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Reactions to the Bill

Opposition to the assisted dying bill remains strong, Assisted dying is despite the House of Lord’s vote to send the measure to Committee Stage. The debate was inconclusive last Friday, with the speeches largely balanced between those in favour and those opposed to changing the current law. Stoic, Archbishop says said it was unsurprising that Lord Falconer’s bill is being given more time for scrutiny. Andrea Minichiello Williams, Chief Executive of The Archbishop of has led would spare them trouble. But in the campaign group, urged the Lords to remember opposition to fact the best service one could do this is a matter of life and death. assisted dying in an impassioned for them would be to accept their She said: “It cannot be decided on the basis of debate in the . care and to show appreciation of sound-bites nor simply on the basis of sentiment, Almost 130 speakers took part in them at the end of one’s life.” however much we all wish to see an end to suffering. the 10-hour debate on controversial He pointed to the example of his “The underlying principles and inevitable conse- legislation brought forward by for- mother who had been expected to quences of this Bill need to be teased out. When the mer Lord Falconer live for only a few weeks with arguments against are carefully examined, support of Thoroton. aggressive throat cancer but was for Assisted Suicide plummets. The Bill would allow doctors to able to live for another 18 months. Dr Andrew Fergusson, spokesman for Care Not administer a lethal dose to people He said the General Synod had Killing, says: “As Paralympian Baroness Tanni Grey- judged to have less than six months made their position very clear in Thompson and other disability rights campaigners to live. becoming reconciled with the need July 2005, when a motion against have said, changing the law would be dangerous and The legislation has gained the to die, and by affirming the human making assisted suicide or euthana- discriminatory. support of Lord Carey of Clifton, the relations we have with other people. sia lawful was defeated by 297 votes “It would send out a very clear message to those former archbishop of , Accepting the approach of death to one. who are disabled, terminally ill, or just old, that their who spoke out strongly for it during is not the attitude of passivity that He also cited the of lives are less worth living and protecting than the the debate. we may think it to be. Worcester, John Inge, whose wife, lives of the young and healthy. But Dr told peers: “Dying well is the positive Denise, died of a sarcoma on Easter “The current law exists to protect the vulnerable “The present Bill is not about reliev- achievement of a task that belongs Day. and those without a voice.” ing pain or suffering; it makes that with our humanity. It is unlike all He said she had emerged from Writing in his column in , Dr Giles quite clear in its definition of a ter- other tasks given to us in life, but it the “initial darkness to enjoy some Fraser, Vicar or St Mary’s, Newington, said that if minally ill patient to include those expresses the value that we set on precious time with friends and fami- Christianity is a romance, helping those we love to whose progressive illness can be life as no other approach to death ly”. die is an abandonment. relieved but not reversed. can do. “The Assisted Dying Bill could “I guess the idea here is that the individual can be “The Bill is about asserting a phi- “We need time, human presence deprive some terminally ill individu- relied upon to act in his or her own best interests – losophy, which not only Christians and sympathy in coming to terms als and their families of this very and if they don’t, well, then at least they have no one but also other thoughtful people of with a terminal prognosis. To put important time of shared love and to blame for that except themselves. good will who have had experience the opportunity to end one’s life wonder. I urge noble Lords to resist “And that sounds a bit like hand-washing to me. in care for the dying must find before a patient facing that task it,” he said. With the Christian romance, however, autonomy is incredible—that is, the ancient Stoic would be to invite him or her to act But Lord Carey, who sits as an precisely the problem and not the solution. philosophy that ending one’s life in under their influence rather than independent crossbench peer, said: Dr Fraser said somethings shouldn’t be done by circumstances of distress is an dealing with them. “If we truly love our neighbours as ourselves: “We cannot successfully pay someone to assertion of human freedom. That it “It is possible to think abstractly ourselves, how can love us, for instance.” cannot be. that one’s early death would be wel- we deny them the “Human freedom is won only by come to one’s nearest family and death that we Continued on page 4

