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FOLLOWING FRIDAY’s deadly attacks in France, called to reaffirmour solidarity with each other and Tunisia and Kuwait, the Archbishop of Canterburyhas affirmthe great treasures of freedom, in religion and so calledthfor peopleeto stand firfmiantheir csolidarityewith eachomanyfother ways.terror attacks other. “Our strength is in the God who conquered evil when In France emergency services werecalled to the scene Jesus rose from the dead, and on his death and victory whenadecapitated body was found.Hours later tourist we find the basis for our future.” hotels in Tunisia werethe focus of Islamist attacks, leav- The British Home Secretary, Theresa May,held a ing at least 30 dead. In Kuwait abomb blast ripped press conference in Sousse, Tunisia, at thesite of the through amosque during Friday prayers, leaving many shooting, saying that the attackwas a‘despicable actof dead and injured. cruelty’. Archbishop said: “All of usmust be full of She reaffirmedthe PrimeMinister’sresolvetodefeat grief at the attacks in Tunisia, France and Kuwait. They those who undermine freedom and democracy. areintended not only to destroy buttodivide, not only to During astatement in theHouse of Commons,David terrify but to take from us our own commitment to each Cameron ledamomentofsilence for the victims of the other in our societies. shooting, among them, 18 British (although that number “Let us together mournfor thevictims, weep with the was expected to rise). Aminute of silence is being bereaved, supportthe injured and pray for them all to the observed nationally today (Friday). God who in Jesus Christ went to the Cross and died The Prime Minister said Britain will stand in solidarity rather than bearing asword.” with the Muslims around theworld and ‘take on theradi- Butwhile the terrorists mayhave been trying to bring cal narrative thatispoisoning young minds.’ division, the Archbishop’s message was unequivocal: “Be stronger at standingupfor values,and be intoler- “Facing such aglobal and long-termmenace we are ant of the intolerant,” Cameron urged. #Newrevs tells their stories of

faitTHE CHURCHh of England is launching #newrevs, away to sharethe faith stories and videos from among the 1,000 men and women set to be ordained in the coming weeks. Stories include an account from aprison chaplain in Southwark, who will be ordained in aprison —the first service of its kind —aswell as faith stories from former wrestler,Craig Henderson, who willbeordained adea- con in the Diocese of West Yorkshire and the Dales, and steam enginedriver,DianneGamblewho said she has ‘always been able to seethe links between steam loco- motives and the spiritualityofGod.’ Liverpool Diocese *Next week look out for our Petertide Ordination supple- ment.

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Diocese of York The SingingVicars, acollective of seven vicars from from THEDIARY Scarborough and Filey,have produced their own CD, A THE Clergy Life. Reverends Andrew Allington, Mark Haynes, Pam Jennings, Send your events to LizKKitching, Mike Leigh, Jason McCullagh and Clare [email protected] Stainsby have been performing for five years in order to raise or Tweet@churchnewspaper money for charity. CHURCHIN Their new CD includes aChristian version of the Grease Medley, Elvis’ Love Letters, Only You, and YouRaise Me Up. 3July Their song 500 Men takes TheProclaimer’s 500 Miles to tell thestory of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with five loaves and two fishes,and Believer’s Medley is a1960s-style blending of I’m 7.30pm Godspell in Concert, ENGLAND ABeliever,Daydream Believer and Holy,Holy –singing “I’m Northampton, Derngate. abeliever,Jesus is walking by my side”. All proceeds from theCDwill go to ChristianAid. The Rev Mike Leigh, vicar of Newby,Cloughton and 4July Burniston, said: “Being partofThe SingingVicars is great Diocese of Manchester fun, we arefundamentally opposed to taking ourselves seriously,and we’resecretly pleased the Good Lorddid not 2pmRichardBeadon Inaugural The diocese has launched anew film featuring Mission and give us the gifts to goon‘Britain’s Got Talent’. Lecture, NorthamptonHigh Supportpriest, the Rev Pete Horlock. School. Contact: cheryl.cfg- Mr Horlock, whose responsibilities include reachingout to ☆ Also in the Diocese, churches in Hull have appointed a [email protected]. the business community in Manchester’s city centre, is one of Project Co-ordinator for Communities of Culture, to help the first to featureinanew series from the diocese, which will multi-denominational churches in the area engage with Hull highlight lesser-known areas of ministry. as theUK’s City of Culture2017. 5July Speaking on his role, and the film, ‘Spotlight on Ministryto The Rev David Perry is the Methodist Superintendent Business’, he said: “Wewant to build apartnership with the Minister of theHull Centreand West Circuit and chair of 7.30pm Godspell inConcert,Canter- business community,but also supportthem through pastoral Believe in Hull, the umbrella body that is helping churches bury, Marlowe Theatre. relationships. engage with City of Culture. He said: “Churches areuniquely “We’reall on amission: businesses have mission statements placed to make sure2017 can be about Communities of and they would be missionaries pushing their products too.I Culture. Andy will be helping all churches in the city, 6July think what we have to do differently though is build especially those in moredeprived areas, to tell the stories of relationships that arecredible, wherepeople can engage with their communities and create cultural events.” our message, and engage with ourselves as Christians in the 7.30pm Q&A with DrRowan workplace.” ☆ Also in York, Archbishop Dr John Sentamu celebrated the Williams, AmandaCottrell, 900th anniversaryofStPeter’s Church, Wawne. and LordHoward,chaired by Diocese of Guildford In his dedication, Archbishop Sentamu commented on the Rod Liddle, held at Wye preservation of the 12th centuryarchitecture. Church. Tickets from £12, The Bishop of Jarrow, the Rt GuildfordCathedral Speaking ahead of the anniversaryservice, the Rev Shaun wyechurch.tickets@btinter- Rev , formally raised over £12,000 at a Sandham, vicar of St Peter’s, said: “The church was given to net.com dedicated the new £12.8m fundraising reception in the monks at Meaux Abbey around 1150, and although the building of the Ian Ramsey Churtinaid of the abbey has long gone, we’ll be walking from the site of the old Academy Cathedral Appeal. Abbey to church for our service on Sunday.” 7July last week. The event, held at a The Academy building is private car collection, was 2pmMessy Cathedral, the first secondaryschool to attended by local business Cathedral, High open under the people and car enthusiasts Street. Government’s ‘Priority who wereimmersed in 7.30pm Concert, Southsea, Church Schools Building the rare, classics Of The Holy Spirit, Fwcett Programme’. collection. Road. Tickets £12 /£10 /£2, BishopMark said: “I was Commenting on the 023 247 5259 delighted to be asked to mark success of the event, the the startofthis newchapter Dean said: “We’re in the life of one of our delighted that the event 12 July Diocesan SecondarySchools. was such asuccess. The importance of the work “Thereis£450,000 left 10.30amManchester Cathedral wel- done everyday in Church to raise to complete the comes Sparkle, aspecial Schools up and down the Cathedral Appeal and this service welcomingtransgen- countrywhereweeducate wonderful reception has der people. Open toall, free. morethan one million young helped us take another people everyday cannot be crucial step towards overstated.” achieving our finalgoal.” 15 July

1pmJames Bowman, coun- tertenor,and AndrewPlant, piano, performinfreecon- certatPeterborough Cathe- Online thisweek: dral. The Rt Rev Paul 1pm Piano recital, Portsmouth, St Williams manning Mary’s churchyard, Fratton the tills Road. 7pm Talk on Suffragettes by June The Top10 Purvis, Portsmouth, Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham Portsmouth Cathedral, High Travel apps Street. The new Bishop of Southwell &Nottingham, the Rt Rev Paul forthe Williams, continued his five-day prayer tour to meet people in their places of work, by visiting Tesco in TopValley,Nottingham. 18 July summer Bishop Paul sat on the tills, inorder to gain an understanding of the way people serve in their communities. 7.30pmNorthanger Abbey, Saltwood He said: “I’m thrilledtobe meeting people across the county Village Hall. Tickets £10 :£12 and learning how the Churchcan continue to makea on the door,events@salt- big difference in everycommunity,aswelive as people of hope woodchurch.org http://bit.ly in Jesus Christ. 7pm Music in Lyddington, Lyd- “The prayer tour is awonderful way to preparefor the dington St Andrew.07709 /1dst9OO Inauguration of my ministryatSouthwell Minster,aswell as 968896 celebrating all that God is already doing across the diocese through his Church.”

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The memorial, in the Garden of grassroots Remembrance at St Alkmund’s, Whitchurch, is to be openatall times. need better tax The rector,CanonJudy Hunt, said that crisis while Shrewsburyhad itsown memorial, she expected that theone in Whitchurch would be visited by bereaved families from north response help, says Care Shropshire and southCheshire, some THE BISHOP of , the Rt Rev THE PRIME MINIS- who may have “lost babies decades Graham James, has issued astatement TER has been urged to ago”. urging local churches to think about help families penalised An inquiryinShrewsburyfoundfailures their response to Syrian refugees. by tax burdens, now that at Emstrey crematorium resulted in The Bishop was addressing Baroness he is ‘free of the shack- ashes being lost, pointing out that it was Anelay of St John’s response to Lord les of coalition.’ “difficult” for familiesifthey did not Alton’s House of Lordsquestionabout The CEOofCare, the have their babies’ ashes. deterring the trafficking of migrants evangelical social policy and creatingsafe havens, to which she charity,has called for Faith schools told they must be countered ‘No, our door is closed’. action in next week’s inclusive “Weare surely not yet anation whose Budgettosupport fami- instinctive responseistosay ‘our door lies that arebeing Faith schools should be madetoteach is closed’,” the Bishop responded. penalised by the tax sys- about gayrelationships on the same In his plea to find a‘sustainable, long- tem. basis as heterosexual relations, Andy termsolution’, the Bishop acknowl- Nola Leach, pictured, Burnham has said. edged the UK Government’s has spoken out for stay- The leading contender forthe vacant £800million, humanitarian crisis com- at-home parents, where Labour leadership wasresponding to mitment,but urged the question raised one earner married cou- complaints by Catholic schools, who by the churches: ‘Can we do nothing at ples arebearing abig- said thatteaching about SRE would all to help them?’ ger tax burden than in violatetheir religious freedom. “Everyperson who lives in avicarage, the rest of Europe. “They’re wrong. They’re and,ofcourse, verymany others, know “Given that marriage straightforwardly wrong,” the MP for the doubts that come when aneedy per- is by everybenchmark Leigh said, speaking frankly. son appears at the door: ‘If Itry to help the moststable form of In aconversation with “Weneed acapitalist And he had criticism for the Churchof thisperson in some practical way,what relationship and that Arthur CBrooke, the system that is not sepa- England. Asked about gay clergywho aboutothers? Will many others come? family breakdown –pri- president of the Ameri- rate. had married their partners and now face Shall we be overrunwithrequests that marily from much less can EnterpriseInstitute, “That’s thepoint of punishment, he said: “Itisaproblem.” we cannot meet?’ stable cohabiting rela- at the 2015 Conference the inclusivity… being He said: “I wouldn’t advocate this “The answercan never be ‘OK, then, tionships –costs £46 bil- on Inclusive Capitalism alongside, being as situation, but Ithink that is aproblem, it’s better to help no one’, he said. lion per annum, it does in London, Archbishop Christ was in his incar- absolutely, because then the Bishop James said thereare local not make sense thatwe Welby told business and nation, being in the mid- discrimination is almost state endorsed, projects in churches to helpdestitute should make the option finance leaders that the dle of it all –feeling it in isn’t it? people from overseas, and cites the of marrying fiscally less financialsector should your guts as well as in “Withitbeing the ChurchofEngland, it Orthodox Archdiocese in Athens, accessible in this coun- be ‘imbued with morali- your head and your has akind ofasanction, if you like.” which set up ‘The Church on the try,”she said. ty’. moral system,” he said. Street’, providing 1,000 migrants and And speaking ahead Reflecting on the Find places of poverty, New Chaplainfor General Synod refugees with daily food. of the 8July emergency theme ofinclusivity, in the poorest partofthe “These contributions cannot meet the budget, Archbishop Archbishop Welby world, which make you The Rev Michael Gisbourne, Vicar of magnitude ofthe need but without Justin Welby urged spoke about the poor ‘uncomfortable’, he told Scotforth St Paul (Blackburn), has been themtherewould be even less hope,” against ‘selfish capital- area wherehewas first the corporate communi- appointed the Chaplain to theGeneral he said. ism’. ordained. ty. Synod. Mr Gisbourne will reportintoasmall sub-group for Synod worship appointed by the Archbishops and chaired by the Grantwill help36churches Rt Rev RobertPaterson, Bishopof A£607,000 grant from independent charity the Sodor and Man and Vice-Chair of the National Churches Trust will safeguard36UK Liturgical Commission. churches. The Transforming Gospel Bishop Robertsaid:“Iamdelighted to The charity,which funds church buildings Us conference 2015 welcomeMichael as Chaplain to the across the denominations, will pay for urgent new GeneralSynod. This role has structural repairs. Thirteen of the benefitting expanded in recent years under the churches areonthe Historic England’s Heritage At Monday 20 to Wednesday22July, auspices ofCanon Gavin Kirk, the Risk Register. High Leigh Conference Centre, current Chaplain, and now includes the Church of EnglandChurches receivingfunding Continuous Praying Presence at each include: St Peter and St Paul, Knapton, Norfolk; St Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire General Synod as well as Synod worship Andrew,StokeNewington, London; Holy Trinity, conducted in arange of styles.” Lenton, Nottinghamshire; St James the Greater, Eastbury; St Dominica, St Dominic, Cornwall; and Christianist –the latest word St Brandon’s Church, Brancepeth, Durham. The gospel continues to change lives globally. Huw Edwards, Vice President of The National Come and hear speakers from Brazil, India, Pakistan The OxfordEnglish Dictionaryhas Churches Trust, said the UK’s churches and unveiled alist of 500 new words, and chapels areatreasuretrove ofarchitecture, histo- and South Africa. Be challenged and inspired! included among them was ‘Christianist’. ry and faith. They said that Christianism is used as a “These buildings don’tbelong to the past. They Call 020 7921 2202 or visit descriptive termfor Christian political pay avital role inour present and futuretoo,acting www.weareUs.org.uk/conference conservatives mostly in the United as places of worship, community centres or simply States, for theideology of the somewheretogofor quiet contemplation. Christian right, meant as acounterpoint “The cost of keeping churches and chapels wind- Us. The new name forUSPG to “Islamism”. and water-tightand paying for the installation of Registered charity number 234518 modernfacilities is far beyond the means of con- gregations,” he said.

