, human-rights defenders, civil-society city. It is one of the deadliest incid­ injured or suffering emotionally­ and pastoral care”, including St activists, or ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate humanitarian and ents of violence in the country’s his­ from having witnessed such carnage, George on Yonge, the closest to the human-rights activities.” tory. and for having lost loved ones. incident. Indian Christian injured in faith-related attack THANGARAJ RAMASAMY, a Christian in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu state, in southern India, was left with severe injuries to his head and shoulders Ukrainian Orthodox told to split after being attacked last week by a neighbour, CSW reported. It is alleged that he had been accused of “sharing his faith”. Concern has been rising over staff reporter million Orthodox Christians, in key tools of influence over Ukraine”. anti-Christian activity in the southern Indian state. Sixty attacks have been Istanbul this month to seek support The smaller Kiev Patriarchate reported there in the past 15 months, the Synod of Pentecostal Churches of UKRAINE’s pro-Western leaders for the call for inde­pendence. broke away from Moscow in 1992 Tamil Nadu reports. CSW’s chief executive, Mervyn Thomas, said: “It is very have called for its Orthodox Church The Moscow Patriarchate is the after the collapse of the Soviet concerning to see that hardline nationalist groups are being allowed to set to split from Russia and become biggest Orthodox Church in Union. Neither the Kiev Patriarchate the religious agenda for Tamil Nadu. Their ideology of intolerance and independent. Ukraine: President Poroshenko told nor the existing Auto­cepha­lous communal politics polarises communities.” President Petro Poroshenko ap­­ the Ukrainian government that, in Ukrainian Ortho­dox Church are peared on national television this his opinion, the Krem­lin “regards recognised by the Russian­ Orthodox­ PA week to call for “autocephaly”, or the Russian Church as one of the Church or the Moscow­ Patri­archate­ Americans mourn: the independence for the Ukrainian Or­­ in Ukraine. procession at the tho­dox Church, which is part of the PA This week, the Holy and funeral of Barbara Moscow Patriarchate. Sacred Synod called by Bush, the former He said: “I would like to emphas­­ Patriarch Bartholomew United States First ise that the Ukrainian Autocephal­ issued a state­ment that said Lady, at St Martin’s ous Orthodox Church is a key ele­m­ that it would “clos­­ely com­ Episcopal Church, ent of our statehood and independ­ ­ municate­­ and co-ordinate Houston, last ence. with its sister Orthodox Saturday. Mrs Bush, “The army defends the Ukrainian­ Churches concern­ ing­ this the wife of the former land. The language pro­tects the matter”. President George Bush Ukrainian heart. The Church pro­ Opposition leaders in and the mother of the tects the Ukrainian soul.” Ukraine have criticised the former President He met the Ecumenical Patriarch move as politically motiv­ George W. Bush, died of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, A view of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (“Monastery ated, in the run-up to last week aged 92 the spiritual leader of the world’s 300 of the Caves”), in Kiev, Ukraine elections next year. 27 April 2018 NEWS 13 Commonwealth acts for oceans Priests killed PA in Nigeria Joe Ware AFTER the Commonwealth Heads of Govern- staff reporter ment meeting last week (News, 20 April), Christian Aid’s senior climate-change adviser, AT LEAST 16 people, including two priests, Mohamed Adow, said that it was no surprise are believed to have been killed in an attack that the issue of climate change had featured so on a church in central Nigeria. prominently in the discussions. Richer nations A police spokesman told the Reuters news should, he said, have “greater ambition” to agency that the attack took place at about 6 tackle the issue. a.m. on Tuesday, in Benue State, an area Among other outcomes at the meeting was a affected by ongoing conflict between farming proposal for a Commonwealth Blue Charter, a communities and Fulani herdsmen. co-ordinated initiative to protect the ocean The Roman Catholic diocese of Makurdi from climate change, pollution, and over- confirmed that two of its priests, Fr Joseph fishing. It includes a joint push by the UK and Gor and Fr Felix Tyolaha, had died in the Vanuatu to take the lead on tackling ocean attack, which it blamed on herdsmen. plastics, incorporating the UK’s £60-million Witnesses said that the attackers stormed commitment to the Commonwealth Clean the mass being held at 5.30 a.m. in St Ocean Alliance. Ignatius’s RC Church in Mbalom, before Nations also committed themselves to setting light to homes near by. Some local limiting global warming to 1.5 , in line with the news reports suggested that the dead could Paris agree ment (News 18 December 2015); but number as many as 19. experts warned that current actions did not go The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu far enough to meeting this goal. Buhari, an ethnic Fulani, has been accused by Mr Adow said that many of the 53 member The Prime Minister walks with Commonwealth leaders at Windsor Castle last Friday, when officials critics of failing to crack down on the herds- states were “affected by rising temperatures and met to discuss who should succeed the Queen as Head of the Commonwealth men because they are from the same ethnic rising sea levels. From the Pacific islands to group as him. sub-Saharan Africa, the people of the Com- In a statement after the attack, he said: mon wealth are on the front line of a changing that the UK would help those who had suffered position should be rotated through member “Violating a place of worship, killing priests climate. “anxieties and problems”. She said: “The UK heads of state. and worshippers, is not only vile, evil, and “Through the G7 and into the UN will do whatever it takes — including, where Before the discussions, which took place at a satanic: it is clearly calculated to stoke up ne gotiations in Poland in December, it is vital appropriate, payment of compensation — to re- retreat in Windsor, the Queen declared that it religious conflict and plunge our commun- we see greater ambition from wealthier coun - solve the anxieties and problems that some of was her “sincere wish” that Prince Charles be ities into endless bloodletting.” tries.” the Windrush generation have suffered.” chosen as her successor. When pressed at the Benue State lies in Nigeria’s so-called The other issue to dominate proceedings Leaders of the Commonwealth also agreed final media conference about whether there Middle Belt, which separates the predom- throughout the week was the reported last Friday that the Prince of Wales would were any dissenting voices on the matter, Mrs inantly Muslim north from the largely deportation of Windrush -generation migrants succeed the Queen as Head of the Common- May said: “The view was unanimous that Prince Christian south. At least 72 people died there (News, 20 April). In her closing remarks, the wealth. The position is not hereditary, and Charles should be the next Head of the in a few days of violence early this year Prime Minister reassured Caribbean leaders there was some discussion about whether the Commonwealth.” (News, 5 and 12 January).

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Wages of sin THERE are strong indications from the Treasury that the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, is planning to accede to requests from C of E bishops and others to reduce the maximum stake on fixed-odds betting machines from £100 to £2. The decision has not been formalised, but hints have been dropped to a national newspaper (in this instance The Times), which by now has be­­­ come the standard way in which the Government prepares people for a controversial policy change or, alternatively, tests the waters of public opinion before committing itself. If, by any chance, this is the latter, Mr Hammond can be sure that every concerned church person will back the change. The Gambling Commission inquiry in March was guarded about the evidence for reducing the maximum stake, but it did criticise the con­­ centration of gambling machines in areas where incomes are low and dreams of salvation through a big win are cor­­respond­ingly high. Betting companies are not benefactors with big hearts, for all their generosity with free online plays to hook punters in. Mr Hammond has hesitated because of uncertainty over how he might replace the lost tax income, but even members of his State-owned churches are own party have questioned this line of thinking, given the social cost of machines on which approximately 250,000 people a year lose more than £1000 — a feat that can be accomplished in less than four minutes with (bad) luck. To quote one Conservative not the answer, Sir Simon MP: “The damage to society is not worth the tax revenue.” There is a long tradition in the UK and elsewhere of “taxing sin”, i.e. raising revenue from alcohol, cigarettes, and gambling. But to The cold hand of secular authority cannot replace the stewardship take a cut from a system that exploits addiction and causes harm is to be implicated in the causes of that harm — particularly foolish of a living, breathing community, says Edward Dowler when, ultimately, the state has to bear the cost of supporting­ families made destitute by problem gambling. Mr Hammond might wish to pay attention to Proverbs 28.19: “He that followeth SIR SIMON JENKINS provoked “big state solution” that he advo­ This is not a call for iconoclasm. after vain persons shall have poverty enough.” heated debate on Good Friday when cates. Guardianship by the cold hand In my own experience as a parish he argued in The Guardian that of secular authority cannot replace priest, the original character of the church buildings­­­ should be taken the stewardship of a living, breathing two Victorian churches for which I into state ownership and then passed community that, in line with the had responsibility was greatly en- over to parish or town councils, who original purpose and con­secration of hanced by what was, in retrospect, a 21 for 21 could levy a church tax to main­tain these buildings, gathers in them day fairly ruthless drive to declutter them. by day and week by week to seek the them, strip away unnecessary accre­ ALL religious leadership involves an element of peacemaking and Freed from suffocating church Lord’s face, and to offer him the tions, and restore them to something reconciliation. The priority for the faithful is their relationship control, they could happily become sacrifice of praise. like the vision of their original with God, but this is generally mediated through other people. A multi-purpose buildings: “crèches, When churches are warm, have architects — who did, in fact, know good leader accepts the need for people to follow their own con­ libraries, day centres for the elderly, reasonably comfortable seating, lav­ what they were doing. sciences,­ but has an eye to the well-being of the community, and an places to collect a pension, pick up a atory facilities, and kitchens, new Thus restored, the buildings had apprec­­ ­iation of mutual benefit through prayer, study, and worship. parcel, connect to WiFi, meet a groups of people will naturally come the ability not only to host a range of friend, or have a drink”. to use them, and organic (rather cultural, social, charitable, and, at All this is hard enough within one iteration of faith. The diffi­ Even if it were the case that local than state-imposed) development times, commercial activities, but to culties multiply as people of other faiths are drawn in. It is in councils and taxpayers were, as Sir breathe and to sing as places of recognition of this that the Church Times, Jewish News, British Simon seems to suppose, itching to worship: their character as sacred Muslim TV, and Coexist House have combined forces to seek out liberate C of E congregations from spaces was enhanced, not under­ interfaith leaders from among the younger generation: 21 leaders responsibility to maintain their his­ The character of mined. for the 21st century. The present travails of the Labour Party toric buildings, how desirable would this be? “restored buildings THERE is no zero-sum game be­­ show the need for interfaith engagement and sympathy — and also Not far across the Channel from can be enhanced tween extending the use of churches the need for clear and enlightened leadership. We encourage our my own archdeaconry, in a country by the community and their use for readers to nominate young people whom they know for an award. where the state has responsibility for Christian worship. Without the church maintenance, the city of heavy, unused, cumber­some furni­ Rouen provides an interesting case will occur. So, perhaps two things ture and accumulated clutter of ­ study. A stunning 1970s church are particularly necessary. different kinds, the essential features dedi­cated to St Joan of Arc sits in the First, funding and help is needed of these buildings will again stand centre of town on an integrated site for PCCs to maintain and adapt out. Their dimen­sions and orienta­ Clergy and military service with a sumptuous food market. their buildings, as the vast majority tion will be able to speak more Designed to evoke an overturned are very keen to do. In this context, clearly to all comers of the plenitude So far as is possible, one priest will ship, and with stunning restored the pilot scheme set up in the and majesty of God. be left to minister to each parish, 16th-century windows, it buzzes aftermath of the Taylor review is a Standing out in greater relief, wall but the withdrawal of many of the with light and life. welcome move in the right direction paintings, icons, statues, and April 26th 1918 younger men will involve the sus­ In contrast, however, the two (News, 6 April). It has included the Stations of the Cross will provide a pension of many parochial activ­ enormous Gothic churches of Saint- pro­vision of dedicated advisers, and clearer focus for the prayer of [A Lambeth Palace meeting had ities. This is, of course, very regret­ Maclou and Notre-Dame (Rouen’s a measure of financial support — visitors and pilgrims. And, for the discussed how to allow the clergy to table, but worse things would cathedral) tell a very different story. albeit very limited, at £1.8 million. worshipping congregations, the gifts respond to their country’s call.] befall us if every man who can be Grey and unkempt, with parts falling Second, the presupposition in of the word and sacramental life will THE Bishop of London has set the spared did not play his part in the off them both inside and out, they some quarters that church reorder­ be given renewed emphasis by the example, which some of his breth­ defence of the country. But, in speak of dereliction and decay, ing should be viewed as a “harm” increased prominence of the font, ren are following, of a comb-out of whatever capacity the clergy may despite having what, in Anglican that needs to be outweighed by some the altar, and the lectern. the clergy in his diocese. Neither serve, they will still be priests, and, terms, would be regarded as large re­sulting benefit should surely be It can be hoped and expected that he nor the priests under him we may be sure, will remem­ber congregations. reconsidered. As Sir Roy Strong has such developments will lead to a desire to avail themselves of the that they are such. Their oppor­ argued forcefully, if church buildings refreshed, renewed, and increasingly exemption from military service tunities for influencing­ their com­ SIR SIMON is surely correct to are to survive, adaptation and God-centred worshipping life, which granted them by the Act, and rades will be immense, and we argue that, to have a future, many change will be as necessary in the will, of course, ultimately be needed every man under fifty-one will be should hope that they will be given church buildings will need to be future as they have been in the past. if Sir Simon’s baneful predictions are at liberty to volunteer, even for facilities for exercising their opened up for a range of community­ Such adaptation — within limits, of not to become a reality. service as a combatant, the Bishop priestly office at the Front or at activities that complement­ the core course — can be viewed as a positive promising them dispensation from home, so far as their military purpose of Christian worship (Com­ good: part of the unfolding narrative The Ven. Dr Edward Dowler is the the consequences of irreg­ular­ity. duties will allow. ment, 6 October 2017). But this of a building and a community Archdeacon of Hastings in the diocese cannot be achieved by the sort of within the providence of God. of Chichester. 27 April 2018 COMMENT 15 Angela Tilby Labour’s anti-Semitism problem Until Jeremy Corbyn takes responsibility, the issue will not go away, argues David Hirsh Deliver us from PA FROM the outside, the fight over The Labour MP the Evangelical anti-Semitism in the Labour Party Luciana Berger, must look like one that many will who has received takeover wish to stay out of. Let the Israelis anti-Semitic and the Arabs fight this one out; let abuse, speaks at a Jews fight among themselves. protest against THE communication gap between But this is an issue not only for anti-Semitism in the Church and the rest of society Jews, but for anyone who cares about the Labour Party, grows ever wider. British democracy. The rise of anti- in Parliament A recent study published in a Semitic populism in the Labour Party Square, last month journal for doctors suggests that GPs is related to the ascendancy of xeno­ are unsure of how to deal with pa­ phobic and racist populism across the tients who are suffering “existential mainstream of British politics. distress”. One suggested that GPs Anyone who is in doubt that the must simply accept that they are “the problem is serious would do well to new clergy”, and must attend to revisit last week’s House of people’s spiritual needs. The author Commons debate on anti-Semitism. of the report commented that British­ Labour MPs — most of them people’s reluctance to talk about women, such as Luciana Berger and religion publicly had made it difficult Ruth Smeeth — spoke of the anti- Mr Corbyn brought a version of real and nasty, but it is funda­ amples of anti-Semitism which every­­­­ to discuss­ this. Semitic abuse that they had received this politics to the centre of the mentally a small and localised fight body can recognise as anti-Semitic — Yet inside the Church there is no from supporters of Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, and attracted people over land. The temptation to explain “crude stereotypes of Jewish bankers”; shortage of talk about mission and and how it was connected to the into the party who liked these kinds anti-Semitism by reference to the “conspiracy theories blaming 9/11 on outreach. The initiative Thy King­ political culture with which he is of ideas. Among them were activists bad behaviour of Israelis is difficult Israel” — as though they were uncon­ dom Come, started by the Arch­ inextricably linked. such as Gerry Downing, who called for some to resist, but anti-Semitism nected to the political­ culture of dis­ bishops of Canterbury and York two Mr Corbyn’s record does not in­­ for people to address “the Jewish is the responsibility of the person pro­­por­tionate, irrational, and emo­ years ago, has morphed into a global spire confidence, either. He said, for question” concretely today, and who says or does anti-Semitic things. tional hostility to Israel which nur­­ wave of prayer — a clear sign, ap­ example, in the years before he was Jackie Walker, who repeated the old Anti-Semitism always said that the tures and licenses them. parently, that it is nothing less than a in the spotlight, that the geno­cidal slur that Jews were chief financiers Jews were central to all that was bad Mr Corbyn treats this as a matter significant movement of the Holy anti-Semitic organisations Hamas of the slave trade. in the world. Thinking of Israel in a of bad apples that can be found and Spirit (News, 26 January). and Hezbollah were dedicated­ to the Many who are invested in the similar way cannot be divorced from expelled from the party, in much the The marketing of Thy Kingdom good of the Palestinian people and to Corbyn movement say that this is all a that tradition. way in which the Metropolitan Come has been clever. It includes a peace and justice; and he has been smear, made with the intention of Police regarded racism, in the days bit of social gospel to attract the left- hosted by Hamas in Gaza several undermining the whole movement THERE is no doubt that Mr Corbyn before the Stephen Lawrence in­­ wing; it uses the word “novena” to times, never raising a word of critic­ and silencing the voices of the oppres­­ ­ is trying to take the sting out of the quiry, as a moral deficiency of a few impress the Catholics; and it has col­ ism, at least in public. sed. I have named this strategy of issue. Before a meeting with leaders of­­ficers. But this is institutional and onised the days between Ascension He has defended, as victims of absolute denial combined with the of the Jewish community, on Tues­ political anti-Semitism, not a funda­­ and Pentecost to please the liturgic­ Zionist smears, among others, the counter-accusation of Jewish conspir­ day, he wrote an article for the mentally disciplinary issue relating ally minded. Revd Stephen Sizer, the C of E priest acy “the Livingstone For­­mula­tion”, London Evening Standard which to a few bad people. But the underlying theology re­ who posted a link on social media to after the former Mayor of London con­­tained some of the right abstract Mr Corbyn seems to be incapable mains that of individuals’ letting an article suggesting that Israel was Ken Livingstone, who said that Hitler rhetoric, but which stubbornly failed of explaining why this has become a Jesus into their hearts and lives one responsible for the 9/11 terrorist at­­ supported Zionism — and who is still to do the two specific things that he particular problem under his leader­­ by one. There is nothing wrong with tacks (News, 6 February 2015); and a member of the Labour Party. needs to do. ship. Until he can take some re­­­­ that, of course; but it worries me that Paul Eisen, the anti-Zionist who It must be understood that the First, he needs to account for his sponsi­­bility, instead of always blam­ the Church of England is being turned out to be a Holocaust denier. unleashing of anti-Semitism on Mr own record. If he cannot apologise ing others, the problem will not go driven by the assumption that there Corbyn’s watch is related to the for it, and explain how he got it so away. And facing up to the anti- is simply no other way of speaking of AUTHENTICALLY left-wing anti- politics of his faction, for which dis­ wrong and so often, and why he has Semitic culture of his part of the Left the Christian­ faith. Semitism is not new. Some have long pro­portionate and furious hostility now changed his mind, he cannot be is something that Mr Corbyn can The culture of Thy Kingdom Come yearned for simplistic ways to explain­­ to Israel is a defining characteristic. taken seriously. never do, because it is too close to is that of transatlantic Evangelical­ ­ism global injustice. The Soviet Union Yes, the Israel-Palestine conflict is Second, the statement gives ex­­ the very centre of his own political filtered through the public-school pioneered the story that Israel, the identity. system, HTB, New Wine, and the life-raft state for Jews fleeing Nazi other familiar networks.­­ This is a Europe, should be thought of as a Dr David Hirsh is Senior Lecturer in heritage familiar to both our Arch­ keystone of the global system of Disproportionate and furious hostility to Israel Sociology at Goldsmiths University of bishops. It will soon simply be the imperialism; that Jews should be London, and the author of Con­tem­ Church of England, thanks in part to thought of as bourgeois “white” is a defining characteristic of his faction porary­ Left Antisemitism, published the mixture of innocence­­ and gullibil­ oppressors, privileged and racist. by Routledge. ity which characterises­ its appeal. What, after all, could possibly be wrong with a wave of prayer from As­ cension to Pentecost? I shall join in, as I have for the past two years. I shall be praying for an escape from the Monarch who followed her heart Evangelical takeover of the Church. I shall be praying for a language that is IT IS a great theatrical device. At the start of Robert above those of the heart. Both women can be seen genuinely respectful of the existential Icke’s touring production of Mary Stuart, his two as unscrupulous, but that emanated from fiery distress that so many seem to be tak­ leading actors, Juliet Stevenson and Lia Williams, Paul Vallely sees a play bold­ness in Mary and unattractive caution in Eliza­ ing to their doctors. I understand all step forward as a coin is spun in a golden bowl and that questions received beth. Their respective religions are portrayed as a too well why people take their souls to projected on to screens around the auditorium. key factor by both Schiller and his modern adapter. the surgery: I myself would, in the How it falls determines which of them will play views of Mary Stuart Schiller offers a seductive account of how the con­ current cli­mate. Mary, Queen of Scots, and which Queen Elizabeth version of a Protestant nobleman to Cathol­icism is Too often in church, people in I. The last-minute uncertainty adds the edge of triggered by the music, art, and embracing sense of distress are patronised by the saved adren­alin to the lead performances. It is also, the of a foreign Catholic inter­loper whose heart lay universal community that he encounters as he and the certain, infantilised by a faux critics say, a dramatic metaphor for how the two some­where between France and Scotland. You crosses the Continent. In contrast, Elizabeth’s inclusivity that has them playing with female monarchs are two sides of the same coin, might have expected Schiller to sign up to that. He Protestant court is portrayed as a place of cold tea lights and cutting out little paper each trapped by private passions and public did, after all, write of how Luther “smashed the polit­ical calculation. flames, while they are jollied along to expecta­tions into their historical inevitability. heavy chains which oppressed all the peoples of the The play ends with a metaphorical confrontation find Jesus over (excellent) coffee. It makes for fine theatre, but I’m not sure it is earth”, and detected in the fighting between between the two monarchs. Mary, in a plain shift, The abandonment of traditional quite what the great 18th-century German dramat­ Protestants and Catholics in the Thirty Years War faces her death beatifically, shriven and solaced by religion, with its respect for privacy ist Friedrich Schiller would have wanted. I saw the the first stirrings of European freedom. a moving representation of Catholic ritual. In and the slow nurturing of the person play last week with my son, who is revising for his But Schiller was one of the early figures of the contrast, an isolated Elizabeth is fixed into her through unconsciously memorised A-level history. While he fulmin­ated afterwards Romantic movement, which reacted against the white ceremonial face-mask and straitjacketed texts and gentle counsel, has left a about Schiller’s historical inaccu­racies, I puzzled mech­­­­anical rationalism of the Enlightenment. In court bodice, aban­doned by her lover and hole in the heart of society which is over how an author who was such a Protestant the struggle to reconcile personal morality with imprisoned by a crown that she regards as “a too deep for words. That is where (I polemicist in his other writings could come up political expediency, he was drawn to characters prison cell with jewels”. hope) the Spirit is still crying out. with a portrait so sympathetic to Catholicism. who fol­lowed their heart. Life is determined by character, not chance, The received view is of Good Queen Bess presid­ In the chaotic personal life of Mary Stuart he de­­ Schiller suggests. As he wrote elsewhere, “What The Revd Angela Tilby is a Canon ing over an English golden age whose settlement tected a greatness of soul which contrasted with seems to us merest accident springs from the Emeritus of Christ Church, Oxford. was, for a time, threat­ened by the sly machinations Eliza­­beth’s insistence on setting the affairs of state deepest source of destiny.” 16 LETTERS 27 April 2018 The Church of England response to the US Episcopalian consultation Speaking lives ended by two assassins