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Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham CHURCHIN Indulging his sweet tooth for a good cause, The Rt Revd is one of 20 plus celebrities and VIP’s who have contributed to a ‘cookie challenge recipe book’, including actress Jane Horrocks, Glen- da Jackson CBE MP and Masterchef’s Gregg Wallace. Based at Robin Hood Airport near Doncaster, ‘WorldShare’ assist indigenous Christian partner organisations in developing countries all over the world, and the book is being sold to raise money for their projects. Celebrities participated in the recipe ENGLAND book by sending in their cookie recipes, and the Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham’s Suffragan Bish- op and his wife, Lucille, contributed a Cornish Heavy Cake and a Simple Tiramasu. “Lucille and I were thrilled to be able to support this wonderful project so we ‘cooked up’ a couple of recipes!” says Bishop Tony. The A4 ring-bound cookbook, available for £5, is produced by Schools Link, a fundraising arm of the charity, to help with projects such as building a high quality school for Dalits in Kerela, . More info at www.worldshare.org.uk/schools-link and on their main site at: www.worldshare.org.uk

Diocese of York Although the bunting may be coming down, the region is still basking in the was a sea of success of the Grand Depart, and the colour when a congregation of all Historic Churches Trust ages, both male and female came (YHCT) is still calling for people to together on Saturday 19th July get involved in Ride+Stride 2014. This 2104 to Celebrate 20 Years of sponsored event will see people Women’s Priestly Ministry in the cycling, walking or even driving Diocese of Durham – in the same between churches to raise money to week of the vote at the Church of help preserve some of the region’s England General Synod to allow places of worship at risk of falling into women to enter the Episcopate disrepair. Billed this year the Tour and become . The service led by Revd Caroline Worsfold - Chaplain at d’Eglises - the tour of churches - the St Benedicts Hospice and one of the first 38 ordained in Durham Cathe- YHCT are encouraging people to be dral back in 1994. She was supported by Revd Rebecca Tobin - who inspired by the Tor de Yorkshire, and was ordained Deacon in Durham Cathedral last month and by Revd get on their bikes or pull on their Rosalind Brown - Commissioners’ Canon at Durham Cathedral. boots, to raise much needed funds for the Trust. It takes place nationally on Diocese of Litchfield Saturday 13th September. Dr John Sentamu, the , The Girl Choristers from Lichfield Cathedral are completing a singing tour of and Patron of the Yorkshire Historic Rome, Italy this week, 21st – 25th July. The Girl Choristers were formed in Churches Trust said: “We all saw how 2006 when Lichfield Cathedral School launched the new choir for talented girl beautiful Yorkshire looked as the singers. Since then the choir has grown in confidence and ability and in 2012 Tour de France riders raced their way was formally integrated into the Cathedral Foundation alongside the men and through our towns, cities and coun- boys who have sung for nearly 700 years. Director of Music for Lichfield tryside. Now the Tour d’Eglises is Cathedral, Cathy Lamb, is lead the group of 18 singers to perform at the Epis- offering friends and family a chance copal Church of St Paul within the Walls; one of the four Papal Basilicas, St to visit some of the region’s wonder- Paul’s outside the Walls; and All Saints’ Anglican Church. Chorister, Eilidh ful churches, and to help raise funds Owen adds “It’ll be an excellent way to conclude a really exciting year for the to preserve them future generations.” choir. We’re all really excited about going and singing in these incredible ven- ues.”

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Hothorpe Hall is excited to be building a new event centre – The Woodlands - in its grounds, so it can meet the demand from existing and new church groups wishing to book a residential break. The Woodlands – which is under development and opens on 1st May 2015 – comprises a self-contained event centre with a meeting room, bar, lounge and dining room, as well as 23 en suite bedrooms. The Woodlands provides a tranquil setting for spiritual reflection as well as wooded areas for outdoor worship. The new venue also offers a number of two-bedroomed snugs with lounge and kitchenette, each tucked inside the woods which are perfect for private retreats. Bookings for events at The Woodlands are now being taken. For further information call 01858 881500 or visit www.hothorpe.co.uk/woodlands Diocese of

A stunning altar frontal, embroidered for St Paul’s Cathedral by severely injured World War One servicemen, is to be on display in the New Cathedral for the first time in 70 years to mark the Centenary of the War. St Paul’s will set aside an area of the Cathedral for four years, to The consecration service for the enable worshippers and visitors to mark the events of 1914-18, with the new Bishop of Gibraltar was held in altar frontal as the main focus. A special service will be held on Sunday last Sunday. 3 August at 6pm at which the altar frontal will be used for the first time The since the 1940s. Relatives of some of the men will be present, including presided at a Eucharist and the two surviving children from the UK, and numerous members of one in his sermon family from Canada. welcomed the Rt Revd to his new ministry. The service was attended by visiting bishops, and lay people from around the diocese and many visi- tors. The international nature of the was reflect- FREE MAGAZINE ed in the mix of languages – the Old testament lesson was read in Meet the Church’s new Chief German by Katharina von Education Officer Schnurbein, Advisor to the Presi- dent of the European Commission, Get our app on your mobile device the Gospel in Dutch by the Roman via Apple Newsstand or PressReader Catholic Bishop of Antwerp and the or download it free from our website presence of representatives of www.churchnewspaper.com other churches with whom the dio- cese is in partnership.