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By George Conger er” as “brothers in Christ” he explained —and opened new Presiding Bithesdoor forhtrue dialogueoandpreconciliation. THE BISHOP of North Carolina, the Rt Rev Michael Bishop Chillingworth heartily agreed, seeing Bishop Curry,has been elected Presiding Bishop of the Epis- Curry’s election as an opportunity for thewider Com- copal Church of the USA by the 78th General Conven- munion. “Michael Curry and Justin Welby sharethe tion meeting in Salt Lake City,Utah. same ideals, the same passions. They both love Jesus,” On 27 June the House of Bishops elected Bishop Curry he said, adding: “This is one of those moments when a from amongst four nominees, making him the first remarkableperson with distinctive gifts steps onto the black presiding bishop and the first elected on the first stage. Such moments arepotentially transformative.” ballot. Bishop Curry received 121 votes of the 174 votes BorninChicago and brought up in Buffalo, New cast in the election. York,Bishop Curry was educated at HobartCollege The Archbishop of Canterburytelephoned Bishop and trainedfor the ministryatthe Berkeley Divinity Curry congratulatinghim onhis election. The Primus School at Yale. Ordained deacon and priest in 1978 in ofthe Scottish Episcopal Church, the Most Rev David the Diocese of WesternNew York, Bishop Curry Chillingworth, who was aguest of the convention, served asrector to threeblack Episcopal churches:St observed: “This is agood day for the Episcopal Church, Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem in the Dio- for the world church and for the Anglican Commun- cese of North Carolina from 1978-1982; St Simon of ion.” Cyrene Episcopal Church in Lincoln Heights, Ohio “You can’t put alabel on him,” Bishop Chillingworth from 1982-1988; andStJames African Episcopal Church told The Church of England Newspaper. Bishop Curry sought to foster an environment where“liberal and tra- in Baltimore from 1988 to 2000.On11February 2000, has authorised same-sex blessings in his diocese since ditional people come together.” Bishop Currywas electedthe 11th Bishop of the Dio- 2004 and has been aloyal supporter of Presiding Bish- “I askifyou believe in Jesus, and that is good enough cese of North Carolina. op Katherine Jefferts Schori. However,hehas intimat- for me,” he said. “Wewill deal with each other in love,” At the press conference held following his election ed that he will seek to foster reconciliation within the and he hoped the “spirit of God willcreate space” with- the presiding-bishop elect said the Episcopal Church Episcopal Church and restorethe Church’s broken in the church for all. “should seek to address issues of poverty,racism” and overseas links. One conservative bishop, who asked not to be social injusticeacross the country.However the callto Askedifheidentified with any churchparty,Bishop named, told CEN hehad not voted for Curry on the first social activism must be made in response to thecall Curry told reporters: “Well you could say that Michael round as he had been committedtothe sole conserva- madeupon our lives by faith in Jesus Christ, he Curry was afollower of Jesus Christ.” tive candidate, the Bishop of Southwest Florida on the explained. “I am afollower of Jesus,” he explained. “I am serious first ballot, but was nonetheless overjoyed by his victo- The Episcopal Church should “seek to be aconversa- in saying” that. “The way of Jesus is the way of God’s ry. tionpartner with thosedealing with poverty and love. It sets us free.” He explained thatwhile he did not agree with Bishop racism,” he said, then adding, “let me takeitfurther.It He said he was “not perfect”, asinner,who had been Curry’s conclusions, he shared the North Carolina was the voice of the Christian community in Charleston saved through the atoning death of Jesus Christ on the bishop’s assumptions that Scriptureand faith in Jesus thatchanged the narrative, from hatefulness to forgive- cross and the free grace given to him. Christwas the basis for all action. The new Presiding ness.” He told The Church of England Newspaper he wanted Bishop did not startwith an ideology that Scripturewas What the Episcopal Church had to offer to asuffering “people to know Ireally do believe in love.” The Episco- then used to justify —but began with the person of world was the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which would con- pal Church“will be ahouseofprayer,” he said. “We Jesus Christ. victthe hearts of its hearers —and “build God’sdream, must strive for that,” adding in North Carolina he had Thisallowed “mutual respect” and “reasoning togeth- rather than our own nightmares.”

THESuUS pSuprremeeCoumrt haselegalisedCothuemrorteprerciousulbyethessignifiicancen itfaseekvtoobeufaithfulr oin upholdingf gaGod’sy mEd Stetzerar,erxecutiveiagdirectore of Life- gay marriage in all 50 states. attaches to it, exclusion from that status design for marriage, and we will make WayResearch said he was ‘surprised’ by US Supreme CourtJustice Anthony has the effect of teaching that gays and everyefforttofind waystosupportand the minorityview amongst pastors. Kennedy called the ruling a‘constitution- lesbians areunequalinimportant stand with them,” the statement read. “A noteworthy number areready for al right’, writinginhis majority opinion: respects.” CEO Tony Perkins of the Christian pastors to stop saying, ‘By the power “As the State itself makes marriage all The Archbishop and Bishops of the ‘pro-marriage, pro-life’organisation,the vested in me by the state…’ during a Anglican Church in North America FamilyResearch Council,has calledthe church wedding,” he said. “Because this released astatement saying they were Courtdecision ‘lacking in foundation’. is the first time the question has been ‘deeply grieved’ by the Supreme Court “Marriage is rooted not only in human asked, we don’t know if the view is grow- Popular Stories ruling. history, but also in the biological and ing, but it certainly is worth noticing,” he “The United States of America, so its social realitythat children arecreated said. Online founders believed and taught, is anation by,and do best when raised by,amother The VineyardMinister Ken Wilson under God whose citizens’ fundamental and afather.Nocourtruling can alter has written an Open Letter to his congre- 1. Atale of twobishops rights arederived from the Creator. this truth. gants on embracing the LGBT communi- 2. “There is no place foryou in Thereisno right to arelationship which “It is folly for the Courttothink that it ty. the Church of England, Justin is contrarytothe Creator’s express has resolved acontroversial issue of pub- But Stetzer said: “Evangelicals are Welby” design,” they said. lic policy.Bydisenfranchising 50 million coming to the realisation that they hold a 3. Different butnot divided Their Church will ‘continue to exercise Americans, the Courthas instead super- minorityview in the culture,and that on its religious freedom’ and performmar- charged this issue,” he said. this issue, they havelost the home-field 4. Sir Christopher Lee riagesasdefined by the Church, Apoll by,American church opinion advantage.” regretted his lack of faith betweenaman andawoman. The Bish- surveyor,LifeWay Research, in Decem- Following the Supreme Courtruling, 5. Andhow would Iknowwhen ops said they ‘respect the consciences’ of ber 2014, found that 49 per cent of 3,000 14 states will now have to amend their Iamwrong? Evangelical faith those clergy who may decline to perform respondents agreed that “Religious wed- bans on same-sex marriage; those and the Bible – marriagesasagents of the state and dings should not be connected to the include: Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, urgedits churches to respectsuch deci- state’s definition and recognition of mar- Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Mis- Checkthem all out at sions. riage.” Research also found that 24 per souri, Nebraska, North Dakota,Ohio, “Weare also well awarethat this ruling cent of US clergy agree that “Clergy South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas. www.churchnewspaper.com may create difficulties for our lay mem- should no longer be involved in the bers and Christian institutions as they state’s licensing of marriage.”