From the Bishop of Buckingham, the The letter refers to a majority Episcopal Church in the US and the he took to ascertain whether this is From the Revd A. M. V. Robinson Dean of Guildford, the Rt Revd David belief in the Church of England that Anglican Communion as a whole. indeed the majority belief, and re­­cent Sir, — As we read the content of ser­ Gillett, the Revd Andrew Lightbown, the only legitimate locus for sexual Alan Wilson, Dianna Gwilliams, research surveys suggest that it is not. vices in memory of the death of 75 others of the clergy, and 36 of the relationships is within heterosexual David Gillett, Andrew Within the Church of England, Martin Luther King (News, 6 April), laity marriage. This sweeping assertion Lightbown, and 111 others there are widely differing views on it is important to do what some did: Sir, — We have read William Nye’s cannot, in fact, be substantiated, as the c/o The Vicarage, Vicarage Road this matter, including some strong open a debate on what killed him letter to the Episcopal Church in the Church of England, to our know­ledge, Winslow, Bucks MK18 3BJ support for affirming same-sex rather than who. This made me think United States (News, 20 April) with has never asked her regular worship­ partner­ships. (The number of hetero­­ ­ of the cost to our nation of our fail­ considerable interest, surprise, and, ping community what it thinks and From Canon Giles Goddard, sexual couples who both give the ure to do this after the assassination to be honest, disappointment, and believes about this. Christina Baron, Jayne Ozanne, and same address when marrying in the of the MP Jo Cox. wish to dissociate ourselves from it. Given the House of Bishops’ work ten others C of E seems to indicate significant It was sad and bad that her death Mr Nye writes about pressure from on human sexuality, now would be a Sir, — William Nye’s letter to the disagreement with Mr Nye’s po­­­ was not debated with much serious­ the Church of England to dissociate good time to find out. Would it be Episcopal Church in the United States sition.) ness. In retrospect, something should from the Episcopal Church. We think too much to suggest a survey of was written in October. It was the Further, it is telling that Mr Nye have been done (the referen­dum this is a mis­leading statement. worshippers on the middle two Sun­ result of consultation among staff, not appears more concerned with the delayed?) to acknowledge the signi­ Pressure may well come from var­ious days of October, the dates used for among members, of the Archbishops’ hypothetical impact on interfaith fic­ance of what had happened, and to conservative groups in the Church of the compilation of mission statistics? Council. Some may query whether relations than with the very real im­ make time for all of us, helped by the England, but (unless the content of We would not be surprised to find, this was the best way to deal with such pact on the lives and well-being of best of the media, to realise that her the letter is tested sy­nod­ically), he for instance, that, among lay people, an important matter. The letter was lesbians and gays. death exposed the threat of a revolu­ surely cannot claim to speak for the a majority would recognise same-sex not reported to the General Synod in The letter is, at best, an over- tion in our nation which would Church of England as a whole. relationships as a valid and joyous February,­ nor published by the simplification of opinion within the brutally divide it and, if not avoided, Mr Nye’s letter, written on Arch­ expression of human sexual loving, Church of England. Thanks to the Church of England. would bring dreadful con­sequences. bishops’ Council stationery, gives the and would wish the national Church Episcopal Church’s culture of open­ Giles Goddard (chair), Christina The only clear trumpet call came impression that he was acting as an to allow for the liturgical affirmation ness, we now know of the letter’s Baron, Jayne Ozanne, and mem­ from your leader on the Friday be­ agent of the Council and its trustees of such relationships. existence and contents. bers of the General Synod Human fore the referendum, which argued and writing with its author­ity. But, as To discover what breadth of Mr Nye asserts that for a majority Sexuality Group that it should be cancelled. On the he acknowledges, his response is opinion is actually held within the in the Church of England “Holy c/o The New Vicarage many occasions that I have re-read it, simply the fruit of con­versations held Church of England would provide Scripture is held to rule that sexual Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 7PL its summons to retreat has rung true. among a small cadre of professional much-needed evidence to inform the activity outside marriage between a The perpetrators of both assas­sina­ staff. As a governance matter, this Bishops’ teaching document and man and a woman is contrary to From Mr Anthony Archer tions were unbalanced men, in whose will not, we think, do. future communications with the God’s will.” It is not clear what steps Sir, — The letter from the Secretary- minds opinions that could sound General of the Archbishops’ Council quite reasonable to some were in­ to the Episcopal Church in the US fested with a pathological hatred that Musicians need to be able, not just willing younger people will be attracted only has evoked much comment, from its demanded to be expressed in murders to worship bands and choruses. status to its theology. It was cour­ that they excused them­selves for In my experience, young people teous of the Episcopal Church to because they considered them Sir, — I write in response to “Suffolk one is going to last for ever. The are often attracted to choirs that are consult other Provinces, few of which justified: an often repeated pattern. churches are out of tune, music main issues concern the proposed unified, disciplined, purposeful, and seem to have replied. King’s legacy has lived on in his survey reveals” (News, 22 March). solutions to the problem that the free of bossism. The proposed “re­ It was to be expected that the letter nation, but, for most of us, in ours, Jo The report draws attention to the fact diocese of St Edmundsbury & turn to the west gallery” custom is would affirm current Church of Eng­ Cox’s has been neglected — and here that there is a paucity of younger Ipswich puts forward. It proposes simply a rehashing of the music- land doctrine, but in it we see some we are, having learnt nothing at all people exercising their gifts in this that the most positive way to remedy group phenomenon that blights our thinking aloud about the future. For from it, drifting towards a situation part of the Church’s ministry. the situation would be to invite churches — a derivation, and a example, it expresses the view that to that few desire but few resist: the I am afraid that, in my experience, anyone who happens to play any throwback to the 1970s and 1980s, ameliorate fracture it is preferable for typical harvest of the feebleness that this is only one of the issues that the musical instrument, to whatever when parts of the C of E decided to same-sex marriage rites to be pro­ refuses to put evil under the spotlight Church has in getting its relationship standard, to come forward. throw away the transcendent dimen­ vided as an alternative to the tradi­ and see it for what it is. right with its organists and musi­ This has all the hallmarks of clergy sion of worship and make the tional rite, better on a trial basis, ANGELA M. V. ROBINSON cians. These problems cross areas of who understand and apply their Almighty the “All-matey”. rather than for the def­inition of 32c Lulworth Road, Southport the theology of worship, aesthetics, theo­logy of the priesthood of all Parishes that do not have an marriage to be redefined for all. But, Merseyside PR8 2BQ and other areas of conflicting ex­­­­ believers, but have very little ap­ organist would be better seeking out above all, the Episcopal Church’s pectation. precia­tion of the work that is in­ amateur pianists in the congregation consultation is a clear reminder of From the Ven. Bill Brison I would suggest that the increas­­­ing volved in trying to get musicians up and sending them on reluctant- the autonomy of each Province of the Sir, — Thank you for the article on ageing of organists and chor­isters is to a standard that the public would at organist courses at the cathedral, or Anglican Com­munion in shaping its Martin Luther King (Features, 6 not the primary issue, although it is least pay to hear. There also seems to investing in organ lessons. own doctrine and affairs, autonomy April). I was there. I had gone to an astute observation that not every­ be an implicit assumption that Name & Address Supplied that will be­­come starker if the Mississippi against the advice of my Episcopal Church has to face further family, the Bishop, and a parishioner “stringent consequences” for its in Christ Church, Bethany, in the DAVE WALKER prophetic lead. United States, whom I respected; but It is time the Church of England they paid the air fare. adopted that position rather than The US Council of Churches pro­ hide behind its de facto position in vided cars to clergy who would go to the Anglican Communion and wring the South and give transportation to its hands on the basis that it can do blacks who needed to go to regional nothing until all other Provinces meetings. I arrived at a Baptist agree (in other words do nothing). church in Cleveland, Mississippi, to The letter seems indignant that the find a large crowd of black people US Episcopal Church is pushing singing “We shall overcome some ahead in seeking to revise its Prayer day”, the song of the protest. Book while the Church of England is I went into the church and was preparing a teaching document, not received with obvious joy. A police due for publication until 2020, a car was circling around outside with matter of no direct concern to the its siren growling. The singing Episcopal Church. stopped, and everyone looked at me. The fact is, as others have noted, I was told that they would ask me to that the writing is on the wall on this say a blessing, which I did. issue, and debate needs to continue We stopped for petrol one day, now. The next opportunity for the and the station owner picked up the General Synod (the proper place for phone, looking at the licence plate. these discussions) to take stock and I was put up by a black family, provide further input to the process who also fed me. On day, I was driv­ will be in July, when my private ing a group of black girls to a meet­ member’s motion can be debated. ing, and it turned out that they had ANTHONY ARCHER never seen the Mississippi River; they General Synod member said they would like to. As we drove Barn Cottage, Little Gaddesden by the river, a car followed us with Berkhamsted, Herts HP4 1PH white men whooping and shouting. I said to the girls, “Hold on.” I did a U-­­­turn, put my foot down, and Church Times Letters headed for the black area in Cleve­ 3rd floor, Invicta House land, where I knew we would be safe, 108-114 Golden Lane telling the girls to let me know if the London EC1Y 0TG car followed; but we got home safely. [email protected] BILL BRISON 2 Scott Avenue, Bury, Lancs BL9 9RS 27 April 2018 DIARY ETC 17

DIARY ST GARGOYLE’S Under surveillance Vacancy Elizabeth Figg WE HAD a rather different encounter­­ with a flying machine a few nights after Mum’s funeral. We were all in Last wishes the sitting-room which, as the house is filled built on a slope, has splend­id views to “HAVE a lovely Easter.” These were, Ingleborough in the east; as we enjoy almost, the last decipherable words star-gazing and have fond memories that my mother spoke and were of family walks up Ingleborough, we GARDENING quite typical of her concern for rarely close the curtains. others. While we knew that she was This particular evening, the sun IT HAS been a cold, wet winter and failing, we had no idea how soon she had set, and we were engrossed in a a late spring. In the ever-evolving would be gone. You may remember particularly lively game of Scrabble matrices of plants that make up our that, last month, I wrote about our when Number 2 Son jumped up and gardens, there have been more win­ plans for an extra-special Mothering pointed out of the window, ex­­ ter losses than normal. I have seen Sunday celebration, since it was claiming “What’s that?” I stood up rose­­maries with dead branches, and likely to be her last (Diary, 9 March); just in time to see some lights whizz­­ ­ bay trees with leaves scorched by we had a lovely time, spoiling her ing away from the window and cold winds. Phormiums and cordy­ thoroughly; but, sadly, four days later, ducking down behind the wall of the lines are looking sad. she died. neighbouring allotments. If a shrub looks dead, you can The day before her death we were It seems that someone was trying scrape away a little bark and observe in the garden together, picking the a little night-time drone-flying. the colour of the underlying layer. If daffodils we had planted last autumn Whether they were trying to film the it is green, then the branch is alive; if and planning a trip to the garden ruins of the Old Rectory, which sits it is brown, then it has succumbed centre to find some colourful bedding­­ behind our house, by starlight, or to the cold, but test again nearer the plants to “brighten up the place.” were fellow Scrabble fans seeking base or centre of the plant. If the Her ideal garden was one in inspiration from our board, we will core of the shrub is alive, you can which plants of all varieties came to­­ never know. We do, now, draw our tidy it up by pruning back to the live gether in a raucous profusion of curtains more often. tissue. And be patient. colour. Picture the Hindu festival of By Helen’s reckoning, this was the third Sometimes, we have to accept Rangwali Holi, that great celebration that a plant in our care has died. In of spring, new life, fertility, and love, time the dog had eaten Alan’s sermon Easter passing the back of a cupboard I have a cof­­ during which participants race GIVEN that Mum’s funeral was on fer of botanic labels, reminders of around, throwing vibrantly coloured Maundy Thursday, her wish that we specimens no longer with us. I feel powder over each other while being should “have a lovely Easter” has not slightly ashamed as a professional drenched with water — such glori­­ description of the creatures­ as being people caught up in awful circum­ been easy to fulfil. One thing that gardener, despite knowing that the ously exuberant life and colour was “hauf like a bird and hauf like a stances; the only ones she found helped was keeping her body with us cycle of life is at the very core of what Mum loved to see in a garden. bogle” (a “bogle” is a demon). difficult (but still cared for) were the overnight when she died. In the gardening. She did not deem weeds to be the Mum was about six years old SS. morning, her presence, which had And there can be unforeseen enemy, but potential allies in her when the bird/bogle arrived and, it Mum’s attitude was that, behind been very strong after her death, was gains. I have, on this page, sung the efforts to “brighten up the place”; seems, took an instant dislike to her; the German uniform, lay some­ gone, and what remained was the praises of Vinca difformis, a peri­ and so the garden in my childhood whenever she appeared, the bubbly- body’s father, son, lover, brother: in well-used shell; her soul was obvi­ winkle with large pure-white flow­ home was full of plants that others jock would run at her, flapping its short, a human being in need of ously off and up and away. ers. A cold winter has knocked it would shun. wings, wobbling its wattle, and gob­­ help. Her own brother was killed We miss her dreadfully but are back in my garden, revealing a bling at the top of its voice. She while serving in the RAF, and I sus­­ happy for her, knowing that she is at forgotten Pulmonaria “Blue Ensign” credited the beast with her speed pect that she saw him reflected in the peace, welcomed home by the loving with exquisitely co­­­balt flowers and Dinner on the move and agility at climbing trees. eyes of the frightened young service­ God she served throughout her long an epimedium with sulphur-yellow MUM was good with waifs and men under her care, which­ever side and colourful life. blooms. The cold may have become strays of all sorts. Human, animal, they had fought on. The New Zealand poet Joy Cowley’s the gardener in this slightly neg­ plant — each was appreciated for its Care for the enemy Strangely enough, just as we Easter poem “The Resurrection”­­ ends lected patch. But what to do if the own attributes. She looked for the DURING the Second World War, arrived for her funeral, an RAF jet with these words: “Ultimately, it’s all loss has left a gaping hole? best in everyone and everything and Mum was among the first officers flew up the valley, passing us just there is. Just endless love . . . listen to Make a wish list based on the was rarely disappointed, although­­­ of Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Mil­ above tree height, low and slow the way he says your name.” conditions, the effect you are hoping the “bubbly-jock” (turkey) that my itary Nursing Service to land at enough for us to see the pilot. Not Endless love and a warm voice to create or en­­­­­hance, and a realistic crofting grandmother once bought Arromanches after D-Day. She cared having seen such a sight since gently calling. A lovely Easter in­­ prediction of the aftercare you will to fatten for Christmas was an ex- for survivors of Belsen and Dachau, moving to Warton, our sons were deed. bestow. Some­­times, a hardy slow- ception. and nursed the wounded of both convinced that this was not merely a growing evergreen is just the ticket. In telling the tale, Mum declared sides, something not everyone was coincidence, but Grandma’s own Elizabeth Figg is married to the Vicar Keep your eyes open for online sales. this particular bubbly-jock well de­­­ happy to do. Most of the Germans personal “farewell” flypast. She cer­­ of Warton and Borwick with Yea­ Have a rummage at the budget served the poet Hugh MacDiarmid’s­ that she nursed were ordinary tainly deserved one. land, in Lancashire. supermarket or an open-garden plant sale — anywhere­­ that sells plants; just don’t get sidetracked. Write, if you have any questions you It need not be something new to would like answered, or to your garden: repetition can be an ef­­ Lord of cable, Lord of rail add to the answers below. fec­­tive design ruse, and sticking with a plant already tried and tested in your garden makes a lot of sense. May I suggest the anthem Some trust evening star”) is suitable because of Look up a plant in a gardening en­­ OUT OF THE QUESTION in chariots, by Martin Shaw, to the final steam locomotive built at cyclopedia, and it will suggest pro­ words from Psalm 20.7? The Swindon for British Railways in paga­­tion methods. If it sounds others. There seems to be scope for publishers would be happy to make 1960, as a BR Standard Class 9F tricky, leave it to the nursery profes­­ Your answers Anglicising the US railway terms, the anthem available. 2-10-0, Evening Star, No. 92220, the sionals and buy a repeat. but there might be a problem in Isobel Platings (CEO, The Martin last of its class and the only to be In the mean time, there are easy I would be delighted if anyone could finding a well-known tune for that Shaw Society) named. “The Son of God goes forth annuals such as calendula, cosmos, suggest hymns suitable for a service metre. This hymn can be found at Ealing, London to war” (“Who follows in his train?”) nasturtiums, sunflowers, and opium to do with the railways and steam hymnary.org, as can “You are was once a notorious giggle for poppy that you can sow now. Or engines. travelling on a railway” by Will O. Edwin Burgess tells us of the less choirboys. meadow mixes such as Sarah Raven’s Jones (1922): “Put your trust in than serious discussion by Percy Gwilym Stone found many “Foliage Collection”, consist­ ing­­ of How about some of the 20th-century Christ the Savior, Well He knows Dearmer in his introduction to Songs suggestions in a similar vein in three umbellifers. You will be en­­ hymns from 100 Hymns for Today? this line and rail.” of Praise Discussed (OUP, 1933) of a answer to a question about hymns joying flowers at the end of July The most obvious is HHT 33: “God (The Revd) Rod Pierce, Guildford hymn from the 1890s, at the height for the funeral of a railwayman at through into September. of concrete, God of steel” (“Lord of of the railway era, “Good Elijah went uk.railway.narkive.com — angel Fork and rake over the vacant cable, Lord of rail”). But there are Not only is “O happy band of to heaven In a chariot of fire”, which trains, transports of delight, etc. You patch, and sow in lines which can be others such as HHT 61, “Lord of all pilgrims” (J. M. Neale) suitable for a states: “Enoch travelled by will also find there a headstone for wavy or in a grid — any pattern you hopefulness”, and HHT 17, “Come journey or pilgrimage that may take translation With no ticket to return.” William Pickering and Richard will remember; so that you can workers for the Lord”. place when hauled by a GWR Castle, David Eldridge finds railway Edger with a singable-looking remove any weeds that germinate. Gillian Newton LNER streamlined A4, SR Merchant language in “Christ, whose glory fills epitaph of six stanzas (Long Metre), Water in dry weather. If you do Navy, or LMS Coronation, or what­ the skies”, among other hymns. “The Spiritual Railway”. Editor come across the ideal long-term There’s a Country and Western-style ever type of locomotive is involved, Philip Deane, of Bishop replacement, you can sacrifice a few hymn by Eliza R. Snow (1804-87) but there is also a wonderful phrase Middleham, suggests “Sleepers, Address: Out of the Question, of the annuals in the middle of the and M. E. Abbey, “Life is like a to delight the signalling enthusiast: wake!” but also, for those who know Church Times, 3rd floor, Invicta patch to plant it. They are by nature mountain railroad” (tune: Life’s “the longed-for distant”. This could about George Jackson Churchward, House, 108-114 Golden Lane, ephemeral, and won’t interfere with Railway to Heaven). It is probably be said to signify the approach of the “For all the Saints” and “Who are London EC1Y 0TG. its establishment. never sung in church, even in the “home signal” as we bear in mind these like stars appearing”. [email protected] www.sarahraven.com United States, but has been recorded that our true home is in heaven. Timothy Sykes of Penrith URC, by Johnny Cash, Boxcar Willie, (Fr) Michael Gill SSC Cumbria, explains that “We plough We ask readers not to send us letters Jamie Cable Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline, and Cranford, London the fields and scatter” (“He lights the for forwarding. 18 FAITH 27 April 2018

IT SEEMS to me worth looking into Jesus, or of you and me) will have a the difference in nature of the two “body” in which to express itself, but things — experience and appearance it won’t be this one, or anything else — because there is enough overlap that would wear out, decay, or to confuse the issue. After all, the The key to the mystery perish. That is the heart of his resurrection of Jesus is fundamental, argument. in Christian terms, to an under­ David Winter concludes his exploration of resurrection appearances When we apply that insight — standing of life after death. “turn that key” — to the question of The earliest account of it is not in ANGELO HORNAK/ALAMY the Gospel accounts of the resur­rec­ the Gospels, but in Paul’s letter to Noli me tangere by tion of Jesus, we shall find that many the church at Corinth, probably David Wynne (1964), of the difficulties disappear. When written about AD 55, a mere 20 or so Ely Cathedral the women came to the empty tomb years after the crucifixion of Jesus. on Easter morning, the “young man Paul sets out very clearly what he dressed in a white robe” said to them was taught when he was prepared for “You are looking for Jesus of Nazar­ baptism around AD 36 — two or eth, who was crucified. He has been three years after that first Easter raised; he is not here” (Mark 16.6). weekend, and while its consequences Jesus of Nazareth, the son of the were still fresh in people’s minds. village carpenter, was not there — Here is what he wrote: “For I or, in a sense, anywhere else. The handed on to you as of first import­ “incarnation” was over. They would ance what I in turn had received: meet the risen Messiah, but they that Christ died for our sins in ac­­­ would never again see the car­ cord­­ance with the scriptures, and penter’s son. “He has been raised” — that he was buried, and that he was and in that resurrection trans­formed raised on the third day in accordance from a first-century Jewish man into with the scriptures, and that he ap­ a citizen of his Father’s Kingdom of peared to Cephas, then to the twelve. heaven. Then he appeared to more than five And that, Paul says, is the pattern hundred brothers and sisters at one for all our resurrections. It was, as time, most of whom are still alive, the disciples recorded in their bewil­ though some have died. Then he derment and confusion, the same appeared to James, then to all the Jesus who appeared to them, but apostles” (1 Corinthians 15.3-7). WHEN we turn to the Gospels, we He was, in other words, Jesus voice in the Early Church and the different: not less, but more — no find the same situation. Apart from their Lord and teacher — they were New Testament, his point is made longer limited by the restrictions of THIS is, as I say, the earliest account Mark, whose truncated Gospel re­ prepared to die for that belief (and more briefly but equally clearly by physicality, of space and time, but we have of the resurrection of Jesus. It cords no appearances of Jesus (while many of them did). But he was not the apostle Peter: “Christ . . . was put gloriously, powerfully, spiritual. bears the hallmarks of a known nar­ clearly asserting that he had risen), Jesus as they had known him on the to death in the flesh, but made alive rative — an early credal confession,­­ they record many such ap­­pear­ances dusty lanes of Galilee or the crowded in the spirit” (1 Peter 3.18). WE MAY find it hard to appreciate possibly — but also of someone — some to individuals, like the streets of Jerusalem. that this is to be more, not less, alive. dictating his words to a scribe. There couple on the road to Emmaus WHATEVER resurrection is, We are immersed in an intensely are obvious repetitions: the “twelve” (Luke 24.13-35), and Peter and his I BELIEVE that there is a key that whether of Jesus or of people today, physical world, where things are were the apostles, and included others companions on the lake (John 21). unlocks the mystery of the resurrec­ it is emphatically not a physical held together by time and space. he names, notably Cephas (Peter), Others were to larger groups of tion of Jesus, and of the resurrection restora­tion of the body. “Flesh and That hesitancy is understandable, and James, who were the recognised people: the disciples in the upper that the Christian creeds speak of. It blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of and probably doesn’t matter, pro­ leaders of the Church at that time. room (John 20.19), and on the mount is found in the same chapter of God,” Paul says (1 Corinthians vided we are willing to accept that Twice, Paul’s statement asserts of the ascension (Luke 24.50-52; Acts Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians 15.50). there might be — indeed, there is — that this happened “in accordance 1.6-11). The appear­ances were all as the earlier excerpt. It is, I think, a Many people are unhappy about an infinitely better way of “being” with the scriptures” — that is, fore­ transient or at least temporary, in crucial key to understanding, but it this assertion. They think that than what we have known during told by the prophets of Israel. On the widely differing geographical loca­ is one that many Christians seem to “raised in the spirit” means that we our lives on earth. other hand, he doesn’t mention the tions, and — twice — in locked and be unwilling to turn to. shall be wispy ghosts in heaven, and It is a way of being which mirrors women who by the unanimous testi­ bolted rooms. Jesus “appeared”, and It is found in a passage I quoted that is not an attractive idea. On the the very nature of God himself. We, mony of the Gospels were the first then withdrew from people’s sight. earlier, a series of repeated assertions whole, we rather like our bodies who are made in his “image”, will witnesses of the empty tomb; or about resurrection: “So it is with the (when they are functioning one day share his eternal being, freed Mary Magdalene, the very first per­ THE witnesses to Jesus’s resurrec­ resurrection of the dead. What is properly­), and we cannot imagine from the limitations of the created son to see the risen Christ. tion appearances all attest that it was sown is perishable, what is raised is being human without them; and it is universe to be with its Creator. That The Gospels do not mention an undoubtedly Jesus they encount­­ ­ered, imperishable. . . It is sown in weak­ as humans — as “people”, not is the plain but staggering implica­ appearance to 500 people at once, though on several occasions they re­ ness, it is raised in power. It is sown spectres — that we expect to enjoy tion of the phrase “eternal life”: not which would be a very significant corded that at first they didn’t recog­ a physical body, it is raised a spir­ eternal life. just life that lasts for ever, but life “in part of the evidence for the resur­ nise him (for ex­­­ample, John 20.14; itual body” (1 Corinthians 15.42-44). A closer reading of Paul’s words all its fullness” (John 10.10, NJB). rection — especially the claim that Luke 24.15-16). What they saw was Paul is answering an oratorical in 1 Corinthians, however, shows many of them were still alive 33 not, they were clear, a “ghost”, but question: “How are the dead raised?” that he is not re­­motely suggesting This is our second and final edited years or so after the appearance. equally clearly it was not an ordinary The central and repeated point he that in the resur­­rection life people extract from Heaven’s Morning: This shows, then, how difficult it flesh-and-blood person — otherwise, makes in answer is that they are will be ghosts. I suspect the very idea Rethinking the destination by David is to put together a single, coherent how could they account for the ap­ raised “spiritually”. In case one would have reduced him to eloquent Winter (BRF, £7.99 (CT Bookshop account of the resurrection of Jesus. pearing­­ and disappearing? imag­ines that his is simply a lone fury. The risen spirit (whether of £7.20)).

