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NOW AVAILABLE ON  NEWSSTAND Standing together with FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2014 No: 6250 the persecuted, p11 Traditionalist group reaffirms its commitment to the biblical stance on marriage Reform rethinking planned boycott THE ANGLICAN evangelical In addition, Reform claimed, the shared conversations in the ‘shared disagreement’ on the can respond pastorally to indi- group, Reform, is revising their that the objectives would also Church of England on Sexuality, issue of same-sex relationships, vidual needs. But the scripture’s commitment to the shared con- require participants: “To accept Scripture and Mission states and accepting that there is teachings on sexuality are not versations in the Church of Eng- an outcome in which the that one of the two main objec- every possibility of a shared an abstract concept we’ve land on Sexuality, Scripture and Church moves from its present, tives of the shared conversation conversation being set up, invented. Mission. biblical, understanding of mar- is “clarifying how we (CofE) can whilst conceding to terms of ref- “We are worried that the mes- Reform released a statement riage to one where we accom- most effectively be a missionary erence with predetermined out- sage being sent out in individual arguing that a second revision modate two separate beliefs, church in a changing culture comes. parishes across the UK is that of the objectives of the shared with one part of the Church call- around sexuality” and the other Mr Thomas said: “We accept we can affirm the faith, whilst conversation following the Col- ing for repentance over sexual is “to clarify the implications of the authority of the scripture disagreeing on sexuality,” he lege of Bishops meeting in Sep- sin and another declaring God’s what it means for the Church of and we are looking for ways we told us. tember, have redirected the blessing. England to live with what the course of the conversation. “This is tantamount to asking Archbishop of Canterbury has In a statement, Reform us to accept a redefinition of called “good disagreement” on Sir Joseph Pilling: his review called for ‘facilitat- argued that if the objectives are what will and will not lead to sal- these issues.” ed conversations’ to be met, then participants are vation, as though there could be Chairman, Prebendary Rod required, ‘To reject the current two gospels, equally valid.” Thomas, told The Church of Church of England understand- The Church of England has England Newspaper that Reform ing that all sexual activity out- since released a statement re- has heard the response of the side of heterosexual marriage, identifying the authority of the Church of England but contin- should be met with a call for original objectives. ues to disagree with the implied repentance and the exercise of The General Synod Paper out- premise of the objectives, which compassion.’ lining the mission statement for supports moving forward with Met Police issues guidance on safeguarding

THE MET POLICE (MPS) have united with Christian safeguarding charity, has a Christian agency to release a new DVD to welcomed the DVD. educate churches and frontline practitioners Simon Bass, CEO of CCPAS said: “CCPAS on safeguarding children in relation to continues to work with churches to address abuse linked to faith or belief. all aspects of safeguarding, including abuse This has come after the Met have had to deal linked to faith or belief. We are therefore not with a number of high-profile investigations remotely surprised that the MPS alone has related to ritual abuse and witchcraft. already received 27 referrals of this type Speaking ahead of the conference this year – or three a month.” announcing the release, Detective Mor Dioum, Director at the Victoria Superintendent Terry Sharpe, from the Climbié Foundation, and Chair of the Met’s Sexual Offences, Exploitation and National Working Group on child abuse Child Abuse Command, said: “Families or linked to faith and belief, is keen to see the carers genuinely believe that the victim has Foundation’s National Action Plan been completely taken over by the devil or implemented across the country. The Action an evil spirit, which is often supported by Plan outlines practical steps in the someone who within the community has encouragement of emotional and intellectual portrayed themselves as an authority on engagement across different belief systems faith and belief. and serves as a link between statutory “Often in the perpetrator’s minds, any agencies, care services and BME abuse is not going to affect the victim communities. because he or she believes the child is Mr Dioum said: “We urge professionals to effectively not there any more and the abuse adopt a more holistic approach with is directed at whatever has possessed the children, young people and families when child. The victim is often convinced that this dealing with abuse that does not fit the is the truth and that the abuse is ‘normal’ norm, as we continue to raise awareness behaviour.” within the community with a view to CCPAS (The Churches’ Child Protection increase the reporting of harmful Advisory Service), the independent practices.”

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7.00pm Church of England Youth Council cele- brates 10th Birthday at York Minster. Diocese of Gloucester Diocese of Guildford Party will include live Gloucestershire Credit Union Wines from five Surrey music, inflatables, has been given a boost from vineyards will be sampled at a photo booth, talks the Diocese. The union had unique wine tasting evening in and birthday cake. been struggling but a £4,000 aid of Guildford Cathedral’s donation from the diocese MAKE YOUR MARK earlier this year has turned its Campaign this November. 18 October fortunes around. The Rev Tom Some 15 local wines will be on Wilson, vicar of St James and offer at the new headquarters 2.30pm Tony Collins will be Christ Church, Gloucester, is building of WWF-UK in speaking on the sub- one of the union’s directors. He Woking. Tickets for the ject “A New Strategy said: “Anyone living in the fundraising event cost £25 for Christian Fiction” county is eligible to become a each, to include canapés and at the Christians in member, and once they have wine, and can be obtained from Library and Informa- been saving regularly for three [email protected] tion Services annual months, they can take out a .uk. public lecture at Bed- loan of double those savings.” ford Central Library, Harpur Street, Bed- ford. North West Dioceses Churches in the North West have come together at the Christian 20 October Resources Exhibition in Manchester to promote ministry in the area. 7.30pm Living without ene- The Dioceses of Blackburn, Liverpool and Manchester mies: Christian responded to media coverage earlier in the year suggesting that responses to war and clergy would not readily consider the move north. violence. Shirley Lead cleric for the campaign, the Rt Rev Julian Henderson, said: Williams: what has “It is a fabulous place to live and practice ministry and the our nation learnt from opportunities to make a difference in ways that really matter and war?, St Martin-in- to grow his kingdom are numerous and exciting.” the-Fields, London He added: “I am delighted to be able to support this campaign Diocese of Durham WC2, free. which is a fantastic initiative we hope will encourage people to think about the North West and its opportunities. Churches in the North East are receiving fresh input by way of a new 21 October project to train new vicars in former coalfield communities. The five-year East Durham Mission Project brings together nine 7.00pm Trafalgar Day Diocese of Southwark Anglican Concerns parishes in communities that lost thousands of jobs when the pits fundraising concert, Southwark Diocese celebrates Committees and the closed with the industry collapse during the 1980s. commemorating the Black History Month contribution of Black, Asian The joint venture between the Diocese of Durham and Cranmer anniversary of the tomorrow (Saturday) with and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Hall, the Anglican Theological College, is designed to train clergy to Royal Navy’s historic special events and a people to the life and witness of better understand the social problems within North East victory at the Battle Thanksgiving Service in the Church in the Diocese. communities. of Trafalgar, at St Southwark Cathedral. This The thanksgiving service will Leader of the project, the Rev Dr Michael Volland said: “The idea is Mary Magdalene, annual event recognises the be led by the Bishop of to encourage and enable new growth and flourishing in the churches Paradise Road, Rich- work of Minority Ethnic Southwark. that are there and discern opportunities to expand.” mond, TW9 1SN. He added: “Hopefully, in five years we will have new congregations and the congregations that we have already will have grown 28 October numerically and spiritually.” Pictured: Emma Parker, Associate minister for Easington and Easington Village, with Dr Michael Volland at the Easington Pit 7.00pmCentre for Theology memorial - the only visible sign of the mining heritage. The memorial and Community 10th is the lift gear above the main shaft - a double stacked set of cages anniversary celebra- that took men down into the bowels of the earth and from there five tion with the Rt Rev miles out to sea - where the coal face was last mined. The Pit closed Adrian Newman in 1993 and the winding gear was removed in 1994. The Durham coal (Bishop of Stepney), fields have remained as areas of social challenge. St George-in-the-East, Picture: Keith Blundy 14 Cannon Street Rd, London E1. Diocese of Portsmouth 29 October Congregations in South East Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have raised nearly £23,000 as part of this year’s Bishop’s Lent Appeal. 7.30pm The Taming of the The money raised for local people hit hard by debt and poverty will Shrew, by Intermis- be split between local Foodbanks and district Christians Against sion Youth Theatre, Poverty branches. St Saviour’s Church, The Bishop of Portsmouth, the Rt Rev Christopher Foster, said: Walton Place, Lon- “The Christian faith is often seen at its most counter-cultural when it don, SW3 1SA. comes to money, and I’m gratified that those in our diocese have Diocese of York shown that in this year’s Lent Appeal.” 30 October York Minster celebrated the Northern Provincial Festival on He added: “These projects help those who are at their lowest ebb, Tuesday. The Rt Rev Glyn Webster, the Bishop of Beverley, led often those who live just round the corner from our homes and the 1,500-strong lay congregation in the celebration with choirs churches. Those people, who may be experiencing real long-term 7.00pm Lecture by Lord Har- from the Northern Province. poverty, who may be entangled in serious debt, or who may just need ries of Pentregarth. This year’s theme focused on the great missionaries Paulinus, some temporary support to get them back on track, will be grateful Swansea University. James the Deacon and Wilfrid. for this support.” Free.