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BrawlatIndia Gafconchairman criticisesYorkMinster THE CHAIRMAN of Gafcon, theMost avictim’s relative who faced thegunman ness to what he saw as ashallow and per- Synodmeeting Rev Eliud Wabukala, Archbishop of in courtand said, ‘I forgive you and my verse faith on display at .He POLICE WERE calledtoaSynod Kenya, has written criticising York Min- familyforgives you.Repent and give your noted that acanon of the cathedral offered meeting in India followingabrawl ster’s welcome to thePride march there. life to Christ’,” he said. God’s blessing, and by extension God thatbroke out amongSynod mem- In apastoral letter to supporters of the He further noted that BishopMichael (and his church’s approval) of a“‘Gay bers. global renewal fellowship he unfavourably Nazir-Ali had testified to the strong faith of Pride’ march of homosexual activists from On27Junedelegatesfromthesix contrasted York Minster’s witness to the “Christians whohavegonethroughterri- the Minster steps.” Church ofSouth India dioceses in faithagainst that of the “members of the ble suffering at the hands of the Islamic He cited with approval theremarks of Kerala were debating proposals to EmanuelAfrican Methodist Episcopal State.” one York clergyman who observed: “York increase the clergy retirementage Church” in the wake of the shooting at the Bishop Nazir-Ali found “surprisingly Minster’s leading the way in the Gay Pride and to weaken diocesan autonomy church that left nine dead. high morale and that, despite great pover- march is symbolic of what the Church of by strengthening the powers ofthe On 25 June, Dr Wabukala wrote that the ty,the church runcamps, have worship, England’s leadership is doing generally on Church’snationalexecutive. “true Christlikeness” of Emanuel AME medical and educational provision and thisissue –leadingpeople away from the But an amendment to the Church, “which has been no stranger to these areopen to all.” clear teaching of theBibleand the Church’s constitution atlast Satur- persecution in its past, was summed up by Dr Wabukala contrasted this faithful- Gospel.” day’s meetingofthe Synod in Thiru- vanthapuram led to a brawlamongst synod members. Sources tell The ChurchofEngland Newspaper the resolutions were allegedlypassedwithoutgiving Sydneydivests in opponents anopportunity to debate Call forafresh their merits. The dispute on the floor of the synod escalatedintoamelee ethical move and police were called and were able MANAGERS of the Diocese of Sydney’s investment to restoreorder. South-to-South fund have announced they will divest fossil fuel and However, protestersmarchedon gambling stocks from their £130M portfolio in response Bishop’s House inthe city demand- to churchcalls for asocial conscious investment policy. ing justice. Complaintsofdisturbing Glebe Administration Boardchief executive Mark the peaceand assault have been AFencounIFTH AnglicanSouth-to-Soutteh Churr ch. Do pray that the time Payne told TheAustralian last week: “Management has lodged byboth sides of thedispute, Encounter is needed, according to spent together may be asource of just this week finalised its recommendations to the and two caseshave been registered the Archbishop of the Episcopal blessing to and encourage Angli- board,” though it was unclear if the boardwouldsell out by the police. Church in Jerusalem and the Mid- cans to runthe race set before now,oratafiscally appropriate time in the future. dle East. us.” Last October the Sydney diocesan synod asked the Lastweek, theMost Rev ‘How Africa shaped our Chris- boardtodivest from gambling stocks. The General Mouneer Anis said he had invited tian mind’ is expected to be the Synod of the Anglican Church of Australia last year also Harare Diocese the primates of the Anglican theme of themeeting. The Fourth urged church institutions to pull out of fossil fuel stocks. Churches of Africa, Asia, Oceania, Anglican South-to-South Synod asked “eachdiocesetoreview the criteria for gets permission and South America to bring a Encounter took place in Singa- its investments, to give high prioritytoecological sus- team of seven delegates to poreinApril 2010 under the tainability and in particular exploreremoval of fossil- Carthage, Tunisia, to meetfrom theme of ‘The Gospel of Jesus fuel industries from diocesan investment portfolios.” forauniversity 12-18 October. Christ-Covenant for the People, Mr Payne said the boardhas “done alot of extensive STATE permissionhas beengrant- Other guests areexpected to be Light for the Nations.’ work around theethical policy generally because gam- ed for the construction of atechni- invited in their individual capacity Sources in the Global South bling and fossil fuels areonlytwo of the ethical issues cal university by the Church of the from the UK, US and Australia. movement speculate that last thatmight be dealt with in the ethical policy.” Province of Central Africa’s Diocese Details of the meeting have not week’s terrorattack in Tunisia The boardwill present to the October 2015 meeting of of Harare. yet been published, but the may prompt the archbishop to synod newinvestment guidelines that willpresent the On 26 June the Rt Rev Chad announcement stated: “Members move theconference to Cairo,the “projected impact of the policy on theperformance of Gandiya announced the Zimbabwe of the Anglican Communion will “safest” city in North Africa, theportfolio, the risks associated with the investment of MinistryofEducation had granted a have the opportunity to learnfrom though no decision has yet been theportfolio and the expected distributions.” provisional licence to begin con- the richness of the North African made. struction on the £75 million project in Chitungwiza, approximately 20 miles southeast of Harare. 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Altar positions mostofPeterMullen’s article Apartheid Sir, In his comment on 26 Conferences areinappropriate forthe (26 June). But when he asked Sir, As someonewholived June Peter Mullen reminds Church to host me tospot the mistake I partoftheiryouth in South Rev Sam Wells and others Sir,His Holiness the Pope was recently quoted in the immediately thought,“of Africa, Ihave to disagree with that God is both distant and DailyTelegraph as saying that arms manufacturers can’t course the Prayer Book is David Runcorn’s example of with us (transcendent and callthemselves Christian –asentiment with which most of quiteclear that the Priest apartheid to prove his theory immanent). No problem with us would agree. stands onthenorth side of of exegesis.White prejudice that,but he goesonto say It is thereforeshocking to read that ChurchHouse is the table”! (AlthoughIam towards people of colour(and that this is most obviousin hostingapair of conferences for theRoyal United Services very happy with the this is astrue ofBritonsas the Eucharist andpointsRev Institute this summer that will be heavily funded by the westwardposition). OPeter, wellasDutch settlers) was Wellstothe BCP; “O Sam, arms industry. Peter, pick upthy‘Prayer never writteninto theological Sam,pickupthi’Prayer Book It mightjust be possible for some Christians to justify a Book’ (1662). creeds or confessions. It was (1662)”. MayIpoint out the conference for amilitarythink tank if our defence policy David Stuart-Smith, folklore thatblacks werethe BCP 1662(&1559 & 1552) wereactually adefence policy (though our recent history London, SE1 descendantsofCain,andin instructs the priest tostand at of illegal invasions would make it difficult). its early daysinthe the Northside ofthetable, However,tohave Church House –the CoE’s settlement oftheCape the thereby facing South,not administrative HQ and asubsidiarycompany of Church Supreme Court Dutch ReformedChurch East nor West. HouseCorporation of which the Archbishop of Sir,The US SupremeCourt condonedinterracial May I also takethe Canterburyispresident –accept money from companies has voted5-4todeclare equal marriageandmixed worship. opportunity to say Amen to that profitfromdeath and destruction is hard to take. before thelawthemarriages This only ended in the mid- SusieLeafe’s feature “Will Among the numerous such companies sponsoring these ofgayaswell as straight 19th century, when Victorian you teach?”. Iseem to recall events arethe first, second and third largest arms people. This is, surely,the respectability won the day. promisingsomethingsimilar manufacturers in the world: namely Lockheed Martin, crowningvictoryofthe gay The realgenesisofapartheid when Iwas ordained first Boeing and BAE Systems. rightsmovement. Already was in theflawedscientific deacon in1986 and then Lockheed Martin manufactures the F-16 aircraft, which majority public opinion inthe and sociologicalresearchof priestin1987, as did those hasrepeatedly been used to bomb civilians in Gaza. The West is incredulous that Doctor Hendrik Ver woerd othersordained at thesame company also manufactures cluster bombs that have been anyone should think that who studied for his PHD in time and samecathedral deemed illegal. Britain, indeed, is asignatorytothe there is any significant pre-NaziGermany. (), thoseinother Cluster Munitions Convention, which prohibits all use, differencebetween one kind Theexegesis that places, and those in other production, transfer and stockpiling of cluster munitions. ofunion and the other. homosexual actsaregravely timesbefore and since where Boeing makes F-15 fighter jets and AH-64 Apache attack Marriage isthe‘sacrament’ sinfulhasbeen the constant the Prayer Booksof1549, helicopters which the Israeli militaryhas used to attack ofhuman unity-in-difference tradition of the Church from 1552,1662, 1928,Alternative Lebanese and Palestinian villages. atthe deepestlevel ofhuman earliest times. Whilstall Service Book 1980, and Air strikes in Yemen have been led by Saudi Arabia with relating (Matthew19:4-6). It Christians should support Common Worship ordination BAE’s Eurofighter Typhoons. Human RightsWatch has declares that two people celibate homosexuals who services havebeen used. identified ‘several apparently indiscriminate’ airstrikes that naturally unalike can become seek to live godlyandchaste Is itsafe to concludethat have killed civilians and destroyed infrastructureinthat metaphysically one. Gaysare lives,itwill beasad day for some people had theirfingers suffering country. preventedbytheir emotional the Church of England if crossed whenthey replied These conferences areshaming events and it is hardto make-up from celebrating homosexual practice is ever “with the helpofGod Iwill”? understand why the CofEwould accept blood money this sacrament. Now,nations condoned. Scripture warns, Couldthere be a connection from such companies. are ruling that a relationship “woe to thosewho call good, between this apparent SharenGreen, with publicvows is nomore evil and evil, good.” Ibelieve phenomenon and Church Wimborne than aunion of twopeople the evangelicals (dividedon decline? who are asalike as they can women’s ordination )are The Rev Nicholas be. This isacelebration of unitedonthis, and will block Whetton, meeting on foursites spread Access sameness over difference. itfor the foreseeable future. ManagingChaplain, HMP rightacross the city,itnow Sir, Peter Mullen’scomments There will be consequences. This will also be the casewith Hull has eightSundayservices on Presiding at the Richard Wilkins, the Church ofIrelandwith its with attendancesofwellover Sacramentreminds meof Watford NorthernIrelandProtestant Decline 1,000each week. John Stott’s observation that hegemony, but I am not so Sir,Iwriteinresponsetothe Farfrom beinga‘happy- it was not the rightofany Clarification sure about thetiny liberal articlein‘Whispering clappy,hippie-type’ church, it personpresiding to stand in Sir,Your back page feature denominations that now Gallery’, ‘Church in decline’ is onethat teaches that the theplace of Christbutthat (26June) contained constituteWelsh and Scottish (19June). church is notabuilding but they shouldleave access to numerouserrors of an . The article refers toa its people teaching strict himopen by standing toone importantnature.MayI,at Robert Ian Williams, reduction in Anglican church biblical . Pastorsin side. least, correct the following– Bangor membership in just over 30 jeansandT-shirts without a Thushisimpliedrebuketo thebook is actually titled The years from40percentto17 pew,across or hymnbook in SamWells that‘allwehaveto EthicsofClimatic Scepticism per cent. sight. And students champing do is toattend an east-facing (GroveEthics177, 2015, PARLY@ParlyApp Has the Church of England at thebittoget in. Children’s celebration, open our eyes £3.95). Theauthors are Maiden speech from wondered whythis is the activities, night shelters,food andlook’ is nonsense as our actually DrMartinJHodson, @VictoriaPrentis pays case? Ibelieveitis theageing banks, prayerteams.Love view oftheaction is obscured plant scientistandOperations tribute to Tony Baldry“the voice membership and the lack of emanating from every corner. by the person standingin Manager of the John Ray of God” in the Commons aka “Sir- new blood. 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[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper www.churchnewspaper.com Friday July 3, 2015 Leader &Comment 7 Official cover-up of the truth News that the Birmingham police chiefs, prior to the 2010 election, blocked areportdetailing serious abuse of white girls in careby men of Pakistani extraction, adds to the depth of this ghastly night- Themost persecuted mare. Rotherham police blocked adetailed, evidenced reportbya senior researcher on the sex gang phenomenon in South York- shire, as the Professor Jay’s Reportrevealed. But South Yorkshire police delayed publication of another such reporttill after the elec- people on earth tion for their regionalpolice and crime commissioner –thus help- ouro news media. Yetwidespread knowledge ing to prevent the surging UKIP supportfromgaining victory. aboutwhat is happeningright in front of us has Now we hear the scale and depth of the problem in South York- timulatedt awoefully insubstantial response. shireisway beyond what has been already declared. In fact it was JAMESCATFORD Why is this? only the work of the Times’correspondent AndrewNorfolk that One reason is theconcernofsome that we uncovered this evil and compelled the authorities to take action and Here’s astarkstatistic. Eighty per cent of all acts should not provoke aconflict with Islam. This declarewhat they knew about the systematic abuse of girls in coun- of religious discrimination across theglobe are may be anoble motive, but if it disguises the facts cil ‘care’. The evidence of young girls going to the police, with DNA againstChristians. Contrarytopopular belief, of the genocide then should we review our stance evidence, only to be sent away as ‘white trash’ and insulted, surely Christians arealso the most persecuted religious on this? means that many police officers arecomplicit in the crimes against group in the world. In anycase, all the persecution is not about the victims: such police inaction amounts to aiding and abetting the According to John Allen Jr.inhis valuable book Islam. Threats come from multiple places, includ- criminals. The GlobalWar on Christians,anti-Christian per- ing ultranationalists, totalitarian states, radical And so the public might well ask why aretherenoprosecutions secution can and should be classed as aglobal Hindus and Buddhists, criminal syndicates, state against such police, and against social services workers who tipped war. This is in spite of the term‘war’being seen security polices, secular hostility and, even, radi- offtheir male clan members of thedecisions and discussions about by many as over-inflammatoryand aprovocative cal Christians. their abusive activities. calltoarms. This is not how Allen uses it. The other reason why the West forgets is that, Juniorofficers weretold, in many cases, to ignore the victims’ In some places the Christians concerned are according to one commentator,they aretoo appeals by their senior officers, who arekey to advising the Crime not being persecuted directly,but find them- Christian to excite the left and too foreign to Prosecution Service as to criminals who should be prosecuted. And selves displacedand impoverished as aresult of excite the right. This maybeunfair,but there then of coursethe CPS itself has atrack recordoffailing to imple- being driven out of theirhomes by another reli- might be agrain of truth in it as adiagnosis. ment the law in areas wherereligious cultureisafactor,sotheCPS gious community. Such horrors committed in our ‘civilised age’ could no doubt look like acandidate for prosecution itself –basical- Allen’s statistics arealarming. He believes that should stir us to make two responses. One is to ly giving space for thecriminalitytoflourish with impunity. 100 million Christians currently face interroga- reject the bandwagon of saying that persecution No doubt legally it is impossible to launch acriminal prosecution tion, arrest, tortureordeath because of their against Christians is widespread in Britain today. against the CPS itself, making it immune. Collusion with crime, faith.These areincountriesinplaces as diverse Such aclaim only trivialises the grim reality for helping it by disabling the protection of law for victims, ought to be as Asia andthe Middle East. Therehas been a so many around the world. Thereissimply no amajor crime in itself, and yet clearly is not. There has been virtu- seven-fold increase in persecution globally in the moral equivalence between the two experiences. ally no sanction applied to the public servants,police included, for last 10 years. The other response should be to pledge, with knowingly helping the criminals in their despoiling of In 1991 Iraq had 1.5 million Christians, but in deep sincerity of heart, never to forget what our these highly vulnerable girls. thelast25years that has dropped to around Christian brothers and sisters arefacing.This is The Mid Staffs ReportbySir RobertFrancisinto the 250,000. Of the 65 churches in Baghdad, 40 have what they tellusthey need most, to be remem- cruelty found on thewards of that hospital has also given been bombed at least once between 2003 and bered.