IN THIS Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus tells ask what we will, and it shall be done us that he is “the true vine”. In doing to us.” This teaching reframes the so, he “continues the whole history primary purpose of prayer, which is of biblical thought and language on The depth of viticulture not to bend God’s will to ours but to the subject of the vine and discloses abide in him so that we can pray its ultimate depth” (Benedict XVI, with all our heart “Thy will be Jesus of Nazareth: From the baptism SUNDAY’S READINGS he brings, we must abide in him. Our Gospel passage continues done.” in the Jordan to the transfiguration). To abide in Christ is to do more with a warning and a promise. Neither our life of prayer, nor our In the psalms and the prophets, than simply believe the right things, Branches that do not abide in Christ reading of scripture will be complete the people of God are understood to Angus Ritchie or even perform the right actions. will fail to be fruitful, and so will unless we abide in the vine. Scrip­ be the vine (or the vineyard), and “Abiding” is an attitude of the whole “wither” and be “thrown into the ture is written by, and for, commun­ God is the “vine-dresser”. Jesus’s person — an attitude of the heart. As fire”. In contrast, those who abide in i­ties that are rooted in the life and teach­­ing both fulfils and exceeds 5th Sunday of Easter our epistle reminds us, to abide in him are told: “ask for whatever you love of God. This is made clear in these passages. As C. K. Barrett God is to abide in love. And the wish, and it will be done for you.” our reading from Acts, where the writes, “fragments of meaning, ob­ Acts 8.26-end; Psalm 22.25-end; shape of that love is shown to us by Precisely because “abiding” is an Ethiopian eunuch recognises­ that he scurely hinted at by other vines are 1 John 4.7-end; John 15.1-8 the self-giving at the heart of the attitude of the heart, Jesus can make cannot understand the scripture he gathered up and made explicit by Triune God. this promise: that those who abide in is reading “unless someone guides him” (The Gospel According to St Romano Guardini powerfully him will be granted their desires. As me”. John). develops this point. The recognition St Augustine explains, God does not As Jaroslav Pelikan observes, this Before Christ, there remained a of Benedict XVI, “the vine is no that God is love reverses our indulge our sinful and self-serving “plaintive question” is a “persistent question about how God would longer merely a creature that God ordinary order of thinking: “God is desires. When we abide in him, theme” of the Acts of the Apostles. respond to human faithlessness and looks upon with love, but that he can more than ‘the loving’ one, more those desires are transformed: To interpret a passage of scripture, sin. He had raised up Israel as his still uproot and reject. In the Son he than the perfect fulfilment of all “When someone abides in Christ in we must put it in the “total context” vine, through which salvation would has for ever identified himself, his existing love, he is Love itself. this way, is there anything he or she of the Church’s confession of faith in come to the nations. He had brought very being, with the vine.” The ques­ Turned about, the logical conse­ can wish for besides what will be Christ (Brazos Theological Com­ the vine out of Egypt, but seemed to tion is now definitively resolved, and quence of our thought now recog­ agreeable to Christ?” ment­ary on the Bible: Acts); for he is have then turned his face from it in God’s action invites a response from nizes the truth that what we call It is only when our desires have the true vine, in whom alone the judgement (Psalm 80.8-13). all who behold it. In Christ, God ‘love’ is only the reflection, often thus been purified that a loving God “fragments of meaning” in each text In Christ, this apparent ambival­ has identified himself with the vine. distorted, of an attitude, a power will grant them. “Abiding in him of scripture are brought to comple­ ence comes to an end. In the words If we are to receive the new life whose real name is God” (The Lord). when his words abide in us, we shall tion. 27 April 2018 FEATURES 19 ‘I could see no future beyond the bars of that asylum’

NORTHERN NEWS As a teenager, two ruffians from the local children’s home to heart”, and still has the Bible Mark Edwards that he received from the minister, the Revd John Hance. spent four months It is inscribed with Proverbs 3.5-6: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; in a mental and lean not on your own under­ standing. In all your ways acknow­ institution. He ledge him, and he shall direct your paths.” talks to Madeleine His asylum diary includes a psalm- like prayer, written after a visit from Davies about why a Methodist minister (“I cry night and day, but my tears go un­­noticed”). he is now open Some years later, while he was giving his testimony, someone came up to about his history him and told him of having been in a prayer meeting where the minister, freshly returned from a visit, had asked them to pray for “a young man in psychiatric hospital called Mark Edwards”. WHILE living with his sister after leaving the asylum, he was invited by a friend to volunteer at a soup kit­ chen run by Chester Gospel Hall Mission. It was here that he met the first in a series of Christians who became mentors. Pastor Coombs was “the first The Revd Mark Edwards at St father figure in my life”, he recalls. “I FROM Adrian Mole’s prodigious ing Prince William and Prince Harry, guarded look at the legacy of child­ Matthew’s, Dinnington was not the easiest person, and he output to the extracts read by celeb­ that gave him confidence, and the hood neglect. said: ‘You are the most strange, rities on Radio 4, teenage diaries have desire to tell others that “you can Much of the book is dedicated to a long been mined for comic potential. move on from being a victim to being strikingly frank account of a teenage But when the Revd Mark Edwards a victor.” Had he read a book like this crush on “Aunty Lindsay”, one of his began transcribing his, he quickly a teenager, he thinks, “that would carers at a children’s home, which found he needed to pull back. “My have given me hope. At the time I morphed into an obsession that mental health issues are under could see no future beyond the bars continued to dog him well into his istock control — as long as I don’t start of that asylum.” adult life (it “prevented normal picking at the scab,” he explains. adolescent development from taking The diaries were written during AUTHENTICITY matters to Fr place”, according to the asylum the four months he spent in the West Edwards. “I have been in some very psychiatrist’s notes). Cheshire asylum in 1980. They reveal dark, scary places,” he writes. “I have But it’s also a testimony to the a depressed, angry, and frightened experienced the dark night of the Christians who saw his potential and 18-year-old, reluctant to play “stupid soul. And sometimes I haven’t felt championed his ministry, and to a life games” in occupational therapy, worthy of being a priest.” of dogged determination. He thinks terrified by threats of electro- From his “bizarre and erratic” of himself as “a bit like Humpty convulsive therapy, and tormented­­ by behaviour during a breakdown while Dumpty — only God could put me suicidal thoughts. training at Cranmer Hall, Durham, back together”. “Oh God, how can I change?” to bouts of depression after His earliest memory is of clinging reads one entry. “How can I be dif­ ordination which left him “curled up to his mother in tears as a social ferent? The doctor is right. I am like a baby”, the book offers an un­ worker pulled him away from her. He flawed, damaged, probably damaged was three. For the rest of his child­ beyond repair.” hood, he and his brother were in and Looking back, he struggles to out of the care system. comprehend a system that left a He can remember being locked in vulnerable teenager sharing a space a cupboard by one foster carer, and with adults with complex disorders, quantities of verbal abuse; and even Your parish magazine: the easy way some of whom were violent or “ today, he says, being asked to trust predatory, “constantly feeling fearful some­one causes him to “bristle”. and under threat from those around Although a children’s home me”. brought stability and happier times, 1. Order copies of The Sign Today, the asylum has been his obsession with Aunty Lindsay demolished, but the diary survives, intensified to such an extent that he 2. Add a page of local news published in Life After Care, Fr After one suicide was asked to leave and move in with Edwards’s second memoir. The first, attempt, he prayed: his sister. It was a suicide attempt 3. 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After one suicide Call 01603 785911 or out” his struggles with mental health. attempt he can recall pray­ing: “If I am email “I felt that it might be per­­c­­ei­­ved as a truly worth something, please don’t [email protected] sign of weakness by the Church and let me die.” church authorities,” he explains. Yet, looking back, he can see signs www.the-sign.co.uk It was the increasing number of of God’s presence. He recalls how testimonies from celebrities, includ­ Spalding Baptist Church “took these 20 FEATURES 27 April 2018

PHOTOS: PHIL COPE In the footsteps of the Fathers

Fr John above St Constantine’s Cells, Wetheral, Cumbria

Despite mobility and balance THE main contention of Sacred North such as Iona, Lindisfarne, Jarrow, and we questioned our sanity. . . But they John Connell profiles problems, and constant fatigue and is that some of the Desert Fathers — Durham. We began our journey in were only moments.” Fr John Musther, tremors, and spurred onwards by his early Christian hermits who lived Ardwall and finished in Shetland. And the excitement of each trip faith, the former Anglican monk mainly in Egypt — followed trade “We discovered the same life, the “never abated, and the thrill of who, in his seventies, confronted stormy seas and dizzying routes northwards to found early same solitude, the same prayer, and approaching a new site always gave us cliff-top paths to complete his life’s monasteries, spread the gospel, and the same holiness in place after place a spring to our steps,” Mrs Musther has traced the steps work. search for suitable places to practise in between. Their journey and ours says. “Typically, the church ruin, He stumbled over a boulder-strewn their rather extreme brand of ascet- became slowly entwined.” monastic site, cave, grave, or cross of Britain’s early beach in poor light on the hunt for icism here in Britain. For these early hermits, taking up was almost always that bit further on St Ciaran’s Cave, on the Achinhoan “All my life, I have been fascinated the cross was not only a solemn than we expected. But John’s motiva- saints to the very Headland, in Kintyre. He dragged by the question of who these men instruction to bear life’s burdens with tion spurred me on across one more himself up an Orcadian sea stack (a were, what they were doing, and faith in the face of persecution and field of cows, one more bog, round edges of Britain steep, often vertical column rock in where did they go?” Fr John explains. even death: it was also a call to accept yet another headland.” the sea near a coast) using a chain put “We were familiar with the great sea the “new martyrdom” — that of dying The diagnosis of Parkinson’s five there to aid the more intrepid highway around the coasts of Ireland to the world and crucifying the flesh years ago brought on “a touch of pilgrims. He was so determined to see through the rigours of the monastic urgency”, Mrs Musther thinks. Her the project through that he completed life. They were prepared to go to the husband’s motivation was one of the the last leg recovering from surgery ends of the earth to seek a fuller union first things that she noticed about for an aortic aneurism. with Christ, to live on the very edge of him, she recalls. “In our 24 years of “IF ANYONE desires to come after Together with his wife, Jenny, and what was possible. mar riage, we have always taken holi- me,” Christ exhorts, “let him deny the book’s photographer, Phil Cope, At times, we really “Some of these places were ex- days which are more like pilgrimages. him self, take up his cross, and follow he has visited more than 250 sacred “ tremely dangerous and exposed, par- I have found it impossible to resist me.” places over the past two years, from were risking life and ticularly in Shetland,” Fr John ob- catching the fire. One man who has borne his cross well-known centres of early monast- serves. “Some were just inaccessible. “The monks and saints we follow further than most is Cumbria’s only icism such as Iona and Lindisfarne, to limb following in There were steep and crumbling paths are as real to him as his closest Orthodox priest, Fr John Musther, obscure ruined chapels, secret caves, their footseps with hundred-foot drops below. friends. In fact, they are his close defying Parkinson’s disease to follow and lost hermitages. “These hermits had gone to expose friends.” in the footsteps of the saints across He struggled over barbed-wire themselves to the worst the weather the wilds of northern Britain. fences and huge ladders straddling could throw at them, to hardships, FR JOHN’s journey to Orthodoxy As if this were not challenge high walls, endured a four-hour boat winds, and huge seas rolling in. At began in 1962 when he met a charis- enough, Fr John, who is 77, has also trip to St Kilda on a rough Atlantic times, we really were risking life and matic Russian monk, Fr Sophrony, a written a 300-page, lavishly illustrated swell, and battled head down through and Scotland, which was used by the limb following in their footsteps. But disciple and biographer of St Silouan book, Sacred North, about his wind and rain to reach a ruined earliest of monks; we followed them, the sense of discovery is enormous. the Athonite, compiler of St Silouan’s pilgrimage. chapel known as Tigh a’Bheannaich first, up through the west of Scotland, We found some of these places only works, and the founder of the Fr John’s research for Sacred North (House of the Blessed) on the top of then up the east coast all the way to after years of research.” Patriarchal Stavropegic Monastery of has taken him tens of thousands of the Isle of Lewis. Shetland. We made a third journey A path close to an ancient former St John the Baptist in Tolleshunt miles by boat, plane, camper van, and To get to one far-flung hermitage going south into northern Britain. sea-stack monastery in northern Knights, Essex. on foot, from the Outer Hebrides to on the tiny island of Papa Westray, in “We found well over a hundred Scotland has crumbled away since Fr The encounter was “the turning- the northernmost part of the Shet land Orkney, he took the shortest sched- inspiring and often hidden little- John’s last visit; another site, on one point of my life”, Fr John recalls. “He archipelago, as well as to holy sites uled flight in the world: two minutes known sacred sites on Arran, Bute, of the North Isles of Shetland, Yell, is told me that the purpose of the across Durham, Northumber land, in a small plane, in windy conditions. Mull, Skye, Loch Shiel, Raasay, Islay, so dangerous that it is impossible to Christian life is to ask Christ to send and Cumbria. His gruelling mission It was worth it, he thinks: “The silence Colonsay, Eigg, the Outer Hebrides, get insurance to go there. the Holy Spirit into our hearts so that took him to some of the most isolated was tangible and the solitude awe- Barra, St Kilda, Orkney, Shetland, as Mrs Musther admits to “a few mis- he might cleanse us and make us like and inhospitable places in Britain. some.” well as more well-known holy sites givings, a few wobbly moments when Christ. 27 April 2018 FEATURES 21

Left: the tenth-century Gosforth Cross, in St Mary’s churchyard at Gosforth, Cumbria.

Above: the Dupplin cross, a Pictish carving of the early ninth century, placed for preservation under the 11th/12th century tower of St Serf’s, Dunning; far left: Fr John at St Cedd’s tomb, St Mary’s, Lastingham,­ in Yorkshire. Cedd was a pupil at the school in Lindisfarne established by Bishop Aiden of Iona, and founded a monastery in Lastingham; left: St Moluagh’s, Raasay, Isle of Skye. The chapel was built in the 1200s; below: Fr John in his attic chapel

“It summed up the whole of scripture in just one sentence. I was stunned. What made such an im­ pression on me is that I knew this man lived what he talked about. He knew it from direct experience.” Fr Sophrony had lived for many years on Mount Athos, the peninsula in northern Greece which is a famous centre of East­ern Orthodox monas­ ticism. Armed with letters of intro­ duction from the Athonite, Fr John visited the holy mountain, but was not ready to embrace Orthodoxy. Impressed by the monastic com­ munities he encountered there, including their ancient tradition of continuous devotion centred on the Jesus Prayer, he spent almost two decades in an Anglican monastery before making the leap of faith to Orthodoxy. Once ordained priest in the Exar­ chate of Orthodox Parishes in St Fillan’s Cave, Pittenweem (“place of the cave”). Most of St Fillan’s life was Western Europe, and in the Deanery­ spent as a hermit in this fishing village, which was named after him of Great Britain and Ireland under the Ecumenical Patriarch of Consta­n­ tinople, Fr John founded the Parish of “This book gives a view of the St Bega, St Mungo and St Herbert in spiritual landscape they would have Keswick. known. It ran for hundreds of years. Cumbria may seem an unlikely Then it was steadily pushed aside. outpost for an Orthodox parish, far as “ Now we live in another world, an it is from the faith’s ancient Byzantine almost totally different one. heartlands. But what Fr John has These places remain “But not quite. There are still shown through his book is that these Desert Fathers living today.” places remain connected through a connected through a shared history and a living tradition For a copy of Sacred North (signed that transcends both time and space, shared history and dedicated if you wish) send a celebrated every Sunday in the liturgy. cheque for £25 (+£5 p&p) made pay­ “People are often surprised to able to Fr John Musther, 16 Greta discover that the living tradition of Villas, Kes­wick, Cumbria CA12 5LJ. the saints has been followed in the For bank transfer or more details British Isles and Ireland since the email Jenny Musther at jjmusther@ second century after Christ,” he says. hotmail.co.uk. 22 FEATURES 27 April 2018

MARK EDWARDS Edwards reports. “It may be down to them not using the resources avail­ able to them; but I do think it can be Asylum perceived as sign of weakness. We are supposed to be ones that have all the answers.” Continued from page 19 He is conscious that “people are still wary of me now, a vicar who has mixed-up young man I’ve ever come been in a mental institution.” But he across, but God has told me to stick emphasises that his own congrega­ with you.’ And he did.” tion has been “wonderful: very sup­­ For a short time, before a bedsit portive and understanding”. The was found, he slept on the church book contains fulsome praise of those floor. The soup kitchen was also who have stood by him, in­­cluding the where he met a young student, Revd Ian Davies, a former incumbent Lesley. When she brought him home at St John the Evangel­­ist, Barrow-in- to her parents, he had no qualifica­ Furness, who took him on as a tions (he grew up believing that he curate. was “thick”, only to be diagnosed “He told me that the first time he with dyslexia later). met me and saw my wife, he saw two He had only recently been re­­leased very hurt people, and that there was from the asylum. He remem­bers ‘no way I was going to get rid of you: arriving at her house, “with plush I was going to nurture you and move carpets and leather couches. I felt you on in the faith.’” very aware of my frayed jeans and He is also conscious that, while “it too-short jumper sleeves.” Yet “they Left: Mark Edwards (back row, third seems that things have improved never once judged me. They took me from the left) at the children’s massively”, the closure of the asylums under their wing and wel­comed me home, just before he left in 1978; and the creation of the Care in the into the family and I have to thank above: collecting his MBE Community programme has pro­ God for that”. duced a complicated state of affairs. Mark and Lesley have been mar­­ “You had people who were previ­ ried for 34 years, and have four chil­ ously institutionalised suddenly dren. Life After Care is dedicated to thrust back into the community . . . his father-in-law, Elfed John, who It’s certainly a lot of empty rhetoric died last year. “I used to joke that if when there’s no funding to back up my daughter brought someone like priesthood at Cranmer Hall in 1991. dren’s home in Spalding,” he recalls. lem; and, at GCSE level, three times the ideas.” me, would I be so accommodating?” It was not an easy time. Con­duct­ “To the onlooker it must have been less likely to achieve a 4 grade in When it comes to class, he sus­ he says. ing a self-assessment triggered ter­­ very weird. I don’t think people un­­ English and Maths. Only six per cent pects that the C of E does contain After studying at Moorlands Bible rible memories, and a visit with a derstood that I was having a break- go on to study at university, com­ elitism, considering it “nothing short College, an Evangelical training social worker to the car park where a down.” Some of his acquaint­ances pared with 45 per cent of their peers. of a miracle” that he was accepted for centre founded by the Plymouth young girl, also a product of the care grew afraid and withdrew, which he While it’s not unusual to hear of training in the early 1990s. “They are Brethren in the 1940s, and serving as system, had taken her life was the can understand. clergy who have fostered and adopted a bit more open now, but they still a pastoral assistant at Kay Street catalyst for a breakdown. “Today there are safeguarding children, it is less common to hear favour those who have got degrees, Baptist Church in Lancashire, Fr “I walked around half the time practices with vulnerable adults, as from a priest who has direct experi­­ from middle-class back­grounds. And Edwards went on to train for the picturing myself back in the chil­ well there should be. But back then, ence of growing up in care. when it comes to appointing various losing more people [as friends] be­­ Fr Edwards’s conclusion, on the bishops and archdeacons and things cause of my mental state felt like final page of his book, is: “Things like that, those positions seem to be another cruel blow.” Some people may have started badly, but they can more filled by people who have the higher up wanted his “head on a finish well.” He has served both as a right pedigree.” platter”, he says. volunteer with the lifeboat service, Someone stopped him in the street and as a first responder with the recently and expressed sur­­prise that WEB ONE of the shining lights of the police, and was made an MBE for his he sounded the same in the street as story is a former Bishop of Oxford, “services to the voluntary sector in he did in the pulpit. He “never got the Rt Revd John Pritchard, then the North East” in 2010, and awarded the hang” of “that ecclesiastical Director of Pastoral Studies and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal voice”. He hopes for more leaders Warden at Cranmer Hall, who, Fr in 2014 for services rendered as an like Bishop Pritchard, “who could ADVERTISING Edwards says, put his reputation on emergency-service volunteer. support those students from non- the line by championing him. With­ academic backgrounds, and those out him, he thinks, he would never who came with various mental- Advertise on the Church Times website have got ordained. health issues”. Counselling helped, and, eventu­ Today, as Team Vicar of Christ the ally, a psychiatric report confirmed King, comprising Brunswick, 120,000 average page views per month that he could progress to ordination. 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ALAMY Anthony Cane uncovers an interest that started in a A life’s work theologian’s teenage years new ideas about Jesus Christ. Wright uber­ance, and intellectual quality of Paul: A biography also favours the possibility that, after just 70 or 80 pages of letters. Tom Wright the two years in Rome with which Part of the reason for the length of SPCK £19.99 Acts con­cludes, Paul visited Spain. Wright’s biography is the reiteration (978-0-281-07875-2) For the most part, however, the em­ of key themes. To give a flavour: Paul Church Times Bookshop phasis is on the meaning and signific­ was not primarily concerned to special price £16.99 ance of Paul’s life and ministry, and preach salvation so that people could some themes are repeatedly men­ go to heaven when they died, but tioned, such as Wright’s concerns to rather with proclaiming God’s IN THE margins of Tom Wright’s rebut suggestions that his subject Kingdom as com­ing “on earth as it is outstanding new book, we learn that created a new “reli­gion”, and that Paul in heaven”, and the restoration of the his 1960s teenage rebellion involved remained a deeply Jewish thinker. whole of creation. studying the Pauline letters with his The book is in three parts. In Paul’s focus on Jesus as Messiah friends. With his fondness for maps “Begin­nings”, Wright explores the was not about starting a new “reli­ and learning about Paul’s mis­sionary zeal of the young Saul and the nar­ gion” but proclaiming “a new state of journeys, here are the founda­­tions of ratives that shaped him, the en­ affairs, a new community owing the publishing and academic pheno­ counter with the risen Christ on the allegiance to a new Master”. Salvation m­­enon that is Professor N.T. Wright, Damascus road, Paul’s “hidden years” was about being an active agent in former Bishop of Durham, and now in Tarsus and Arabia, and the begin­ God’s world, in which human beings at the University of St Andrews. nings of his ministry in Antioch. could be “the conduit through which In 2013, he published the monu­ The second part, “Herald of the God’s life would come to earth and mental and magisterial Paul and the King”, by far the longest, covers the earth’s praises would rise to God”. Faithfulness of God, all 1800 pages of missionary journeys that gave Wright This is compelling stuff; so much it. Paul: A biography draws on this the schoolboy that enthusiasm that is so that it is easy to forget that some academic work, but is aimed at a undimmed and now in­­formed by the Pauline scholars find in Wright’s more general readership, hence considered reflection of a long aca­ work too much emphasis on a few “Tom”, not “N. T.”, on the title page. demic and ecclesiastical career. themes, and a consequent neglect of This is not one of those bio­ Part Three, “The Sea, the Sea”, be­ the full range of imagery, metaphor, graphies that is based on vivid, novel­ gins with a nicely done retelling of and motif on which Paul draws. Any istic descrip­tion. Wright is so keen to Paul’s voyage to Rome. The final reader seeking detailed engagement place Paul’s Damascus-road en­ chapter is an excellent and thought- with some of the more controversial counter within the dominant narrat­ provoking summary of Wright’s aspects of Paul’s writings, on women ives of the time that the event itself is mature thought on Paul’s motivation or sexual­ity, for example, will not find assumed rather than retold. and theology. Here he describes Paul it here. None the less. this remains a There are one or two speculative as the most significant and successful mag­nificent biography worthy of a flourishes, such as the suggestion that “public intellectual” of all time. wide readership. Paul had been betrothed as a young Wright is clear that the roots of the The Revd Dr Cane is Chancellor and man, and the engagement broken off flourishing of the Early Church lie in Canon Librarian of Chichester Parmigianino’s The Conversion of St Paul (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) when he returned to Tarsus full of his ministry, and in the variety, ex­ Cathedral.