[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper www.churchnewspaper.com Friday July 25, 2014 News 3 Welby leaves his Club, but Bishop remains ARCHBISHOP JUSTIN a ban on women members. Archbishop Welby used the door to the Travellers which club provided a room for him as WELBY is to resign from the Another club is the Garrick Travellers as a base in London does admit women has in the a chapel. After his death it was Travellers Club following its whose members include the when he was past proved more popular with converted into an ecumenical decision not to admit women as Bishop of London. Bishop and . The bishops and church dignitaries. chapel but has now fallen out of members. Under club rules, Chartres is not thought to be club was founded in 1819 for But the Travellers did number use. women can attend only as contemplating resignation over ‘gentlemen who had travelled among its members one famous Hilary Cotton of Women and guests of members but even the issue. Baroness Hale of out from the British Isles to a Catholic priest. Mgr Gilbey, a the Church told ‘The Independ- then they are still prohibited Richmond, Britain’s most senior distance of at least five hundred former chaplain of ent’ that the Archbishop had from entering certain rooms. woman judge, has described the miles from London in a direct University who refused to allow made a sensible decision. ‘It The Travellers Club, a favourite failure of fellow judges to under- line’. No doubt it was this women to attend the Catholic seems the Church of England is haunt of members of the For- stand objection to the Garrick’s emphasis on overseas adven- Chaplaincy in his time as chap- not the last place where women eign Office, is one of a number membership policies as ‘shock- ture that appealed to the Arch- lain. He lived in the Travellers are not treated equally as men’, of gentlemen’s clubs to maintain ing’. bishop. The Athenaeum next for a number of years and the she said. found - finally when he reached 65. It is Churches respond Rev hoped that the new bishop will be enthroned before the end of the year. Bishop Frith was educat- to women bishops ed at Marlborough, Fitzwilliam College, Cam- THERE HAS been a mixed but also with Ortho- bridge, and St John’s Col- response from other dox Churches’ he lege, Nottingham. He was churches to General remarked. Synod’s historic vote in In June at his meet- before moving to Hull. favour of women bishops. ing with Archbishop Shortly after his appoint- In a statement Archbishop Justin Welby, Pope ment as a bishop his mar- Bernard Longley, Chair- Francis called the riage broke down and he man of the Department for division between and his wife were divorced. Dialogue and Unity at the Catholics and Angli- He remarried and has four Catholic Bishops’ Confer- cans ‘a scandal and an children, four step-children ence, said ‘the decision of obstacle to our pro- and eight grandchildren. the Church of England to claiming the Gospel The Archbishop of York admit women to the episcopate sadly of salvation to the world’. paid tribute to Bishop places a further obstacle on the path Mgr Keith Newton, head of the Frith’s ‘passion and joyful to Christian unity’. Ordinariate in England, has invited enthusiasm’. Bishop Frith But he pledged the Catholic Anglicans ‘considering their future’ said he was ‘thrilled’ to have Church’s commitment to ‘continuing after the General Synod vote to attend been appointed and our ecumenical dialogue, seeking an ‘exploration day’ in September. expressed his appreciation mutual understanding and practical Ordinariate groups across the coun- of the ‘wonderful Christian cooperation wherever possible’. try will stage events known as ‘Called heritage’ in the diocese and The editor of the Vatican newspaper to be One’ on September 8th. his desire to serve the ‘L’Osservatore Romano’, Giovanni Other churches have given a posi- wider community. He said Maria Vian, commented that the ordi- tive response to the decision of Gen- he will miss the city after 16 nation of women bishops will have ‘an eral Synod. The President of the TEN MONTHS after the sor is to be the Rt Rev years in Hull but, as a keen extremely negative impact’ on Methodist Conference, the Rev Ken retirement of the Rt Rev Richard Frith, Bishop of cricketer, he will doubtless attempts to bring the two churches Howcroft, said that Methodists had Anthony Priddis as Bishop Hull. At 65 Bishop Frith is give his support to Here- close together. ‘Clearly it’s a decision long benefitted from full equality in of Hereford it has been just a year younger than fordshire County Cricket that complicates the ecumenical path. ministry and were confident ‘our announced that his succes- Bishop Priddis who retired Club. The problem is not only with Rome Church of England brothers and sis- ters will be similarly blessed’. Baptists also expressed their welcome for the vote. 