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Climate Change off the G20 The Bishop of Carlisle, the Rt agenda in order to focus atten- Rev James Newcombe, said of tion more closely on economic the decision: “Most people don’t security, financial stabilisation like change, but doing nothing and the importance of private Islanders are shouting ‘We are our carbon emissions leave the ership and showing responsibil- is not an option.” sector-led growth, has been not drowning—we are fighting’ world’s poorest as the most vul- ity.” He added: “God has confi- called a ‘glaring omission’ by and warned that rising sea lev- nerable. Rich countries con- He added: “I call on the Aus- dence in us - he’s called us into The Anglican Alliance’s Co- els could see Tuvalu and the tribute disproportionately to the tralian government to live up to his Church and trusted us with Director, the Rev Andy Bower- Marshall Islands wiped off the problem – the UK has 0.9 per their nation’s reputation as one his world. We should have confi- man, who has backed the map entirely. cent of the world population but that cherishes both a clean envi- dence in him that he will give us Bishop. Bishop Holtam said: “For contributes 1.5 per cent of world ronment and fairness for the the strength to keep up with Bishop Nicholas, said that “It Christians, the Earth is God’s CO2 emissions, which means ordinary bloke. him and do the work he sets is not good enough for the creation and we are charged our ratio of emissions to people “Please give climate change us.” world’s most powerful and pol- with caring for it as good stew- is greater than China’s. the place it deserves on the luting nations to stand by idly” ards. “We need to see Britain and agenda of the world’s most pow- while their neighbouring Pacific “Our failure to take care with other rich countries taking lead- erful nations.” President Schools told to think about video conferencing honours THE CHURCH of England’s Chief Educa- working party be set up to help schools ‘find ‘Dare to be Different’ explores the possibili- tion Officer, the Rev Nigel Genders, has a way forward’. ty of using video conferencing for those stu- expressed the need for rural schools ‘to Some 57 per cent of Church of England dents travelling lengthy distances, the Ugandan form effective structural partnerships and schools are located in rural settings. Of report suggests that schools ‘bring the collaborations’ if they are to survive. these 4,443 — 65 per cent — have fewer teacher with expert knowledge to the child, Mr Genders, who is also the General Sec- than 210 pupils on their roll, meaning that rather than the child to the teacher.’ martyrs retary of the National Society for the Pro- the majority of rural schools across the UK Mr Genders said: “In the current educa- motion of Religious Education, released the are served by the Church of England. tion landscape small rural schools face report titled ‘Working Together’ to encour- The report encourages school governing some tough challenges which are not sim- PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni age rural schools ‘to do more and go fur- bodies to assess progress under three cate- ple to resolve and are often expressed in has laid the foundation stone for ther’ in light of their locality and ‘continued gories: Structural Collaboration, Dare to be negative terms. This report is about sug- the Uganda Martyrs Museum reality of limited resources for education.’ Different and Face the Future. The report gesting a range of collaborative and innova- in Namugongo. The booklet released following the urges schools to plan ahead and not wait for tive ways forward for these schools, which On 5 October the Ugandan review, titled, ‘The Church Schools of the ‘a moment of crisis’. clearly have a key role in rural life, while not president formally marked the Future Review’ has recommended that a One of the measures suggested under shying away from the difficult questions.” beginning of construction of the museum, built to honour 49 Anglican and Roman Catholics converts murdered for their faith by the King of Buganda between 1885 and 1887. In 1964 Pope Paul VI canon- ized the Catholic martyrs and the Roman Catholic Church built a basilica in Namugongo. Anglican and Catholic pilgrims from across the Uganda gather annually on 3 June at the shrine’s Anglican and Catholic churches to honour their faith and celebrate the conversion of Uganda to Christianity. At the ceremony President Museveni pledged his personal financial support for the project with the balance of funding expected to come from a nation- wide fundraising campaign.

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Rwanda, Myanmar, Jerusalem and the Middle East and During the 9 October investiture service South America, and bishops representing the primates of at the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, the the Congo, Sudan and South East Asia laid hands upon the Anglican Bishop of Argentina, the Rt Rev Most Rev Foley Beach, at his investiture service as the new Gregory Venables – a personal friend of the archbishop of the ACNA in Atlanta, and declared him to be pope, who was the former cardinal arch- a fellow primate of the Anglican Communion. bishop of Buenos Aires — told the 1,500 The archbishops’ act comes one week after Archbishop members of the congregation he had Justin Welby told the Church of Ireland Gazette that ACNA received a telephone call from Pope Francs is not Anglican. asking him to “please, in my name, give my After the ceremony, the primates declined to speak on the personal congratulations and greetings to record with The Church of England Newspaper, and sought Archbishop Foley. Assure him of my to avoid a direct confrontation with Archbishop Welby. prayers and support at this moment and in However, all those questioned by CEN affirmed their the future as he leads the Church at this Church’s fellowship and formal communion with the ACNA very important moment of revival and mis- and its leader, Archbishop Beach. sion.” One church leader, who asked not to be named as he had For many of those present, the papal not been authorized to speak for his colleagues, noted that greetings harkened to a similar statement of in Archbishop Welby’s statement to the BBC Sunday Pro- encouragement given in 2003 by the then gramme, that he would be guided in Anglican Communion Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, later Pope Bene- affairs by the will of the primates, he must now know that dict XVI, who extended his encouragement archbishops representing the majority of Anglicans wor- support to a gathering of traditionalist Epis- shipping today were in solidarity with the ACNA. copalians in Plano, Texas. Nigerians to Former blame for lack Australian dioceses join of progress bishop move to abandon fossil fuels NIGERIA’S failure to THE PERTH and Canberra diocesan progress can be laid at the arrested synods of the Anglican Church of Aus- feet of its citizens, tralia have voted to exclude coal, oil and Archbishop Nicholas Okoh gas companies from their investment of the Church of Nigeria told for aid portfolios as a sign of their commitment reporters last week. to fighting climate change. Speaking on the sidelines The two Australian dioceses’ divest- of a diocesan fund theft ment vote follows similar decisions communicators conference made by five New Zealand Anglican dio- in Abuja, Archbishop Okoh THE FORMER Bishop in ceses, the Church of Sweden, and other said that though Nigeria had Madras of the Church of South church related institutes. been independent for 54 India, the Rt Rev Vedanayagam “The Anglican Church of Australia years, the promise of the Devasahayam has been arrest- views climate change as a deeply moral new nation had yet to be ed by police in Madras and issue.” fulfilled. charged with stealing funds A statement released after the Can- “We have thrown into the donated to his diocese by the berra synod vote on 11 October read: wheel of progress a lot of Episcopal Church of the USA to “The Diocese accepts that it is both eth- obstacles like Boko Haram, aid victims of the 2004 Indian ical and responsible to divest from fossil like selfish behaviours, Ocean Tsunami. fuel stocks. The concerns of the Church tribalism, ethnicity, According to the indictment, about the social justice issues of climate sectionalism, corruption —- Bishop Davasahayam told the change, due to fossil fuel consumption, all these things have residents of a coastal village that will also be communicated to other rele- brought a kind of setback.” had been destroyed by a tidal vant companies in the Diocesan portfolio. of the Church of England’s Ethical Investment He urged young Nigerians wave following the 26 Decem- “Our local action is part of an accelerating glob- Advisory Group told the Financial News last to be patient and allow the ber 2004 earthquake located off al movement that is underpinning expressions of week that “no view had yet been taken”, but said government of President the west coast of Sumatara the concern about climate change with divestment that “from discussions to date” a recommendation Goodluck Jonathan time to CSI had “adopted” the village action.” to disinvest energy stocks from the Church’s £9 achieve its political agenda, and would rebuild their homes. However, Richard Burridge, deputy chairman billion in funds “seems unlikely”. but added: “I pray that we A ceremony attended by local make it, this administration government officials was held will be our transition to the on 5 August 2005 and a founda- fuller life, that we will not go tion stone laid to mark the start New Bishop to stand up for Dalits back, there should be no of the project, but no work was retrogression into a ever undertaken. When vil- THE BISHOP in Amritsar, the Rt Rev Pradeep Kumar Samantaroy, has been elected to a three-year situation where tribalism, lagers inquired as to the status term as Moderator of the Church of North India at a meeting of the general synod last week at Sher- selfishness, sectionalism, of the project they were told the wood College, Nainital. violence, insurgency or funds from America had never Bishop Samantaroy, who had served as deputy moderator for the last three years will be the CNI’s religious bigotry which been received. 13th moderator and succeeds the Bishop in Patna, the Most Rev Philip P Marandih. dominates the scene … We A subsequent investigation by In a statement given to the media Bishop Samataroy said he would seek to spread the “Word and want to have a country that police found the money had Love of Jesus Christ through Unity, Witness and Service.” builds hope for the future been received and had allegedly “Providing hostels and technical education to the youth and also upholding the rights of women, chil- generation …” been stolen by the bishop. dren, dalits and tribals would be my top priority.”