nt rise to no prosecution for negligence, harassment, endan- 2013. Such is the power of prayer that, to the one gering life, failing in duties of care, neither criminal nor Morethan20years ago Ipublished abook by praying, can seem so inadequate. Yetitremains a civil actions have been launched against the highofficials the veteran human rights activist, Emma Nichol- powerful force in theworld and huge comfortto on whose watch all this happened, let alone against pro- son, now apeerinthe House ofLords. The title those in need. In our churches we can devote fessional carers who failed to wash, feed, and provide of the book was ‘Why Doesthe West Forget?’ and it ourselves to prayer and supportall efforts to free water to helpless patients who died in so miserable cir- describedthe early days ofthe brutalregime of the brethren, and to heal their wounds. cumstances. SaddamHussain in Iraq. Our partcan be to tell and retell the stories of The HS2 amber/red warning report, suppressed by The question Baroness Nicholson posed those worst affected. Charities like Bible Society government since 2012, has quietly been releasedafter remains unanswered today.It’s not thatwedon’t areworking in some of the most persecuted mme judicial compulsion: another example of akey report knowwhat is going on in these medieval, and placesinthe world. Our staffcan testify that this being ignored recklessly in the interests of political ideol- often collapsing, nation states. We see daily the is not an isolated problem that is likely to go away ogy.Our authorities prefer to cover up than to face up to latest atrocities and war crimes committed any time soon. Lest we forget. thetruth, however difficult –the reversal of whatthe against vulnerable people. Co Gospel demands of us. Whereonce it was the plight of millions that James CatfordisGroup Chief Executive of Bible caught the headlines, now it is the threat to Society.Follow him on Twitter or email him at World HeritageSites that prompt the outragein [email protected] TheChurch of England Newspaper withCelebratemagazine incorporating TheRecordand Christian Week Published by Political and Religious Intelligence Ltd. Company Number: 3176742 Publisher:Keith Young MBE

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[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper 8 www.churchnewspaper.com Friday July 3, 2015 Feature Plainchant–anachronism or livingmusic? Anglican Life music involving the alternation of sections of RSCM chant with measured music, which can also be used in concert. John Rowlands-Pritchard Can the earliestmusic of theWesternChristian church suggests including just one piece of chant in really be relevanttoworship in the 21st century? aservice, such as an ornate Gradual or According to the editor of arecently published volume, Respond as an anthem or motet, or asingle The RSCM Guide to Plainchant,the answer to that movement of aCommunion service or Mass. question is aresounding ‘yes’. He also emphasises that chant is an aural John Rowlands-Pritchardisa leading expertonthe subject, who has sung plainsong and taught it for many years. He says that the way in which chant is used has, of course, changed from the days of the early monastic communities, whereit formed much of the liturgy. Things have moved on as aresult of liturgical changes in the Western churches, especially in the last 40 or 50 years, and particularly since the changes wrought by the Second Vatican Council on the Roman Catholic Church. There’s by no means an unbroken tradition of use of the chant, but it has been sustained by the work of important champions such as Dr MaryBerry, and has benefitted from the early music movement’s re-examinationof performance styles. Not to mention a morerecent period of secular popularity and as acomplement to meditation. Chant is aliving music, used daily with great imagination in many ways: some communities still sing it as their only formofmusic, while others use individual pieces in the same way that we would pick and choose from any other styles of music. Johnsays that the monasticchant technique as used, forinstance, in the daily offices, creates averynatural the new volume. First published in 1979, Dr Berry’s way to pray.“It’s simpler,inmyview, work gives step-by-step guidance on reading and than using Anglican chant for singing from the notation, as well as historical context recitation of the Psalms, and the and advice on how the chant maybeused both in Psalms speak, to me at least, more worship and performance. vividly and personally in the chant For the newly published RSCMGuide to Plainchant, than they do using Anglican chant in John has added to this an extensive anthology of four part harmony. music, ranging from shortgreetings, antiphons and “Anglican chanthas its own beauty– tradition,tradition learlearnntt byby earear,wwhichhich isis eeasyasy forf r abbeginneri tot farewells to more substantial and ornate pieces. He’s Ioften recall the particular chants Isang as young man pick up. In fact, the centuries-old system of plainsong included music with particularly English significance - in acathedral choir –but it is almost of historical notation can look alittle bewildering at first, so John for example, there’s abeautiful piece telling astory beauty,whereas the recitation tones of the monastic always begins his workshops by gettingthe singers to about St Dunstan, akey figurein10th CenturyAnglo- tradition areofpracticaleveryday use, especially in a repeat some phrases without sight of the music, Saxon England. small community.” getting used to simple repetitivestructures. He then This all adds up to what John calls “music of extreme Chant hymns areused regularlyinchurches and explains the notation, andfinds the singers can quickly beauty,which has atremendous strength and cathedrals, sometimes with organaccompaniment, and pick up the techniques of reading and singing the resilience”. It’s certainly a‘living music’, and worth plainsong Compline is often sung by worshipping chant. exploring! congregations. John worked with Dr MaryBerry in thestudy and For those looking for something alittle more performance of early Gregorian chant, and has revised Find out moreand see avideo demonstrating the use of adventurous, thereis‘alternim’ –polyphonic or organ her much-loved handbook Plainchant for Everyone for chant at www.rscm.com/chant

Last Days in theDesert Edinburgh International Film Festival Even in our post-Christian secular age, Last Daysinthe Desert the intense drama of the life of Jesus encounter Jesus trekking wearily out of skill and totally engaging sensitivity a continues to challenge the cinematic the desertashis 40 days in solitary gamut of facial expression, verbal artistryoffilm-makers. fasting draw to aclose -yet still sensing economy and power to create mood - Writer-director Rodrigo Garcia’s himself not fully ready for the divinely- especially once Jesus abandons majestically evocative and visually poetic given mission which he knows is his solitariness to stay with adesert- Last Days in the Desert-premiered calling. dwelling family tornbythe mother’s Europe-wide at Edinburgh International His alter ego -who can be equated mysterious illness, the son’s yearning to Film Festival this week -brilliantly withthe Devil -appears beside him, not- be free, and thefather’s sudden death. blends superb photo-craftsmanship, too-subtlytrying to undermine his TyeSheridan and Ciaran Hinds’ wilderness -then, harrowingly,wesee deeply sensitive narrative and flashes of confidence, feed his anxiety and sow highly-charged portrayals of this him dying on the cross, his blood- theological insight into amemorably doubts about God. Is he really aloving tempestuous father-son relationship, splattered body gasping its last. compelling response to that perennial Father? profoundly affecting Jesus’ Profoundly contemplativethroughout, challenge of imaging Jesus through art. What if he is aself-centred deity, understanding of what it is to be human, and imbued with sincerereverence for The Devil’s Three Temptations amusing himself over humanity’s woes arequite exceptional. its subject, this film is truly a [Matthew 4.1-11] arenot portrayed: and petty concerns? Amid awesome desertpanoramas masterpiece, deserving widest-possible such areassumed to have already Playing both Jesus and alter captured by Emmanuel Lubezki’s showing. happened [but will asecular audience ego/Devil, Ewan McGregor’s landmark spectacular cinematography,Jesus know abbout them?]. Instead, we first performance deploys with consummate finally focuses his destiny and leaves the Brian Cooper

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Prune and prioritize

Phil Potter,Archbishops’ Missioner andteam leader of Fresh Expressions, discusses making space fornew things to bear fruit… Agroup of people werepreparing for an ascent to the increasingly learnhow to innovate for the future. innovativepruning and prioritising. top of Mont Blanc in the French Alps, and weretold to They have recognised thatunless they ownthat as a In fresh expressions thatfirst set out with amonthly leave behind all unnecessary equipment as it was an priority, the urgencyofthe day-to-day business will rhythm of meeting,many arewisely not assuming that arduous and difficult climb. Ayoung Englishman alwaysextinguish theirgenuine desiretokeep looking growing into maturity is about turning the monthly disagreed and went ahead of the group carrying his forwardand think moreradically. gathering into aweekly one. Instead of trying to repeat usualveryheavy load. In the Missional Leaders’ Community that Icreated and clone what is already happening, they areseeing The rest of the group followed and, on the climb, forlay pioneers, we recognised thateverygood the four weeks of astandardmonth as an opportunity noticed certain things thatsomeone hadleft along the intention to make this asource of supportand to offer people avarying diet. They may,for instance, way…a blanket, somelarge blocks of cheese, abottle refreshment would be seriously undermined if we gather for collective community and worship twice a of wine and severalheavy pieces of camera simply added another month, but on the other weeks introduce discipleship equipment. When they reached thesummit, meeting to allofthe groups or social events… in other words they don’t theydiscovered their now wiser companion other demands faced by assume the old paradigm of ‘service everySunday’ and who haddecided (the hardway) to jettison these leaders on adaily extras if you’rereally committed! everything unnecessary! pioneer leaders basis; not least in their Finally,asateam and organisation, Fresh One thingIamnoticing increasingly as the at every level local church. Expressions has now entered aperiod of ‘pruning and Churchcontinues its ascent towards becoming We decided from the prioritising’ as we continue to wrestle with how we can more effectively mission-shaped is that pioneer are grappling beginning,then, to best serve the Church as the fresh expressions story leadersateverylevel aregrappling with what it enable them to prune transitions from ‘initiative to movement’. means toprune and prioritise. We are with what it theircommitment to The list of possible priorities is huge and the recognising (sometimes the hardway) that we means to prune other things, and challenge at times daunting, but agenerous and cannot introduce and pioneer new ways of deliberately decided to faithful God has already multiplied the available working without first of all dealing with the way and prioritise gather once amonth on resources way beyond asingle team and we areso we work now. aSunday morning or thankful for our ‘associate’ friendsineverysense. Let me give you one or two examples. afternoon. Please pray for us then as we increasingly seek in In the ChurchofEngland, the eight bishops’ staff In doing this we negotiated with their church leaders our role tocatalyse, encourage and connect the many teams who have attended an Inter Diocesan Learning to release them from theirusual commitment to thousands of us who areworkingindifferent and Communityover the past three yearshave all now churchattendance on those days, and we weregrateful dynamic ways to champion fresh expressions of madesignificant moves to make regular spaceintheir to thosewho gave their blessingfor graciously church. The pruning and prioritising is bearing fruit. crowded agendas for serious reflective thinking and realising that some of their best leadersneeded a decision-making on the ways in which they will Sabbath too, and would never get itwithout some FreshExpressions: www.freshexpressions.org.uk