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Here the of Medieval Theology and Intellectual St Cosmas and St Damian perform the miraculous multi-ethnic transplant The Psalms: A commentary for bones were especially important, History in the University of Cam­ referred to in the review (left), in a painting attributed to the Master of Las prayer and reflection by Henry surviving decay as they did. The bridge. Balbases c.1495. From the book under review Wansbrough (BRF, £9.99 (£9); (978-1-84101-648-1). Rachel Mann reads of a nona­gen­arian there is pathos. In­ Fortress Britain? Ethical deed, for all of Holloway’s disavowal approaches to immigration policy thankful facing of death of religion, it’s his vulnerable hu­ for a post-Brexit Britain, edited Holloway’s farewell man­­ity that gestures to the depths. by Ben Ryan (Jessica Kingsley He acknowledges how much of Publishers, £15.99 (£14.40); 978- sense that to grow old at all is shame­ death’s unavoidability. There are life he has missed because he was ob­ 1-78592-309-8). 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Indeed, there are regular deed, at the heart of this book lies a thought of being dead that troubles would, at this late hour, be able to Nigel G. Wright (BRF, £10.99 think pieces on the mortal possibil­ sense that, for him, the ap­­proach of us; it is the prospect of leaving and “serve the production” so well. If this (£9.90); 978-0-85746-689-1). ities of flesh; some claim that there is death is a gift for wisdom and hope. losing that grabs us by the throat.” In is goodbye, it is fitting and generous. Selected by Frank Nugent, of the Church no upper limit on life. Structured, in part, through re­ the hands of a youthful writer, such Canon Mann is Rector of St Nich­ House Bookshop, which operates the Others have become so obsessed min­iscence and autobiography, each a line might read as cliché. 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© FONDATION BEYELER, RIEHEN/BASEL, BEYELER COLLECTION/PHOTO ROBERT BAYER Claude Monet’s Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (Morning Effect) (Cathédrale de Rouen: Le Portail (Effet du matin)), 1894 (Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, The sunlight, Beyeler Collection)

terns to be observed during the day. Although Monet had a high not the solid viewpoint from an upstairs room in an opposite shop, he complained that tourists got in the way of his pictur­ ways, the invention of the horseless ing the west front, and the 245-foot Nicholas Cranfield carriage, and later that of the aero­ Tour d’Albane of the great French views the Monets at plane. Consequently, the traditional cathedral. But the paintings are not inaccessibility of the countryside at all architectural, and we can no the National Gallery changed; the bourgeois could delight more “read” the 1530 façade than we in the “picturesque” views of ancient can readily appreciate the Palace of ruined choirs and medieval abbeys Westminster. AS PART of “Fanfare for Europe”, to and churches. They could travel Finally rebuilt in 1870, this was a mark Britain’s entry into the Euro­ easily across the Channel to England. new construction when Monet first pean Economic Community, the The fast train from Paris to painted it (National Gallery). It will Arts Council staged a memorable Dieppe, albeit the longer route via come as a surprise that in later exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in Rouen, took only two-and-a-half depictions of the Thames at Charing January 1973, “The Impressionists in hours, and Trouville, in 1830 a Cross, dated between the end of the London”. The show celebrated the humble fishing village, but by the century and 1904, he cropped the work of French artists who left Paris end of the century the most desirable image to avoid including the bell during the Franco-Prussian war and watering-place in Calvados, with a tower (“Big Ben”). its aftermath and who painted the population of 6000, could be reached By then, the railways had taken Thames. Many returned later. in three-quarters of an hour by over the land both sides of La Thirty of the 58 paintings selected steamer (three daily sailings) from Le Manche, and Monet keenly painted by Alan Bowness then were by the Havre, the second most important the cathedrals of the steam age. From Parisian Claude Monet (1840-1926), French seaport after Marseille. Argenteuil, once the trains were and the exhibition closed with a Thomson makes the point that in running again, the Gare Saint-Lazare sunburst of unexpected colour in the the earlier period the steeples and was the Paris terminus for all his 25-year-old André Derain’s 1905-06 bells of churches demarcated villages journeys into the capital. Monet canvases. and, in the open countryside, allowed revels in the 40-metre-wide span of Fortuitously, or perhaps mischiev­ the traveller on foot or on horseback the roof girders, celebrating with the ously, the recent exhibition at Tate to calculate how long it might take to bustling commuters in a new age. Britain charted a similar course reach the next village and hamlet. It The exhibition is accompanied by (“Impressionists in London French is perhaps, therefore, no surprise to Richard Thomson’s brilliant book, Artists in Exile 1870-1904”) as find Monet routinely centring his sold at a heavy discount at the Britain struggles to leave the EU. landscapes on churches, as the regu­ gallery. It is not a catalogue and, Padded out with some unexcep­ larity of building shapes confers a annoyingly, does not include a tional academic sculptures and a degree of order in the natural land. check-list of the works exhibited*. room of Tissot’s self-satisfied Of Argenteuil, 15km west of Paris, This is particularly tedious, as Monet drawing-room portraits, it was where the Monets lived from 1871, deliberately repeated motifs while the predictably almost identical, and readers of Baedeker would find: “Son the City Fathers of Southampton painted the church four times in light effect varied. included many of the same pieces vignoble, le plus considérable des hoped to sell off the City Art 1882 from the other side of the shown in 1973. The room of Monet’s environs de Paris, produit un vin Gallery’s collection, which includes gorge. God’s house might be present *Bona fide readers may wish to apply views of the Houses of Parliament médiocre: mais elle [Argenteuil] est the summer view of the village, in the steep landscape, but we are to the Deputy Editor of the Church (only eight this time) had the visitor renommée pour ses asperges. Il n’y a painted from a boat on the river, presumably meant to consider how Times for my listing that marries the thrilling for more. de remarqu­able que l’église, à l’autre which we see here. Man has tamed the surrounding exhibits with the corresponding plate In an exhibition dedicated solely extrémité. C’est un édifice moderne Perched high above the English headlands. in the book. to Claude Monet at the National dans le style roman, avec un haut Channel on the Normandy coast Of the paintings on show, those of Gallery, Professor Richard Thomson, clocher, par Ballu.” five-and-a-half miles west of Dieppe Rouen Cathedral (1892-94), from a “Monet and Architecture” is at the who put together the large retro­ The ancient town of Argenteuil, of is the little parish church of series of 20, and of the Thames at National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, spect­ive of Monet at the Grand Palais some 11000 inhabitants, suffered Varengeville-sur-mer. Westminster are perhaps the most London WC2, until 29 July. Phone in 2010, shows 78 canvases that will when the French blew up the railway François I was entertained at the famous that Monet painted, exhil­ 020 7747 2885. satisfy that eager thirst. Shown bridge to hinder the Prussian ad­ Manoir d’Ango here, and Monet arating in the changes of light pat­ www.nationalgallery.org.uk without labels to distract or hold up vance. In two paintings, we see it the peering crowds (see below for being reconstructed in 1872. © COLUMBUS MUSEUM OF ART. GIFT OF MR. AND MRS. ARTHUR J. KOBACKER 1981.015 further comment), the works explore Theodore Ballu (1817-85) won the how Monet handled light. For that is Prix de Rome in 1840 and was the all that we see. city architect for Paris from 1860, Monet lived in extraordinary designing the church of La Trinité times, not least with the collapse of and the belfry of Saint-Germain the Second Empire and establish­ l’Auxerrois and restoring the basilica ment of the Third Republic. His long of Saint-Denis, the Hôtel de Ville, life spanned the coming of the rail­ and the Tour Saint-Jacques. 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E&OE In a madcap scheme to fund an interactive museum of the Titanic, The Church at Varengeville and the Gorge of Moutiers (Église de Varengeville et la gorge des Moutiers), 1882, by Monet 26 MEDIA 27 April 2018 Royal birth knocks hard news off front pages seven hours old when the paper was printed. serious news, the country might be in rather Grand Mufti of Syria and to either the Minister PRESS I particularly liked “Baby Prince’s first better shape. of Defence or the Chief of Staff of the Army, achievement is to make history for royal But that would be rather shallow snark. This who are deputized to sign for Syrian President WE ARE all guilty, of course: I myself have just gender equality.” Heracles could only strangle stuff is hard for the papers to resist, not just Bashar al-Assad.’ Did you know where his ‘love been down to the newsagent’s to diminish the snakes in his cradle. 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Some of his fellow other things knocked off the front page was a TALKING of her: the papers were keen to massive propaganda coup to an evil regime,” he travellers certainly have. Baroness Cox told a story that the limit for bets on computerised assure us of Diana’s opinions on the whole wrote in his Times column on Thursday of last journalist from the UAE paper The National, slot-machines will be knocked down to £2 from thing. I’m afraid that the Express, usually the week. who was on the same trip, that President Assad the present £100, which bishops have been most reliable source for Diana’s posthumous “On Monday evening the Rev Giles Fraser, should be granted a state visit to the UK, and campaigning for (News, Comment, 23 March). opinions, had sold out in my newsagent’s (as broadcaster, columnist, former canon chancellor that Russia had a more ethical foreign policy in Which news will change more people’s lives for had The Guardian; so I cannot comment on my of St Paul’s Cathedral, sent a tweet from Syria than Britain. Neither is really a position to the better? own paper’s doubtless unrivalled royal cover­ Damascus. . . ‘With the Grand Mufti of Syria — defend on The Moral Maze. But then, of course, newspapers are not age). the top Muslim cleric in Syria — in the The Syrian war is so dreadful, and Britain’s bought for actual good news: the stuff that sells In the Mail, however, there was, of course, astonishing Umayyad Mosque in central power there is so limited, that almost anything is either bad news, or news that makes us feel “Diana yearned for a third child — how she Damascus talking about how love is stronger anyone says here is vain posturing. The war is good. The last two categories can be combined would have savoured this moment”: a story so than missiles.’ an occasion for prayer, if you believe that prayer in one story, and often are. momentous that it needed two people to write “The Grand Mufti of Syria, Ahmad makes any difference, and for the delivery of aid In the Telegraph, there was an eight-page it. Badreddin Hassoun, appears in a recent to the refugees. But, otherwise, you would be souvenir supplement — this is the broadsheet I’m tempted to say that if perhaps one tenth Amnesty International report that sets out what better off talking about our royal family. equivalent of the Mail’s 16 tabloid pages — and of the labour and ingenuity that went into these happens before an execution in Syria. It reads: five pages of “news” about a baby who was pieces had gone into anything regarded as ‘The judgment is sent by military post to the Andrew Brown

BBC ignorance, on the part of comfortable white Britain, of the daily indignities visited on our Afro-Caribbean neigh­ On the buses bours. The admiration was for the dignity and tenacity of Doreen and Will we be looking back in 50 Neville Lawrence, and Stephen’s RADIO years’ time at our own era and friends — and, it is good to record, creating heroic stories of the struggle DCI Clive Driscoll, who never gave up THE English do not generally do against the oppression of binary in his determination to pursue the fan ­­aticism­ very well; and, even if you gender? There is certainly no lack of culprits. don’t agree with his standpoint, there courageous individuals to populate Even aspects of the scrupulous is something charmingly quaint the story. In Beyond Belief (Radio 4, caution of the legal system which about Billy the hairdresser’s attempt Monday of last week), we heard from made the case so difficult were indicat­ at self-immolation in protest at racial Kamalanandi, a “transmasculine” ive of the principle that getting it policy in late-1960s Wolverhampton. Bud­dhist, and a Christian, Philippa wrong, and throwing away the chance He did not realise, he says, that Whittaker, who has transitioned to a of a conviction, might be worse than setting light to himself would get so woman, about their struggles in both not bringing the suspects into court hot. “I’d better get out of here” was personal and institutional relation­ Sathnam Sanghera’s The Turban Bus Dispute (Radio 4, Monday of last week) until cast-iron evidence could be his final thought, as he leapt out of ships. was a reminder of Britain’s racial attitudes over the past half-century found. Religion came into it, too: the the flames to safety. Suffice to say, it is not easy, even Lawrences’­ faith clearly provided a Billy’s foolhardy act came in re­ if, as the resident academic, Dr community­ that sustained them, and sponse to a similar threat, made by Susan­nah Cornwall, argued, not all gave them the strength to utter words one Sohan Singh Jolly, as part of The transgender people are as emotion­ of forgiveness. Turban Bus Dispute (Radio 4, Mon­ ally or psychological “vexed” as we What the story pointed up was how day of last week); an episode in late- might imagine. Cause for shame little Britain understood about its own ’60s industrial relations instigated by There is a great deal to be said peoples and institutions — or, per­ a Sikh bus driver, Tarsem Singh San­ here about the gendered body and mentary, eschewing sensation and, haps, still fails to understand. dhu, when he was refused permission the liberated soul; and Whittaker TELEVISION rather, building a structure that in­ In contrast, ITV offered us the to wear his turban to work. was particularly interesting in this spired equal measures of disgust, opportunity­ to feel good about our­ In a week that marked the anni­ respect, expressing something like SOMETIMES, an apparently inflated shame, and admiration. selves with a cosmic conjunction of versary both of the Stephen Law­ nostalgia for her former body. claim turns out, on closer inspection, Somehow, the unfolding story of forces for good in The Queen’s Green rence murder and of Enoch Powell’s Less helpful are arguments­ from to be the unvarnished truth, as in the failure, for two decades, to convict Planet (Monday of last week). Her notorious “Rivers of Blood” speech, biblical authority. It would be fair to title of BBC1’s series, shown last week anyone of the outrage had to be Majesty conducted Sir David Atten­ it was particularly appropriate to be assume that, were gender fluidity to on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thurs­ acknowledged as our story, too, touch­ borough on a private stroll through reminded of the complexities and be a significant phenomenon in the day, Stephen: The murder that changed ing all of us who lived through the the garden of Buckingham Palace to nuances of Britain’s racial attitudes days of the Pentateuch, then it a nation, marking the 25th annivers­ period. The shame derived from the examine some of its 1400 trees. over the past half century. would, at the very least, have been ary of the murder of Stephen Law­ incompetence of the police invest­ Many of them have been specif­ Mr Sandhu is still alive and willing frowned on. rence. igation, and the realisation of the ically planted by members of the royal to speak about the events of 50 This was serious television, setting a elements of corruption that might family; many have little plaques to years ago; so naturally, in Sathnam Edward Wickham new benchmark for forensic docu­ sully the Met; and the general record whom or what they commem­ Sanghera’s excellent documentary, orate, and much joshing was engend­ he was again the central protagonist. ered as Sir David misread this or that But his testimony by no means fitted WEEK AHEAD inscription. The programme’s cutting the template that we would expect final of the Young Choir of the Year. Understood Jahnavi Harrison edge was its promotion of the Queen’s from such a story. First, Mr Sandhu HIGHLIGHT: FutureProofing: Faith Tuesday 8pm (Nat Geographic) One celebrates the women who choose to Commonwealth Canopy: a scheme to is happy to admit that he joined the Timandra Harkness and Leo Johnson Strange Rock Our planet is vulnerable. dedicate their lives to God. encourage national leaders to sign up bus com­pany in Wolverhampton journey from the Middle East to Could we ever survive elsewhere? An 8.10am (R4) Sunday Worship A and guarantee to protect and extend specifi ­cally to provoke the dispute; Silicon Valley, to find out how astronaut looks at forming a colony service live from Lancing College, areas of forest. The Queen spoke his father had just won a similar technology is disrupting beliefs and on another planet. West Sussex, in its 150th year. about the need to reverse climate­ cause at Goodyear Tyres. practices. Thursday and Friday 9pm (BBC2) 3pm (R3) Choral Evensong A repeat change to provide biological diversity The cause did not engage the Syria: The world’s war Lyse Doucet of last week’s service from Guildford and hope for future generations.­ majority of Sikhs in the UK, but it 8pm Wednesday Radio 4 examines the story of the civil war in Cathedral. Frank Field told us that the whole did play well to the Punjabi com­ Syria (1-2/2). Monday 4.30pm (R4) Beyond Belief thing was his idea: he has been trying munity in India, and was supported TELEVISION: Friday 8pm (C5) Ernie Rea and guests, including Ann to persuade successive governments by a Punjabi political party. And the Britain’s Great Cathedrals with Tony RADIO: Saturday 8pm (R4) Archive Widdecombe, discuss religion and for years to take it on, with no success. final blow: Mr Sandhu proclaims Robinson A look at the history of on 4: Britain and Biafra: 50 years on the unmarried woman (5/7). It was only when he turned to our himself a supporter of Enoch Powell, Durham Cathedral (4/6). Afua Hirsch explores the legacy of Wednesday 3.30pm (R3) Choral 92-year-old monarch that she jumped mainly because Powell was instru­ Sunday 4.15pm (BBC1) Songs of the Nigerian-Biafran war. Evensong Live from St John’s College, at the concept. mental in getting permission for two Praise Aled Jones presents the semi- Sunday 6.05am (R4) Something Cambridge. of his cousins to move to Britain. Gillean Craig 27 April 2018 GAZETTE 27 appointments

BAINBRIDGE. The Revd Phyllis Assistant Curate (Associate Priest) wark), to be Priest-in-Charge of the Sheldon, Chaplain to Southwick Bainbridge, formerly Assistant Cur- of Earlham (Norwich). New acting dean Holy Spirit, Southsea (Portsmouth). Park, to be Station Chaplain of RAF ate (Interim Minister) of Heath EVE. The Revd Gary Eve, NSM of LAWTON. The Revd Christopher Odiham. (Derby), to be Assistant Curate Lanteglos By Fowey, of Lansallos, of Lawton, Priest-in-Charge of the SIMPKINS. The Revd Matthew (Interim Minister) in the Hucknall Talland, and of Lanreath and Pelynt, CANON Peter Leonard , Chan- Wensley Gateway Group (Crakehall, Simpkins, Assistant Curate in the Torkard Team Ministry (Southwell to be Assistant Curate of the Tre- cellor of Portsmouth Cathedral, Hornby, Patrick Brompton and Wickford and Runwell Team Min- & Nottingham). lawney Benefice (Truro). since 2014, is to be Acting Dean Hunton, and Spennithorne with istry, and Chaplain to the Bishop of BATTEY . The Revd Alexander FAWCETT. The Revd Laura Faw- of Portsmouth Cathedral in Finghall and Hauxwell), to be Rector Chelmsford, to be Priest-in-Charge Battey, Vicar of Old Basing and cett, Assistant Curate in the Putney Ports mouth diocese, from 1 of the Lower Wensleydale Benefice of Lexden (Chelmsford). Lychpit (Winchester), to be Chap- Team Ministry (Southwark), to be August. Before his present (Leeds). STEPHENS. The Revd Paul lain to the Royal Artillery, Thorney Vicar of Holy Trinity with St Philip, appointment, he held curacies LEWIS . The Revd David Lewis, Stephens, Station Chaplain of RAF Island (Portsmouth). Dalston, and All Saints’, Haggerston in Guildford diocese, from 1997. Rector of Wiske (Leeds), now Rector Honington, to be Station Chaplain BOWKETT. The Revd Graham (London). of Elmley Castle with Brickle hamp- of RAF Brize Norton. Bowkett, Rector of Upper Itchen, FAIRHURST. The Revd Rosemary New archdeacon ton and the Combertons, and Assist- SWAN. The Revd Duncan Swan, and Area Dean of Alresford (Win- Fairhurst, Canon Chancellor of ant Curate (Associate Priest) of Deaneries Development Adviser, chester), to be Vicar of St Mary’s, Leicester Cathedral (Leicester), to be Over bury with Teddington, Alstone and Hon. Canon of Southwark Ca- Charlton Kings (Gloucester). Vicar of St Augustine’s and St THE next Archdeacon of and Little Washbourne with Beck- thedral, now also Assistant Curate CAMPLING-DENTON . The Revd Clement’s, Bradford (Bradford). Hereford, in that diocese, is to ford and Ashton-under-Hill, with (Associate Priest) in the Merton Camilla Campling-Denton, Priest- FIRTH. The Revd Geoffrey Firth, be Canon Derek Chedzey , special responsibility for Ashton- Team Ministry (Southwark). in-Charge of Forcett and Aldbrough Station Chaplain of RAF Marham, to Director of Ordinands for under-Hill (Worcester) (correction). THOMPSON. The Revd Ian and Melsonby (Leeds), to be Rector. be Station Chaplain of RAF Leem- Bristol diocese, Head of Min- LOVESEY. The Revd Katharine Thompson, Prison Chaplain of HM CARSON. The Revd Claire Carson, ing. istry Development in the dio- Lovesey, Priest-in-Charge of St Prison Wormwood Scrubs (London) Chaplain to St George’s Healthcare FRANCIS-DEHQANI. The Revd cese, and Residentiary Canon of Peter’s, Aldborough Hatch, to be to be Chaplain of HM Prison Brix - NHS Trust (Southwark), now Lead Lee Francis-Dehqani, formerly Team Bristol Cathedral, since 2015. also Priest-in-Charge of St John the ton (Southwark). Chaplain to the Royal Free London Rector in the Oakham Team Min- Before his present appoint- Evangelist, Great Ilford (Chelms- THROUP. The Revd Caroline NHS Foundation Trust (London). istry, Area Dean of Rutland, and ments, he held posts in Bristol ford). Throup, Pastoral Tutor of Ridley CLARE. The Revd Johanna Clare, Hon. Canon of Peterborough Ca - diocese from 2004, having MAY. The Revd Toby May, Vicar of Hall, Cambridge (Ely), to be Rector formerly Team Vicar in the Morden thedral (Peterborough), to be served in Exeter and Oxford Christ Church, Alsager (Chester), to of Wilmslow (Chester). Team Ministry, and Diocesan Con- Interim Team Rector of the Fosse dioceses from 1993. be Vicar of Whitfield (Derby). TUCKER. The Revd Andrew tinuing Professional Development Team Ministry (Leicester), becom- MIDDLEMISS. The Revd Justine Tucker, Station Chaplain of RAF Officer (Southwark), to be Priest-in- ing Canon Emeritus of Peterbor- Middlemiss, Team Rector in the Lossiemouth, to be Station Chaplain Charge of Mawnan (Truro). ough Cathedral. Sutton Team Ministry, to be Priest- of RAF Waddington. DEVADASON. The Revd Jacob GAYLE. The Revd Steve Gayle, LAMBERT. The Revd Malcolm in-Charge of All Saints’, Kenley, and TURNER. The Revd Mark Turner, Devadason, Vicar of Christ Church, Assistant Curate of St John’s, Hack- Lambert, Vicar of Annesley with St Barnabas’s, Purley (Southwark). NS Assistant Curate of Eastham, to Broad Green, Croydon (Southwark), ney, to be Vicar of St Michael and Newstead and Kirkby Woodhouse MITCHELL. The Revd Helen be also Chaplain of Birkenhead to be Vicar of Heald Green (Ches- All Angels, Stoke Newington Com- (Southwell & Nottingham), to be Mitchell, formerly NS Assistant School (Chester). ter). mon (London). Interim Priest-in-Charge of St Priest of St Gregory with St Peter, WHITEHEAD. The Revd Christine DRACUP. The Revd John Dracup, GRIFFITHS. The Revd Michael Timothy’s, Crookes (Sheffield). Sudbury, and Chilton (St Edmunds- Whitehead, NS Assistant Curate of Assistant Curate of St John the Griffiths, Assistant Curate of Yate- LAWLOR. The Revd Colin Lawlor, bury & Ipswich), now Assistant Chandler’s Ford, to be Trust Chap- Baptist, Coley, to be Vicar of Christ ley, to be Priest-in-Charge of East Chaplain of Brighton University and Curate (Assistant Priest) of Peters- lain for Hampshire Hospitals NHS the King, Meltham (Leeds). Winchester (Winchester). Priest-in-Charge of Stanmer with field (Portsmouth). Foundation Trust (Winches ter). DOWSON. The Revd Ruth Dowson, KENNEDY. The Revd Aaron Falmer (Chichester), to be Vicar of MOCK. The Revd David Mock, WOODALL. The Revd Lynda Assistant Curate of All Saints’, Kennedy, Assistant Curate of St St George the Martyr, Waterlooville Priest-in-Charge of Barnton, now Woodall, Vicar of Whitworth with Bingley (Leeds), to be Associate Nicholas’s, Gosforth (Newcastle), to (Portsmouth). also Priest-in-Charge of Northwich Facit, and Area Dean of Rossendale Priest. be Associate Vicar and Pioneer for LAWSON. The Revd Russell Law- (Chester). (Leeds), to be Vicar of St John the DYBLE. The Revd Ian Dyble, Vicar Community Development and Mis- son, Vicar of St Alban the Martyr, ONUIGBO. The Revd Maria Baptist, Hey (Manchester). of the Mitre Benefice and Rural sion of St Mary’s, Battersea (South- South Norwood, and Assistant Area Onuigbo, Assistant Curate of South YOUNG. The Revd Hilary Young, Dean of Norwich South, now also wark). Dean of Croydon North (South- Beddington and Roundshaw (South- Priest-in-Charge of Settle, and of wark), to be Rector of the Good Giggleswick and Rathmell with Shepherd with St Barnabas and the Wigglesworth, and Bowland Dean- deaths Church of the Resurrection, Man- ery Schools Ministry Enabler ches ter (Manchester). (Leeds), to be Priest-in-Charge of PALMER. The Revd Marc Palmer, Gam ingay and Everton (Ely). JACKSON. — On 26 March, the (1962-64); Bishop’s Domestic Chap- Mission Church, Stroud (1991-92); Vicar of St Mary Magdalene with St WALES Revd David Jackson: Curate-in- lain (1961-64); Rector of Wouldham Team Deacon in the Stoke-upon- James, Norwich, to be Priest-in- LAMOND. The Revd Stephen Charge of Holy Trinity, New (1961-64); Chaplain of Norwich Trent Team Ministry (1992-94); Charge of St Margaret’s, Drayton Lamond, Station Chaplain of RAF Charlton (1965-69); Sub-Rector of St College of Education (1965-68); Team Vicar (1994-97); Vicar of (Norwich). Brize Norton, to be Station Chaplain Luke with St Paul, Charlton (1969- Senior Lecturer in Divinity (1968- Pheasey (1997-2002); Priest-in- ROWLANDSON. The Revd Diana of RAF St Athan. 72); Senior Tutor of the College of 72); Chester Diocesan Director of Or - Charge of St John the Baptist, Rowlandson, Vicar of Earlham, now SCOTLAND the Resurrection, Mirfield (1972-75); dinands (1972-74); Domestic Chap - Barlaston (2002-06); Chaplain of also Assistant Curate (Associate CLEMENT. The Revd Richard Rector of Clapham (1975-78); lain to the Bishop of Chester (1972- Douglas Macmillan Hospice, Blurton Priest) of the Mitre Benefice (Nor- Clement, Station Chaplain of RAF Curate-in-Charge of St Peter’s, 74); Vicar of Shotwick (1972-74); (2004-06); aged 77. wich). Leeming, to be Station Chaplain of Clapham (1976-78); Team Rector of Assistant Master and Chaplain of TREANOR. — On 11 April, the Revd SHELDON. The Revd Martin RAF Lossiemouth. Clapham Old Town (1978-1984); Eton College (1974-89); Rector of Terence Gerald Treanor: As sistant Hon. Canon of Southwark Cathedral Wrotham (1989-95); aged 87. Curate of Holy Trinity, Cam bridge (1980-96); Vicar of St Mary-le-Park, SMITH. — On 13 April, the Revd (1957-60); Vicar of St Mary’s, Battersea (1984-89); Vicar of Sur- Wendy Hamlyn Smith: Assistant Doncaster (1960-66); Chaplain of biton (1989-1996); Chaplain of St Curate of Holy Trinity and St Alban’s Oakham School (1966-94); aged 88. Michael’s Convent, Ham (1996- God’s Purposes in Later Life 2003); aged 85. Saturday, 12 May 2018 – All National Centre, Leicester NOBLE. — On 14 April, the Revd resignations and retirements Alexander Frederick Innes Noble: Chaplain and Assistant Master of The UK’s leading conference for older Christians, carers Pierrepont House School, Frensham BANDAWE. The Revd Christine FILTNESS. The Revd Trevor Filt- and those involved with older people’s ministries. (1959-61); Assistant Chaplain and Bandawe, Team Vicar in the Seacroft ness, Vicar of Rowlands Castle Assistant Master of Repton School Team Ministry (Leeds): 25 Novem ber. (Ports mouth): 2 June. Speakers include: A Places (1961-63); Chaplain (1963-66); BENNETT . The Revd Toni Bennett, FRAZER. The Revd Deborah Frazer, Evangelists Roger Carswell Brilliant still Chaplain of Blundell’s School, Tiv- Priest-in-Charge in the Pool Mission Rector of Bow, and Holy Trinity and Rev Canon Ian Knox, available erton (1966-72); Assistant Master of Area (St Asaph): 30 June. with St Leonard, Bromley (Lon don): Louise Morse, Dr. Jennifer Bute Day! St John’s C of E Upper School, BLAKE. The Revd Ian Blake, Vicar 26 August. Cowley (1973-76); Chaplain of of Holy Trinity, Skirbeck (Lincoln): GARRARD. The Revd Mary Gar- and more ... Cranbrook School (1976-81); 4 May. rard, Team Vicar in the Lower Chaplain of St George’s School, BLYTH. The Revd Geraldine Blyth, Wylye and Till Valley Team Minis- Register now at www.pilgrimsfriend.org.uk Harpenden (1981-90); Hon. Assist ant Vicar of Llangynwyd with Maesteg try (Salisbury): 20 May. or call us on 0300 303 8406 Curate of Herriard with Winslade (Llandaff): 31 August. GILBERT. The Revd Mary Gilbert, and Long Sutton and South CUMMINS. The Revd Lesley Cum- Vicar of St Paul’s, Birmingham Warnborough and Tunworth and mins, NSM of St George’s, Poynton (Birmingham). Upton Grey and Weston Patrick (Chester). HARKIN . The Revd John Harkin, (1990-94); Priest-in-Charge of Oare DRAISEY. The Revd Damon Vicar of St Mary’s, Andover, Rural with Culbone (1995-99); aged 88. Draisey, Assistant Curate of Warbling- Dean of Andover, and Hon. Canon ROBSON. — On 16 April, the Revd ton with Emsworth (Portsmouth). of Winchester Cathedral (Winches- Gilbert Alan Robson: Minor Canon EDWARDS. The Revd Susan ter): 22 April. of Rochester Cathedral (1959-62); Edwards, Team Rector in the Lever- HERBERT. The Revd Ronald Her- Sub-Warden of Rochester Theo- hulme Team Ministry (Manchester): logical College (1959-62); Chaplain 15 July. Continued overleaf 28 GAZETTE 27 April 2018 obituaries The Rt Revd Robert Beak