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Boycott West Lothian beginning to think about Sir, So, Reform is to boycott Questions for Commissioners’ report Sir, Your leader comment on preparations at this time of the archbishops’ ‘facilitated Sir, The report recently published by the Church Commis- the West Lothian question year. It is possible that some conversations.’ I can see their sioners in the Resourcing Mission Bulletin entitled ‘Stronger seemed a bit simplistic. Leav- may have not made the con- point. as One?’ concludes that amalgamating more and more ing only English MPs to vote nection of the date this year I wrote to the Archbishop of churches under fewer and fewer clergy has had no effect on on English legislation means being the centenary one of Canterbury some months church growth. We strongly question this conclusion. that Labour could gain a the most poignant moments in ago, suggesting that some of We were part of a team that researched this subject for the majority of UK MPs, form a WW1: the unofficial truces the conversation should be ‘Anecdote to Evidence’ programme published in January. government, but not have a that spontaneously took place about how to achieve an ami- We did find significant correlations between amalgamations majority to pass English legis- at Christmas 1914. Soldiers cable separation in the and decline within each size group of churches and believe lation – a recipe for constitu- from both sides found them- Church of England, leading to this research remains solid. tional confusion and inertia, selves singing the same carols two overlapping jurisdictions ‘Stronger as One?’ did not find a correlation partly due to as when the American Presi- which led to them meeting up, as Gafcon have mooted, with- problematic data (a major issue in analysing Church of Eng- dent does not control Con- exchanging gifts, burying out the rancour and law suits land figures) and some technical statistical issues. But, also, gress. It’s already confusing - their dead, and playing foot- that have accompanied this it did not distinguish between different sizes of church. you want an English Assem- ball. Some stopped for wor- solution in North America. Broadly speaking, the larger a church the more likely it is bly or Parliament which ship together. Such a separation would of both to have been shrinking and to be a single-church “would mean stopping Scot- Since the truces often course be even more compli- benefice. This affects the figures. The effect of amalgama- tish MPs voting on English- began with singing of Christ- cated in England because of tions only shows up statistically once churches of a similar only issues” though there mas carols, it is fitting that this the Establishment and the size are compared with each other. would not be Scottish MPs in Christmas, as we celebrate parish system. All the more So, we write to encourage readers to treat this new such an Assembly. the birth of the Prince of reason to begin these conver- research with caution and not to stop looking both for more More to the point, if that Peace, we encourage church- sations urgently now. clergy and for new leadership models in the search for a Assembly had a Conservative es to remember this moment I did not expect the Arch- healthy, growing Church of England. majority, I don’t see how it of hope and vision for a differ- bishop to reply to my letter in The Rev Dr David Goodhew, would “care” for its own (Eng- ent way of relating founded in person, or probably even to Cranmer Hall, Durham lish) people and identity. If a the ‘gospel of Peace’. read it; what I received was a The Ven Bob Jackson, Conservative-dominated The Northumbria and New- short letter from a ‘Corre- Eyam, Derbyshire Assembly was really likely to castle Universities Martin spondence Officer.’ This reply “care” then the argument in Luther King Peace Committee was abrupt to the point of Scotland that independence has produced a set of rudeness. It suggested that these, the first two ‘yous’ defi- wear any form of religious would mean permanent resources to help churches ‘there would be those within a nitely refer to the apostles. So clothing in public; (4) the escape from the uncaring remember the truces. schismatic church who saw the third must also, since we compulsion of individuals to Tories would not have had the These include ideas for schism as the answer to every cannot change the identity of marry against their will; (5) resonance it did. carol services, Sunday school question’ but that the Arch- the ‘you’ in the middle of the the use force or violence to And what was the nonsense activities, and other worship bishop’s approach was to seek sentence.” persuade anyone to adopt a about New Labour wrecking services. good disagreement through He concludes that the prom- particular faith; (6) any form an English “national entity” The Christmas order of these facilitated conversa- ise was fulfilled in the writing of intimidation or threats of existing since the time of King service weaves the story of tions. of the Acts, the Letters and retaliatory action to prevent Alfred? Tell that to the serfs. the Truces in with the story of And what if we cannot agree Revelation. any person changing their Disraeli knew we were “two the nativity as presented in an to remain in communion with Adrian Struve, faith or freely leaving any reli- nations”, rich and poor, and abridged version of the tradi- each other? Are we going to Shrewsbury gious institution at any time; promoted “one nation Tory- tional carol service, giving an have to fight each other over (7) the practice of honour ism”. It was Thatcher who evocative angle on the angels’ buildings and funds as they killings or reprisals; (8) the wrecked that, and Cameron song of ‘on earth peace, good have been doing in the USA? Website control or treatment of has not restored it with the will toward men.’ Is that what the Archbishop Sir, Much has been written in women in any subservient pathetic and untruthful slo- At a time when historians calls ‘good disagreement’? If recent days about counteract- manner whatsoever either in gan, “We’re all in it together”. and politicians are furiously not, let’s start talking about it. ing the threats of terrorism the public or domestic sphere; Never mind the Barnett for- debating the meaning of the Martin Down, and fundamentalism in our (8) the attempt to make the mula giving more money to First World War, marking the Witney, Oxon country. laws or customs of any reli- Scots – what about the trans- Christmas Truces allows One constructive way to gious institution binding on port and other infrastructure churches to take the opportu- help forward this process any individual against their projects that mean London nity of the centenary to retell Truth would be for the government will; (9) the endeavour to gets maybe ten times per the Christian story. Sir, One or two of your corre- to establish a national website make a religious doctrine or head what is spent elsewhere The Peace Committee has spondents sometimes write of detailing the core beliefs and practice take priority over in England? Now if we could also released materials for use Jesus adding to his teaching practices of all the major faiths British law; (10) to attempt to have only London MPs voting in schools. (ie doctrine) by the mediation represented in Britain and separate men and women in capital projects for London, so All resources, which include of the Holy Spirit, even to the presented in an easily accessi- any university, school or pub- the rest of Parliament could handout-outs and Power- present day. I imagine they ble form which anyone could lic place. outvote them, that would be a Points slide shows, are avail- are referring to his words in readily understand. Recent events have clearly start. able free to download from John 16:12-13. Included alongside this demonstrated that there have The Rev Canon Councillor http://www.mlkpc.org I recall some words John information would also be to be limits to religious tolera- Steve Parish, We would love to hear from Stott write on these verses (in statements of religious prac- tion and that unless we start Warrington CEN readers about using [i] Through the Bible through tices that are not acceptable in to be up-front on issues such these materials. the year, p237). “The pronoun the UK. These would include as these we shall end up toler- The Rev Andii Bowsher, ‘you’ occurs three times in the following (1) any form of ating the intolerant. Co-ordinating Faith Adviser John 16:12-13. ‘I have much to preaching that incites vio- The Rev Dr Nigel Scotland, Christmas and Anglican Chaplain, say to you, more than you can lence, hatred or disdain for Trinity College, Bristol opportunities Chaplaincy and Faith Advice, now bear. But when he, the others or their faith; (2) the Sir, Many who are responsible Northumbria University Spirit of truth comes, he will practice of female circumci- for leading services at Christ- Newcastle upon Tyne guide you into all truth.’ Of sion; (3) the requirement to mas may find themselves NE1 8ST

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Extraordinary Synod or facilitated discussions? ‘Facilitated discussions’ are being set up in all England’s dioceses on the question of human sexuality. This has happened because of the Pilling Report, itself conducted by a handful of bishops, chaired Addressing by a civil servant, recommending these discussions. The Pilling commission was set up as a result of state legislation pressing into the very ethical decision making of the Church of England, and also the impact of Stonewall’s highly effective, and government sponsored, propaganda machine. Why was Pilling set up, why chaired by a civil servant, and why membership favouring revision- morals today ism – the one theologically ethical conservative produced his own dissenting minority report? The programme of ‘facilitated’ discus- sions is clearly an attempt to shift opinion so as to accommodate Further, partner cheating deeply dis-identifies the C of E’s norms to those of the secular state on the definition of ALANSTORKEY children. Children the world over are born from ‘marriage’. The question of who will be doing the ‘facilitating’ is of the act of making love, the greatest literalism in course also problematic. the world. Babies are begotten of love and that Meanwhile Pope Francis has summoned an ‘Extraordinary There is a perception that morality is post-Chris- love should be honoured thoughout their lives. Synod on the Family’ to discuss church teaching and practice in the tian. That is true insofar as people have mislaid The damage that cheating parents do their chil- light of social, legal and political change. This is happening in their relationship with God and not directly dren is too obvious to need detailing and mil- closed session, preparing the way for a larger meeting of clerics learned Christian understanding. But it is not lions of cheated children would evidence it. later. Francis criticised liberals and conservatives for preliminary true insofar as the realities of life and relation- Of course people say, “Relationships end and bickering and in-fighting. In fact a primary issue being addressed ships always generate the same issues. It is so the process should not be laden with guilt.” by that Synod is the ongoing ban by Rome on divorced parents more the case that the churches have lost clari- But suddenly good old Christian chastity is from receiving Holy Communion. German Bishop Walter Kasper, a ty in expressing ordinary Christian truths. back in the frame. fine theologian and by Anglican standards a conservative, has One of these areas is cheating on your part- Before relationships start it is a good idea to questioned this ban as judgemental and failing in mercy to those ner. It is difficult to estimate the scale of this say, “Does my body really mean this?” If we take desiring to repent and move back to the church. practice, but it could involve more than half the a television back when it goes wrong after six So Rome and Canterbury have chosen very different ways of dis- adult population, either cheating, cheated or months, we should no less expect consistency cussing the family and sex in relation to church. Rome has stuck to fearing they are. The issue is not difficult to over time in relationships. And the new found a theological mode, although informed by pastoral witness to understand. There is professed love, together- recognition of bodily integrity violated by grop- changing social situations, notably the plight of the poor in favelas. ness, commitment, faithfulness expressed in ing and sexual harassment says again, “What I The background to the Synod is that of church teaching and prac- bodies wrapped together, and then one partner do with my body matters.” And “Respect for the tice and questions arising in the light of this given theological goes off and wraps up somewhere else. bodies of others should run through life.” So ethics and praxis. Canterbury has chosen a kind of business and Every day it is addressed on soaps, in the cheating remains not a good idea every which civil service model: firstly Pilling was convened and spoke, issuing news and in reality on a vast scale, and most way. a menu of views and preferring a liberal change. Then people recognize in some kind of way that it is Thus, the age old truths defined in the sev- discussion groups, the equivalent of Tony Blair’s focus wrong. enth commandment hold and are understood groups with appropriate shapers of discussion, were put It is cheating and dishonest, because the love by most people as the way to live. Whether adul- in place, following the Pilling work in digging up the for the other declared by body and mouth turns tery is committed by President Kennedy or our- foundations. That is where the two churches differed in out not to be. It is like Nick selves, it is dishonest, and mode: Francis did not convene a Pilling report, he set Clegg’s declaration on stu- dishonours the loved one. It is up the Extraordinary Synod on the basis of church dent grants, and as student Our morality is not too difficult to understand, teaching and practice as it is: Pilling was a kind of pre- loans have turned out to be is deep wisdom and Christiani- emptive strike against the current Anglican praxis, more expensive than the old not ty has taught it through the praxis that is enshrined in its liturgies and has not been grants, so cheating also has centuries. broken after endless Synodical debates. The CEO of its costs. It hurts those who post-Christian. There are probably quite a Canterbury decided that this constancy was itself a are cheated at different It cannot be lot of people who stop coming problem: Francis has made the inverse assumption that depths as years together are to church when they have com- the current core of marriage ethics is apostolic and devalued. It destroys the mitted adultery or cheated on sound. integrity of the cheater. their partner. They may believe Reform, ably defended on the Sunday Programme by It may involve deception, which then becomes they are right in what they have done, and are Suzy Leafe, has pulled out of the facilitated discussions: an insidious part of life, and it undermines trust being true to themselves. In the great chess

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tific evidence rather than quackery, which was A pill for every ill? being levelled at it. Lynne had a difficult decision, take legal action Newspapers and magazines increasingly carry more accuracy of reporting and indeed the importance of free against The Times? No, she decided to send the fight health pages and cover both the alternative and conven- speech? right back to them: she used the power of social net- tional approaches to health and well-being. I recently heard a talk by the scientist and journalist working and asked her own followers to ask if they Recent articles that have caught my eye include the Lynne Mc Taggart, a formidable woman who has written wanted the magazine stocked again - people power Daily Mirror running an excellent feature: ‘13 ways to countless books and run some incredible scientific won and Tesco bowed to the pressure and put it cut your risk of breast cancer’. It contained some great experiments. She is also the editor of a very popular pub- back on the shelves. bits of wisdom such as: be active every day, eat more lication called What Doctors Don’t Tell You. Above all isn’t it time to lose the ‘pill for every ill’ broccoli, drink less alcohol and include linseeds in your A group of sceptics (were they funded by pharmaceuti- mentality, take responsibility and make our choices diet. The Daily Mail — always the leading paper for cal companies?) were upset by this free speech and after about our health care? health stories covered the news about coriander. It is a targeted campaign The Times newspaper ran a story On that note did you see there’s now a new won- now our favourite herb, and they also reported the heart- stating that this information was dangerous and could be der drug costing only £3 that stops us drinking too warming news that being a couch potato is OK; well for fatal - without giving the editors a right to reply. much. Really? If people are on the booze it is likely your teeth anyway. (Apparently endless exercise In fact Lynne’s magazine reports on non-drug alterna- not because of a love of the actual drink, if they stop changes the chemistry of saliva). tives and takes a critical look at some conventional medi- bingeing on drink surely junk food will be next... but But given that as consumers we digest these articles cine. then there’s a pill for that too I suspect. Is there a pill and in some cases take them as gospel how important is The journal reports fully researched studies and scien- for contentment? ‘The gentlest of giants’