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Cambridge, said: “There’s awealth of research that suggests that the Mediterranean diet, which includes lycopene found in tomatoes and other fruits as a component, is good for our cardiovascular health.” Interestingly while it’s often advocated that raw foods arebest andcooking denatures food, in the caseoftomatoes the potency of Lycopene seems to JaneyLee Grace be enhanced when it’s pureed, cooked or steeped in olive oil. My kids arethrilled to bits at this news of course because they think Iwill now liberally dish out the Tomatoketchup –sadly Iwon’t as most Live Healthy! Live Happy! brands contain high levels of sugar but I’ll consider drinking aBloody Mary(oncethe kids areinbed!) and whizzing up my own version of tomato soup (or Gazpachio) which is simple if you have ahigh speed blender,some tomatoes, half an apple (peeled) a BlushinIf the good weather has sent yougwinto the garithden healpatients withcthardiovascular disease. couple of tablespoons of sun dried tomatoes and a tending your tomato plants you may well be feeling Of course this research is based on the healthy pinch of sea salt. Whisk it all up and serve hotor pleased with yourself. We’ve always known tomatoes Mediterranean diet wherefruits, vegetables, oily fish cold. aregood for us,as‘fruits’ go they areextremely and olive oil is consumed liberally and thereisless If you want the convenience of asupplement you versatile and hugely beneficial and nowitseems that heartdisease. Tomatoes areoften heraldedasone of could tryLyc-O-Mato dietarysupplements because they contain acancer-fighting extract, apowerful the main components responsible for the good health they provide afull complement of tomato carotenoids antioxidant that could help with heart disease or those because they contain Lycopene, apowerfulantioxidant. and other nutrients. The specific tomato lycopène is at risk of astroke. It is thought to be 10 times morepotent than Vitamin E. taken from astrainofnon-genetically modified According to new research fromthe University of Dr Joseph Cheriyan, consultant clinical tomatoes, veryrich in lycopene with up to four times Cambridge adaily supplement of an extract found in pharmacologist and physician at Addenbrooke’s the amount found in regular tomatoes. Youcan buy tomatoes may improve the function of bloodvessels in Hospital and Associate Lecturer at the Universityof them in Boots or from www.vitahealthcare.com Booksbycontributors opoliticians on TwoCEN contributorshave just published newbooks. Liz Hoare (tutor in spiritual Tw formation at Wycliffe Hall) haswritten Using the Bible in Spiritual Direction,inwhich she encourages her readers to place the scriptures at the centre of their spiritual quest and makesitclear that spiritualdirection is not aself-improvement plan, psychotherapy or gaymarriage counselling. One reviewer has called it a‘remarkable book’. Also remarkableinmany waysisPeter Mullen’s autobiographical work, AlwaysaPriest. This is full of amusing and In adamming article New Statesman editor, Jason Cowley,has questioned also revealing stories of Mullen’s time as acurate in several parishes, his chaplaincy of a Andy Burnham’s fitness to lead the Labour Party,saying both his secondaryschool in Bolton and hisperiod asVicar oftwo country parishes inYorkshire. intellectual ability and character areindoubt. Burnham started life as an He doesn’t take thestorydown to his time in theCity of London and his remarkable ambitious Blairite; now he has moved left to courtthe union vote. Raised a preachingministrythere. The writing is always vivid anddown to earth. Don’t pickthis Catholic and educated at aCatholic comprehensive school from wherehe book up if the ‘f’wordoffends you! As might be expected, the hierarchy doesn’t come out went to Cambridge, he has announced that allfaith schools should be verywell. We aretoldthat ‘ArchbishopRamsey had an overblown reputation as a forced to put gay and lesbian relationships on apar with heterosexual ones theologian, largely created by sycophanticmediocrities looking for preferment’ and there in their teaching. He denies this is athreat to religious freedom. Like much is anaccount of ArchbishopJohn Habgood carpeting Mullen for writing an article critical of what Burnhamsays, this sounds like political opportunism of the worst of theArchbishop’s support for research on embryos. ‘He wore expediency likea kind. By way of contrast, former Australian Laborleader,Julia Gillard, shroud,’ Mullen writes. By contrast 86-year-old housebound Louise Fawcett, to whom offered an honest reflection on her own experience when she spoke at the Mullen as ayoung curatetook communion, was thenext best thing to avision of the London School of Economics. Challenged by an Irish student (who supernaturalortransportofheavenly delight.Indifferent ways, both books areagood described the referendum as apainful experience) to say why she had not read. supported gay marriage when she wasPrime Minister she explained that her background as afeminist had made her suspicious of all kinds of marriage. She is not married to her (male) partner because as ayoung woman she had no intention of walking down the aisle wearing awhite wedding dress and being given away by her father.The arrival of gay marriage has led her to reconsider her views about marriage and she now hopes therewill be afreevote in Parliament in Canberra. Has gay marriage made marriage cool? Probably not. The number of marriages is unlikely to rise.But Julia Gillardcan be commended for addressing the Tale of TwoCastles issue openly and honestly and not using it merely for political advantage. Rose Castle, the historic home of the bishops of Carlisle, has come on the open market for what The Times calls ‘the price of abolt hole in Chelsea’. It is sad that the Church Commissioners areprepared to partwith this wonderful piece of historythat has been an episcopal residence since the 1230s. Amongst other treasures, it has a17th Centurychapel and hand- painted Chinesewallpaper.Afour-bedroom farmhouse and acottage are included in the sale. The commissioners arelooking for £2.95 million after Promoted to Glory rejecting an offer by an anonymous donor to buy it as acentrefor One of thegreatChristians of the 20th Century,Elizabeth Elliot, has died. A reconciliation. They first tried tosell the castle in 2011 but pulled memorial service was held forheron22 JuneatGordon College in back after apublic outcryand gave twovoluntarygroups time to try Massachusetts. She was88and had been suffering fromdementia. to raise money to buy the castle. The new attempt to sell the castle is Elizabeth went with herhusband, Jim, as a missionary to remote tribal causing anger in Cumbria. Meanwhile over in the NE Auckland peoples in Ecuador in the 1950s. In January1956, Jim and fourother Castle goes from strength to strength as atourist attraction. It is missionaries were killed bytheAuca Indians.Although the to be the venue forthe largest open-air performance staged in missionaries werearmed,they only fired their guns into the air thiscountrysincethe London 2012 Olympics. From June because theybelieved they wereready to meet with Godbut the 2016, it will host the ‘Eleven Arches Project’ in which 1,000 Indians werenot. Elizabeth,whowas not in Ecuadoratthe time, volunteers will enact scenes from 2,000 years of Britain’s decidedafter two yearstotakeherinfant daughterandgoback historywith an emphasis on the North East. The project to Ecuadorwith Rachel Saint, the widow of another missionary, is modelled on the ‘Pay du Fou theme park’ in France that and try to continue the work ofconverting the Auca. She stayed mounts historical shows involving Viking raids and there until1963 and todayabout athirdofthetribe are Roman gladiators. Auckland Castleand its famous Christian.Back intheUSElizabeth Elliott had a hugeministry paintings weresaved by evangelical Christian throughher booksandherspeaking. ThroughGates of businessman, Jonathan Ruffer.Ithas recently received Whispering Splendour,which she wrote aboutherhusband’s martyrdom, a£9milliongrant from English Heritage to helpits rankedNo9onChristianity Today’s list oftop 50 books that

The Gallery development as atourist centre. Can someone please have shaped evangelicals. She attendedChristChurch save Rose Castle? EpiscopalChurchofHamilton and Wenham,Massachusetts.

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Inside themind ANDREW CAREY of aterrorist View from the Pew It requiresacombination of extraordinary mental gymnastics and self-deception to truly believe that thereisnoconnection betweenwhatterroristsclaim motivates them and what they then go on to do. “If youwanttofind a terrorist, lookfor people buying dodgychemicals, notpeople saying their prayers,” rron under attack writesCanon Gile Fa sFraser(‘It’s not the religionthat creates terrorists, it’sthe politics’, The Guardian, Saturday27June).Let’snot forgetthatFraser isn’t always consistent.Hehas in thepastblamed conservative Christian theologyfor homophobic violence.Inthis case heclaims that the ‘radicalisation’ hypothesisisadisplacementexercise built to avoid assigning part ofthe responsibilitytoourselves. “We want to tellourselves that we are secular and enlightened and sohavenopartinall ofthis bloodshed.It’s what people commonly do with evil – we conceptualiseitasbeing as far away from usas possible.But if Islamic terrorism isreally all about politics, then we have to admit thatthe long history of disastrous western interventions in the Middle East is apartofthecause of thehorrorthat continues to unfold. Inother words, we have to face our responsibility.” But this simplistic ‘either-or’ approach, for which reasonFraserisemployed as a pundit on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Moral Maze’, isinfact itself an evasion of Liberal Democrat leadership contender TimFarron Farron’s question raising the compatibility of responsibility.Fraser rightly pointsout that terrorists is coming under attack from within his party leading the Liberal party and being aChristian. She themselves,thoughtheyclaim to be inspired bytheir because of his Christian faith and in particular his writes: “But given the massive obstacle that the religion, have sometimesbarely read a page of ‘The voting recordonmatters of conscience such as faith vote has represented to liberal advances such Qur’anfor dummies’. Butthatisto conflateand abortion and gay marriage. as equal marriage, it is not an unreasonable confuse post-enlightenmentliberalProtestantism with Predictably enough, like certain conservative question.” entirely differentcategoriesoffaithinwhich belonging ministers beforehim, he has now exchanged his This kind of hard-coresecularism attempts to goeshand-in-hand with belief and in which therearen’t previous convictions for other ones that drive religious voices out of the public sphererather creeds, and in which theology, orrather jurisprudence, coincidentally will be more likely to gainhim votes than allowing them to flourish in an atmosphereof isfirmly guarded bythe scholarsand imams. in the leadership contest. Nevertheless, it is a mutual respect. It is the same secularism espoused In reality, a version of Islam is indeed at playinthe matterofsome concernthat having ‘conservative’ by Labour leadership candidate, Andy Burnham, terrorism we see allaround us. It isaversion of Islam or ‘orthodox’ Christian beliefs is now effectively a who insists now that faith schools “must be forced with a highly developed sense ofgrievance and strong bar on holding political office. to teach about gay and lesbian relationships on a ideasof‘them and us’.Itprovidesbothatheological In contrast with Fraser,who dismisses the parwith heterosexual couples.” veneer to the tribalism and astrong and singular connection between faith and aparticular kind of This is in spite of hollow promises made by all individualmotivation for at least some ofthosewho vice, another Guardian columnist takes things all those who backed the same-sex marriage buy andutilise plastic explosives and guns. too far the other way.Catherine Bennett, asecularly legislation that faith schools would not be forced to That is nottosay there aren’t other causes. Bad mindedcommentator,writes that MPs should teach things at odds with their faith convictions — theology is only partofthe picture. Othercausesare to declarereligious beliefs in debates, presumably, beyond the barefacts. dowith tribalism,politics,foreignpolicy andalienation. even when they areadvancing arguments that do Now that the American Supreme Courthas But all these contributoryfactors are glued together not rely on narrowtheological reasoning. enforced gay marriage in all the states in arejection with a strongdoseoffanatical andradicalfaith. This is acompletely specious and disingenuous of democratic decision-making, the US churches So if youwanttofind a terroristlook forsomeone requirement that seeks merely to delegitimise the will experience asimilar shrinking of the public buying plastic explosives who also happens to go to an expression of religious voices in the public sphere. squareassecularism becomes ever morehostile to extremist mosque. In fact, Bennett gives herself away by agreeing with all religious voices.

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‘O my people, what have Idone to you? In what have I mercy.Through the prophet God questions Israel, his consequences. Justice, kindness and humility belong wearied you? Answer me,’ Micah 6:3 chosen people, to ask: ‘Why?’.Inchapters 6and 7of to both Old and New Testaments. ‘Whatever is …just’ Micah we see God contending with his people pleading says Phil 4:8 is among those things that we should Many of the psalms question God, reminding him of his case against them so that all should hear from the keep on doing. Injustice cries out to God for change. his promises and lamenting his apparent absence in mountains to the earth’s veryfoundations(v1,2). He Kindness goes to the heartofGod’s character and their moment of distress. They bring great comfortto reminds them of what he did for them in the past, how thereforeshould characterise his people. Humility is us when we feel that God is far away or that he isdeaf he brought them up from Egypt, rescuing them from reflected in the LordJesus’ life from beginning to end, to our cries for help. slavery, sending leaders and saving them. from his birth to death and resurrection. It is not Theyare avital reminder that it is crucial to our The people have responded with forgetfulness and difficult to see how God’s expectations of his chosen relationship withhim that we can be honest and tell misunderstanding and God cannot find the kinds of people have been exemplified in his son who loved us him howwefeel. But how often do we pause to think hearts he islooking for.Hereminds them what he and gave himself for us precisely because we could not about how we make God feel? requires of his people in v8: ‘to do justice and to love live up to them by ourselves. So when we pray for the When we confess our sins, do wesimply kindness and to walk humbly with [their] God.’ This world that turns its face away from justice and mercy acknowledge we have fallen shortand ask for verse is often quoted and it is helpful to see it in its or when we plead for our nation that seems to have forgiveness or do we express sorrowfor the way we wider context in this prophetic book. forgotten what God has said we arejoining with God’s have thrown God’s loving kindness to us back in his It comesinbetween acatalogue of Israel’s failureto ownanguish for his world. face and rejectedhis love? grasp what God wants from his people and astern He is not aGod far offwho rules with cold Micah gives us aglimpse into the heartofGod’s warning of what he actually found and their indifference.