The Rt Revd Rob Martin writes: was a remote place, and, when his noises. Sadly, in 1982, Eileen died THE Rt Revd Robert Michael first child, Liz, was born in Kampala, from cancer. This was a really tough Cawthorn Beak, who died on 13 he arranged to get news from a time for Bob, but the family were a January, was Assistant Bishop in friend, who flashed car lights from a real support. Marsabit, a huge area of North distant mountain. The following year he applied Kenya, from 1984 to 1989, and later The following year, he and Eileen again to BCMS and returned to an Hon. Assistant Bishop in Derby moved to North Kenya, to work Kenya in 1984 as Assistant Bishop to diocese. among the Samburu. He learned Bishop (later Archbishop) David Born in 1925, Bob came to faith their language and customs by going Gitari of Mount Kenya East, with through Crusader classes. From then on foot safaris for weeks on end, respon­sibility for the remote north­ on, his passion was to grow in faith staying in Samburu manyattas. He ern deserts of Marsabit. Here, he and spread that faith to others. At would take water, but no food, and planted churches, trained evan­ school, he joined the Air Training wait outside a manyatta until people gelists, and brought development, Corps and, among others, was would come and ask him why he was travelling by Land Rover, not on instructed by Laurence Olivier and there. Then he would join them, foot. The roads were so bad that he Ralph Richardson, who claimed that listen, find out their news, and talk con­tinually broke his shock absorb­ they were such bad pilots that they about Jesus. His humility, gentle­ ers and eventually recommended a were only allowed to fly biplanes. He ness, and positive outlook won over design change to Land Rover. His read geography at Cambridge. many hearts. The people, many first serious challenge was a terrible When called up in 1944, he living in fear of evil spirits, re­ famine in 1984. He mobilised sup­ applied to be an RAF pilot. His geo­ sponded well to the gospel and the port through Crosslinks, oversaw graphy and meteorology training freedom found in Christ. His many feeding programmes, and helped the meant that he flew reconnaissance adventures included dodging rhino Government distribute, too. He Dakotas over Burma and was not a charges and climbing trees to escape would go out even at night in bomber pilot, much to his relief. elephant. His children Gill and defiance of curfews imposed because While in Burma, he saw Allied David were born here. of shiftas. prisoners repatriated from Japanese These long safaris, however, and For his work during the famine camps, which profoundly affected poor diet meant that his health and in Kenya generally, he was later him, as did his time in Burma. It was deteriorated; so they were trans­ awarded the OBE. here that his missionary calling was ferred to Molo, in the highlands, In 1987, he married Peggy Bob and Peggy retired to Derby­ when­ever an opportunity came, clarified. where they ministered to a more Daynes, also widowed and a former shire in 1989 and lived in Tibshelf, whether in Samburu, Marsabit, After the war, rather than return mixed community. In 1966, they missionary to the Samburu, whom and then Ashover, where they were Derby­­shire, schools, pubs, even the to Cambridge, Rob went for ministry moved to Nakuru, where Steve was he had known for many years. She much loved. But they still returned retirement home, and hospital. He training, at the London Bible born. was his loving companion for 30 to Kenya to raise funds for Marsabit. was positive, gracious, humble, and College, and also Tyndale Hall and In 1969, the family returned to years until her death in 2016. Mar­ Though he never rode camels in compassionate, and wanted to bless Wycliffe Hall. He served his title at England. Bob was instituted Rector sabit was a missionary area, but Bob Kenya, he helped organise a mem­ others, because he knew what the St John’s, Tunbridge Wells, where he of Heanton, in Exeter diocese. He laid the foundations for a locally led orable camel safari from Oxford to Lord had done for him. He will be met his first wife, Eileen Forbes, was appointed Rural Dean of Barn­ church, with its own assets, fully Cambridge in 2000, raising funds to greatly missed by his children, fam­ whom he married in 1956. He hoped staple in 1977, and, in 1982, Preb­ staffed by its own clergy, and was feed schoolchildren in Marsabit. ily, friends, and the churches where to return to Burma on mission, but, end­ary of Exeter Cathedral. He was succeeded by a wonderful Gabra, After I became Bishop in 2008, he he ministered in England and Kenya. owing to civil war, he was posted by also the Officiating Chaplain for Andrew Adano, from a nomadic rang regularly to find out Marsabit’s At the start of his Christian life, he the Bible Churchmen’s Missionary RAF Chivenor, which he loved. The back­ground, whom he mentored. prayer needs. said: “If Christ has given his life for Society (BCMS), now Crosslinks, to rectory overlooked the airfield; so he Marsabit became an autonomous Bob never really retired. His me, then I will use my life for Uganda among the Karamojong. It could check unusual plane engine diocese in 2011. passion was sharing the gospel Christ.” And he did, to the end. Brian Moynahan resignations and retirements continued from page 27 bert, Vicar of Stonebridge (London). Ipswich Team Ministry (St Ed­ Townsend, Vicar of Slaithwaite with HILL. The Revd Susan Hill, Hon. mundsbury­­­ and Ipswich). East Scammonden and Priest-in- Assistant Curate (Associate Priest) MORRIS. The Revd Stephen Morris, Charge of Marsden (Leeds): 31 July. Stephen Fay writes: Moynahan’s major work, The of St Peter and St Paul, Chingford Assistant Curate of St Mary the VAUGHAN. The Revd Carole BRIAN MOYNAHAN was an Faith: A history of Christianity, also (Chelmsford). Virgin, the Lace Market, Notting­ Vaughan, NSM of Oakley with accomplished journalist on The published in 2002, was more HUNTER. The Revd Peter Hunter, ham (Southwell & Notting­ham): 31 Wootton St Lawrence (Winchester): Sunday Times. He worked mostly as a ambitious. His Sunday Times col­ Vicar of Warminster (Salisbury): 30 May. 30 June. foreign correspondent, and was league Peter Wat­son recalls September. OOSTERHOF. The Revd Liesbeth VAUGHAN. The Revd Jeremy among the first reporters to trace the Moynahan’s saying that the narrat­ JONES. The Revd Peter Jones, Oosterhof, Dean of Women’s Min­ Vaughan, Rector of Oakley with rise of Islam and to identify its ive was the greatest story in the house-for-duty Priest-in-Charge of istry (St Edmundsbury & Ipswich), Wootton St Lawrence (Winchester): potential for terrorism. Having history of world, so far. The review Kirklington with Hockerton, of remaining Rector of the Shoreline 30 June. flown, as he liked to calculate, on 78 in the Church Times, by the Very Wink­burn, of Fransfield, and of Benefice, and Rural Dean of WHITTING. The Revd Dominic airlines, he also wrote authoritatively Revd David Edwards, noted that this Maple­beck (Southwell Nottingham): Samford. Whitting, Vicar of Crowan and about airports. was a late addition to faith books 29 October. PASK. The Revd Howard Pask, Treslothan (Truro): 31 May. But journalism, like a mask, at first inspired by the Millennium, but KENNEDY. The Revd Carolyn Vicar of Hebden Bridge and Hep­ WHYBROW. The Revd Paul Why­ obscured his instinct for scholar­­ship, went on: “it deserves to be near the Kennedy: Rector of the Uffington ton­stall (Leeds): 21 June. brow, Vicar of Poughill (Truro): 2 which had been encouraged at school top of the pile.” Its great strengths, Group (Lincoln): 31 May. PRINGLE. The Revd Richard September. (Sherborne) and university (Corpus he suggested,­ were readability, and KENNEY. The Revd Peter Kenney, Pringle, Vicar of Newsham (New­ YOUNG. The Revd Hilary Young, Christi, Cambridge),­ where he took a research, and “its viewpoint is one Diocesan Ministry Development castle): 3 June. Priest-in-Charge of Settle, Giggles­ double first in history. As a scholar, that many readers would like.” Dr Officer, Bishop’s Adviser in Pastoral PURVIS-LEE. The Revd Lynn wick and Rathmell with Wiggles­ he developed an interest in Russia Edwards concluded: “A good book Care and Counselling, and Hon. 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The Diocese of Chelmsford is currently looking to fill the following posts COLCHESTER EPISCOPAL AREA Great Clacton, Brightlingsea, Lexden, St Leonard St John the Baptist All Saints with St James Ordinary people – Extraordinary God An inclusive welcoming community To help people know Christ, grow in Christ and This inclusive, modern catholic church on the outskirts go for Christ VICAR POSTof Colchester FILLEDseeks a visionary The Church Patronage Trust as patron, is seeking a PRIEST IN CHARGE The Lord Chancellor as patron seeks a priest for this VICAR inclusive and lively coastal parish with a link to the Are you: Cinque Ports. • A collaborative and compassionate leader able to Who loves the Gospel of Jesus Christ and will: work with a strong lay team? Can you: • Be committed to expository preaching • Able to nurture and develop our faith? • Be prayerful and encourage the church to pray • Help to grow the church and serve our town? • Enthusiastic about growing our mission and service? • Be proactive in pastoral care • Inspire and communicate with all ages? • Passionate about reaching the unchurched? • Challenge and lead the church into new areas of • Enjoy many Civic and Community links? discipleship, service and outreach • Help us to develop our lay ministry team? This church has a good record of growing new ministry • Give High Fives? and there are good resources and many opportunities A large single parish with two church buildings and a for mission and growth. new church hall planned. Recently built eco-vicarage. Easy access to London, Stansted Airport and the coast Closing date: 11 June Closing date: 8 May Closing date: TBA Interviews: 4 July Interviews: 24 May Interviews: TBA

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DIOCESE IN EUROPE – Church of England Eglise Catholique-chré� enne de la Suisse Christ Church Anglican Episcopal Church Paroisse de Lausanne Part-� me Chaplain in Lausanne, Switzerland We are two churches in Lausanne, seeking to con� nue sharing a priest who is happy to: • Celebrate Holy Communion weekly at Christ Church and once a month with the paroisse catholique-chré� enne (Old Catholics) • Provide ministry work on three days during the week • Ensure welcoming and inclusive places of worship, sharing God’s love with all • Vous parlez français? Have an intermediate level in order to converse and lead a monthly service (with help if needed). Willing to grow language skills. • Comfortable with diff erent styles of Eucharis� c worship • Ac� vely engage pastorally • Interact with our children and include them in occasional all-age services • Con� nue growing our congrega� on in size and in their faith and commitment • Take an ac� ve role in ecumenical events We off er you: • Annual s� pend: CHF 36,000. Health insurance, Swiss pension and travel op� ons also provided. • A spacious, modern, two-bedroom apartment in an excellent loca� on near the lake, with views of the lake and mountains. • A growing congrega� on and a very welcoming team (une équipe chaleureuse) that works well together to advance our mission! Further informa� on and applica� on form from: The Appointments’ Secretary Email: [email protected] For an informal conversa� on about this post, contact: Email: christchurchoffi [email protected] Closing date: 18 May 2018 • Shortlis� ng: 23 May 2018 Interview date: 12 June 2018 There is a commitment to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults. Safeguarding policies (vetti ng and screening) will apply to this post.

COULD THIS BE YOU? Diocese of Coventry TEAM RECTOR Worshipping God We are the Hermitage Team of seven churches in West Archdeaconry of Berkshire Making New Disciples Berkshire. We are looking for an innovative Team Rector to lead our dedicated, enthusiastic and supportive Ministry Transforming Communities Team and our congregations forward as we grow together, Rector evaluating our needs and attitudes to faith and mission for Tilehurst St Michael Are you fun to be with? the 21st Century. St Michael’s is a well-established parish on the western side of the Are you interested in building good relationships between church The Hermitage Team comprises parishes with a total rapidly growing town of Reading. We long to grow more Christ-like in and community? Are you robust and resilient? population of almost 10,000 around junction 13 of the M4, our service to each other and the community. We are praying that God where rural beauty blends with vibrant urban life and Then perhaps God may be calling you to become: amenities, including business, leisure and excellent is calling a priest to work alongside us to achieve this. schooling. We are looking for our new Rector to support and encourage all the VICAR We are seeking someone who will work collaboratively to good things that are happening here, but also to challenge us to explore help us develop our vision; to guide us gently forward while possibili� es for innova� on and growth. ST CHAD’S, WOOD END, COVENTRY remaining faithful to prayerful worship. Our new Team Rector We welcome applications from candidates who: will also take responsibility for two of our parishes and will He/she will need to be: take the lead in the selection of a new Team Vicar. • Energe� c and enthusias� c; • Feel called to serve God in communi� es where people’s lives are • Comfortable with tradi� onal styles of worship but having the Are you passionate about mission and able to help us not easy. This will include the ability to mediate and bring healing imagina� on to experiment with diff erent styles and forms of in people’s rela� onships in family and community contexts. form new connections with our communities? worship; • Are robust and resilient, with a good sense of humour and ability Can you relate to a wide range of people from different • A person of prayer and spirituality who is able to help excite to have fun even in diffi cult situa� ons. backgrounds and generations? people about the possibili� es of God; • Enjoy community development and associated community ac� on • A leader with a collabora� ve style who is not afraid to provide a groups. Are you comfortable with a range of styles of worship loving challenge; • Can appropriately link social ac� on ini� a� ves with evangelis� c and churchmanship between – and even within – • Interested in developing future leaders; and discipleship ini� a� ves, helping people to become followers congregations? • Someone with a heart for pastoral care, who encourages others of Christ. • Will not be in� midated by strong characters within and outside Then we’d love to hear from you! If you’d like to know to share this ministry. the church community. more, or even come and have an informal chat and a look We hope that this may be you. round, please contact us on 01635 201220. Further details and application form are available from For further details and application form, contact Further details & an applica� on form available from the Diocesan www.dioceseofcoventry.org/vacancies/current_vacancies website: www.oxford.anglican.org/vacancies the Bishop of Reading’s Office on 0118 984 1216 Informal expressions of interest and conversations welcome: or [email protected] Applica� ons to be returned to: Archdeacon Missioner, Ven Morris Rodham, 07506 731892 or go to www.oxford.anglican/category/vacancies The Bishop of Reading, Bishop’s House, Tidmarsh Lane, Tidmarsh, [email protected] Closing date: Monday May 7th 2018 Reading, RG8 8HA Acting Area Dean, Rev’d Pam Howell, 02476 303266 Interviews: Monday May 21st 2018 Tel: 0118 984 1216 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Closing date for applications: Noon, Friday 1st June Closing Date: Monday 30th April Interviews: Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th June Interviews: Thursday 17th May Enhanced DBS disclosure is required for this post Enhanced DBS disclosure is required This is a Lord Chancellor’s Patronage Appointment PLEASE MENTION THE CHURCHTIMES WHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISERS 27 April 2018 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 31 JOBS.CHURCHTIMES.CO.UK

Generous Churches Making and Nurturing Disciples VICAR Painswick, Sheepscombe, Cranham, The Edge, PRIEST-IN-CHARGE - BRAMHAM Pitchcombe, Harescombe and Brookthorpe also known The benefice of Bramham comprises four churches and two parishes in as ‘The Beacon Benefice’ a beautiful, semi-rural location between York and Leeds. The Bishop of Gloucester and the Lord Chancellor seek to appoint an engaging and imaginative priest to this beautiful benefice with churches We are looking for an energetic leader to guide, who desire to share God’s love with everyone in these communities. support and encourage us. To this end we seek a person who: Could this be the next challenge for you? • Has spiritual depth, is secure in faith and confident in their hope and calling We seek a Priest who will help us grow in: • Will lead the benefice in seeking God’s vision, purpose and • Christlikeness through deepening and enriching our worship, priorities, with a heart for the renewal of the rural church spirituality, giving and discipleship • Will enjoy getting to know people of all ages, and support the • Commitment to reaching those we currently don’t across our commitment to schools and young people parishes, Deanery and Diocese • Can encourage and develop the gifts of all and will nurture prayer • Partnership with our congregations, our Deanery, local schools and discipleship. and ecumenical friends • Influence within our communities as a visible and engaged Ministry here is collaborative and shared with a ministry team, a pastor parish office and part-time administrator, and a relatively newly formed • Numbers, particularly among 20-40 year olds and those seeking Beacon mission team. The benefice partners with ‘PSALMS’ in youth faith. and sports ministry. We can offer our Priest: The parish profile, application form and associated documents can be • Openness to change; an outward-looking vision downloaded at www.gloucester.anglican.org/about/vacancies/ • Diverse traditions of Christian worship Closing date for applications: 12 noon Monday 14 May • A commitment to LYCIG and mission among the young Short listing: 22 May • The prayerful and active support of two PCCs, Churchwardens, a part-time administrator, a SSM Priest, our Curate and many Interviews: Thursday 7 June retired local clergy For an informal conversation about this post please contact • A creative, mission-focused Deanery, Chapter and Diocese the Bishop of Tewkesbury, • Ministry in attractive historic communities. the Rt Revd Robert Springett Contact The Bishop of Selby for an informal discussion Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] • Tel: 01757 429982 Tel: 01452 835562 Application deadline: Wednesday 27 June 2018 Applications should be returned to Alison Vlach, Interview date: Monday 23 July 2018 PA to the Archdeacon of Gloucester Apply online at: bit.ly/bramham17 Email: [email protected]

DIOCESE OF SOUTHWARK The Bishop of Southwark and St John’s College, Oxford as members of the Patronage Board seek to appoint a ‘Come follow Christ in the footsteps of St Chad’ RECTOR Rector (part-time 0.5) Cheam Team Ministry PRIEST IN CHARGE We are seeking a creative and visionary leader who will help us grow The Parishes of the Benefice of Calton, our mission and ministry Christ Church, Little Drayton (0.6). Cauldon, Grindon, Waterfall and Blore Ray We are looking for a priest who: with Okeover in the Staffordshire Moorlands Shepherd needed for enlightened flock • can inspire our church communities to greater depth of vision for growth and development; wish to appoint an Incumbent who is prepared to build upon We are looking to appoint an energetic, approachable and collaborative • is a leader who will seek out, nurture and enable the potential priest who will maintain our current momentum whilst helping us to the existing firm foundations of goodwill and commitment and within our worshipping community; reach out to the community and encourage others to take up ministries. to renew worship and mission in our far-flung and stunningly • can communicate in a way that brings the Gospel alive to both beautiful Benefice. He or she will need to: young and old and builds up people for God’s service in today’s world;  approachable, a good listener with a good sense of humour; • be of committed genuine faith • is rooted in sacrament and scripture, versatile in worship styles • be an empathetic listener and a good communicator and able to engage and enthuse the young.  has leadership qualities to unite the Parishes and build • have a relaxed approach and a good sense of humour on existing good relationships; • hold a deep spirituality and be of a broad spiritual tradition We offer: • be committed to working within the community • an opportunity to lead a Parish of three different yet  is willing to play a prominent role in the community; complementary churches; If you feel that God is calling you to this post, we can offer you: • a committed ministry team, comprising clergy and lay  will further develop links with Waterhouses School; • an active, caring, welcoming congregation ministers;  has an understanding of the needs of a rural community; • support of two lay readers and a paid administrator • excellent Parish administration; • pleasant working conditions and recently built accommodation • an outstanding Church of England Primary School.  has an ability to cope with the geographical spread of • The Rectory is a modern detached home in Cheam Village, five The parish profile is downloadable from our website: minutes’ walk from St Dunstan’s Church. the Benefice. www.littledraytonchurch.com For full details of this role, including an application form, Full details from lichfield.anglican.org/vacancies http://www.facebook.com/Christchurchlittledrayton please contact For further details please check the website Enquiries & application form from the Bishop of Stafford The Archdeacon’s PA: https://www.lichfield.anglican.org/vacancies/and The Rt Revd Geoff Annas - 01782 373308 [email protected] • Tel: 020 8256 9633 email the Bishops office on [email protected] [email protected] For general enquiries Closing date: Sunday 13 May 2018 All applicants should have 3 years’ experience in the Church contact the Bishop of Shrewsbury’s office via email or Parish Visit: Friday 8 June 2018 Interviews: Monday 11 June 2018 of England or another Anglican church in the British Isles. telephone 01743 235867 Closing Date: 6th May 2018 Closing date: 20th May 2018 Familiarisation Date: 29th May 2018 Interviews: 18th June 2018 Interview Date: 30th May 2018 This post is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure Appointment is subject to enhanced DBS disclosure PLEASE MENTION THE CHURCHTIMES WHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISERS 32 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 27 April 2018 JOBS.CHURCHTIMES.CO.UK