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Bishop backs safeguards Reactions continued THE BISHOP of Durham has backed calls to acknowledged it would not provide a “com- “Which is why the priority given to personal autonomy and life con- make it mandatory for people who work with plete solution”. trolled by my own choices seems like a certain sort of locked-in syn- children to report suspicions of abuse. But he said: “It reinforces the moral drome, a refusal of the idea that there is anything bigger than me.” Bishop supported an amend- responsibility of individuals to report sus- But other Christians have voiced their support for the bill, especially ment to the Serious Crime Bill in the House pected and known abuse, concerns and/or after Lord Carey ‘changed his mind’, a decision described by the Evan- of Lords that would introduce the change. allegations. Such laws help to create a culture gelical Alliance as ‘disappointing’. He said it would mean that people who which puts the most vulnerable first, where It led Lord Baker to call the Church’s position ‘split’ during the debate, worked with children and had “reasonable their welfare is paramount and serves to illus- despite both Archbishops being present to show their opposition. grounds for suspecting or knowing that trate that abuse will not be tolerated in any Writing for , a Christian supporter of Dignity in abuse of these vulnerable groups has taken circumstances.” Dying Jane Stephens, said God would understand her desire to end her place are under a duty to report this to the The amendment was withdrawn without a suffering. local authority”. vote but may be reintroduced at the next She wrote: “Traditionalists speak of the sanctity of human life: it is not During committee stage debate, he said: stage of the Bill’s progress through the our will but God’s to decide when we die. But the moment we choose “No one individual could possibly have a Lords. treatment, we influence the time of our death. I believe that my God complete picture of a vulnerable person’s sit- Bishop Butler also backed calls to increase would understand my longing for the choice to avoid suffering for my uation.” the age at which a child can be defined as a family, and myself. He is, after all, a father.” He added: “At present, those professionals victim of cruelty and neglect from 16 to 18. The Chaplain to the is another supporter of who fail to report may face disciplinary pro- “From a safeguarding point of view, chil- Dignity in Dying. cedures or be held to account in a serious dren should be viewed as being under 18. Rosie Harper tweeted throughout the debate, glad that the bill was now case review. Yet, far too often in the past, Sixteen and 17 year-olds can be very vulnera- going for ‘further discussion’. abusers have been allowed to get away with ble. She criticised Just Welby’s comments in last week over their crimes because those in authority have “Professionals often see 16 and 17 year-old assisted dying, where he said the arguments in favour of a change in the failed to report. children as more resilient than younger chil- law would not pass a GCSE exam. “As the recent NHS inquiry in relation to dren. They are often seen as more able to Jimmy Savile at Leeds General Infirmary stat- avoid abuse, or more grown-up and therefore ed, a number of organisational failures had more able to cope. allowed someone, ‘as manipulative as Savile “It does not help that the criminal law aim- Continued from page one they are a burden as a result.” to thrive and continue his abusive behaviour ing to deal with the perpetrators of child neg- would wish for ourselves in such The , unchecked for years’.” lect does not cover 16 and 17 year-olds. This a condition? That is what I would Hill, said he was “greatly con- He said that many countries already had sends all the wrong signals that they are not want.” cerned” by the unintended conse- some form of mandatory reporting although as vulnerable as younger children.” He told the Lords: “I have noted quences. in recent years that those who “It is simply not good enough for accept the traditional prohibition on those who support the Bill to dis- assisted dying tend—this used to miss out of hand this genuine con- Christian in the Cabinet criticised be what I did—to conflate and sim- cern,” he said. plify the terrible physical, mental “It is for them to give us consis- TWO OF ’s new cabinet was a Christian involved in politics’. and spiritual experiences of those tent evidence that our fears are appointments have drawn criticism from sec- Educated at Oxford, Ms Morgan worked who make that long and costly jour- unfounded. Sadly, the available evi- ularists and gay rights organisations. Teach- as a solicitor specialising in corporate law ney to Dignitas in Zurich and the dence appears to raise, rather than ers may have been pleased to see the before entering . She has said her normal experience of