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SCHOOL APPOINTMENTS Iissued some “departmental advice” to assist Maintained Bury Church of England High School Schools fulfil their obligations to Haslam Brow “promote the spiritual, moral, Bury BL9 0TS cultural, mental and physical Tel: 0161 797 6236 developments of pupils”. Specifically this means that MATHEMATICS LEARNING ASSISTANT “fundamental British values of (Grade7) democracy,the rule of law, Salary: £14,481-£17,253 individual liberty,and mutual Required for1st September 2015 respect and tolerance of those Hours of work are37per week, term time, plus 5days (to be worked during with different faiths and beliefs” school training). should be promoted; and, We requiresomeone to work closely within our Mathematics Departmentto naturally,“opinions or support thelearningofpupils at both KeyStage3andKey Stage4,including behaviours... that arecontraryto located outside the consensus of antagonise religious groups with planning with staff,preparation of resourcesand classroom support and administrative duties.The post holder will be requiredtoundertake the fundamental British values” the group. all the social upheaval and supervision of pupils,and contribute to thewider life of theschool. should be “challenged” and not be This is logical, but it springs sadness that will flow in its wake. GCSE Mathematics A* to Cand an Alevel qualification areessential as are allowed to “undermine” from adeeply,value-laden, This will only serve to further good IT skills.The post would suit anewly qualified graduate.Itprovidesan foundational mores. religious presupposition that stoke religious extremism. opportunitytoengageineducationand can beaspringboardtoteacher All this, of course, is well and thereisnoaccess to the voice or The first thing, Ithink, that trainingifdesired. good, coming as it did after the mind of God —which is afaith- needs to be said is that it is Appointmentissubjecttoasatisfactory enhanced disclosurefromthe Criminal TrojanHorse scandal in commitment as intransigent as incumbent upon the Department Records Bureau. Birmingham, wherecertain state anything that was ever taught in of Education to admit that the Theschooliscommitted to safeguardingand promoting thewelfareofchildren andyoungpeople andexpects all staff to sharethis commitment. schools weretaken over by Birmingham. policy they areadvocating is far Application formsand further details obtainable from TheSchool Office: Tel governors seeking to impose an On the other hand the DofE from neutral. It is in itself a No:0161 797 6236 or viathe school website: www.burychurch.bury.sch.uk Islamic ideology on goes on to claim that “mutual religiously motivated agenda andreturnable to Revd. C. Watson, Headteacher,Bury CEHighSchool,Haslam impressionable pupils. Clearly in respect and tolerance” must be driven by secular ideals and Brow,Bury BL9 0TSorvia e-mail to: [email protected] by noon the eyes of the apparently tolerant promoted with regardtothose beliefs that cannotbe on Thursday 9th July 2015. and benign Department of with “different faiths and beliefs”. “blasphemed.” ClosingDate: Thursday 9th July 2015 at noon. Education, thisassertion of a Buthow exactly is this mutual Of course they do not yet Previous applicants need notapply. different “faith and belief” could tolerance and respect going to be recognise this. not go unchallenged. For,asMr expressed, given the democratic But they should admit that the Bury Church of England High School Obama and Mr Cameron wereto assumptions held? veryvalues they have chosen to Haslam Brow say just afew weeks later after Thereare anumber of champion have of necessity meant Bury another militant assertion of examples that one could chose that they have to make achoice — BL9 0TS Tel: 0161 797 6236 Islamic ideology in Paris, “our from, but let us take the right to and that choice has been freedoms” now need to be life. According to the 1967 motivated by the deepest religious PERFORMING ARTS LEARNING ASSISTANT (Grade 7) defended along with the “values Abortion Act, abortion is legal up and ethical dispositions of their £17,714 to £19,742 (ProRata) that we cherish”. until 24 weeks (although if there hearts. Required as soon as possible. Seen in thislight, the is asubstantial risk to the Secondly,having completed that Hours of work are 37 per week, term time, plus 15 days. Department of Education’sadvice woman’slife or foetal exercise, they should be more We require someone to work closely with our Music and Drama Departments can be seen as apanicked over- abnormalities, thereisnotime open to see that the fundamental to support the learning of pupils at both Key Stage 3and Key Stage 4inall aspects of Performing Arts, assisting in preparing, delivering and evaluating reaction to asituation that was limit). Yetaccording to the British values that they so want to school productions and concerts, the production of materials, availability to rapidly spiralling out of control. Christianconscience, not only is champion areactually the values participate in after school activities, administrativetasks,supervision of Be that as itmay,their “advice” abortion the taking of ahuman instilled into the soul of the nation classes, maintenance of goodorder and purposeful atmosphereand undertaking taskstoenhancethe learning environment. Supervisionof raises morequestions than it life, but the 24-week limit is also by the Christian Church since pupilsatbreakand lunchtime, delivery of collective worshipand the answers. Sadly,itpoints to aloss completely arbitrary. Why not 23 beforeMagnaCarta. registration of classes,and the provisionofhospitality wouldalso be a of confidence in what used to be weeks or 25 weeks? Or,indeed, up Nick Spence in his illuminating requirement. Britain’s overarching moral until the moment of birth? Or book Freedomand Order (2011) GCSEEnglish andMathematicsatGradeCor above and an Alevel qualifications including aMusic or aPerforming Arts related discipline and narrative. Who gives the indeed after birth, as the has argued that it was theChurch the ability to play piano to at least grade 6standard are essential as is the Department of Education the Princeton moral philosopher wielding the spiritual swordofthe effectiveuse of IT and the abilitytoapply this to thelearningofThe Performing Arts. The post would suit anewly qualified graduate. righttodecidewhatare core Peter Singer has argued. wordofGod that gave birth to the Appointment is subject to asatisfactory enhanced disclosure from the British values in the first place? Now,whatever you maythink British understanding that those Disclosure and Barring Service. Arethey different from Chinese, about that issue, it certainly does who rule do so by grace, and not The schooliscommittedtosafeguardingand promoting thewelfareof European, or American values? If not “respect” or “tolerate” by arbitrarymight. This in turn children and young people and expects all stafftoshare this commitment. so how? And why? religious belief. Indeed it rides led to embedded values of justice Application forms and further details obtainable from The School Office: Tel Setting that question aside for a roughshod over it and roundly and peace, carefor the poor and No: 0161 797 6236 or via the school website: www.burychurch.bury.sch.uk and returnable to Revd. C. Watson, Headteacher,BuryCEHighSchool, moment, the values that they wish declares to all in society,including needy,and personal (biblical) HaslamBrow,Bury, BL9 0TS or via e-mailto: [email protected] to champion aremutually the mosque andthe church,that morality being upheld and by noononThursday 9th July 2015. contradictory. On the one hand, it individual human life —mylife promoted. Closing Date: Thursday 9th July 2015 at noon. is claimed that“democracy” is a and your life included —has no These arethe values to which corevalue. Yet, as is becoming intrinsic value other than what the we should return. For they are increasingly clear,democracy can state (accidentally) allocates to it. our long-held and deeply +88 -$' 2'*2,#-7'6- 3()'2-/ 344'32#6% $'2' 32' only properly work if it is agreed So how is this impasse to be established native values that that all who come to thetable are avoided? Thisisacrucial spring from Scriptureitself. 38/5 45/-'( 56 5,2&'0/#-' '3*$ &''! 1 radically equal and no appeal can question. If it is not faced, the be made to asource of Department of Education Nigel Atkinson is the Vicar of &&&.2'8#%#5,/"50/#-'.*57 authoritative teaching (such as guidelines areset to achieve Knutsford Bible, Pope, or Qur’an) that is nothing, other than to dismay and