Christ Church Cockfosters Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham Connect, Equip, Send VICAR DESIGNATE Vicar of Christ Church Cockfosters Bestwood Rise Park, Emmanuel and St Mark We are a vibrant evangelical North London Church. We afÞrm the • Are you drawn to ministry near city and parkland? Christian faith as expressed in the Bible and Creeds. The Bible is our • Do you relish starting with the small and building up? guide in encountering God and His will for our lives. Our faith, • Do you love to see potential in people and draw it out? rooted in Christ's saving work on the cross, transforms us and equips TEAM RECTOR AND VICAR • Is your ministry ethos about new people coming to faith in Jesus us, through His Spirit, to reach out to our community. Our prayer is OF ST ANDREW’S UXBRIDGE TEAM and growing in discipleship? for the man of God's choosing to lead, teach, challenge and grow us A unique opportunity for an experienced, enabling and visionary • Are you excited by partnering with others both in the church and as disciples of Christ. modern catholic Team Rector to lead the Uxbridge Team Ministry of beyond? St Andrew’s (modern catholic) and St Margaret’s (open evangelical, • Will you roll your sleeves up to make new things happen on the We are looking for: charismatic). ground? A conservative evangelical with a deep conviction in the Bible’s truth Sharing our Parish Vision to see people’s lives transformed through • Is your leadership style adaptable? and authority, open to God’s leading through His Spirit knowing God’s love and living Christ’s way, you will provide strategic • Have you got the heart and abilities to relate faith to the younger leadership to the Team Ministry and serve as Vicar of St Andrew’s. Firmly generations? A Biblical expository preacher, committed to Christ-centred teaching rooted in your own prayerful catholic spirituality, you will demonstrate • Can you laugh a lot with others… and cry too? faithful to the gospel a deep appreciation of the more evangelical spirituality of St Margaret’s If so, is God calling you to Bestwood? A visionary, inspirational leader with good interpersonal skills, and practise a generous orthodoxy that enables both churches and the experienced in working with a large team Town Centre Ministry to flourish. We are a newly formed three-parish benefice, on the northern edge of A pastor able to engage with, support and care for individuals in the You will be someone who can Nottingham near Bestwood Country Park, with a range of residential, church family and beyond • Continue to encourage St. Andrew’s in its modern catholic spirit- parkland, ex-mining and ex-army areas; plus multiple schools and uality and its musical tradition diverse social mix. A man of prayer and integrity, able to encourage us in the necessity of • Engage with social projects in the community such as the adja- prayer cent YMCA As a Spiritual Leader and Enabler in Mission, you will be key to • Communicate to a wide range of peoples and cultures reshaping and re-imagining the churches’ vision and approach to A passionate evangelist able to reach out with the gospel to those in growing new disciples in this area. You will have the benefit of strong our parish and beyond • Encourage, enable and develop the existing culture of parish lay ministry community relationships, lay leadership and co-operation with the A discipler and encourager to develop mutual discipling and • Support parish youth work, St. Andrew’s vibrant Junior Church churches of the wider Bestwood area, as we work together. encourage every-member ministry and our parish primary school We look forward to you bringing a gospel focus, with an openness to the • Encourage big picture thinking about mission and fresh expres- A man who welcomes the ministry of male and female priests, work of the Holy Spirit changing lives and communities. sions of church deacons and lay members, including preaching to mixed • Promote the unity of the Team, both clergy and lay staff, leading congregations, and who supports the training of both female and Closing date: TBA with a ‘light touch’. Interview: TBA male curates The Parish Team includes the Vicar of St. Margaret’s; a Town Centre If this is you, we would love you to consider applying For an informal discussion and further information contact: Minister based at St. Margaret’s; 3 SSMs, a PTO and a full time parish Sarah Clark, Archdeacon of Nottingham, on 07917 693285 to be our next Vicar. youth worker. Our parish ministry is to the whole of Uxbridge with or email [email protected] its increasingly diverse and growing community and new housing For informal enquiries, please contact: Kathy Burch developments. With a vibrant retail and business centre, the local Please apply via: http://pathways.churchofengland.org/ [email protected] 0300 123 0780 ext. 4388 authority Civic Centre and mixed housing areas, Uxbridge offers exciting Ref No: cofe/TP/146/293 For full details and to apply visit opportunities for Mission, Growth and Discipleship. Details are also available to view on the Diocesan website: https://pathways.churchofengland.org/ http://www.standrewsuxbridge.org/ https://goo.gl/ZrymXR Closing date 29 May, Parish Visits 28 June, Interviews 29 June Parish profile (PDF format) and application form from: For application queries: Jo Padmore, PA to the Archdeacons, We believe that, at the present time, the unity of our congregation The Bishop of Willesden Jubilee House, Westgate, Southwell, Notts. NG25 0JH would be best preserved by appointing a male incumbent and so the [email protected] • Tel: 020 8451 0189 Email [email protected]; Tel: 01636 817206 PCC has passed the following Resolution - ”This PCC requests on We welcome applications from suitably qualified clergy from grounds of theological conviction, as well as the need to support its Closing date for applications: 17 May 2018 Orientation Day 13 June 2018 • Interviews 14 June 2018 all sections of the community and we strive to be an equal clergy and maintain congregational unity, that arrangements be made opportunity employer. Enhanced DBS clearance required. for it in accordance with the House of Bishops’ Declaration on the Enhanced DBS clearance will be required. Ministry of Bishops and Priests” We welcome applications from all. 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www.chelmsford.anglican.org Associate vicar, The Diocese of Chelmsford is currently looking to fill St Jude’s, Southsea Are you a gifted and energetic, ordained minister wanting the following post to join the staff of a larger evangelical church in a busy, seafront community? Barking Episcopal Area ASSISTANT PRIEST The Bishop of Portsmouth and the PCC of St Jude’s seek to (HOUSE FOR DUTY) Associate Priest (House-for-Duty) appoint an Associate Vicar. The successful candidate will be In the benefice of Northanger St Laurence, Upminster a member of the senior staff team and will lead the strategic To work alongside our Rector across the 8 parishes of our rural The Rector seeks a colleague to share in the ministry and mission of development of small groups, pastoral care and congregation benefice, we are seeking an Assistant Priest who will: this suburban parish in the London Borough of Havering. The church growth. He or she will be: is in the modern Catholic tradition and is a supportive and growing • play a leading role in nurturing ministry in all our parishes community rooted in worship and committed to its context. • passionate and committed to win people for Christ • engage with the wider community, especially our local schools • dedicated to church growth and team-building • contribute to the wider life of the deanery The time commitment for this post would be Sundays • committed to the Bible and open to the Holy Spirit plus two weekdays (or equivalent). Initial term 3 years. We can offer: Accommodation in a three-bedroomed house half a mile from the • have a heart for pastoral care • supportive clergy and lay colleagues church and town centre. Upminster is close to the M25 and a 25 For an informal chat, contact the vicar, the Revd Mike Duff, minute train journey from London Fenchurch Street. • a 4 bed house in the picturesque village of Selborne. on 07966 415150. For further details see www.portsmouth. Further information can be found in our parish profile, available at For an informal conversation contact: anglican.org/vacancies and www.stjudes-southsea.org.uk. To The Ven Richard Brand, Archdeacon of Winchester on 01962 710960 www.chelmsford.anglican.org/vacancies apply, contact the Archdeacon of Portsdown at joanne.grenfell@ Closing date: 18th May 2018 portsmouth.anglican.org. Closing date: 17 May 2018 at 12 noon Interviews: 20 June 2018 For applications and details contact: The Revd Susannah Brasier Closing date: 1st May 2018 Interviews: 15th May 2018 Application pack available at www.winchester.anglican.org [email protected] or from [email protected] or telephone: 01708 220174 An enhanced DBS check is required

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Diocese of Southwell & No� ngham Parish of St George with St John the Bap� st, No� ngham Rector Priest-in-charge PARISH PRIEST The Uffington Group of Churches (Vicar designate) St George’s is a parish which stands in the Catholic tradi� on of the Southlake St James Church of England, which has passed a resolu� on in accordance with The seven parishes in the rural southwest corner of the House of Bishops’ Declara� on on the Ministry of Bishops and Lincolnshire (just to the east of the historic town of We are a lively, warm and welcoming church on the outskirts of Reading Priests, reques� ng alterna� ve Episcopal, sacramental and pastoral care. with strong community engagement, including a thriving Messy Church. The Bishop of Southwell and No� ngham has invited the Bishop of Stamford) are seeking a priest who will: We are open to change and challenge and are looking forward to seeing Beverley, who is also an Assistant Bishop in the Diocese of Southwell how the Holy Spirit will lead us as we seek to grow in numbers, depth and No� ngham to provide this care. St George’s is affi liated to The of faith and commitment to mission. Society of St Wilfrid and St Hilda. For many years the parish was served • prayerfully seek to preach, teach and share by Kelham Fathers and Brothers, and more recently by SSC priests. scriptural truth We are seeking a forward-thinking, enthusiastic and compassionate leader who will inspire us to ful l our Vision for our church and wider The parish is situated in The Meadows, an inner city area of No� ngham • want to grasp the nature of rural ministry community. near the River Trent and close to the centre of the City. • help preserve the identity of each parish while We’re looking for someone who will: This new full � me appointment recognises the many opportuni� es for maintaining the coherence of the Group • lead us into growth growth in our diverse mul� -cultural community with a strikingly young • be comfortable with a range of worship and a • through clear Bible teaching, draw us into a deeper understanding popula� on, 61% at the last census being aged between 15 and 44, with broad expression of faith of, and commitment to, our faith 88% under 60. • be a prayerful, strategic, mission-minded leader, open to the work • develop and communicate an inspirational vision We are seeking and praying for a missional Priest and Leader who will: of the Holy Spirit and with a heart for leading people to Christ for building God’s work in the Group and each • care for all ages in the church and have caring concern for those • Lead our people in Catholic worship with appropriate fl exibility parish amongst all ages in the wider parish • Nurture our Catholic faith, deepening our discipleship and • help us engage with those on the fringe of the church and draw sacramental life • lead, cultivate and enthuse teams of volunteers them into faith • have a passion for our young parish community, enabling us to involved in the ministry, administration and • use their experience to be an effective team leader, able to reconnect and grow new disciples upkeep of the seven churches encourage, motivate and support both staff and volunteers in • be a networker, building rela� onships with partner churches and their gifts and ministries the wider community • be open, approachable and supportive, and • have a heart for the disadvantaged while helping us to show the willing to be visible at community events in all of We can offer: love of God in word and deed to all • a welcoming, hard-working and supportive church community the villages • a staff team to support Children and Families work, Youth Work Closing date: 20 May 2018 • Discernment Process: 5 July 2018 • be keen to guide and support the Christian ethos and of ce administration of our Church of England primary school, being • a structurally sound building that offers good facilities and a large For an informal discussion and further informa� on contact:  exible worship area Sarah Clark, Archdeacon of No� ngham, on 07917 693285 a regular visitor to the school and an ex-officio • a modern four bedroom detached vicarage or Email archd-no� [email protected] governor. Will you come and journey with us? Please apply via: h� p://pathways.churchofengland.org/ • Ref No: cofe/TP/146/624 We are not expecting a one-person band: over the To view our Parish Pro le visit: Details are also available to view on the Diocesan website: years we have learnt that doing God’s work in the https://stjameswoodleypro le.wordpress.com/ h� ps://goo.gl/ZrymXR seven parishes is a team effort, and we now have Please contact the Bishop of Reading’s of ce For applica� on queries: Jo Padmore, PA to the Archdeacons, Jubilee for details of closing/interview dates. House, Westgate, Southwell, No� s. NG25 0JH people with a variety of skills and who are keen, Email: [email protected] • Tel: 01636 817206 supportive and enthusiastic to pull together behind Further details and application from We welcome applicati ons from suitably qualifi ed clergy from the right leader to spread God’s word in our parishes. www.oxford.anglican.org/category/vacancies/ or all secti ons of the community and we strive to be an equal opportunity The Bishop of Reading’s of ce, employer. Enhanced DBS clearance required. Bishop’s House, Tidmarsh Lane, For further information and a profile, please see Tidmarsh, Reading, RG8 8HA pathways.churchofengland.org Telephone: 0118 9841216 Closing date: Friday, 25th May 2018 Email: [email protected] Interview date: Tuesday, 26th June 2018 Enhanced DBS disclosure is required

The Diocese of Southwark Diocese of Bristol PRIEST IN CHARGE Holy Trinity with St Edmund Hor eld Bristol St Margaret, Putney Rector for this Anglo-Catholic Parish St Margaret’s is excited about the future. It is a friendly, welcoming church in a diverse residen� al area of Putney which is ready to grow We seek a Rector to lead and grow our traditional single bene ce, and embrace new challenges. Anglo-Catholic church; Could you be our new Priest-in-Charge, to challenge and inspire us, someone who can: infuse us with God’s love, energise and encourage our growth both • enhance our worship, centred on the Sacraments spiritually and numerically? • deepen our faith We seek someone who: • take our church forward in making closer and more active connections with all those in the parish • has a heart for developing the faith of the congrega� on, and for • help us show the love of God mission and outreach • can off er s� mula� ng Bible-based teaching and embrace a variety Our parish is situated in Hor eld in the north of the city of Bristol. It is of worship styles a mainly residential area, and within the parish is found part of the newly • will challenge and s� mulate us with new ideas built Southmead Hospital as well as Hor eld C of E Primary School (UK • can encourage and inspire children and their families at the literacy school of the year 2017) with whom we have close links. heart of our worship and community Our congregation is warm, welcoming and wide-ranging in age but we • is able to create and communicate a bold vision for St Margaret’s would like to encourage more new members. • is a strong leader and team builder who believes in ‘every- member ministry’ Do you have the energy, drive and enthusiasm to work with us so that • is a person of energy and warmth with a sense of humour, our church is a prominent and connecting xture in our community? approachable and understanding of all our diverse congrega� on We can offer a supportive congregation, a well-maintained grade II * For further details and to apply, please visit listed church, a thriving Hall complex and sound nances. h� ps://www.cofepathways.org Enter: cofe/TP/142/592 Closing date: 13th May Closing date: midnight on Wednesday 16 May 2018 Familiarisation: 7th June Parish visit for shortlisted candidates: Saturday 16 June 2018 Interviews: Thursday 21 June 2018 Interview: 8th June This post is subject to a DBS enhanced disclosure Full details: www.bristol.anglican.org/vacancies PLEASE MENTION THE CHURCHTIMES WHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISERS 34 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 27 April 2018 JOBS.CHURCHTIMES.CO.UK

VICAR OF THE PARISH OF Going Deeper into God • Making New Disciples • Transforming Communities PARISH OF CHRIST The Bishop of St Albans with the Diocesan Board of Patronage HONLEY WITH BROCKHOLES seeks to appoint a THE REDEEMER (Population: 8200; Electoral Roll: 182) We are seeking a male Priest who will maintain the Anglo-Catholic tradition of this resolution parish rooted firmly within the life ofthe The villages of Honley and Brockholes nestle in the beautiful foothills of Vicar Leicester Diocese, which is under the pastoral care of the Bishop of the Pennines in West Yorkshire and are also close to the University town for Richborough. This is a half stipend post including a modern of Huddersfield and within 25 miles of Sheffield, Leeds and Manchester. The Benefice of Rye Park well-appointed vicarage. We are looking for a spiritual leader who is down to earth and We are a faith based family, passionate about seeing the gospel work We are a parish with two churches, committed to working approachable, flexible and young-at-heart who is also a good listener. both in the church, our local community and beyond. We believe that together whilst honouring our individuality, serving a growing He/she should be committed to: the future for our church is super bright and that an exciting journey population c11.000, located in the centre of the New National Forest. • Teaching and preaching so as to lead us into a deeper lies ahead. understanding of God’s message in the Bible and how it applies We are seeking an Incumbent who is: to our lives today A Vicar is sought who: • Respectful of the different styles of worship in the benefice, both • Working with schools and families helping them to be drawn into • Is a biblically based leader and teacher traditional and more innovative approaches, valuing these all as the church and to develop a personal faith • Has strong pastoral skills, particularly in listening and seeking important ways of feeling God’s love for us and for giving genuine • Leading worship in a variety of styles both traditional and consensus praise to God. contemporary • Is evangelical in nature and whose life and spirituality is rooted • Passionate about making Christ known to our communities and • Helping us see beyond our church buildings in order to reach out in scripture sharing the gospel with all ages. to our communities • Can minister to the differing styles of our services and respect • An energetic, warm hearted and inspirational vicar who leads with vision, courage and a ‘can do’ approach. In return we can offer: our congregation’s choice of worship styles • Is flexible, enthusiastic and through discernment will work • Two church buildings both in excellent repair • Is committed to working across our Churches Together team of inclusively and creatively to reach our community. • Two congregations integrated into their communities who want eight churches and supporting joint initiatives, where appropriate to glorify God in all that they do • Is sympathetic, empathetic, inclusive in approach but very clearly We need an Incumbent who will: • Excellent relationships ecumenically, in the community, and with a leader from the pages of the Gospels, and one that the • Delight in the need for different styles of ministry across two local schools congregation desires to follow and work alongside diverse churches united in one parish. • Will enable the churches to engage with the diocesan vision, • Maintain and develop contacts with the local schools, understand For more about how we serve and celebrate community in ‘Living God’s Love’ the ethos of church schools and be keen to work with children the Diocese see our new film: and families. http://www.leeds.anglican.org/content/we-are-diocese-leeds Potential candidates are invited to contact • Enjoy and thrive on training and developing others, and is The Venerable Janet Mackenzie, For further details and parish profile see: capable of identifying gifts and talents to enable our Christian Archdeacon of Hertford, Glebe House, St Mary’s Lane http://www.leeds.anglican.org/vacancies-halifax. discipleship and congregation to grow. Hertingfordbury, Hertford SG14 2LE For an Application Pack please contact: from whom further details can be obtained. Application forms and parish profile are available from : The Archdeacon of Halifax [email protected] Telephone: 01727 818159 • Email: [email protected] Mrs Wendy Dunnington, St Martins House, Telephone: 07980 751902 Appointment to this position is subject to satisfactory 7 Peacock Lane, Leicester LE1 5PZ Closing Date: 18th May enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service. Tel: 0116 261 5309 • Email: [email protected] Interviews: 14th June For full details of this vacancy including the parish profile please visit or view the details on the Web: www.leicester.anglican.org The post is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the DBS the diocesan website: www.stalbans.anglican.org/diocese/vacancies Closing date for applications: Friday 4th May 2018 Interviews: Closing date: 12 noon Wednesday 16 May 2018 Wednesday 30th May 2018

Interview date: Thursday 7 June 2018 This post is subject to DBS enhanced disclosure

The Diocese of Southwark St Paul’s, Kingston Hill is looking to appoint a Vicar RECTOR St John the Evangelist, Montreux, Switzerland Interested in shaping a vision and leading an active church The Benefice of Westcote Barton with Steeple Barton, Duns Tew Chaplain (50%) in growth and development? and Sandford St Martin and Over with Nether Worton We may have the post for you… We are a united benefice of five parishes with six churches, set in beautiful Our church, situated close to the shores of Lake Geneva was founded North Oxfordshire countryside. over 140 years ago. It serves English speaking residents in Montreux St Paul’s Kingston Hill is a gently charismatic church in the evangelical tradition on the border of Richmond Park that reaches out to its local and surrounding districts, as well as visitors from all over the world who We are looking for someone with an understanding of country life who appreciate traditional Anglican worship in a eucharistically centred community, building its church family of all ages. You’ll work with a will: church. supportive and dedicated team and minister in a fantastic area to live. • Work with us to involve young families in the life of the church Our current challenges include inspiring more people to serve and • Be a dynamic and enthusiastic leader, helping us to move forward We seek a priest with the vision and energy to achieve long term lead, equipping people to share their faith more confidently, creating together in bringing God’s love to the people in our villages spiritual and numerical growth in order to keep pace with the rapid an engaging and inclusive men’s ministry, nurturing new Christians • Be courageous in working with us to develop Sunday worship and increase in the English-speaking population in the area. inspire us with their preaching beyond Alpha, and reaching out to those in their late teens and twenties. • Be compassionate in their approach to individuals and especially There is a spacious and comfortable 4-bedroomed house adjoining Are you: those in special need the church and attractive conditions in line with the archdeaconry • A gifted teacher able to draw people in and ignite their passion • Use the administrative resources available to free up time to recommendations can be offered to the candidate who is willing to for God? concentrate on the spiritual needs of the church and community accept the challenge. • A collaborative person able to empower our staff and lay team We can offer: A good working knowledge of French is required. and take us all on God’s journey? • Supportive church leaders, including two licensed lay ministers Term of appointment: 3-5 years negotiable. • Open in your ministry and able to value differing traditions, • Six well-maintained and financially sound churches perspectives and styles of worship? • A part-time administrator Further information and application form from: • A sensitive pastor able to nurture, inspire and relate to both • A recently refurbished spacious rectory with amazing views The Appointments’ Secretary: [email protected] young and old alike? • Our prayers and our friendship For an informal conversation about this post, contact • Able to support the Head, staff, pupils and families of St Paul’s Application Form and Parish Profile available at: the Acting Archdeacon of Switzerland, The Revd Canon Adèle Kelham, Church of England Primary School? www.oxford.anglican.org Email: [email protected] For further information and to apply visit: Applications to be returned to:The Archdeacon of Dorchester, Closing date: 18 May 2018 • Shortlisting: 23 May 2018 https://www.cofepathways.org and enter cofe/TP/142/604 Church House Oxford, Langford Locks; Kidlington, OX5 1GF 01865 208245 • [email protected] Interview date: 11 June 2018 Closing Date: Midnight on Wednesday 16 May 2018 There is a commitment to safeguarding children, Parish visit for shortlisted candidates: Saturday 16 June 2018 Closing date: Friday 18 May young people and vulnerable adults. Safeguarding policies Interviews: Tuesday 19 June 2018 Interview date: Wednesday 13 June (vetting and screening) will apply to this post. This post is subject to a DBS enhanced disclosure DBS Enhanced Disclosure is required PLEASE MENTION THE CHURCHTIMES WHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISERS 27 April 2018 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 35 JOBS.CHURCHTIMES.CO.UK

Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham Diocese of Coventry The Benefice of St James Porchester Worshipping God Invites applications for Making New Disciples VICAR Transforming Communities St James, Porchester lies on the outskirts of Nottingham. We are a warm Jesus Christ spent time within ‘towns and villages.’ Smaller and welcoming community. communities matter. If, like Jesus, you can rejoice in the ‘small’ of We are seeking a vicar who: villages, and want to serve in a benefice which will genuinely shape • Can help us to grow disciples, especially in areas of the parish your ministry around your personal gifts and skills, and with age profiles (13-45 year olds) that we are not currently we would love to hear from you! reaching. • Is outward focussed and will help us develop the contacts we ASSOCIATE MINISTER already have on the “fringe” of church on the journey towards a mature faith. (House for Duty or Self-supporting basis) • Is willing to work collaboratively with neighbouring parishes to establish a new worshiping community in expanding housing ILMINGTON BENEFICE developments on the northern boundary of the parish. We welcome applications from candidates who: • Will help our congregation to grow deeper in faith through preaching and teaching. • Are passionate and prayerful about effective mission in a rural • Is a collaborative team player, able tonurture, motivate and context, interested in, understanding and enjoying the affirm the gifts and contributions of others. countryside and the people within it. • Has a love for prayer and a desire to encourage others to pray. • Can lead inspiring worship with some small congregations, • Is friendly and approachable with a sense of humour! ranging from informal worship to Book of Common Prayer, and be an inspiring and motivational preacher. We are able to offer • Are able to develop small groups, and lead effective exploration • A vision for the future which has been developed through the of Christian faith courses (for example any of ALPHA, Emmaus, PCC’s participation in LYCIG (Leading your Church into Growth) Christianity Explored, Pilgrim, or home made!). and a Year of Conversation. • Would like the space and freedom to use their God-given gifts • A well-established supportive leadership who are open to new and skills. approaches • Paid employees, including a Children and Families Worker, an FURTHER INFORMATION Administrator and a Musical Worship Leader. For further information about the post please contact any or all of: • A significant legacy, providing opportunities for mission and the The Rector, Revd Chris Goble on Tel: 01608 682282 development of the church building. Email: [email protected] If you feel God is calling you to fill this vacancy, we would love to meet Area Dean, Revd. Dr. Jill Tucker you. on Tel: 01295 688193 • Email: [email protected] or The Archdeacon Missioner, Ven Morris Rodham Closing date: 21 May 2018 • Interview: 26 June 2018 on Tel: 07506731892 • Email: [email protected] For an informal discussion and further information contact: Informal conversations very welcome! Sarah Clark, Archdeacon of Nottingham, on 07917 693285 An application form can be downloaded from the Diocesan Website: or Email [email protected] http://www.dioceseofcoventry.org/vacancies/current Please apply via: Applications to be submitted bynoon Friday 18th May http://pathways.churchofengland.org/ • Ref No: cofe/TP/146/508 Interviews to be held over two days on Details are also available to view on the Diocesan website: Tuesday 12th and Wednesday 13th June https://goo.gl/ZrymXR For application queries: Jo Padmore, PA to the Archdeacons, Jubilee Enhanced DBS disclosure is required for this post. House, Westgate, Southwell, Notts. NG25 0JH Email: [email protected] • Tel: 01636 817206 We welcome applications from suitably qualified clergy from all sections of the community and we strive to be an equal opportunity employer. Enhanced DBS clearance required. COME AND HELP US TO PRAY, SERVE, AND GROW VICAR Priest-in-Charge (Rector Designate) Sturminster Newton Benefice and PRIEST IN CHARGE of Marnhull Lower Wylye and Till Benefice, Wiltshire The benefice of Sturminster Newton, Hinton St Mary and Lydlinch lies We are a community of nine villages within the Stonehenge Deanery of in the heart of Dorset, in the beautiful Blackmore Vale. An hour’s drive Salisbury Diocese, who will have transitioned from six to three parishes from the Jurassic Coast, it nestles between Gillingham and Shaftesbury by end of April 2018. to the north and Blandford Forum to the East with good road links to We typify rural England, proud of its heritage, but we are also London and Exeter. Marnhull is well served by a House for Duty Colleague. forward-looking and seek to grow our spiritual community. We are looking for a vicar who will: You will join a team of clergy and lay ministers, and you will also be • Be confident and approachable involved in selecting a house-for-duty priest colleague. • Show a willingness to embrace town and rural communities and Associate Vicar get involved in community life Our committed laity offers you its fullest support as you lead and guide • Be able to work with and encourage those of diverse backgrounds Emmanuel Church Northwood is a large, vibrant evangelical church your Ministry with God’s loving care into the future. and ages (ER 465) in North West London. We are continuing our journey of If you would like to join us in this challenge - find out more NOW • Have energy and enthusiasm to help us to reach out to lost becoming a church rooted fully in both Word and Spirit and are looking Contact the Archdeacon of Sarum on 01722 438662 generations for a passionate and gifted Associate Vicar to join our staff team. The [email protected] • Have a passion to develop Church, with a pastoral heart successful candidate will have particular responsibility for teaching, For a full parish profile and application form go to the We offer friendly and open congregations, supportive and enthusiastic pastoral ministry and discipleship. Diocesan website: http://www.salisbury.anglican.org/whos-who/ PCC’s, well maintained churches, sound financial common sense, a hap- job-vacancies/clergy py deanery with supportive colleagues, excellent refreshments and hos- Visit www.ecn.org.uk/vacancies pitality, and high speed broadband in a gorgeous rural location! for the job description and application form For an informal discussion, please contact the Rural Dean, Canon Eleanor Rance, on 01980 620580 For full details of this vacancy including the parish profile, please visit Closing date: Friday 11 May or [email protected] www.salisbury.anglican.org/whos-who/job-vacancies/clergy Interview date: Monday 21 May Closing date: 28th May 2018 Application forms are also obtainable from Short Listing: 11th June 2018 [email protected] Interview dates: 19th & 20th June 2018 Closing date: 10th June 2018 Visit and interview: 28th and 29th June 2018 ADVERTISE ON THE WEB An enhanced DBS is required. 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Scottish Episcopal Church, Diocese of Glasgow & Galloway Linked Charge - St Margaret’s, Renfrew & St John’s, Johnstone. Full Stipend with flexible housing or allowance option. St Margaret’s, Renfrew and St John’s Johnstone have been linked for the last 20 years. We have an exciting opportunity for a Priest to join and lead two unique, loyal and committed congregations with established support for incoming clergy. Both churches are focused The Bishop of St Albans wishes to appoint a The Bishop of St Albans wishes to appoint a on spiritual growth in depth and numbers and building sustainable Christian communities and centres of worship. Priest in Charge Full-time Incumbent Notably, St Margaret’s have recently concluded significant for the benefice of Bromham with Oakley and Stagsden, Bedfordshire for the Riversmeet Benefice, Bedfordshire investment in the church building, including a new roof. St John’s have The Bromham Benefice is made up of three attractive rural parishes The Riversmeet benefice is made up of the four attractive rural parishes initiated a programme of work that will see improvement to the church building. This post provides an opportunity for someone to build on with a combined population of 8,000, in the valley of the River Great of Blunham, Great Barford, Roxton and Tempsford and is part of the Ivel Ouse. We are seeking a vicar who has the necessary experience to lead Group of churches. each congregation’s achievements of the last decade and bring their own thoughts and ideas to how we collectively grow and us in fulfilling our vision to grow in faith, discipleship and outreach to We would like someone who: strengthen the congregations and our worship over the coming years. our local communities; in particular, to work with us in developing more • will nurture the church community as you lead us in prayer and vibrant and inspiring family services whilst respecting tradition. worship to grow our faith and spirituality whilst valuing our We seek a Priest who has: We would like someone who: diversity and changing society ESSENTIAL: • will enable and guide us in realising our goals • has an ability to motivate, inspire and effectively coordinate • Experience of working with a congregation as well as the wider • can inspire and unify us in sharing Christ’s love in the colleagues and volunteers community communities in which we live and serve. • has a gift for the development of ministry to the children and • Commitment to mission and outreach • can communicate a vision for what is possible and work young people of our local schools • Ability to encourage, support and motivate all members of the effectively with us to make it happen. • will be a visible and approachable presence in our communities congregation and be committed to delivering pastoral care to people of all ages The three parishes each have their own character and the successful • Ability to preach concise, stimulating and engaging sermons • is sensitive to the different demands and expectations of a group candidate will be: • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • able to motivate everybody to fully participate as members of the of rural parishes • Good listening skills, own transport, sense of humour. body of Christ • is a good communicator, comfortable with all ages and who has a • flexible and collaborative in their approach sense of humour DESIRABLE: • empathetic in their dealings with all age-groups in the church • Experience and ability to relate to young people and children We can offer you supportive, friendly and enthusiastic congregations, community and beyond. a benefice administrator, licensed Readers, a four bedroomed vicarage • Great leadership qualities and commitment to planning More information can be found at and normal expenses. • Ability to identify and encourage volunteers in the congregation www.bromhambenefice.org • Knowledge of the Scottish Episcopal Church We offer you the whole-hearted support of a prayerful and The Riversmeet benefice is situated 8 miles east of Bedford and is welcoming church community with the assistance of two experienced growing in size due to new housing developments. It is well serviced Full details about the charge can be obtained from St Margaret’s self-supporting priests; plus a four-bedroom vicarage and normal with doctors’ surgery, schools and local amenities, and there are good website: www.stmargaretsrenfrew.org.uk expenses. transport links by both road and rail. Closing date: TBA The closing date for applications is Friday 25th May 2018 Interview date: TBA The closing date for applications is Sunday 13th May 2018 Interview date: Monday 11th June 2018 Interview date: Monday 4th June 2018 For Parish Profile and Application Form contact: Enhanced DBS Disclosure is required Mr John Mitchell Enhanced DBS Disclosure is required For more information or to apply, please contact: Tel: 01505 862570 For more information or to apply, please contact: The Venerable Paul Hughes, Archdeacon of Bedford, Email: [email protected] The Venerable Paul Hughes, Archdeacon of Bedford, 17 Lansdowne Road, Luton, LU3 1EE Post subject to satisfactory PVG Disclosure 17 Lansdowne Road, Luton, LU3 1EE Tel: 01582 730722 • Email: [email protected] Tel: 01582 730722 or Email: [email protected]