The Rt Rev Michael Scott-Joynt considered matters from their on the bridge of a ship occasion- 1943-2014 point of view. He was able to dis- ally delving with a screwdriver agree without disrespect. “Dad in the engine room. Some (mainly men) are buried never showed anger or raised The celebrant, Bishop John with their favourite football his voice” – all the more remark- Hind, told us at the close that club’s scarf. Though a keen able, she thinks, now she had Bishop Michael’s last words goalkeeper, Bishop Michael children of her own. were “Into thy hands O Lord I Scott-Joynt was laid to rest with He suffered a stroke only nine commend my spirit”. his walking pole on his coffin months into his retirement in His coffin was carried out to and an African cross on his 2011 and was learning to write the music of Elgar’s Dream of chest. again with the encouragement Gerontius and followed by his Showers, but mainly sun- of an insistent granddaughter multicultural family including shine, alternated during the and even to take up his main some black British in-laws. On morning at Winchester Cathe- holiday pursuit of country walk- the long coffin, his country dral as the nave was filled with ing again. walking stick could be seen family, friends and colleagues His favourite word was ‘cher- lying alongside his stole, mitre for his funeral on Friday 10 ish’ and that was what he and Bible, surmounted by a October. believed marriage and family vibrant abundance of flowers in At least 28 bishops, (diocesan, were all about. autumn colours, picked up in suffragan, and retired) were He had been a goalkeeper and other displays in the cathedral. joined by representatives of the pressed Match of the Day to fea- Inside the coffin the African Archbishop of Canterbury ture a “Save of the Month” cross on his chest recalled his (away in New York), of Her prompting Gary Lineker to long connection through Win- Majesty the Queen and of the reply that he was never a great The Rt Rev Michael Scott-Joynt chester Diocese’s Partner links Earl and Countess of Wessex. lover of goalkeepers for they with the Congo and the Great “Husband, father, grandfa- just got in the way. Lakes Anglican Provinces of ther, priest, pastor and consci- He walked the West Highland in this country at the welcoming “Without Lou he could not have Africa. He was laid to rest entious and committed bishop”, Way (96 miles) and climbed service for Bishop Michael as achieved as much as he did. She beyond the East End of the these themes were a continuum Ben Nevis when he was 61. Bishop of Stafford in 1987. had encouraged his call to min- Cathedral with his predeces- throughout the service. “He was the gentlest of giants Simon Gimson, to whom istry when they were both at sors. His daughter Hannah Mayo in every way. In his illnesses he Michael Scott-Joynt had Cambridge.” In a speech to General Synod spoke also for her brothers was un-selfpitying, We are so become godfather while still a In his sermon Bishop Geof- at York, one of his senior clergy, Matthew and Jeremy and proud of him”, his daughter con- sixth former at Bradfield Col- frey Rowell, formerly a suffra- a tall archdeacon, introduced recalled that discipline in the cluded. lege, said that Bishop Michael gan in Winchester, said that his himself by saying he was taller home was not something that The service was built around considered views very deeply marriage to Lou was insepara- than the suffragan Bishop of “Dad” was good at, but he hymns full of hopefulness at the and carefully and built his con- ble from his ministry. Preaching Southampton, so he looked would stand behind “Mum” request of Lou Scott-Joynt. “Be victions on rock-solid founda- on Psalm 116:15 - “Precious in down on him. But he was short- (Lou) supporting her discipli- still, for the presence of the tions. He compared him and the sight of the Lord is the er than the Bishop of Winches- nary work. If the children Lord is here”, “ In Christ Lou to strands of carbon fibre, death of his saints” - he said that ter (Michael Scott-Joynt) so caught his eye a giggle was not Alone”, and concluding with stronger than steel yet adapt- “God does not create clones or they all looked up to him and he far away. “Thine be the Glory, Risen Con- able to many applications. The dull job descriptions, but unique looked down on them all. Noth- He never jumped to conclu- quering Son”. A fourth, “I the light he shone forth was a soft men and women.” He likened ing has changed. sions about his children’s deci- Lord of sea and sky”, adopted as and welcoming glow like that Bishop Michael’s capacity to sions as they grew up, but Tearfund’s hymn, was first sung sought by a tired traveller. share hard work to an Admiral Chris Sugden

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The challenge from ANDREW the Ebola outbreak CAREY View from the Pew Ebola is a horrible, painful and demics? The reason is that the Flu. A death toll like this in mod- narios in order to prepare the and clergy could be vital in plan- distressing disease and the cur- most enduring viruses don’t ern western society would cre- emergency services for worst ning and relief work. rent outbreak in West Africa necessarily kill and they are ate a significant degree of upset cases. Disasters such as pandemics, deserves a much more coher- often easier to contain. He and difficulty. Some services The authorities are increas- and power cuts caused by solar ent and urgent response. argues: “Successful viruses are might not be provided for a ingly aware of energy security storms might seem far-fetched It is by no means one of the not necessarily the most dan- short time and families and and of times when there may be but many disasters have hap- more serious killers. Malaria is gerous. If you’re a virus and you communities might find them- disruptions to the national grid pened before, even in apparent- perhaps the biggest single killer kill your host then you kill your- selves fending for themselves for various reasons. ly settled and peaceful societies. disease with a death toll num- self. A successful virus must let for a period of time. The opening of a space weath- The trouble is that we are com- bering up to five million every its host live long enough to As societies we are much less er centre at the Met Office cen- pletely unprepared for actually year. In comparison the Ebola replicate and spread.” resilient than any that have tre in Exeter aims to provide living through disasters. death toll is numbering in the There is little doubt that the gone before. We don’t go in for forecasts of solar storms that Yet the unpalatable truth is mere thousands, because it is Ebola virus would find it much preserving foods or storing in have the potential to disrupt that we often find ourselves at much less infectious than dis- harder to survive in the west traditional ways. We pop into electrical systems. The logic of the mercy of factors beyond our eases spread by mosquito bites, than it does in West Africa. And the shops at a moment’s notice this is that we are increasingly control. contaminated water, sexual con- there are signs that countries for whatever we need. We are reliant on technology. Our The last economic banking tact or through airborne means. like Nigeria by successfully iso- increasingly reliant on electrici- whole way of life is at risk to collapse is an example of this. It And it is no surprise that med- lating victims has got a grip on ty and we know little about how these short- to medium-term can be argued that during the ical staff are most at risk from the outbreak far quicker than to grow our food and we know disruptions. past decade the rising number Ebola given they are in close other less developed countries little about survival. So it is unlikely that the aver- of food banks is a direct result of contact with victims of the dead- like Liberia and Sierra Leone. Most people throw leaflets age household will have any global patterns and policies that ly virus. So it is clear that we have little and advice about being pre- stores should there be a period have a significant negative and In a gripping radio drama to fear from Ebola even if there pared for emergencies straight of disruptions. chaotic impact on many. series, Pandemic, by John Dry- are some sporadic outbreaks in into the bin. But this might be a At the very least, churches Christians should always live den the leading character — an Europe as travellers come from mistake. At any one time there must begin to take seriously the in hope but we are also a realis- epidemiologist — asks rhetori- the region. Yet we must always is a degree of preparation on the risk of disruptions to our ways tic people. cally why it is in the modern be prepared in the face of such part of civil authorities for emer- of living. The church as a public We are realistic about human world where we have such an risks. Between three and five gencies and especially power building and resource could nature and we live lives in a ability to travel from country to per cent of the world’s popula- outages. Central government play a role in emergencies. The state of preparedness for the country, we don’t see more pan- tion died in 1918 from Spanish often ‘war-games’ various sce- local knowledge of parishioners resurrection of all things. Why we don’t talk about PAUL ethics like we used to RICHARDSON Church and World

Last year I once wrote of how browsing but what is good or bad in itself. Weber doubt that we are going down the same cates a different set of practices from in a second-hand book shop on the Char- distinguished moral reasoning from road as the Americans. those that encourage the rape and degra- ing Cross Road I had come across Ara instrumental reasoning that considers Even when it came to the revelations of dation of other human beings. Norenzayan’s book Big Gods, a study the best means to accomplish some end torture at Abu Ghraib the main emphasis The two books under consideration showing how monotheism played an without questioning the end itself. in the American media was on the harm are not saying quite the same thing. The important role in the emergence of large, Much comment on the Iraq War was this did to America’s reputation. The lan- authors of Post-ethical Society find little cooperative societies. It’s a positive concerned with whether it was good or guage of moral outrage was certainly use of ethical argument; Rebecca Gor- account of the role of religion by a sociol- bad for America or for the West. The present in a New York Times editorial but don concedes that ethical arguments are ogist that has received little attention. argument was essentially prudential. the main point of the piece was to argue used about torture but argues they are Browsing in the same book shop Moral arguments were left to the Reli- that the moral outrage mattered because the wrong ones that do not take the issue recently I discovered another book by gious Left, to such magazines as the lib- of the ‘gratuitous propaganda victory’ seriously enough. The difference in their four sociologists that suggests secular eral Protestant Christian Century, the given to America’s enemies. approach stems from the fact that Post- societies like America struggle to dis- Catholic Commonweal or the Jewish Moral judgement was voiced more ethical Society examines the media and cuss public issues in moral terms. Tikkun. It was these magazines that about Abu Ghraib than about the war in public debate while Gordon concentrates In Post-ethical Society (University of appealed to Just War theory, not to pure- general but even when such judgement on the work of philosophers. Chicago Press) Douglas Porpora, ly instrumental arguments about was offered it was muted and subordi- But philosophers have influenced the Alexander Nikolaev, Julia Haggermann whether the war best served America’s nate to prudential or political arguments. public debate. Many philosophers have May and Alexander Jenkins (hereafter interests. In many ways the arguments of Post- championed utilitarianism and a morality ‘the authors’) report an analysis of com- The authors make their judgement ethical Society are supported by Rebecca divorced from religious belief. They have ment in the opinion pages of newspa- after an extensive analysis of the Ameri- Gordon in her study Mainstreaming Tor- argued for religious beliefs to be kept out pers, on television and in internet can press. Without having made any- ture (OUP). She argues that torture of the public square. The result has been discussion groups about the invasion of thing like a systematic study, I have the should not be seen as just occurring in the kind of prudential, instrumental Iraq in 2003 and the treatment of prison- impression that Just War arguments incidents as at Abu Ghraib. It is endemic approach that argues torture is wrong ers at Abu Ghraib. With the exception of were more common in the mainstream in the American prison system and is a because it doesn’t work and harms the religious press they found what they British press. If this were so, one reason practice most Americans are prepared to America’s image. describe as ‘moral muting’, language that might be that religious leaders such as accept for the sake of national security. As Post-ethical Society points out, one was often designed to convey moral the Archbishop of Canterbury (an oppo- Many arguments used against torture problem with utilitarianism is that it is power but which did not actually make nent of the war) are public figures, some- are prudential, notably the argument ‘emotionally thin’ and is unable to use any moral claims. times with seats in Parliament, and able that information obtained under torture moral categories that appeal to ordinary The authors base their understanding to influence the course of national is usually untrustworthy but Gordon people. The torture debate highlights the of morality on that offered by Max debate. In Britain it may still be possible argues that neither a utilitarian approach need for a ‘moral ontology’, an understand- Weber, who argued that it involved a to feed moral arguments into public dis- nor one that emphasises duty is an ade- ing of the sanctity of human beings so that form of reasoning that was impersonal, course in a way that seems no longer the quate response to the problem. She opts even the worst of them should not be dese- asking not what is good or bad for me case in the US but there can be little for a virtue ethics approach that incul- crated and demeaned by acts of torture.