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ushden (Peterborough). June. BIBLECHALLENGE The RevDrJeanne Males ANGLICAN CYCLE OF PRAYER VicarofAddington, St Marythe RETIREMENTS& Blessed Virgin (Southwark), Friday 3 July.Psalm 31:1-8, 1Sam1:21-2:11. Owo -(Ondo, RESIGNATIONS retires with effect 30 June. Day 185 –Job 16-18, Psalm 1, Nigeria): The Rt Rev James Adedayo Oladunjoye The Rev Jonas AMdumulla, II Corinthians 10 Saturday 4July. Psalm 31:9-24, 1Sam 3:1-19. Oxford- The Rev Nicholas Stephen Priest inChargeofCarlton, St Day 186 –Job 19-21, Psalm 2, (Canterbury,England): vacant; Oxford-Buckingham - Adams, Maryand Drax,StPeterand St II Corinthians 11 (Canterbury,England): The Rt Rev Dr Alan Thomas Lawrence Associate Minister (SSM), Paul (York), will retireon30 Day 187 –Enjoy hearing the Wilson; Oxford -Dorchester -(Canterbury, England): TheRt Soundwell, (Bristol), has September. Scriptures read aloud inchurch Rev Colin William Fletcher; Oxford -Reading -(Canterbury, resigned with effect from 10 The Rev Elizabeth Moore- Day 188 –Job 22-24, Psalm 3, England):The Rt Rev Andrew Proud May. Bick, II Corinthians 12 Sunday 5 July. Pentecost 6. Psalm 119:33-49, Mk 11:1-11. Oyo - The Rev Kevin Ashby is resigning from her Day 189–Job 25-27, Psalm 4, (Ibadan, Nigeria): The Rt Rev WilliamsOluwarotimi Aladekugbe has stepped down as Area Dean appointment as Team Vicar, II Corinthians 13 Monday 6July.Psalm 32, Mk 11:12-19. Pacong -(Sudan):The Rt of Framland (Leicester). Clarendon and Chaplain to Day 190 –Job 28-30, Psalm 5, Rev JosephMakerAtot The Rev RosemaryBowers SalisburyCathedral School, Galatians 1 Tuesday 7July. Psalm 33, 1Sam4:1-18. Panama-(Central retired as NSM Team Vicar (Salisbury). Day 191 –Job 31-33, Psalm 6, America):The Rt Rev JulioMurray House for Duty with The Rev Dr AndrewJames Galatians 2 Wednesday 8July. Psalm 34:1-10, 1Sam 5:1 –5.Pankshin - responsibility for St Nicholas Murray, (Jos, Nigeria): TheRtRev Olumuyiwa Ajayi with St John and St Michael, AssistantCurate, Christ Church Thursday9July. Psalm 34:11-22, 1Sam 7. Paraguay -(South Newchurch in the Rossendale with Emmanuel, Clifton, APPOINTMENTS America): The Rt Rev Peter John HenryBartlett;Paraguay - Middle Valley Team (Bristol), toresign from 7July. (South America): The Rt Rev Andrés Rodríguez Erben (Manchester) with effect from 4 The Rev BrianJohn Parfitt, The Rev Martyn Clifford May. Half-Time Interim Priest in the Alvey, The Rev Esther Foss, Cathedral. The Rev Preb Peter Timothy Benefice of Highnam, Vicar at Christ Church, Team Vicar of Knaresborough The Rev Mark Pullinger, William Davies, Lassington, Rudford, Tibberton Worksop and Priest-in-Charge (West Yorkshireand The Team Vicar in the Sutton Team Vicar of Audley (Lichfield); to and Taynton (Gloucester), to at St Luke’s Shireoaks Dales), is to be licensed as Ministry, is to be licensed as retirewith effect from 2August. retirefrom30June 2015. (Southwell and Nottingham) to Priest-in-Charge of Coulsdon, St Priest-in-Charge, Team Rector The Rev Jennifer Ann The Rev CanonDrMichael become Vicar in the new United Andrew (Southwark). designate, of the Merstham and d’Esterre, William SemperParsons, Benefice of Worksop Christ The Rev Dawn Glen, Gatton Team Ministry Self-Supporting Interim Priest StipendiaryPriest in Charge of Church and Shireoaks Assistant of the (Southwark). in Charge of the Benefice of the Benefice of St Oswald (Southwell &Nottingham). benefices of Kirk Langley and The Rev Paul Andrew Sav- Cromhall, Tortworth, Coney Hill with St Aldate; and The Rev David Samuel John Mackworth and Mugginton and age, Tytherington, Falfield and HonoraryCanonofGloucester Austin, Kedleston, (Derby), has been Assistant Curate in the benefice Rockhampton (Gloucester),to Cathedral (Gloucester), to Assistant Curate, Addingham, appointed Assistant Curate (to of Bawtrywith Austerfield, retirefrom31July. retirefrom31July. (West Yorkshireand the Dales), be known as Associate Priest) Misson, Everton and Mattersey The Rev Clive Devonish, The Rev Caroline Plant, to be Vicar,New Catton St Luke of Brailsfordwith Shirley, (Southwell and Nottingham) to Vicar of Greenside (Durham), Assistant Chaplain to with St Augustine (Norwich). Osmaston with Edlastonand bePriest in Charge of the to retirefrom31July. StaffordshireUniversity The Rev Jules Ann Barnes, Yeaveley with particular Ascension group (Leicester). The Rev RobertFruehwirth, (Lichfield); has retired with To be, in addition, aMinor responsibility for Wedding The Rev Andrew Sewell, Priest Director of the Julian effect from 31 May 2015. Canon, Bristol Cathedral. Ministry, and Permission to To be, in addition, aMinor Centre; Hon Assistant Priest, The Rev David John Pole, The Rev John Barr, Officiate in the benefices of Canon, Bristol Cathedral. Norwich St Peter Mancroft with Vicar in the Benefice of Vicar of Great Malvern, to be Kirk Langley and Mackworth The Rev , St John Maddermarket Alveston and Littleton on HonoraryCanon, Worcester and Mugginton and Kedleston chaplain to the Bishopof (Norwich) is to resign. Severnwith Elberton and Priest Cathedral. in the same diocese. Southwark, to be archdeacon of The Rev Daphne Hollings, in Charge of the Benefice and The Rev Alison Brunt, The Rev Suzanne Grindrod, Stow and Lindsey (Lincoln). Assistant Curate (Associate Parish of Pilning and Compton Assistant Curate of South StipendiaryAssistant Curate in The Rev Canon TimMar- Minister) of Edstaston, Fauls, Greenfield (Bristol),toresign Croydon, St Peter and St the Benefice of Lydney,tobe wood, Prees, Tilstock and Whixall from11September. Augustine, is to be collated and StipendiaryPriest in Charge of NSM, House for Duty,Priest of (Lichfield); to retirewith effect The RevSarah Anne Pullin, inducted as Vicar of Norbury, the Benefice of Ashchurch and St Peter,Petersham, to be from 31 July. Assistant Curate (SSM, St Oswald (Southwark). Kemerton (Gloucester). Acting Archdeacon of The Rev CanonPeter training),StStephen with St The Rev Tracy-Belinda The Rev CliffKay, Wandsworth (Southwark). Howard, James and St John the Baptist Charmley, Curate at Warley(Blackburn), The Rev Philip William Priest inCharge, Heartsease with St Michael, Bristol and St in addition to her role as to be Rector of theBelton White, (Norwich), Urban Officer and George Bristol (Bristol), to Assistant Priest of Guernsey,St Group (Lincoln). Priest in Charge(0.5) of St Church Urban Fund Link, resign with effect from 4June. Philippe de Torteval; Guernsey, The Rev Peter Harnden, James with Holy Trinity, HonoraryCanon (Norwich The Rev Diane Roberts, St Pierre Du Bois; Guernsey,St Priest-in-Charge of Benhiltonis Scarborough and Priest in Cathedral) is to retirefrom31 has retired as Assistant Priest, Saviour; and Guernsey,Ste to be Vicar of thebenefice Charge (0.5) Cayton with July. SalisburyStMark and Marguerite de La Foret, has (Southwark) Eastfield, Scarborough (York), The RevPeter Foy Laverstock St Andrew, been appointed Warden of The Rev Felicity Hendry, to be Priest in Charge of The is resigning from his (Salisbury). Readers for the Deaneryof Assistant Curate without West Trent Group (Thurgarton appointment as Assistant The Rev Dr Anthony Guernsey. stipend of Crawley,StJohn the with Hoveringham and Bleasby Curate, Warminster Christ Swindell, The Rev Canon Derek Baptist (Chichester),istobe with Halloughton and Rolleston Church, (Salisbury). retires as Incumbent of St Christopher Chedzey, licensed as Assistant Curate with Fiskerton, Morton and The Rev Marion (Mars) Kim Saviour,Jersey with effect from HonoraryCanon of Bristol (without stipend) of Tadworth, Upton), (Southwell and Goodman, 9September 2015. Cathedral and Advisor for Initial The Good Shepherd Nottingham). Assistant Curate (SSM), The Rev Paul Wilkinson, Ministerial Education to be (Southwark) The Rev Andrew Wickens, Redland, (Bristol)toresign StipendiaryTeam Rector of the Canon ResidentiaryatBristol The Rev Nigel Hinton, Vicar in the Dudley Team, with effect from 9August. Benefice of the South Cathedral. Permission to Officiate Dudley Education Chaplain and The Rev Bryan Hackett Cheltenham Churches The Rev Canon Michael Cov- (Rochester), is to be licensed as Chair of the Dudley Borough resigned from the post of (Gloucester), to retirefrom21 ington, Associate Vicar (House for Interfaith Network, to be Incumbent of St John, Baguley August. Has become Interim Area Dean Duty) of Dormansland, St John HonoraryCanon, Worcester (Brooklands) with effect from The Rev Nick Wright, of Framland (Leicester). the Evangelist in the proposed Cathedral. 15 May (Manchester). retires as Vicar of Inkberroww The Rev Trevor Day, Lingfield and Dormansland The Rev Lisa Jayn Wigmore, The Rev Ian Kenneth Hobbs Cookhill &Kington w To be, in addition, aMinor United Benefice, (Southwark). To be, in addition, aMinor is resigning from his Dormston (Worcester) on 2 Canon, Bristol Cathedral. The Rev Andrew Jones, Canon, Bristol Cathedral. appointment as Team Rector, August 2015. The Rev David Gordon Assistant Curate, Sprowston The Rev Canon Stephen Radipole and Melcombe Regis, Deboys, Benefice, to be Rector of the Wright, (Salisbury). LAY AND OTHER StipendiaryAssociate Priest in Trunch Group (Gimingham, Chaplain within the Chaplaincy The Rev Stephen Knowers, the Benefice of Tewkesbury Knapton, Mundesley,Paston, of Dubai and Sharjah with the Vicar of Shirley,StJohn and APPOINTMENTS with Walton Cardiffand Trunch with Bradfield and Northern Emirates is to be also Area Dean of Croydon Mr Roger RoyleHowarth, Twyning; and Diocesan Swafield) (Norwich). Priest-in-Charge of the Addington resigned as Area to be Asst Chaplain and HMP Worship Officer (Gloucester) to The Rev CliffordKay, Quidenham Group Benefice Dean with effect 9June, Stoke HeathYOI (Lichfield). be StipendiaryTeam Vicar in Curate of St John’s Warley and (Norwich). continuing as Vicar of St John William Nye, the Benefice of Southampton St Hilda’s Halifax (West The Rev Michael Young, (Southwark). PrincipalPrivate Secretaryto City Centre(Winchester). Yorkshire and the Dales), to be Associate Curate, Wareham, The Rev Keith Lumsdon, Their Royal Highnesses The The Rev RobertJames Edy, Rector of the BeltonGroup (Salisbury), to be Associate Vicar of Cornforth and Prince of Wales and The Priest in Charge of (Lincoln). Priest of Wareham, (Salisbury). Ferryhill (Durham), to retire Duchess of Cornwall,tobe Ducklington; and DeputyHead The Rev RosemaryLawley, The Rev Christopher Young- from 13 July. Secretary-Generalofthe Master of HenryBox School, RectorofKidderminster Ismere man, The Rev JohnMcManners, Archbishops’ Counciland Witney (Oxford) to be Chaplain and FaithatWork in Assistant CurateofRadcliffe on Priest in Charge of Secretary General ofthe of Rendcomb College WorcestershireChaplain, to be Trent and Shelford, has been Bishopwearmouth St Gabriel General Synod of the Church of (Gloucester). 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Our readings areunited by churchand government suppressing theoloThe gSPCKy DMinistricyofJesustishowsoacnommaandingrgraysp of God’s wordoftruth, which alone can save us. Dictionaryof the secondaryliteratureand an abilitytoform Amos confronts the corrupt government of his day with ames- Theology and balanced conclusions on such issues asJesus’ use sage entrusted to him by God. The Lordholds up adiscriminat- Hermeneutics of ‘Abba’ in addressing the Father or thenatureof ing plumb line to the ruling elite, and they arefound wanting. AnthonyC the Resurrection as ‘transformation’ rather than Jeroboam had constructedman-made centresofman-made reli- Thiselton ‘resuscitation. gion, “the king’s sanctuary” or “the temple of the kingdom”. SPCK, pb, £40.00 Given the large number of books Thiselton has They went up in response to his wordand worshipped as he com- already published it is not surprising thathe mandedthem. Thiswas astatechurch, which merely reflected Some years ago draws on previous work. Modestly he rarely cites the will and whims of the king. Anthony Thiselton himself in the text butdiscerning readers of the Amaziah, priest of the state-sponsored temple at Bethel, con- produced AConcise entryonPostmodernism will probably want to spired against Amos and sought to have him disciplined. As Encyclopedia of the read abookThiselton wrote on the topic.Rightly Luther indicates here, this is typical: “Thus the ungodly with he criticises the disguised pragmatism of theirown traditions always mock the preaching of the godly.” that proved to be a Americanpostmodernism and warns that a Ironically,Amaziah seeks to banish Amos from theland,justas valuable resource to sinister authoritarianism can step into the breach Amos has prophesied the exile of Israel. YetAmos refuses to bow anyone interested in when the search for truthisabandoned. to pressurefromthe government and the state church, which fol- the subject. Now he Inevitablythereare surprising omissions. lows along obsequiously in its pocket. has written anew Austin Farrerwas oncecalled ‘the greatest As many whofollow the call of vocation have discovered, God’s dictionary, devotedtotheology and Anglican mindofthe 20th century’ by Rowan true wordisinescapable and must be preached, even if it means hermeneutics, that will prove to be an immensely Williamsbut he does not appear in this new work leaving the comfortzones and income levels of previous employ- useful companion to anyone interested in or in the earlier Encyclopedia. Idid noteven find ment (Amos 7:14-15). theology.The book hasbeen written entirely by him quoted. John Macquarrie is quoted on a JC Ryle spoke of asimilarsituation in his book Christian Lead- Thiselton himself. It runs to over 850 pages, there number of occasions but, unlikeIan Ramsey, ers of the Seventeenth Century,which Ihave been editing for arenocollaborators and the range is amazing. receives no entry of his own. The same is true of forthcoming publication. “Wretched, indeed, is that country Other comparable books suchasThe Oxford wherelow,sneaking informers areencouraged,” he writes, Companion to Christian Thought and The “wherethe terrors of the law aredirected more against holiness, Cambridge DictionaryofChristianTheology were and Scriptural religion, and freedom of thought, than against vice produced by anumber of contributors, many Hans Kung and immorality; and wherethe seat of justice is used for the experts on thetopicsthey wrote about.Thereare advancement of political purposes, or the gratification of petty obvious advantages in this approach but reading ecclesiastical spite!” Thiselton itbecomes apparent thatthereare also He was speaking of another century, but itisnot so different advantages in seeing how one verywell read and from the days of Amos, or our generation. thoughtful theologiansurveys the whole field. In It wasnot so different with King Herod either,whenhemet the verybest sense of the wordthis is apersonal with God’struemessengers. He imprisoned John the baptiser for work thatconveys agooddeal about its author. challenging hisunnaturaltwisting of sexual and maritalethics. Thereare,for example, some personaltouches Inwardly he suspected he ought to listen, but his sinful nature as when Thiselton pays tribute to the way Rowan kicked against the wordand rendered him indecisively per- Williamschaired theCrown Nominations plexed. His lusts caused him to make arash promise, which Committee or tellsofatime at an Anglo-American forced him to makeadefinitive choice. And just as Stephen Fry seminar when Oliver O’Donovan reminded those said recently about God:“The moment you banish him, your life present ‘Weare not citizens but subjects of a becomes simpler.” WhenHerod subsequentlyrejects the Word Queen’. incarnate also, it brings harmonytohis relationship with Pilate. Thiselton’s comments often betray his own But in eternity,thereisnopeace for thosewho respond to the point of view but the tone is never strident and the wordofGod this way. arguments fair.Writing of Rahner,for example, he ThisSunday the lectionarybegins aseries of consecutive read- finds his treatment of the Marian doctrines a ings in Ephesians, which will continue until 23 August. The read- ‘genuine puzzle’. While critical of what some ingfor today is asingle majestic sentence encompassing eternal Pentecostal theologians havesaid about baptism predestination, redemption in Christ, and the consumption of all in the Spirit and speaking in tongues, Thiselton things in God’s strategic planfor the universe. It urges us to righty pays tribute to the growth of Pentecostal praise God that we have everyspiritual blessing in Christ and are scholarship and the insights it has to offer. partofGod’s cosmic strategy through believing the word of Twotheologians who receive agood deal of truth. This is the message we arecalled to proclaim (to the state, attentionare Hans Kung and Wolfhart and to the world), and which God will bless as we do so. Pannenberg. As Thiselton points out, Pannenberg This is in stark contrast to the earth-bound gospel of aworldly actually receives 2,000 words morethanKarl Donald MacKinnon although he is mentioned in religion that listens only to those who bless the particularper- Barth. This obviously reflects the author’s own the entryonRowan Williams (it would be hardto versities of the age. interest but given the factthat no obituaries of overlookhim there). AsCalvin once remarked, exposing our tendency to ask God to Pannenbergappeared in theBritish press thereis Sometimes failuretoexamine amajor bless our personal agendasand disordered ambitions,”How can something to be said for underlining his theologianinfluences the treatment ofaparticular any one have the effronterytoexpect that God will aid him in importance. The summaries offered of the major topic. Lancelot Andrewes does not figuresoitis accomplishingdesires at variance with hisword? What God with works of Pannenbergand Kung (as well of a not surprising Thiseltonthinks that until the hisown lips pronouncescursed, never can be prosecuted with number of other major theologians) areexcellent Tractarian movement Anglican Eucharistic hisblessing,” (Institutes 3.7.9). guides. theology wasclose to thatofCalvin. Andrewes Neither the OxfordCompanion nor the defended the real presence and the useofsuch Dr Lee Gatiss is author of The Forgotten Cross (Evangelical Cambridge Dictionary have entries on this scale terms as ‘sacrifice’ and ‘altar’ in controversy with Press) and Director of Church Society (www.churchsociety.org). and the Cambridge work does not cover living Cardinal Bellarmine. King James, an admirer, theologians. worried his views weretoo Catholic to risk Most of the entries arequite shortbut thereare sending him to the Synod of Dort. anumber of longer entries on important subjects Icould go on offering criticism. Inevitably there HYMN SELECTION that almost constitute shortbooks in their own aremistakes (Marcus Borgended his life an right.The entries onChristology and the Holy Anglican, not aLutheran) but my main response Spirit areboth verygood; that on God is perhaps after reading this book was one of gratitude. We have agospel to proclaim less useful and alittle disappointing in its Thiselton has written abook Ishall returntoover God has spoken —bythe prophets coverage ofthe Trinity.Moreattentioncould have and over again for information, stimulation, and Thy hand, OGod, has guided been given to Lewis Ayresand other critics of the careful, balanced conclusions on both theologians I’m not ashamedtoown my Lord social model ofthe Trinity. and on issues in theology. Hearthe call of the kingdom But the Christology section devoted to the Paul Richardson