House for Duty Priest required for the newly formed ‘Wellsprings’ Benefice, in the beautiful Team Vicar (Designate) rural countryside of Wiltshire. Team Rector The successful candidate will offer Sundays and the equivalent of North Potteries Team Ministry two days a week working closely with the Rector and a friendly and St Werburgh’s Church Burslem, Holy Trinity Sneyd supportive team of staff, with a focus for the villages of Seend, Bulkington The Benefice of mid Trent, a rural team in Staffordshire comprising and Poulshot. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of shaping the new Team 8 parishes (10 churches), wishes to appoint a Team Rector able to The benefice is seeking a faithful priest who will: Ministry along with our Team Rector Designate. All the constituent guide us in our desire to deepen our Christian faith and develop the Mission of our Parishes. • Be rooted in the Gospel as good news for everyone parishes of the new team ministry have been entrusted to the oversight • Understands ministry to rural communities and will enjoy being of the Bishop of Ebbsfleet, under the Bishops Declaration 2014. The churches of the Mid Trent Benefice each have their own styles of part of a team worship but increasingly we are working together as a Team, intent • Support the local church school Initially the Team Vicar will work in the parish of S. Werburgh, Burslem, on identifying and implementing a range of small but high impact • Enjoy taking pastoral offices. and later in the parish of Holy Trinity, Sneyd as well. Subject to a sustainable initiatives to take us to the next level in our spiritual and pending pastoral scheme, these two parishes are joining with the parish We offer a superb sized, modern, well-appointed house in Seend in the pastoral development. of S. Saviour, Smallthorne in mid-2018 and are looking to the future to centre of the community. build on the past. Could you: We would love someone to join us who is able to offer their gifts and • help us to sustain our strengths? work on our weaknesses? passion, and is able to share that with the wonderful people in our Our parishes will offer a warm and enthusiastic welcome to the Team • lead us in these developments? communities, through a variety of traditional and some contemporary Vicar and hope that they may continue to be inspired and motivated • value our heritage whilst leading innovation? services. to work for the kingdom of God as they deepen their relationship with • be prepared to take risks along the way? Jesus. If you would like to find out more please contact: We offer a committed team including our Team Vicar, our Curate and The Ven Dr Sue Groom, Archdeacon of Wilts This is an opportunity for bold thinking and long-sighted vision, a place Ordinand supported by an enthusiastic and varied group of lay people/ Email: [email protected] • Tel: 01722 438662 where a young priest will have plenty of scope to grow and be nurtured PCC members. Full details of this vacancy, including the parish profile, can also be and one where a wealth of experience is treasured and utilised. Stoke on Are you ready to embrace a challenge? found on the diocesan website at: Trent is changing, our parishes are changing, it is a time of excitement www.salisbury.anglican.org/whos-who/job-vacancies/clergy here and we would love for you to consider being a part of that change. Are you looking for the next development in your own Ministry? For an informal discussion, please contact: Full details from Full details from lichfield.anglican.org/vacancies/ lichfield.anglican.org/vacancies/ Rev’d Ali Bridewell 01380 739064 Enquiries & application form from Bishop of Stafford; Enquiries & application form fromBishop of Stafford; The Rt Revd Geoff Annas Closing date: 30th May 2018 The Rt Revd Geoff Annas - 01782 373308 Tel: 01782 373308 • Email: [email protected] Shortlisting: 5th June 2018 [email protected] Visit and Interviews: 18th & 19th June 2018 All applicants should have 3 years’ experience in the Church of England All applicants should have 3 years’ experience in the Church of England or another Anglican church in the British Isles. or another Anglican church in the British Isles. 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House for Duty Team Minister The Schorne Team of Parishes Incumbent Archdeaconry of Buckingham Going Deeper into God • Making New Disciples • Transforming Communities The Bishop of St Albans with the Diocesan Board of Patronage The Schorne Team of Parishes is seeking a House for Duty Team Minister seeks to appoint a The Benefice of Newport-with-Longford in either Anglican or Methodist orders based in North Marston to work flexibly with colleagues in the Team. and Chetwynd in Shropshire House for Duty Vicar Two Parishes, a market town, a rural community, One Lord The New Team Vicar: for • will be a team player who is able to demonstrate a good understanding The Benefice of High Cross and the Benefice of Thundridge Saint Nicholas in Newport of the particular needs and nuances of rural communities (held in plurality)  Prominent church building in the centre of a vibrant, growing • will work for the equivalent of two days a week plus Sundays and The two Benefices are praying for a community-minded Vicar able to market town; will have pastoral responsibility for the two parishes of North lead the church in spiritual and numerical growth. The heart of the  Excellent schools and civic relationships for praise and worship; Marston and Granborough Benefices is about 24 miles north of the centre of London.  A huge potential for an influential ministry making long lasting • will enjoy being a member of a highly supportive lay and clergy team disciples. A committed and compassionate Vicar is sought who will: In particular: Saint Michael & All Angels in Chetwynd • Support the church communities through change and enable • We enjoy strong lay leadership and need to grow more leaders creative thinking about our Mission Action Plans including regular  Rural parish, beautiful church; a community with a great sense of to help turn our vision into reality contact with the two Village Schools purpose. • There is a full youth work programme ministering to over 70 • Nurture individuals in their own ministry and encourage The Bishop seeks to appoint a collaborative and visionary Incumbent children and young people in the two parishes collaborative working who can articulate the spiritual direction, leadership and growth for • We also offer good pastoral care and look for guidance and • Enable the church communities to grow in depth, breadth and our pastoral, outreach and mission activities. leadership to develop this ministry age range In addition we offer: • Preach with sensitivity and understanding, communicating the Our very Christ-focused congregations are prayerfully seeking to Gospel in an inclusive and engaging style grow our church communities in reaching out to the residents of all • An excellent quality of life in rural Buckinghamshire • Enable the churches to engage with the diocesan vision, ages within our parishes. We seek an Incumbent to lead us wisely, • Two pro-active congregations, both with highly supportive ‘Living God’s Love’ direct us spiritually, with a passion for growing and nurturing Churchwardens, waiting to welcome, support and work alongside you Potential candidates are invited to contact discipleship and renewal. • Clergy colleagues who enjoy working together and who are able to offer a variety of expertise The Venerable Janet Mackenzie, We are currently like a blank canvas with a beautiful border Archdeacon of Hertford, Glebe House, St Mary’s Lane Closing Date: 17 May surrounding it, waiting for a new, experienced Incumbent to Hertingfordbury, Hertford SG14 2LE Interviews: 7 and 8 June re-shape, nurture and develop the Benefice with us. from whom further details can be obtained. Further details and application from Telephone: 01727 818159 • Email: [email protected] Is this God’s calling for you? www.oxford.anglican.org/category/vacancies/ Appointment to this position is subject to satisfactory enhanced Full details from lichfield.anglican.org/vacancies/ or The Bishop of Buckingham’s office, Sheridan, disclosure via the Disclosure and Barring Service. Enquiries & application form from Bishop of Shrewsbury; Grimms Hill, Great Missenden, HP16 9BG For full details of this vacancy including the parish profile please visit 01743 235867 / [email protected] 01494 862173 the diocesan website: www.stalbans.anglican.org/diocese/vacancies Closing date: 29th April 2018 [email protected] th Closing date: 12 noon Wednesday 16 May 2018 Familiarisation day: 11 May 2018 Enhanced DBS disclosure is required th Interview date: Monday 4 June 2018 Interviews: 16 May 2018

www.churchtimes.co.uk www.chelmsford.anglican.org The Diocese of Chelmsford is currently ASSOCIATE PRIEST looking to fill the following post The Diocese of Edinburgh (House for Duty) Covering the City of Edinburgh, the Borders, Falkirk and the Lothians Benefice of Cherbury with Gainfield Priest in Charge We are seeking a priest who is a good communicator with spiritual House for Duty (with house) two days and a Sunday or Lead Evangelist and Priest in Charge depth and pastoral experience who enjoys working within a dynamic and Half Time Stipendiary (without house) three days and a Sunday supportive team, and has an affinity to rural and village communities. Are you passionate about helping people come to a living St Peter ad Vincula, Roydon Our beautifully located benefice, lying between Oxford and Faringdon, is faith in Jesus? Can you inspire and equip others to do the seeking to appoint a prayerful and compassionate clergy colleague to join The attractive rural Parish of Roydon is located on the Essex/Herts same? Are you an ordained Church Army Evangelist, or an our ministry team (2 days equivalent per week plus Sundays). border, approximately 30 minutes from central London. St Peter’s is a Anglican Priest willing to join the Church Army Community? thriving congregation from a wide range of liturgical backgrounds. We If so then we have just the job for in a new Centre of Mission Areas of responsibility will depend on your ministerial gifts and skills, seek a Priest in Charge who will: YOU focusing around ministry with the older members of our congregations being established by the Diocese of Edinburgh and Church Army and villages, committed pastoral visiting, and encouragement of wider lay • Take a lead in mission to the local community, developing new in the Scottish Borders. church involvement. forms of outreach and building on our work with families and the local school; You will be need to be a gifted leader both to guide and empower This post provides a wonderful opportunity to be part of a new growth • Be part of the local Mission and Ministry Area Team the Collaborative Ministry Teams in continuing to grow the three initiative of church outreach across seven rural villages which are • Nurture and inspire our growing congregation and church inherited churches in this partnership, whilst concentrating your undergoing a period of steady and exciting transformation. We are in family; own efforts on those who do not attend church to develop fresh the fortunate position of being able to offer a well-appointed recently • Disciple the new contacts we are making and help us to all to expressions of church across the area. You will be assisted in this renovated vicarage in the heart of one of our warm and welcoming old grow in our relationship with God; exciting ministry by a full-time pioneer evangelist whom you will Oxfordshire villages. • Be open to a wide range of Christian traditions; help recruit. • Show deep commitment to pastoral care. If you are interested in ministering in a community that is entering a new As the Priest in Charge and Lead Evangelist of the new A7 group phase of its spiritual life, then we would love to hear from you. We can offer: of charges, St Peter’s in Galashiels, St John’s in Selkirk and St For an initial conversation, please contact the Rector, • A committed and welcoming congregation covering a wide Cuthbert’s in Hawick, you will be appointed initially for 5 years Reverend Talisker Tracey-MacLeod on range of age groups; (with the opportunity to renew) and will be accountable directly to Tel: 01865 596224 or Email: [email protected] • A strong musical tradition, with excellent choir and organists the Diocesan Bishop. and a worship band which leads family worship; Application Form and Benefice Profile available at • Active lay involvement in all aspects of worship and church life; To be successful in this application you will have experience www.oxford.anglican.org/vacancies • An active and supportive PCC; in strategic planning for mission and enabling church growth, Applications to be returned to: The Archdeacon of Dorchester • An opportunity to develop the role of the Church in our through sharing your personal faith and nurturing new disciples. village and wider community. Church House Oxford, Langford Locks; Kidlington OX5 1GF Inspired by the amazing potential of this role? For more details Telephone: 01865 208245 Further details are available from www.roydonstpeters.org please contact: Samantha Campbell, Bishop’s PA, Email: [email protected] Application forms are available from the Archdeacon of Harlow’s 0131 538 7044, [email protected] DBS Enhanced Disclosure is required office: [email protected] or 01279 734524 Closing Date: Friday 27th April We look forward to hearing from you! Interview Dates: 15th and 16th May PLEASE MENTION THE CHURCHTIMES WHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISERS 27 April 2018 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 39 JOBS.CHURCHTIMES.CO.UK

TEAM VICAR ECCLES TEAM MINISTRY Are you called to lead the Church’s mission and outreach in two open evangelical urban parishes in Greater Manchester? St Andrew’s, Eccles and Christ Church, Patricroft both have a church school and are HOUSE FOR DUTY ASSOCIATE PRIEST St Peter’s, West Bromwich seeking to engage with their local neighbourhood. Newport Pagnell with Lathbury and Moulsoe (A Resolution Parish) One Benefice, Four Churches The new Team Vicar will: is seeking to appoint an i Have a heart for mission in an area where many We are looking for a priest who is excited about bringing the Gospel people are living on low incomes and there are to our Benefice in a way that nurtures all that is currently good and will bring new ideas to complement and extend our mission to this ASSOCIATE PRIEST (0.5) high levels of deprivation historic town. We are looking for a priest who will: i Respond imaginatively to key opportunities for • exercise a sacramental ministry that centres on the Mass We seek an Associate Priest who: mission • value the contributions of members of the ministry team and • Will work 2 days a week plus Sundays and is flexible with seek to develop their talents i Have a passion for school ministry traditional and new forms of worship • provide a clear lead for mission and evangelism • Is approachable, imaginative and enthusiastic, with a good i Understand contemporary cultures and be excited • be a pastor, spiritual director, teacher and friend sense of humour by the possibility of fresh expressions of church • make contact with the local community and bring young people • Can build on current developments to bring the Gospel to both within them to the church town and country churches i Join a supportive team (including Team Rector, an • Will actively contribute to generating ideas to promote spiritual For further details please go to OLM and several Readers and Authorised Lay growth to all age groups in the community https://www.lichfield.anglican.org/vacancies/ Ministers) We offer our Associate Priest: For informal discussion, please contact Closing date: Monday 28 May 2018 • A loving and welcoming church family Fr Ron Farrell • The prayerful and active support of the Rector, 2 LLMs, 3 PCCs, Email: [email protected] • Tel: 0121 556 5823 Provisional Interview date: Monday 11 June 2018 Churchwardens and Administrator Full details are available at: • The opportunity to develop and nurture their own talents and Enquiries and Application Forms www.manchester.anglican.org/vacancies gifts The Ven Sue Weller, Archdeacon of Walsall • A centrally located four bedroomed house [email protected] or from the Archdeacon of Salford: • Nearby Milton Keynes with a wealth of amenities to suit all Closing Date: 22nd May 2018 [email protected] For an Application Form and Parish Profile please contact Familiarisation Day:w/c 4th June 2018 Interview Date: The Archdeacon of Buckingham’s Office 19th June 2018 Tel: 01865 208266 This appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS check. Email: [email protected] Or www.oxford.anglican.org/vacancies For an informal conversation contactThe Revd Nick Evans ST BARNABAS’, LINTHORPE, Tel: 01908 612244 • Email: [email protected] RECTOR MIDDLESBROUGH Closing Date: TBA Interviews: TBA The Benefice of Hadleigh, Layham and Shelley The Benefice consists of the historic market town of Hadleigh and the DBS Enhanced disclosure is required VICAR two small parishes of Layham and Shelley, all located along the river This town parish, with a great living tradition of worship, Christian Brett in beautiful rural Suffolk. We are looking for someone who will nurture and community involvement, is seeking a collaborative be a good pastor and will: servant leader. • work collaboratively to develop a shared vision and bring about www.churchtimes.co.uk St Barnabas’ is also the spiritual home to people from a wider area change • further the spread of the Christian faith in the Benefice, engaging who appreciate its distinctive Evangelical style. Is God calling you to in ministry and mission with all ages throughout the community lead us into the future? • be an active member of Deanery Chapter and contribute to For more details, see: http://bit.ly/stbarnabaslinthorpe plans for the future or follow #yorkcofejobs We can offer you a friendly, caring Benefice with a strong group identity and supportive PCCs, as well as a substantial family home in a historic house in Hadleigh. Eastleigh Deanery Further details can be found on www.cofesuffolk.org St Francis, Valley Park For an informal conversation, please call the Single Congregation Local Ecumenical Partnership Rt Revd Dr Mike Harrison on 01473 252829 We are seeking a Minister to lead us forward, providing spiritual direction, guidance and challenge in mission. We offer: Vicar of St Pancras Church, Pennycross (Plymouth), • A motivated lay leadership team - active in all areas of Church life also working one day per week as the • A part-time parish administrator • A newly renovated vicarage - within walking distance of the Bishop of Plymouth’s Advisor on Urban Mission church, school and local amenities The St Pancras Church family is seeking to appoint a Vicar to join this • A strong ecumenical partnership evangelical fellowship which embraces mixed worship styles, who will • An energetic and capable congregation lead us in our vision of growth and who is: Priest in Charge: Wheathill Priory Group Benefice (0.5) and We welcome an applicant who: • a gifted preacher who is open to the gifts of the Holy Spirit and is Deanery Mission Enabler: Glastonbury Jurisdiction (Deanery) (0.5) able to relate the Bible to contemporary life • Is an inspiring and creative team leader who motivates those • dynamic and enthusiastic with a strong personal faith Looking for something a bit different? around them • sociable and keen to relate to all ages We offer an exciting opportunity to combine the role of • Can maintain broad and varied styles of worship • a visible and practical Parish leader with a desire to strengthen Deanery Mission Enabler with Parish Ministry • Can reach out to the local community, increasing the Church’s relationships with local families and the wider community. in a small, supportive rural benefice. presence and responding to need • a collaborative team player able to nurture and develop the Come and work with us! • Is an ordained minister of the Church of England, the Methodist talents of all Church or the United Reformed Church. • prayerful, caring and compassionate For more details please see the vacancies section at: For an informal conversation contact: • able to combine strategic vision and leadership with pastoral www.bathandwells.org.uk warmth and sensitivity. 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We seek to appoint a new Vicar of Shottermill (Haslemere, Surrey) The Bishop of Oxford and the Principal and Fellows of St Stephen’s is a friendly, Jesus centred church in Surrey that is Jesus College, Oxford are seeking to appoint a new looking for: Rector of Henley-on-Thames with Remenham • An enabling and collaborative experienced leader • A champion for work with children and young people RECTOR If you have • A dynamic and passionate preacher and leader The Benefice of Chilcompton with Downside • Someone who is rooted and committed to the parish • a deep sacramental spirituality with a strong sense of mission and Stratton-on-the-Fosse • a strong desire to encourage lay ministries community • A discipler who encourages prayer, spirituality and outreach to We are a benefice of two churches in a beautiful area of Somerset • a passion to reach out to the whole community others between Bath and Wells looking for a Rector who can: • a talent to delegate • a love of music We offer: • Lead us in extending the love of Jesus to those around us • An established vibrant one-church parish • Strengthen our spiritual confidence and a sense of humour, a zest for life and a longing to grow in humility • A dedicated and supportive staff team • Provide vibrant and enlivening worship and bible teaching Then we would be delighted to hear from you • A congregation with extensive lay and ordained involvement in • Lead and engage with us in our Pastoral Care church life • Help us engage with the families and children of the parishes We offer you • A range of worship styles from formal to charismatic • our support and love • Genuine care and support for our incumbent and family Would you like to work with a supportive team of licensed Readers and • our prayers group of volunteers to fulfil our vision and encourage us as a benefice The parish profile is available atwww.cofeguildford.org.uk or from: and as individuals to follow the example of Jesus. • a lovely Rectory Mrs Frances-Anne Cross, PA to the Archdeacon of Surrey Church • good administrative back-up House Guildford, 20 Alan Turing Road, Guildford GU2 7YF Further details and application pack from: Tel: 01483 790352 • Email: [email protected] Mrs Denise Blake, PA to Archdeacon of Bath and two great communities to belong to Tel: 01225 873609 or Email: [email protected] Closing date: Thursday, 30th May 2018 Application Form and Parish Profile available at: Interviews: Wednesday, 20th & Thursday, 21st June 2018 Closing date for applications: 27th May 2018 www.oxford.anglican.org Interview Days: 18th and 19th June 2018 Applications to be returned to:The Bishop of Dorchester, The appointment is subject to an enhanced DBS clearance An enhanced DBS disclosure is required Church House Oxford, Langford Locks; Kidlington, OX5 1GF 01865 208218 • [email protected] Closing date: 30th May 2018 Interviews: 9th & 10th July 2018 DBS Enhanced Disclosure is required