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During his lifetime Metropolitan Anthony was revered in Russia throughout the Soviet period - his World Service broadcasts awaited with excitement, his books and printed sermons passing from hand to hand like forbidden samizdat. When he visited in person he was surrounded by vast crowds just wanting to touch him. But what impact did this bishop (who lived in the United Kingdom since 1948 until his death in 2003) have on British churches? On the centenary of his birth Andrew Walker offers some surprising answers Metropolitan Anthony Bloom is turned anyone away because of probably best known in Britain their ethnicity, financial status as the author of books on medi- or cultural background. tation and prayer – books that Metropolitan Anthony was demonstrate his originality and not only admired by many evan- independence of mind. But his gelicals, he championed them books take second place to too. He stood up at a meeting of those who knew him personally. the British Council of Church- He was the single greatest es, when the chair was Arch- influence of the Orthodox Tra- bishop Robert Runcie, in the dition on the British churches in 1980s and begged the Council the 20th and 21st centuries. He to try and bring on board the was not a trained theologian but many evangelicals who rejected as a preacher, confessor and ecumenism at that time because spiritual director, his influence of its perceived liberalism. was incalculable. He was also proactive in his He was particularly admired desire for evangelical participa- in the evangelical constituency tion in ecumenical circles; a (although he was championed decade earlier he had asked for by two Archbishops of Canter- a meeting with the leaders of bury from the more Catholic the Evangelical Alliance. end of the Anglican Commun- The general secretary of the ion – namely Michael Ramsey Alliance at that time was Gor- and Rowan Williams). don Landreth. Evangelicals were impressed He suggested to the Bishop with his personal testimony of that as he had asked for the coming to faith through an meeting perhaps he would like experience of the living Christ to explain why? whom he believed visited him in Instead of replying to the his room. Lord Carey, former request, he gave his ‘personal Archbishop of Canterbury, is testimony’. Before the meeting well known for his evangelical was ended the gathered evan- commitments, but he speaks of gelical leaders were seeing him Metropolitan Anthony with the with new eyes. I was there in my greatest respect and admira- capacity of Metropolitan Antho- tion: “We certainly got on ny’s representative on the BCC extremely well and I think our and could see the mixture of spiritualities overlapped closely, awe and bewilderment on their surprising both of us! faces. “In many respects his spiritu- Metropolitan Anthony was a ality was deeply evangelical in man who had the courage of his that he shared many of the sign- convictions. Not only did he posts of evangelicalism: a pas- hold to the view that the Church sion for the gospel, a great was a hierarchy of service with personal conversion story, deep the bishop at the bottom of an prayer life based on scripture inverted pyramid, but he gave and a faith grounded in the lay people a democratic say in Fathers of the Church. We the running of the diocese with shared deeply together and I statutes written by two laymen gained so much from those per- and a priest none of whom were sonal and regular meetings. Russian. “He touched the lives of so He was not liberal in a mod- many people and was able to ernist sense – indeed this is why reach across the denomination- he liked the evangelicals – but al divides because of his love of he was not a traditionalist either. God and his equally deep love of Many of us called him Fr Antho- knew from his days living in life and legacy. (One of the effort, and charm he had estab- human beings.” ny, which he seemed to prefer Paris, who wished that the speakers will be Rowan lished Orthodoxy as a believ- Metropolitan Anthony to his ecclesiastical title. Orthodox Church would open Williams). able and workable Christian abhorred proselytism yet he He valued the role of women its heart and share its treasures The foundation has the copy- Confession within a Western was clearly evangelical in his not only giving them positions with others. This Metropolitan right to many of these unpub- setting. preaching. He once told me that of authority in the diocesan Anthony did. He would preach lished talks and this archive he had never preached Russian council but also openly support- wherever he was asked and material will provide invaluable Canon Dr Andrew Walker, Orthodoxy in his life but only ing the ordination of women. would give talks on Orthodox sources for serious academic Emeritus Professor of Theology, Christ. His concern abut and apprecia- topics ranging from ‘holy fools’ studies. Culture & Education, King’s His approach to mission was tion of women was not confined to the ‘mother of God’. Metropolitan Anthony’s ecu- College. (Professor Walker’s lat- to encourage Orthodoxy out- to the Orthodox. He never used notes or menical credentials were est book with Robin Parry is side the visible boundaries of Margaret Mead, the anthro- prompts and his hundreds of already established when he Deep Church Rising: Recovering his own Communion without pologist, became a friend, and talks often went unrecorded. arrived in England from France the roots of Christian orthodoxy, expecting or even wanting peo- Lord Carey spoke of his attitude However hundreds of unpub- in 1948 as the priest attached to SPCK) ple to sign-up to formal Orthodox to his wife Eileen: “He was very lished talks remain and in a two- the Fellowship of St Albans and The Conference to celebrate the Institutions. Nevertheless, his fond of her and never ignored day conference at King’s St Seregius (An Anglican and Centenary of Metropolitan own congregation at Ennismore her in our visits.” College on 15-16 November, an Orthodox charitable trust). Anthony is open to all. Apply Gardens had become a multicul- It was the Orthodox existen- Independent trust, The Metro- When he died in 2003 he had online to tural community for while he did tialist philosopher Nicolai politan Anthony of Sourozh become a phenomenon: [email protected] not look for converts, he never Berdyaev, whom the bishop Foundation, will celebrate his through personal charisma,