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inions (dir. CD OFTHEWEEK MKyle Balda and A dy Sheppard Quartet Pierre Coffin, cert.U)are Surrounded by Sea the tiny cylindrical (ECM) henchmen of arch-villain GruinDespicable Me –and The Any whotook up my hint and bought this new film is aprequel saxophonist Sheppard’s work with the giving their history. Narrated eponymous Trio Liberoshould also by Geoffrey Rush, it’s pre- enjoy this veryfluidrelease. history, as the Minions, whose Retaining the Trio’s rhythm section role in life is to serve whoever mission of Michel Benita on double bass and Sebastian Rochfordon is the baddest baddie around, drums, he completes the new band with Norwegian Eivind startbyfollowing aT-Rex. Aarset on guitar –although his work is so delicate that you Unfortunately,the Minions could mistake it for an occasional keyboardwash. (all voiced by Pierre Coffin) Central to the disc is the Gaelic song “Aoidh, Na Dean have atendencytoprecipitate of the CadlIdir.” When Sheppardwas working on aprojectwith their chosen anti-herointo Hebridean folk singer Julie Fowlis, he showed how his band disaster –inthe would blend with her voice by dressing an àcapella version dinosaur’s case, straight of this traditional work in their sound. For this ECM version into avolcano –sothey they have strung three snippets from a20-minute recording arefrequently Minions across the album. changing allegiance. other (orto) languages. It makes me wonder why the Fowlis project failed, as the Apharaoh, Dracula, The slapstick antics, even in atorturechamber, quartet’s approach is unobtrusive and Sheppard, who hasa Napoleon –their providemany moments of fun, along withclever lovely tone to his tenor and soprano saxes, continues to be choices do seem cultural references (such as an Abbey Roadscene highly sensitive to the mood of asong. fated rather than feted. with the Beatles).60s pop music permeates the This is the case with Elvis Costello’s “I Want to Vanish.” They spend along soundtrack. Sheppardplays many of the notes with an almost-staccato spell away from the Oddly,atthe Reel cinema in Widnes families phrasing, which, by contrast,emphasisesthe smoothness world, in Antarctica, streamed out during the end credits, even while of his sonorous held notes. It is atextbook example of how thus missing two world Minions werestill doing fun thingsonscreen, controlled playing can release the emotion in atune. wars and the chance to and Ialone was left,tosee the finalthree minutes Thisisone of several highly melodic pieces dotted along follow Hitler,until in of Minion silliness accompanied by The Beatles’ the string ofthe Gaelic thread like pearls. The best are the 1960s there Revolution. (Why the rush?Thereisn’t that much Sheppard’s own compositions, including “Medication,” built emerges aleader, to do in Widnes on aSaturday afternoon.) on asimple ascending bass line, “The Impossibility of Kevin, who sets out with As familyfare, it’s fairly inoffensive – Silence” and “Looking for Ornette.” Filling in the gaps are Stuartand young Bob to exceptofcourse for the essential several more impressionistic tone poems(whichmay be a find anew villain to follow. Minion message that it’s OK to bit too noodly for some). ViaNew York, they join up with a seek out evil villains and want to It all begins with agently relentless bolero-like rhythm criminal family,Walter and Madge work for them. It’s so ludicrous, from Benita and Rochfordon“Tipping Point,” basic enough Nelson (Michael Keaton and Allison even ironic,that maybe, just for Sheppardtoimprovise freely around. That simplicity Janney), heading for Florida for atop maybe, some impressionable seems to be the key,giving the musicians ample room to villains convention, Villain-Con. young Muslim will decide he make things as interesting as they want, whichthey do as There, female supervillain Scarlet doesn’t want to be an Islamic an intuitive unit. Overkill (Sandra Bullock) is State minion. This release is recommended for lovers of smooth instru- recruiting for anew assistant, with Steve Parish mental jazz with ablend of lyricism and dreamyspace. atest of taking from her grasp a Derek Walker ruby.Many try, but Bob manages itwhen many fail. The Minions arenow devoted to Scarlet, backed by her WINE OFTHE WEEK scheming husband Herb (John Hamm), and their Jackson Est te Marlborough grand plan is to go to Sauvignon Blanc 2013 England to steal St Majestic £14.99 (2 bottle price Edward’s Crown, so that £9.99) Scarlet may usurp www.majestic.co.uk Elizabeth II (Jennifer Saunders). By a Early summer,just rightfor Sauvignon miscalculation, it’s Blanc. Sunshine,but weather stillfresh minion Bob who gets and stimulating, just like this white crowned king, to Scarlet’s grape, originating in Bordeaux, spread- displeasure, leading to the ing inFrance to the Loireand elsewhere Minions’ imprisonment and over the world —whereitisagreat escape through sewers success in Marlborough, at the north- (more Third Man than erntip of New Zealand’s South Shawshank Redemption). Island. In adecent ending, Jackson Estate planted its vines the film setsupfor the therefirst in 1989. Rather weirdly, original Despicable Me this bottle’s label carries arefer- (and Despicable Me 3, ence to this, the word“Stich”— two years off). It is the vines planted by amember of patent nonsense, of the producing family of that nick- course, but full of the nutty chaos that name. has made the Minions such lovable In the glass, the expected light characters –and second only to Frozen in gold; onthe nose, there’s green terms of merchandise, with close to a grass and white elderflowers. thousand separate toy licences worldwide. The palate found astimulating The London scenes arequite dryness, then apple, with some imaginative, amix of famous sweeter fruit notes emerging landmarksand inventions like apub later,ripe gooseberriessay,bal- called The Pig’s Spleen, and minions anced by good minerality,leading riding corgisthrough Buckingham to along andcomplex finish. Palace –and even acoronation in Alcohol by Vol. 13%. An excellent Westminster Abbey.Trying to detect aperitif, just right to have with fish morethan nonsense words in the married with aprawn-flavoured Minions’ language is an artinitself, with sauce. some wordborrowing from Graham Gendall Norton

[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper chaplaincydays. Defrocking - his - Rick confronted twohorse riding followed. Essexgirls whilst starknaked. More He met his death inthe jaws of a police interest. He decided to swap lion, Freddie, whileexhibiting himself being aReverend for becoming a inafairgroundcage protesting his Rainbow Red-Indian and live on a innocence. From his cage he’d reservation; naturally inmid-Wales. Summer Time denouncedthe Anglican episcopate The vintage days of scandal but, sadly, ArchbishopLang didn’t concluded inthe 1960s withWilliam thank Freddie. Bryn Thomas, Rector of The Justafter 1945 aformer RN chaplain, Ascension, Balham. He proclaimed possiblyfollowing Davidson’s Cairo Trinitarianismbyembracing Anglo- precedent, was prosecuted for Catholicism, Freemasonryand and the Loving standing naked at his window, facing a Socialism. His embrace, it was alleged, policewoman. ‘Just an old naval also extendedto a parishioner, Mrs custom,’ his unsuccessful plea. Brandy. Hencethe jokes aboutthe The Sixties saw flower power. The Vicar ‘having abrandy affter service.’ Rev RichardMayes, ‘Rick the Vic’, had Among those rallying to the Rector’s ByisAlan EdEwardsasy aparticular botanical interest in supportwas the exquisitelynamed Fr marijuana, an interestthat extendedto AmphlettMicklewright. He shared July.Churchsummerfetes,and,in dealing, and led to police interest in Bryn’s wide ecclesiastical sympathies, the ‘good olddays’,time forthe him. moving from Anglo-Catholicismvia Rectorto don hiscricket blazer.No As a ‘childofnature’, atheismtoUnitarianism, Technicolorclericalstocksthen. ack toAAnglicanismand Time forthevergerto leavethe nally Rome. villagechurchdooropen at Above, Harold Bryn’s defrocking would Evensong so that ‘Now the Day is Davidson, and with avebeen the end of the Over’ could serenade those already Freddie the lion torywereitnot that John taking their Sabbath rest in ‘The Red obinson, on his way to Lion.’ he ConsistoryCourt Summer also used to be the time earing the Bryn Thomas for aCofE sex scandal to hit the ase, hurthis back headlines. None of today’s deviancy. lighting from his car.In As befitted traditional clerical ospital he wrote Honest to strayings, good old ‘how’s yer father’ God. stuff. The old-time Anglican Prince of the philanderers, Harold world was ended as surely Davidson, 1920s and 30s Rector of ythis book as was Bryn’s Stiffkey.Hewas known as the nglican career by the ‘Prostitutes’ Padre.’ His habit of taking rescue mission’ -anexcuse he onsistoryCourt. ‘fallen women’ on rehab tripstoParis also gave for being found in a awakened suspicion. ‘Partofmy Cairobrothel in hiswar

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