The Parishes of Rudby in Cleveland w House for Duty Middleton, Crathorne, and Whorlton w Priest in Charge in the Keswick Minister Carlton and Faceby Mission Community and St Mary’s Kentisbeare, Devon of Crosthwaite St Kentigern - Diocese of Carlisle We are looking for someone to lead and grow our church family, ASSOCIATE PRIEST Are you energetic, enthusiastic, creative and wish to share the Gospel? situated in a thriving village in Devon. Applications are invited for the above vacancy. We have close ties with our church school and need someone with the (House for Duty) gifts to develop these further, as well as with a passion for This newly formed group of parishes to the north of the North York Closing date: 13th May reaching out to families. Moors in North Yorkshire is seeking a House for Duty Associate Priest Full details available on the Carlisle Diocesan Website Full details on our website www.exeter.anglican.org to join the emerging ministry team. or contact For full profile and application form please contact: With a focus on pastoral ministry, you will also have an eye for fresh The Archdeacon, The Ven. Dr. Richard Pratt, The Archdeacon of Exeter missional opportunities in these rural communities. Tel: 0190066190 Tel: 01392 425577 • Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] For more details or to apply, see: and/or The Revd. Charles Hope, Closing date: TBA • Interviews: TBA http://bit.ly/Rudby-in-Cleveland Tel: 017687 75855 This post is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure. or follow #yorkcofejobs Email: [email protected]

www.chelmsford.anglican.org Have you the heart for The Diocese of Chelmsford is currently looking to fill the Hartland Coast? We are a team of nine rural and coastal parishes (including Lundy the following post Island!), set amongst the beautiful hills and valleys, cliffs and coasts of North Devon. Associate Priest (House for Duty) We seek and pray for a Team Rector to lead a lively team of clergy and in The Theydon Parishes lay ministers and encourage the gifts and skills of all in our Mission Community. A newly-formed Benefice, within easy reach of Central London and the motorway network, seeks an experienced Priest to share in Would you find joy in: ministry. This is a rare opportunity for the person whom God is • becoming an integral part of some very special village communities? calling to shape the role and to do more of the things you enjoy (and • working in the Anglican Methodist fellowship which exists in fewer of the things you don’t!) several parishes? • the variety of fresh and traditional expressions of worship? We offer you three parishes keen to grow and reach out for Jesus into • some great opportunities to share the Gospel with children, their communities, and a 4-bedroom house close to Epping. families and older people? • coming alongside us as we pray, grow and serve our communities Closing Date: TBA together? Interviews on 10 May 2018 Details on: www.chelmsford.anglican.org/vacancies or from … and do you like cake? the Archdeacon of Harlow • Tel: 01279 734524 If so, please contact: The Archdeacon of Barnstaple Email: [email protected] 01271 375475 • [email protected] For an informal chat please contact the Vicar: Closing date: 10th May 2018 The Reverend John Fry Interviews: 18th & 19th June 2018 Tel: 01992 812744 • Email: [email protected] Post subject to satisfactory D.B.S. procedures. hartlandcoastchurches.org.uk PLEASE MENTION THE CHURCHTIMES WHEN REPLYING TO ADVERTISERS 27 April 2018 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 41 JOBS.CHURCHTIMES.CO.UK

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APPOINTMENTS Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway RECTOR of St Ninian’s, Castle Douglas Centre Manager and Christ Church, Dalbeattie We are a linked Charge based in two small towns with a large at The Peak Centre, hinterland in the beautiful Galloway countryside. We are seeking a VICAR Champion House, Edale. Rector, in orders recognised by the Scottish Episcopal Church and of a of the United Benefice of Athersley and Carlton The Peak Centre, Edale in the heart of Derbyshire’s Peak District is central church tradition, who will be: The people of the United Benefice of Athersley and Carlton, Tradition- looking for someone with a heart for ministry to young people with • a caring pastor for the faithful in both congregations al Catholic with extended episcopal oversight, are praying for a Vicar proven management skills. • an inspiring teacher and preacher who is sacramentally centred with a heart for the Gospel and people, to You will have overall responsibility for the management of this Centre • a priest who appreciates and supports our varied liturgies help them grow and reach out to the community in this rewarding and which provides a Christian residential and activity facility used primarily • an outward-looking person, prepared to engage with the wider challenging area of Barnsley in the Wakefield Episcopal Area. by church and school groups. community The closing date for applications is the 11th May 2018 You will manage and supervise Centre staff and volunteers and We are offering a full stipend, excellent accommodation, and a generous and interviews will be held on the 21st May 2018. have responsibility for the Centre’s welcoming ethos,, activities, package of allowances and expenses. infrastructure, marketing, finances, safety and the development of good For further information, including congregational profiles, please contact Details of this post may be found at the Diocesan website at relations with its user groups, local community and young people in the the Vestry Secretary of St Ninian’s Castle Douglas, Patrick Little www.leeds.anglican.org/vacancies Diocese of Derby. (click on the Wakefield Archdeaconry link) Email: [email protected] • Telephone 01556 690507 The post is open to lay or ordained applicants. The package includes or from the at: Venerable Peter Townley, Archdeacon of Pontefract accommodation, allowances and on-going training. The closing date for applications is TBA Church House, 1 South Parade, Wakefield, WF1 1LP The appointment will be subject to Enhanced Disclosure Scotland E-mail: [email protected] Closing date: 7th May Interview date: 21st May (Scottish Charity No. SC011079) Tel: 01924 434459 / Fax: 01924 364834 Start date: negotiation, as soon as possible. Application pack from: Netta Russell, Church House, Full Street, Derby DE1 3DR Email: [email protected] The Scottish Episcopal Church www.peakcentre.org.uk www.derby.anglican.org ASSOCIATE PRIEST Derby Diocese is committed to safeguarding and safer St. Martin of Tours, Edinburgh (Priest-in-Charge Designate) recruitment practice. for the Eight Saints Cluster (Carharrack, Rector and Chair of Community Chacewater, Devoran, Feock, Gwennap, Perran-ar-Worthal, St Day and Stithians) Resource Centre www.eightsaints.org.uk This small, dynamic congregation has just completed the Are you a confident, prayerful, collaborative priest who: transformation of our building into both a church and a community hub. We seek a priest to guide us in developing our worship, mission • has their heart in parish ministry and has a love of people and community outreach. • is passionate about growing the church in every sense Vice Principal • works well as part of a team Contract: Permanent Salary: 50% of Scottish Episcopal Church standard clergy stipend and • is open to God showing them new things Location: Warrington 50% pension contributions. Four-bedroom Rectory in good location • recognises the gifts of others? Salary: £40,500 - £43,100 + pension contribution close to city centre. If that sounds like you then the Eight Saints Cluster can offer: Informal enquiries to: The Very Revd Frances Burberry (Dean) All Saints is a partnership principally between the dioceses of the Email: [email protected] • the benefit of working in a supportive team north-west specialising in part-time training for ordained and lay • constructive and motivated PCCs ministry. We have seen phenomenal growth over ten years to Information Pack and Application Form available from: • a 4 bedroomed vicarage in rural Stithians become one of the Church of England’s largest providers of theological [email protected] • the services of a part-time Cluster Administrator. education. or from our website: https://stmartinsedinburgh.org.uk Closing date for applications: TBA Closing date for applications: Monday 30 April 2018 We are looking for someone who is passionate about ministry and Interviews: TBA mission and has the academic, teaching and management gifts to Registered Charity Number SC011137 Further details available at: join the senior management team as Vice Principal. With a missional Appointment subject to a satisfactory Enhanced Disclosure Scotland http://www.trurodiocese.org.uk/vacancies/ focus to all we do, the Vice Principal will work closely with a large and check (Protection of Vulnerable Groups [Scotland] Act, 2007) exciting team of theological educators and the support team to ensure This post is subject to enhanced DBS disclosure. that All Saints meets its commitment to academic quality and spiritual formation in preparing women and men for ministry in the twenty-first century. Team Vicar Applications are invited from people who will foster diversity and equality, and deepen our commitment to academic quality and Bloxwich Parish, Walsall excellence in formation for ministry. with responsibility for two churches - St Thom- as’, Mossley and Holy Ascension, Lower Farm - Closing Date: 25th May 2018 and to share in the mission of the whole team. Shortlisting: 29th May 2018 Rector St John with St Leonard Bedford The parish is broadly evangelical. Interviews: 6th June 2018 St. John’s and St. Leonard’s is a united benefice, with two centres of “urban outreach, in a supportive context, with some very exciting Website: www.allsaintscentre.org worship, in a busy and diverse area of Bedford. We are an evangelical opportunities right now” Application Pack:www.allsaintscentre.org/vacancies fellowship that embraces a varied liturgy and mixed worship styles. At St Thomas’ our link to the Big Local is giving special opportunities. We are praying for a new Rector, who is: At Holy Ascension we expect to build a new church soon and need For an informal discussion about the post, contact the Principal, the someone to launch it with enthusiasm. Venerable Dr John Applegate on 01925 534303 • An evangelical with a conviction that everyone should know personally the love of Jesus. Do you have a vision for growth and a heart for urban mission? 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ORGANISTS & LAYWORKERS Director of Music and Organist St Lawrence Eastcote We are a church who has

Bishop’s Officer for School Mission a growing congregation of all ages open catholic worship choir with all four parts active music group Permanent and Full time post broad tradition – 358 to 2017 AD (4 days per week may be available for the right candidate) We are looking for someone who is a committed communicant Ely Diocesan Board of Education Christian able to share the vision for this church and parish able to help To start as soon as possible, but ideally by September 2018 Graduate Music Assistants (organ/choral) us develop our music for worship willing to strengthen what exists £18,750 per annum, full time and explore potential As part of the Diocesan growth strategy ‘People Fully Alive: Ely 2025’, the Board of Education is seeking an outstanding individual to inspire Emanuel School is a co-educational independent secondary day school Job Description: Fr Chris Rankine further church-school partnerships and nurture deeply Christian school in Wandsworth, London, with just over 900 pupils. We aim to balance www.st-lawrence-eastcote.org.uk provision for the common good. academic excellence with the provision of supportive pastoral care and a 020 3665 2029 or [email protected] wide range of co-curricular activities across the arts and sports. The successful candidate will have: • a proven record of leading projects for children and families and We are looking for two talented, enthusiastic musicians who will assist the full time music department staff with the day-to-day running of both be committed to the development of church school education; DIRECTOR OF MUSIC & ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MUSIC • excellent interpersonal and pastoral skills and the curricular and co-curricular music lessons for the academic year starting confidence to provide strong spiritual leadership in schools; September 2018. These are one year, fixed term positions and would suit St Thomas’ is the Parish Church of Brentwood, a vibrant Essex town • the ambition to support schools and parishes to embark on a someone who has recently graduated from university or music college. situated on the new Elizabeth Line with easy access into London. new dynamic covenant of mission among, and mutual support For one post, we are seeking someone who is a good organist and who Music at the church is highly regarded by the congregation and for, children and their families. will also be comfortable as a repetiteur on the piano. For the other post, throughout the Chelmsford Diocese. The successful candidates will • an enthusiasm for working in an exciting range of demographic we are seeking someone with skills in choral direction as well as keyboard have the pleasure of overseeing four choirs, an organ scholarship and socio-economic contexts, including sparsely rural, market ability. For both posts, being able to accompany students for rehearsals, scheme, the church orchestra, and a lunchtime concert series. town and inner city localities. exams and concerts is essential. Other tasks would include teaching The organ is an impressive 3-manual instrument recently renovated by Nicholson & Co. We are looking to appoint an ordained minister or suitably qualified lay aural and theory classes, helping with putting programmes together for practitioner on a permanent full time (37.5 hours per week) contract concerts, and helping set up for rehearsals, as well as general assistance in With the recent establishment of the St Thomas’ Music Foundation, (with the equivalent benefits of an incumbent). Candidates wishing to the department on a daily basis. there is a lot of support for the music department, both financially and work 4 days per week (0.8 part-time) instead of full time can state this Each post is for 35 hours per week over Monday to Friday during term with administration. We have a number of opportunities coming up for consideration in their application. time only (35 weeks) and offers a salary of £18,750 per annum to include in September that cover Director of Music, Assistant Director of Music and Assistant Organist responsibilities; the number of roles will depend If you are interested in this opportunity to work in a dynamic and holiday pay. The hours will include evenings (if there is a concert) and on the successful candidates and their skills/qualifications. forward-thinking Diocese, download an application pack from the some rehearsals on Saturday mornings. Start date: September 2018. Salaries in the region of: Director of Diocesan Education website at: Music £8,000-12,000 and Assistant Director of Music £4,000-8,000 http://www.elyeducation.org/main/ If you are interested in this position then please visit the depending on the agreed roles and experience. or contact Teresa Stephens on 01353 656760 vacancies section of our website and download the detailed job pack at: Please contact: [email protected] for more Closing date for applications: 12 noon on Tuesday 1st May 2018 www.emanuel.org.uk/staff-vacancies information about the roles and visit www.music-at-st-thomas.org.uk Interview dates: Monday 21st and Friday 25th May 2018 Completed application forms should be sent to The Diocese of Ely is committed to safer recruitment practices for [email protected] by the closing date: people working or volunteering with children and adults and therefore Wednesday 2nd May 2018 at 5pm. this position is subject to an enhanced disclosure from the DBS Please note that this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders St Augustine of Canterbury, Twickenham (Disclosure & Barring Service). Act 1974, and is subject to a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) Check. Emanuel School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare Director of Music / Organist of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We are seeking to appoint a personable and passionate individual as Organist and Director of Music for our adult and junior choir, to continue and enhance its thriving musical tradition. The church enjoys a wide range of music, traditional to contemporary. Choir All Saints’ Church, Putney Common members attend RSCM events and work for awards is looking to appoint a The key role is preparing, developing and leading the choir during the Sunday 10 am sung Eucharist. Salary in line with RSCM rates Director of Music and plus opportunities for weddings/ funerals fees. Four Choral Scholars (SATB) For more information or to apply contact: from September 2018. Revd Stephen Caple at [email protected] www.st-augustine-of-canterbury-whitton.org • 07824 904 006 Director of Music: Responsible for planning music and directing the Applicants will be contacted within 2 weeks of applying; Choir at the Sunday Services (10.30 am Parish Eucharist and monthly Interviews by arrangement: Closing date 30 April 2018. 6.00 pm Evensong), monthly choir rehearsals, weddings and special services. There is an Assistant Director of Music in post, who plays the organ for most services and directs the Church’s Children’s Choir. Applications are welcomed both from choir directors and from organists. www.chelmsford.anglican.org Remuneration will be in line with RSCM guidelines. The Diocese of Chelmsford Four Choral Scholars (SATB): Four Choral Scholarships (Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass) of £1200 are available to undergraduate is currently looking to fill and postgraduate students for the academic year 2018-2019. the following post For more information and details on how to apply, please contact Lottie Clarke: Tel: 020 3185 2013 or Director of Music/Organist Email: [email protected]. St Mary Magdalene Church, Harlow Common Location: Essex, Chelmsford Diocese Contract: Permanent The deadline for all applications is 12 noon Monday 14th May 2018 We are seeking a Director of Music to revitalise our use of music to enhance and develop our worship and mission, both in formal services and in the wider community. We are an Anglo-Catholic church with a small, enthusiastic, mixed- Christ Church, West Wimbledon SW20 0RZ ability choir which leads Sunday morning Mass music and occasionally seeks a sings a motet. 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SITUATIONS VACANT SOUTHWELL MINSTER TENOR LAY CLERK B.O.G.O.F St Andrew’s, Burgess Hill is seeking to appoint a Applications are invited for a Tenor Lay Clerkship at Southwell Minster, required from September 2018. The salary will be £6488, with YOUTH additional fees paid, including a housing allowance of £1500. WORSHIP PASTOR The closing date for applications is Friday 11 May. We are offering a buy one get one free to enable the worshipping congregations and wider parish of Auditions and interviews will take place on Friday 18 May. St Andrew’s to enjoy God, particularly and specifically through music offer on all Youth Vacancies. ministry. We would like our new Worship Pastor to lead regular For more information, or to apply, please contact Jasmine Oakes: musical worship in formal and informal styles and to lead and develop Email: [email protected] or Tel: 01636 817280 Why not choose our ‘Until Filled’ option, the team of musicians who help lead musical worship. This person unlimited repeats of your advert in paper will be a committed Christian who demonstrates a growing personal and online until you fill the vacancy. faith in Jesus Christ, has a good knowledge of the scriptures and St Botolph without Aldgate openness to the whole work of the Holy Spirit including a mature charismatic spirituality. Diocese of London Advertising Department • 020 7776 1010 For further details please contact: [email protected] [email protected] Organist and Director of Music We are seeking an Organist and Director of Music to enhance our worship and to develop the musical life of St Botolph’s. St Botolph’s sits at the eastern threshold of the City of London. We are an inclusive Navigators church with a diverse congregation. You too could of Faith Our Renatus Harris organ, built around 1704, is arguably England’s Men and Women wanted advertise for oldest surviving church organ. We have a brand new for hazardous journey sailing Schimmel Konzert K213TX grand piano. around UK in 2018. No wages, bitter cold, long hours and under as little as Remuneration at RSCM rates depending on qualifications and experience. public scrutiny. Safe return possible but not assured. £11.88 (+VAT) For more information please see:www.stbotolphs.org.uk Honour and recognition in event of success by a high Closing date for applications: Monday 21 May 2018 and reach over authority. Please contact [email protected] www.navigatorsoffaith.com 60,000 readers Scottish Episcopal Church St John the Evangelist, Greenock YOUTH WORK (RSCM affiliate: RSCM rates apply) Choir Director/Organist Vacancy For someone with vision and energy. Marlow Methodist Church Small, experienced SATB choir in need of revival. Sharing God’s Love Fine sounding 3-manual Mirlees organ. Tradition of Sung Eucharist/Evensongs Our Church is seeking to appoint an imaginative and suitably In both modern and ancient music. qualified person for the role of Aim is to work with Rector in establishing and growing an excellent Children’s and Young People’s Worker liturgical music ministry. This is an exciting opportunity to: Contact: [email protected] • work with our Minister and volunteers at the Church, which is welcoming and inclusive and seeks to be active and communi- ty-orientated • coordinate, support and extend our existing work with children All Saints Church Fulham and young people • develop relationships with local schools and work through St Mark’s Church seeks an Churches Together in Marlow Organ Scholar £3,500 p.a. plus fees Parish of Swindon Newtown Hours – part-time (20 hours per week) We seek to appoint a new 4 choral scholars (SATB): £2,000 p.a. plus fees Salary – £9,000 to £13,500 per annum Director of Music and Organist Thriving city parish, excellent choir. Frequent tours, broadcasts, Closing date for applications: 31st May 2018 at our Traditional Anglican Church. We seek someone to workshops, concerts and recordings. Upwards of 30 paid services per Interviews will take place in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, in June 2018 direct the choir for Sunday sung Mass, lead weekly or year for choral scholars and 10 per year for organ scholar. monthly choir practises and play up to 12 other services Appointment has a genuine occupational requirement in the year. Closing date: 14 May 2018 that the post-holder is a practising Christian and is subject to an enhanced DBS disclosure The Parish is a member of Forward in Faith, with episcopal For details visit: oversight from the Bishop of Ebbsfleet. Salary will be in www.allsaints-fulham.org.uk or Email: [email protected] Employment pack and application form from:Carolyn Luscombe line with RSCM rates. PA Rev Nick Thompson, Minister Marlow Methodist Church Tel: 01491 410693 • Email: [email protected] Please contact the Parish Office on 01793 538220 email [email protected]

St Mary’s is a friendly and flourishing church in the catholic tradition at St Nicholas Church the heart of the market town of Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire. We are seeking a DIRECTOR OF MUSIC/ORGANIST. Director of Music The church has a large 3 manual Peter Collins organ, a full mixed robed SATB choir as well as a thriving youth choir (age range 8-13 years). or Choir Director The church is affilliated to the RSCM and remuneration will be For a large, inclusive parish church with a good music tradition based on its guildelines. WEB WATCH • £120 + VAT For full details ring 01582 765524 Get your advert into Web Watch section of the Church Times For more information please contact: Or email: [email protected] The Revd Canon Richard Stainer • [email protected] paper plus a link to your website • Tel: 020 7776 1010 Closing date 28th April 2018

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PICTURE to reach an entire generation unlikely to set foot in church. We Luke Rollins DJ ministry co-ordinator recognise the increased spiritual and mental struggles that DJs and musi­ cians are facing, and highlight the The concept of a DJ is much more about music and more about status lack of support and resources for than just choosing music: it’s an and money. them. artistic expression in its own right. They’re also musicians and have That said, the simple joy of people There has never been more insecur­ outputs as well; so there’s musical dancing together will never change. ity. Success seems always about who credibility to what they’re doing. It’s Be it on vinyl, CD, laptop, or USB, you know and what you are pre­ an enormous industry these days: sharing music with others will pared to sacrifice in pursuit of your very competitive, a lot of jostling for always be the foundation. Ultim­ dream, be that relationships, health, position in terms of who can put ately, you’re there to help people to or personal integrity. together a set to create experiences dance and to experience joy. There’s for people, taking them on a musical a connection that happens when you The first night I experienced God journey — an education, almost — play live — you’re sharing your for real was at a Christian praise showing a broad understanding of personal choice — and bringing evening in Leicester. I was 15, and I music in all its forms, blending someone joy is a wonderful thing to knew then that Jesus was the way, them, making them palatable, do, even if you’re not a Christian. but it took ten more years of rebel­ making them relevant. lion, apathy, and hurt before I truly There’s a whole movement of clean surrendered my life to him. Since At the top end, DJs do a two-hour clubbing, but, sadly, there’ll always then, life is unspeakably good, and show in a club or a venue. They have be some whose experience is height­ ship with someone that allows God My wife and I run our own music the grace and love of God are daily an image surrounding them, and ened with narcotics or alcohol to speak into their lives through business, and I’m also signed up to a revelations. He planted me in a great they’re heavily scrutinised role- abuse. They’re looking for escape, love. There are so many broken, London agency, DJs on Demand. I church, established fantastic friend­ models. Some DJs do connect with hope, community, someone who will hurt­ing, lost people in the nightlife do produce, but rarely music that I’d ships, took me on wild missional the audience and talk to them, but make them happy. They’re there industry, and everyone is looking for ever use in a DJ set. I draw upon too adventures to Ibiza, and intro- the vast majority of us don’t. Good because they can’t find it, but answers in different places. I want to many interests to be condensed into duced me to my wonderful wife, DJs tend to be buried in basements music’s just a vehicle, and, tragically, try and be a light in the dark, as that making house music. That’s a bit Judith — an extremely talented looking at music; so being forced it doesn’t usually lead to that; so they girl was for me. frustrating, to be honest. I absolutely singer and musi­cian — among many into the limelight brings its prob­ keep going back. love making music, but it’s solitary, other countless miracles and jour­ lems. Your social-media image is One of the first things I did after I’d and DJ-ing is vital for getting me out neys. very important. Carl Cox, probably That’s why we need people to be received Jesus was to sell my DJ among people. the biggest DJ in the world, has a there who can say you can find that decks, remove myself from my Music-making with God always charisma that connects with the in Jesus. They’re there to find an residency, and cancel all upcoming Third Space Ministries exist to share relaxes and excites me. Judith and I thousands who are attracted to his answer; so they’ll give you an audi­ gigs; so it was pretty dramatic. God God’s love in Ray Oldenburg’s run a home group together, which is events. ence if you give them time to speak took me out of the industry while he “third spaces of society”, where a huge blessing, and we love having in one-to-one encounters, connect­ sorted out some problems I’d estab­ people meet to develop friendships, people over for dinner. I use the Preparation is essential, and really discuss issues, and interact with gym, play and teach piano, and is the bulk of the job. There’s no others. Our first space is home; the occasionally put my feet up with an shortcut to finding good music — it second, work; but third spaces are episode of Grand Designs. takes time and commitment. Once areas of leisure and community you’ve found the music, you have to The simple joy of people dancing where we relax and unwind: a cafe, It makes me angry when someone is know it inside out, and then there’s gym, retail park, or club where often abused, persecuted, or discouraged. the necessity for effective categorisa­ “together will never change people are more open to interaction. tion in readiness for the gig, be that We like to be in places where people I’m happiest when I’m watching vinyl selection through to Rekord­ are least likely to expect a God some­one grow in their walk with box playlists for USB. And we encounter, where the Church hasn’t God. haven’t even started on travelling, ing over your passion, maybe outside,­ lished as a result of the lifestyle that I traditionally had a presence, but we promotion, social media, music pro­ or over a coffee, or in the studio. embraced. I was out for nearly four offer teaching and training for I have lots of hope for the future. duction, and some good old- years, during which time I barely churches who catch the vision. What gives me hope is Ephesians fashioned practice time. I became a Christian eight years ago, touched my headphones. He started 3.20-21. after a long Prodigal Son journey, to call me back in, bit by bit, without We launched the DJ Unity Com­ A lot of success now depends on when a girl at a nightclub where I the same intensity and struggles, and munity on 13 April. It’s an 80-strong I do pray, and it’s mostly for my your skill and ability with online worked shared her faith with me. I with a new perspective. collective of Christian DJs who give family, loved ones, and whomever marketing. It’s no longer enough to always wanted to make people Christian discipleship and support the Holy Spirit places on my heart. be a good DJ or a good producer. dance, but I was probably simply My favourite artists are DJs such within the music industry. About 60 Technology has allowed more seeking affirmation, identity, and Louie Vega, Steve Lawler, Carl Cox, top-quality DJs met in a very lovely If I could choose anyone to be people to tick those boxes; so the romantic encounters. She started me James Zabiela, and Paul Woolford. space, played some music, danced, locked inside a church with, it would battle is to rise above the multitude on a long journey back to God; so, if Musically, anything from Moby and talked about the vision of what have to be St Paul. I just have so of voices and engage with audiences I’m working in a club or at a party, through to Laura Mvula and London we’re trying to do, and prayed for many questions to ask him. whose attention spans are greatly I’m there for him and looking for an Grammar, Jesus Culture through to me. reduced because of the sheer volume opportunity for God to reach out to Timbaland, and Simon and Gar­ Luke Rollins was talking to Terence of content. The risk is that the someone through me. While the funkel, Otis Redding, through to We’re hoping that people will see Handley MacMath essence of DJing is lost in a vicious music is important, it’s only ever the Louis Armstrong, Debussy, and the need for authentic mission in www.thirdspaceministries.co.uk publicity battle that becomes less vehicle for a connection or a friend­ Beet­hoven. the industry, and for the love of God [email protected]

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