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Last Saturday hundreds of can come together and people gathered at St celebrate their differences Marylebone Parish Church in a way that was bringing in central London in a success and prosperity to show of solidarity with the the Kurdistan Region and hundreds of thousands of which is so anathema to peoples displaced by the the forces of IS. forces of the so-called The Solidarity Gather- Islamic State. ing took place not only at This Solidarity Gather- the end of the Muslim Eid ing was hosted by the Rec- holiday but in the week tor of St Marylebone, the that the Yezidi community Rev Canon Stephen Evans celebrated the festival of who, in 2012, led the first Jam’a (Festival of Gather- official delegation of Angli- ing) when every year can clergy to the Kurdistan Yezidis from around the region, one of the semi- world gather at the Tem- autonomous provinces that ple of Lalish in Iraqi Kur- make up the federal repub- distan. lic of Iraq. This is the second year Here he explains why the that the festival could not show of solidarity is so take place there and the important… gathering heard words from the leader of the Hundreds of thousands of Yezidis along with speech- Christians, Yezidis and es from the Iraqi Ambas- ties: five for Chaldean, and Yezidi minorities. The the indigenous churches, ture, allegiances and his- other ethnic and religious sador, leaders of many Syriac and Assyrian par- Christians are generally and whose activities can tory lived in one place, minorities have now had other faith communities, ties, five for Turkmen and members of the Assyrian cause significant prob- then Kurdistan is already to flee the Islamic State Nadhim Zahawi, MP and one for an Armenian rep- Church of the East, the lems for established a great nation and, as the and seek shelter in the Bayan Sami Abdul Rah- resentative. Ancient Church of the Christian churches in a Solidarity Gathering at St Kurdistan Region. Kurdis- man, Kurdistan Regional The KRG is still largely East (which emerged as a country where proselytis- Marylebone showed, tan’s own population of 5 Government High Repre- popular with the majority separate body in 1968), ing among Muslims is not there is still a huge million now shelters more sentative to the UK. of the population and tries the Chaldean Church (in tolerated. amount of good-will and a than 1.4 million refugees Iraq is a deeply divided hard to create a cohesive communion with Rome), For the 30,000,000 real desire for the peace from Syria and from the and troubled country. A society that can feel or the Syrian Orthodox Kurds who live contigu- which alone can bring sta- other Iraqi provinces. lack of policies following secure and safe and Church. ously across four interna- bility and prosperity to Some of the refugees are the ending of the 2003 which, until the onslaught These Churches are tional boundaries, as well this multifaceted nation. housed in overfull camps, invasion of Iraq, less than of IS forces, was succeed- ultimately descended as the many millions who whilst many others have helpful intervention by ing not only in encourag- from the indigenous live in diaspora through- The Rev Canon Stephen been housed, at huge per- Saudi Arabia and Iran and ing exiled Kurds to come churches that flourished out the world, the idea of Evans, Rector of St sonal cost, by fellow hard-wired regional insta- home but in stemming the in this area in late antiqui- nationhood exceeds any Marylebone, Patron of the Christians, Yezidis and bility, primarily, but not flow of Kurds, especially ty. concept of the reality of Kurdish Aid Foundation other religious groups. only, confined to, Syria, Christians, out of the There are also numer- internationally recognised “It’s not like the rest of have fuelled ethnic and region. ous recent missionary boundaries imposed by Donations to the Kurdish Iraq,” we were told before religious division once Most Kurds are Sunni efforts, promoted by out- more powerful nations. 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[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper 12 www.churchnewspaper.com Friday October 17, 2014 Classifieds & Feature %-())!$!&" ("#&*'!)&,&+') Honouring God 020 7222 2018 • [email protected] in disagreement TEACHING VACANCIES admit that they have called each other names, ANGLICAN LIFE wilfully misunderstood each other, and justified By Ed Moll Secure in Christ’s love, indefensible behaviour. admit your wrongs to However these things Mary and Joanna have those you have sinned were provoked, they are fallen out. It’s a long-run- against and ask their for- wrong and need to be for- ning dispute between giveness. Poor confes- given. If the Shared Con- these giants among the sions make for poor versation can wipe away church flower-arrangers resolutions so avoid the the film of sin that and it came to a head over words If, But, and Maybe. obscures the real issue, it the Easter lilies. Mary Honour God by taking will have made a good says they are the latest responsibility for your sin, start. A Shared Conversa- thing and we must have however it was provoked. tion to discover whether them. Joanna knows that * Go gently to point out George is allergic to lilies her husband George is your brother’s fault. is pointless: he is. There is allergic to lilies no compromise and will suffer a solution of put- horrible reaction ting a vase of unless he stays roses next to the home. There is a bowl of lilies: the stand-off. scent will swell This time Vince, George’s air- the minister, has ways and threat- become involved. en his health. It’s He wants to help either George or these dear sisters the lilies. The honour God in Shared Conver- their disagree- sation cannot ment. Maybe resolve the con- Vince can help flict: it might you honour God pave the way for in a conflict you a discussion are facing. Here about the real are some brief issue which hon- thoughts on hon- ours God by #!%$"#&! (')(#'$! ")' ouring God in beginning with &%*# conflict. his word. And * Face the facts. the Bible’s teach- HOUSE FOR SALE IN W. NORFOLK There will be dis- ing on this issue VILLAGE WITH MINISTRY agreement is clear enough: OPPORTUNITIES. 3-bed detached house, conservatory, pretty because we are lilies are not pro- garden, quiet cul-de-sac. £165,000. wonderfully scribed but love Excellent opportunity, subject to diverse, and we for God’s chil- approval of priest-in-charge, for part-time ministry by retiring are also sinners. We can Jesus goes on, “first take dren is commanded. The clergy-person, lay reader or other neither run from the facts the plank out of your own substantial issue is that Christian leader. Present owners lead the small local church nor bully dissent into eye then you will see lilies in church will cause (evangelical/central trad.), expenses silence. Honour God by clearly to remove the George to stumble. only, 2 or 3 days p. week. Ring 01760 338342. praying that he may use speck from your brother’s All this leaves Mary conflict to transform both eye”. Do it in person: with a choice: in order to the situation and your avoid text, email and espe- love her brother, she must &"!!%'$"' #$'( heart. cially social media. Even forsake the lilies; but if * Know the anatomy of for a public sin, establish she is unwilling, she must conflict. Every fire the facts of the situation. take her lilies elsewhere. begins with a spark and * Forgive as God for- And Joanna’s behaviour grows when fuel is gave you (Ephesians must allow no other pre- added. The spark in 4.32, Matthew 18.21-35). text: if Mary goes it must human conflict may be a Reconciliation restores be because of the lilies, clash of temperaments, a the relationship: where not Joanna’s language. difference of opinion, or harm has been done, the The personal issues were the fact of harm or injury. offender may still have to resolved in the Shared The fuel of anger, accusa- face consequences such Conversation. tion, falsehood, assump- as paying restitution. We The Mary and Joanna tions, prejudice, revenge, honour God by being the show may remind you of a $(' pride, or envy will bring a most forgiving people conflict playing in a )&$#"!(% blaze; forbearance, love, because we know our- denomination near you. empathy, and forgiveness selves to be the most for- We can’t wish it away. We 2C >#8" 6 $#'!8C=C @C= #B can deny Satan and his given. can take responsibility for 4#:%" 9#8:'C@ #B -;$> '6& 4C desperately want. Honour God’s prerogative to our God by the positions 9;C(C" 4& 6!!#;%='C%= #%8& ":C God by bringing your own determine right from we take so that, however =# 8;';=C" @!6$C* behaviour under his gaze. wrong and we do not hon- things turn out, we know ?8C6@C $#%=6$= :@ #% )5) * Get the plank out of our him by agreeing to we have honoured God. .555 5)7, #A C'6;8 =# your own eye. Jesus call sanctified what he He can answer that prayer 6"@1$>:A$>%C(@!6!CA*$#' says, “first take the plank deems sinful. to transform both the situ- out of your own eye” Let us suppose that ation and your heart. To advertise here, contact us (Matthew 7:5). Deal hon- Vince calls his fighting Ed Moll is Vicar of St estly before God with florists together for a George’s, Wembdon, and on By email at: [email protected] your fears, sinful con- Shared Conversation. the Council of the Latimer By phone on 020 7222 2018 cerns and hurt pride. 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Anglican Cycle of Prayer retires as Asst Curate of the Canonry BIBLECHALLENGE ANGLICAN CYCLE OF PRAYER Benefice (York) with effect from Saturday 31st January 2015. The Rev Bernard James Sword, Day 290: Ezekiel 39-40, Psalm 88, Friday 17 October. Psalm 107:1‐16, Gen 37:25‐36. Ile ‐ Oluji ‐ Priest In Charge of Bredbury St Revelation 11 (Ondo, Nigeria): The Rt Rev Samson Adekunle Barnabas, in the deanery of Chadkirk, Day 291: Ezekiel 41-42, Psalm 89:1-18, Saturday 18 October. Psalm 107:17‐32, Acts 22:30‐23:11. Ilesa ‐ to retire with effect from 31 December Revelation 12 2014. Day 292: Enjoy hearing the Scriptures (Ibadan, Nigeria): The Rt Rev Dr Olubayu Sowale; Ilesa South West ‐ The Rev Ian Melville Thomas, read aloud in church (Ibadan, Nigeria): The Rt Rev Samuel Egbebunmi Incumbent of Eccleston St Mary and Day 293: Ezekiel 43-44, Psalm 89: 19- Sunday 19 October. Pentecost 19. Psalm 119:161‐176, Acts 23:12‐ Pulford St Mary, in the deanery of 52, Revelation 13 22. PRAY for The Church in the Province of the West Indies: The Chester, to retire with effect from 3 Day 294: Ezekiel 45-46, Psalm 90, Most Rev & The Hon Dr John Holder, Archbishop of West Indies & January 2015. Revelation 14 Bishop of Barbados Day 295: Ezekiel 47-48, Psalm 91, Monday 20 October. Psalm 107:33‐43, Acts 23:23‐35. Indianapolis LAY AND OTHER APPOINTMENTS Revelation 15 Day 296: Daniel 1-2, Psalm 92, ‐ (V, The Episcopal Church): The Rt Rev Catherine Waynick; Iowa ‐ Revelation 16 (VI, The Episcopal Church): The Rt Rev Alan Scarfe Sister Deborah Sheila Battersby CA, Tuesday 21 October. Psalm 110, Acts 24:1‐16. Iran ‐ (Jerusalem & To be Pioneer Community Evangelist, APPOINTMENTS Middle East): The Rt Rev Azad Marshall the Chocolate Box Project, (Sheffield). Wednesday 22 October. Psalm 111, Gen 39:1‐10. Irele ‐ Eseodo ‐ Mr Michael Keller MA MLS, (Ondo, Nigeria): The Rt Rev Felix Akinbuluma Has been installed as a Sarum Canon, The Rev Audrey Atkinson, Thursday 23 October. Psalm 112, Gen 39:11‐23. Isial‐Ngwa South ‐ Salisbury Cathedral. Team Vicar in the Oakham Team Ruth Martin, (Peterborough) has been appointed (Aba, Nigeria): The Rt Rev Isaac Nwaobia; Isiala‐Ngwa ‐ (Aba, Managing Director of the Chartered Anglican Chaplain at HMP Full Sutton Nigeria): The Rt Rev Owen Azubuike Institute for Securities and Investment (York). since 2004, to be Diocesan Secretary for The Rev Dr Ian Bailey, Southwark Diocese. Asst Curate (SSM) St Peter, Henleaze Mary at Chester with effect from 27 following the lifting of suspension. James Wilkinson, (Bristol) will become Asst Curate to be November 2014. The Rev Julie Lorraine Walker, Pioneer Evangelist in the Church Army, known as Assoc Minister (Self The Rev Gil Manley, Asst Curate at Wybunbury St Chad and has been appointed to Ellesmere Port St Supporting) St Mary, Shirehampton Vicar of Blackwell and Tibshelf (Derby), Audlem St James with Doddington St Thomas and All Saints and St Lawrence, (Bristol). has also been appointed Assistant John the Evangelist, to become in the deanery of Wirral South, with The Rev Miles Baker, Curate (to be known as Interim Minis- Incumbent of Haslington St Matthew effect from 15 October 2014. has been appointed Director of Mission ter) of Pinxton in the same diocese. and Crewe Green St Michael & All (Peterborough). The Rev Gerald Osborne, Angels, in the deanery of Nantwich, The Rev Leighton Carr, Has been installed as a Non-residentiary with effect from 13 January 2015. DEATHS formerly Asst Curate (SSM) to be Canon, Salisbury Cathedral. The Rev Nigel Washington, known as Assoc Minister Kingswood The Rev Christopher Mark Painter, Priest-in-Charge, Westoning with and Hanham (Bristol) to become Asst Currently holds Bishop’s permission to Tingrith (St Albans), to be Incumbent Curate (SSM) to be known as Assoc officiate in Chester, to be NSM Assistant (Rector), Westoning with Tingrith (St The Rev Doug Alexander, Minister, Christ Church with Curate at Hale Barns with Ringway All Albans). Born 1945. Ripon Coll Cuddesdon 1987. Emmanuel, Clifton (Bristol). Saints. The Rev Emma Louise Watson, d 1989 p 1990. Curate Thorpe St The Rev Antony John Dutton The Rev Canon Timothy William Formerly NSM Asst Curate at Frankby Matthew Norwich 89-92; Priest-in- Asst Curate, Malpas St Oswald and Pilkington, St John the Divine with Greasby St charge Lakenham St Alban 92-97; Threapwood St John and Bickerton Team Rector of Solihull and Honorary Nicholas, became Priest in Charge of Chaplain Norwich City College of Holy Trinity, to become Incumbent of Canon of Birmingham Cathedral, Tregony with St Cuby and Cornelly, F&HE 92-97; Team Vicar Barnham Great Sutton St John the Evangelist. Solihull (Birmingham), to be Team (Truro). Broom 97-00; Team Vicar Barnham The Rev Jean de Garis Rector [with special responsibility for The Rev Simon Woodley, Broom and Upper Yare 2000-2004; Team Has been installed as a Non-residentiary Great Berkhamsted], Berkhamsted Rector of Bemerton, has been licensed Rector 2004-2010; Rural Dean Dereham Canon, Salisbury Cathedral. Team Ministry (St Albans). Asst Rural Dean of Salisbury Deanery in Mitford 2008-2010; Retired 2010; The Rev Jonathan Robert Gibbs The Rev Norma Georgina Robinson, (Salisbury). Permission to Officiate Norwich from Incumbent, Heswall St Peter, to be the NSM Asst Curate at Hyde St George, in The Rev Ian Wright, 2011. Died aged 69. first Bishop of Huddersfield in the the deanery of Mottram, to become Priest in Charge of St Bartholomew’s The Rev Tom Fisher, diocese of West Yorkshire and the NSM Asst Curate (known as Assoc Church, Armley with St Mary’s, New CMS mission partner, Mombasa, Kenya Dales, with effect from 17 October 2014. Minister) of Macclesfield St John the Wortley and St Saviour’s Church, (1963-1978); Curate Christ Church The Rev Vanessa Herrick Evangelist with Henbury St Thomas. Richmond Hill (West Yorkshire and the Winchester (1986-89); Chaplain Has been installed as a Non-residentiary The Rev Timothy Robinson, Dales), to be Vicar of St Hugh’s, Eyres Salisbury College of Technology (1989- Canon, Salisbury Cathedral. Incumbent, Stalybridge St Paul, to Monsell, (Leicester). 94); Chaplain Salisbury Sea Cadets The Rev Philip William Highton become Incumbent of Macclesfield St (1990-2006); NSM St Mark’s Salisbury, Formerly Vicar of Cheadle All Hallows, John the Evangelist with Henbury St RETIREMENTS & RESIGNATIONS 1994-2005; died on 29 September, aged to become SSM Curate (known as Asst Thomas. 79. Minister) of Hartford St John, and also The Rev Jean Saddington, The Rev Godfrey Lionel Simpson, Chaplain to Hartford Church of England Assoc Priest of Dorchester, is also to be The Rev Vivien Barbara Gisby, Chaplain of Rendcomb College, died on High School with effect from 20 licensed House for Duty Team Vicar of NSM Asst Curate at Sutton St James, in 3 September 2014 (Gloucester). October. the new benefice of Dorchester and the the deanery of Macclesfield, to retire The Rt Rev Stephen Sykes, The Rev Canon Liz Holdsworth, Winterbournes (Salisbury). with effect from 25 September 2014. Bishop of Ely 1990-1999, Principal, St has been appointed Director of Training The Rev Thomas W Sander, The Rev Steven Marcus Hildreth, John’s College, Durham (1999-2006), in the Peterborough diocese. Curate (in training), Sharnbrook, NSM Asst Curate at Chester St Paul, in died on Wednesday 24 September. The Rev Paul Hygate, Felmersham and Knotting w Souldrop the deanery of Chester, to retire with The Rt Rev Stanley Mark Wood, non-stipendiary Curate of Aston-on- (St Albans), to be Vicar, Flamstead and effect from 31 December 2014. Honorary Assistant Bishop in the Trent, Elvaston, Weston-on-Trent and Markyate Street (St Albans). The Rev James Thomas McNaugh- Diocese of Southwark died on Sunday Shardlow, Barrow upon Trent with The Rev Ann Simmons, tan-Owen, 28th September 2014. Twyford and Swarkestone (Derby), has Vicar, Dordon, St Leonard, Incumbent of Latchford St James, in the been appointed non-stipendiary (Birmingham), to be also Area Dean of deanery of Great Budworth, to retire Associate Priest in the same parishes. Polesworth, (Birmingham). with effect from 8 November 2014. CORRECTIONS The Rev Robin James Isherwood, The Rev Paul Taylor, The Rev Malcolm Masterman, Incumbent at Alsager St Mary Vicar of Salisbury St Francis and St Lead Chaplain, South Tees Hospital Magdalene, now Chaplain at Lawrence Stratford sub Castle, has been NHS Trust, retired on 30 June 2014, Charterhouse. licensed Rural Dean of Salisbury remaining as the Bishops’ Adviser on At The Church of England Newspaper we The Rev Diane Kershaw, Deanery (Salisbury). Chaplaincy, co-ordinator of the NHS take pride in our reporting, and aim to Asst Curate, St James and St The Rev Lisa Caroline Temperley- Advisers’ panel and has the correct any factual errors as soon as Christopher, Shiregreen and St Paul, Barnes, Archbishop’s permission to officiate. possible. You can contact us by email or Wordsworth Avenue (Sheffield), to be Asst Curate in the Market Bosworth and The Rev Canon Jemima Prasadam post if you spot any errors. See the Asst Curate, St James and St Sheepy Group (Leicester), has been MBE, leader page for our contact details. Christopher, Shiregreen and St Paul, appointed to the Rectory of Woodhouse, Priest-in-charge Lozells, St Paul & St Wordsworth Avenue (SSM) (Sheffield). Woodhouse Eaves and Swithland Silas (Birmingham); Honorary Canon The Rev Neil Summers, The Rev Robert Ian McLaren, (Leicester). Emeritus, Birmingham Cathedral, to presently Assistant Curate in the Incumbent at Poynton St George and The Rev Ian Tweedie-Smith, retire from 31 October, remaining Richmond Team Ministry is to be Rural Dean in Cheadle Deanery, to also formerly Priest in Charge of the Honorary Canon Emeritus, Birmingham licensed as Team Vicar of S John the be Honorary Canon of the Cathedral Benefice of Purton (Bristol) has been Cathedral. Divine in the Richmond Team Ministry Church of Christ and the Blessed Virgin appointed Vicar of the said Benefice The Rev Josephine Ann Robertson (Southwark). 14 www.churchnewspaper.com Friday October 17, 2014 Sunday

way through the Bible we find heaven and earth coupled together and as Paula Gooder LIZHOARE explains in her book Heaven, it assumes a SUNDAY SERVICE

r close relationship between the two. We may ‘I believe in God… creator of heaven and know a great deal about our planet and all the o earth.’ (Apostles’ Creed) time we are discovering more and more, but 19th Sunday after Trinity t ‘The heavens are telling the glory of God, and we know very little about heaven and what it is the firmament proclaims his handiwork.’ Psalm like there. Gooder writes that heaven is ‘one of Sunday 26 October 2014 c 19:1 those great mysteries that somehow symbol- ise what we don’t know about ourselves and Leviticus 19:1-2, 15-18 e In the beginning God placed the first humans the world around us.’ 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 r Proclaiming in the Creed then that the God

i in a garden. He walked with them there and Matthew 22:34-46 they shared fellowship together. From the whom we worship is its creator, is a way of

d start, God and human beings met in the con- acknowledging that our knowledge is finite Our readings this week focus on the golden rules of love for

l text of creation and at first there was no ques- and God is supreme over the cosmos. He God and love for neighbour. tion of who ha d provided such a wonder-filled made it and it is his domain. One thing we do The Pharisees are quick to pounce on Jesus once they

a environment for human beings to enjoy. This know, however, is that Jesus taught us to pray hear that the Sadducees have failed to get the better of him. is surely a better starting point to thinking ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven’ so They enter the lists to test him, with a question of biblical

u about God as creator of the world than getting there are some things about heaven shown to scholarship. What is the greatest commandment? Jesus

t into a stew about creation versus evolution. us in the Bible that inform such a prayer. It is actually gives two answers, ranking love for God first and i The latter is a debate that has distracted Chris- where God reigns and his will is perfectly ful- love for neighbour second. But on these two command-

r tians for generations and probably still worries filled. ments hang all the law and the prophets. Everything in i people when they say the Creed. As we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we are scripture relates to one or both of these pivotal points. It is As a number of able apologists have pointed expressing our creedal belief in a way that not as if we get to fill these basic categories of love with our p out, it is a false dichotomy as we are trying to demands we take it seriously and practically. own content; the rest of the Bible fleshes them out for us marry up two different categories of inquiry Once again, belief is expected to shape our perfectly clearly. s and there really isn’t a contradiction between actions. How are we being people who are While he has them hanging on his every word, Jesus also about his will on e science and theology if we allow them to make working with God in bringing throws back a challenge to the Pharisees, to end this section their own distinctive contribution. earth as it is in heaven? This God has com- of the Gospel where he has been questioned at length on

h The Bible is full of illustrations and manded us to be stewards of his creation with various subjects of relevance to different groups at the time. metaphors drawn directly from the created all that this entails. If God so loved the world, He asks them about what the Bible says concerning the t world. Even the parts of creation that seem how much do we love it too? Messiah. He shows them that they have not understood it in less attractive like the wilderness were meet- Believing in the God who created the heav- its fullness. ing points between God and humankind. It’s ens and the earth means that when we see a The Messiah may be the Son of David, but Psalm 110 was not all about sunshine and frolicking lambs! beautiful landscape or watch one of his amaz- also clear that the Messiah would be Adonai, Lord, too. Not The Creed describes the creator God as the ing creatures we know who to worship, but merely subservient to David, but his master, relating in the one who made both heaven and ea rth. All the there is much, much more. heavenly counsel to the LORD himself, who decrees to give him victory and supremacy over his enemies. No one could refute his handling of the Bible: not only did he have a per- fect understanding of the big picture of the whole; but he knew and reverenced every last detail and word, relying on The sound of silence its divine inspiration and utter truthfulness in everything. Leviticus 19 shows us that “love your neighbour as your- self” was not a dominical invention, but a text from within a palliative care measure. Poll (2010) identified that an the Old Testament itself. The verses set for the reading BOB MAYO I have been brought up to think average television viewing for an relate relational love to divine imitation: we love others as that there was something wrong adult in the UK in 2010 was more part of the command to be holy as God is holy. This cashes I had my own special time of with being bored and that if I was than 30 hours a week, or over out in specific circumstances: rendering just judgments that silence over the summer. I had bored it was my own fault. What I four hours a day. Some 43 per favour neither the poor nor the political elite in their even- felt God calling me into a period found during my time away was cent of four-six-year-olds have a handedness; not gossiping or profiteering, or bearing a of solitude and lived for five that I started to pray once I was television in their bedroom. grudge. weeks in a cottage on my own on bored because it tipped me over People will spend longer in a day We cannot just leave someone to get on with their sin: we the north Norfolk coast. I was into a new way of seeing things. watching television than they will must reprove them, or incur guilt ourselves. This is part of without Wi-Fi or TV and was for Boredom is creative and prayer is in a week on prayer, Bible study what it means to love our neighbour — it is far from loving most of the time in silence. Part and church combined. No one is to watch them go to hell for want of a loving rebuke, an way through my time away I going to learn about the grace of attempt to arrest their slide into judgment. stopped even listening to music. I I have returned God from the News at Ten. In the Above all, the Law says, love must start in the heart: too spent the time on my own weeks before she died my lovely many rebukes and too much self-righteousness are infused reading, writing, running, to the parish spiritual director Ruth Etchells with a lack of heartfelt love and compassion. reflecting and praying. I learnt talked about her life being shot In the epistle, the apostle interweaves the idea of loving that alone does not mean lonely, encouraging through with lovely grace. I tell and pleasing God with care for others. He declared the good that silence leads to stillness and the my congregation that I have news about Jesus to the Thessalonians despite opposition, that God is endlessly generous. heard the heartbeat of grace. with courage and care. It is far from loving to withhold the He gives us days to play with and congregation I have returned to the parish gospel from people (or give them something more worldly when those are finished he gives not simply to wanting to work hard but and less wholesome as a substitute), but we must speak the us another. determined to avoid being truth clearly “to please God who tests our hearts.” The emphasis we place on see the unnecessarily busy. Now that I It is sadly possible to herald the message of love with intimate relationships as the have returned to parish life I can hard, compassionless hearts, which may save our hearers touchstone of health and television as a have more conversation in a day (since the word itself has power) but condemns our deceit- happiness is a modern decompression than I had previously in a week. ful and impure motivations. Flattery, greed, seeking power phenomenon where we expect In a parish there are always jobs and praise — all are condemned along with those who everything to be ours by right. chamber from to be done - bills need to be paid, speak God’s gospel without gentleness. Solitude can be as therapeutic emails to be answered and people and insightful as emotional what might visited. My challenge for this Dr Lee Gatiss is editor of the NIV Proclamation Bible and support and friendship from have happened next period of the church’s life is Director of Church Society others. William Wordsworth to learn my lessons from my time (www.churchsociety.org) talked about the inward eye, during the rest away and slow down to speed up. which is the bliss of solitude. A of day My plan is to be Martha in action cottage in Norfolk may not have but Mary in attitude. Silent is an the glamour of a yurt in Mongolia anagram of listen that is a good or the isolation of a hermitage on subversive because each place for me to start. “If we really a rocky island off the Atlantic imagines how things could be want to pray”, said TS Eliot, “we HYMN SELECTION coast, but I was able to run along different to how they now are. I must first learn to listen, for in the beach in the early hours of owe much of my creativity to long the silence of the heart, God the morning and I learnt to see melancholic boring holidays as a speaks”. silence as a part of my daily child. The Rev Dr Bob Mayo is Vicar of We have a gospel to proclaim rhythm of prayer. I have returned to the parish St Stephen and St Thomas A new commandment I have returned to the parish encouraging the congregation Shepherds Bush with St Michael How deep the Father’s love for us encouraging parents to teach not simply to see the television as and St George White City Love is his word their children the value of a decompression chamber from ([email protected] / Let there be love creative boredom and not to what might have happened @RevBobMayo / throw entertainment at them like during the rest of day. An ICM www.ststephensw12.org)

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black and orange verticals with a sweep of green and blue-blob houses, Winter ART OFTHE WEEK Morning likewise deploys orange with darker hues to image skyscape and bare Frank Auerbach trees, while big-scale Summer Morning at Tate Britain to 9 November 2004, glowing with gold, yellow and bright blue, most attractively captures In 1939 the parents of eight-year-old the north London street scene. All Berlin-born Frank Auerbach sent him to strongly contrast with his early epic vir- England to escape the Nazi menace — tual Abstract in ochre red, Rebuilding the and they later perished in the Holocaust. Empire Cinema, Leicester Square [1962]. Art studies in post-war London, notably Portraiture — of his wife Julia and under British Abstract and Expressionist friend ‘EOW’ [Estella Olive West] — is painter David Bomberg, set this young Auerbach’s other main genre, and one refugee from Nazism on course to far more difficult to penetrate. Three oils become a distinguished painter with of the latter person are so heavily layered trademark ‘heavy brushwork’ style, in they only make any visual sense if 1986 co-winning the Golden Lion award viewed from several feet away; other at the Venice Biennale. studies in thickly plastered black and Showcasing 22 major paintings and brown are veritable ghostly images of some big-scale charcoal images, and the sitter. Such reveal Auerbach as con- over 20 smaller works on paper — stantly experimenting, pursuing a per- acquired for the nation by Arts Council sonal vision at the expense of any ready England from the late Lucian Freud’s public understanding, albeit that caveat estate — Tate Britain’s ‘BP Spotlight’ conveys the apparent confusion of con- sionist compositions. 1980s visions of does not apply to the London cityscapes. show reveals Auerbach’s key themes struction — a recurring theme in later Primrose Hill alternate airy light and This display is a revealing and intriguing and varied styles from the 1950s. multi-colour cityscapes. heavy dark green expanses, while the trailer for Tate’s major Auerbach retro- London scenes, especially of his home Thickly smeared paint, often heavily 1987-2004 Mornington Crescent (pic- spective in autumn 2015. area Camden Town, have been his layered, creating broad expanses of tured) series reveals Auerbach at his Brian Cooper favourite landscape topic over many colours both dark and light criss-crossed most engaging. Frank Auerbach: Paintings & Drawings years: his small 1956 St Paul’s image with strongly made lines and twists, Buildings, figures, street furniture, from the Lucian Freud estate, is at Tate glimpses its grandeur in charcoal and characterise a number of such works, scaffolding and much else visually clam- Britain until 9 November. Free Admis- graphite, while Shell Building Site [1956] with urban vistas imaged in neo-Impres- our for attention: The Chimney weaves sion.

his own engagement. As Marsh comments, Bonhoef- ing out in defence of the Jews (although it took a little fer’s emotional maturity never matched his intellectu- time for Bonhoeffer to see the importance of the Jew- BOOK OFTHE WEEK al ability. He was obsessed with clothes and even in ish question). his final days in prison kept worrying members of his To understand his famous Letters and Papers from Strange Glory family to send him the correct set of trousers. He Prison, we have to remember that for a long period Charles Marsh struggled to improve Bethge’s dress sense. Bonhoeffer wrestled with the fecklessness not just of SPCK, pb, £16.99 Used to a comfortable style of life, Bonhoeffer the German Christians but of the Confessing Church was not one to travel third class or dispense with as well. He had to ask himself what it meant to be pas- One of Proust’s skills as a luxuries. tor without a church or offer the sacraments in the novelist is his ability to let But Marsh’s skill lies in revealing the flaws without ruin of a church. He became ‘chaplain’ in a conspira- characters surprise us. He lessening our sympathy for Bonhoeffer or our admi- cy of mainly aristocratic Germans who were not par- discloses new and unsus- ration for his achievements. His intellectual gifts ticularly pious. pected aspects of their lives were astonishing but he was also in advance of his Marsh makes no attempt to hide the horror of Bon- which, on reflection, we time in his ecumenical sympathy and ability to learn hoeffer’s final end. The heroic account by the prison realise fit in with what has from black churches in Harlem as well as from doctor quoted in many sermons is ‘wholly devoid of gone before. The revelation Catholic monastic houses. Only American liberal truth’. The famous words ‘This is not the end for me; of Saint-Loup’s bisexuality is Protestantism did not really win his respect. As he this is the beginning of life’ were written by a British an example of this. memorably commented, Americans had managed to intelligence officer five years later who was not pres- In his new biography end up with a Protestantism that did not include the ent at the event. As Marsh puts it, his final words Charles Marsh has given us Reformation. were probably more fitting for someone who had a new portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer that is both Barth made a big impression on Bonhoeffer and in become suspicious of pious language: ‘Please drop convincing and clears up some puzzles and questions his final days in prison he was enthralled by Volume some stationery with the commissar’. raised by previous accounts. Bonhoeffer’s engage- II/2 of the Church Dogmatics but he was not uncriti- Bonhoeffer died still a young man. Reading ment to Maria von Wedemeyer has always seemed a cal of the master. Barth was a touchstone of doctrinal Marsh’s biography made me wonder what the future rather surprising and bloodless affair. Now Marsh orthodoxy to be admired but Bonhoeffer never com- held for him. It is unlikely that marriage would have reveals that the real love of Bonhoeffer’s life was pletely trusted him. The young Bohhoeffer accepted made him completely happy and he would have felt Eberhard Bethge, himself the author of a monumen- Barth’s dismissal of natural theology but in later life, pain over the loss of Bethge but he could well have tal and important biography that does not really con- Marsh tells us, he wanted to reclaim the natural from been a major figure not only in theology but in the vey the nature of the relationship between the two the German Christians and other sources of disfigu- ecumenical movement and the intellectual and cultur- men. ration. al life of Germany. As it is, his life, his witness and his Bonhoeffer’s feelings for Bethge were not really Reading Marsh’s account of Bonhoeffer’s relation- writings were a major influence on the church in the reciprocated in the way he desired. For a time the ship with the Confessing Church it is not hard to see second half of the 20th Century. Marsh has given us a two men lived together, shared a common bank how he became disillusioned with ‘religion’ and superb biography of a towering figure, someone account and gave joint Christmas presents but spoke in his final days of ‘religionless Christianity’. whose very human qualities do not detract from the Bethge became engaged to Bonhoeffer’s niece and it Confessing Christians were really more concerned power of his witness. was this that probably led Bonhoeffer to enter into with the purity of the church, he felt, than with speak- Paul Richardson

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