terminally ill allay, anxiety.” departure of Michael Gove as Minister of role model is . An Angli- people in our hospices. And he backed calls for a royal Education but his replacement, Nicky Mor- can, she tweeted in favour of women bishops “Like noble Lords, I have the commission on the legislation. gan, 41, came under criticism for her Chris- just after the vote in General Synod. greatest admiration for the work of The Bishop of , James tian faith within hours of her appointment. In an interview with ‘The Guardian’ last our hospices, but even the best pal- Newcombe, said the Bill would The new Welsh Secretary, Stephen Crabb, year she said her job in Parliament was ‘to liative care does not meet all needs. “destroy the balance, however pre- 41,was forced to deny that he endorses ‘gay remember the Word of God and serve the “Dr Rajesh Munglani, the well carious it may be, that we have cure therapy’ after it was revealed he had Lord’. She has been a strong supporter of known expert in pain management, achieved in the current law on taken interns from Christian Action academies and the Government’s education writes that he frequently sees cases assisted suicide and in the guide- Research and Education (CARE) that spon- reforms but is opposed to mandatory sex of excruciating pain that are unre- lines that have been produced for sored an ex-gay event. Both Morgan and education in academies. She will not be sponsive to powerful analgesics its enforcement”. Crabb voted against same-sex marriage. responsible for implementing gay marriage and can be alleviated only by very He added: “In the first place, it According to the National Secular Society legislation which will fall to a junior minister, heavy sedation, to the point of destroys a delicate balance on com- Ms Morgan has said that as a ‘Christian Nick Boles, who is in a civil partnership. Ms unconsciousness. passion. As we have heard fre- active in politics’ she sees it as her ‘duty’ to Morgan supported Nadine Dorries’ attempt “I have, frankly, been shocked by quently , compassion is the stop what she calls ‘continuing creeping sec- in 2011 to require independent advice to be the experience of those with whom primary argument behind the ularism’ in Britain which includes ‘attempts made available to women seeking an abor- I have discussed this. noble and learned Lord’s Bill. to end such things as a time for prayers at tion. “When suffering is so great that “Of course, on these Benches we civil events’. She does not think there is Michael Cashman, a former MEP and some patients, already knowing have the greatest sympathy with much support for this type of secularism. founder of the gay rights group, Stonewall, that they are at the end of life, make that and respect for those who She is a trustee and active member of the described her appointment as ‘deeply worry- repeated pleas to die, it seems a advance it.” Conservative Christian Fellowship and has ing’. Stephen Evans of the National Secular denial of that loving compassion But he added: “However this spoken of how she renewed her faith shortly Society said that rather than using her posi- which is the hallmark of Christiani- compassion is highly selective. It after becoming an MP in 2010 while attend- tion to support Christianity he hoped she ty to refuse to allow them to fulfil offers a seemingly compassionate ing a service in a church in her Loughbor- would ‘work towards a more ‘inclusive and their own clearly stated request - approach to those who are termi- ough constituency. ‘The church there was fair education system’ but he questioned after, of course, a proper process of nally ill and wish to end their lives, so active, that it made me realise just how whether she would be able to put children’s safeguards has been observed.” and it sounds compassionate much the churches contribute to community rights ‘above demands from faith groups’. Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the towards those who help them to do life and that was something I appreciated’, Stephen Crabb was forced to deny support former , said he so. she later said in an interview. ‘So that was for gay cure therapy in an interview with the was “filled with a deep disquiet” “However, not only does it ignore the moment for me to not just be a quiet ‘Daily Telegraph’ after the paper revealed he about the Bill. those whose situations are often Christian, but to step up publicly and say I took interns from CARE which sponsored “I fear dreadfully for the whole even more desperate and who are ‘Sex and the City: Redeeming Sex Today’, a attitude of our society to the vulner- not terminally ill, as recognised by conference which included both Christian able and incapacitated. the Supreme Court, but it also, and Jewish speakers who claim to be able to “I see the Bill as a tremor, warn- however inadvertently, disregards 4,69:@5/ 1:AA! ‘treat’ being gay. Other MPs have distanced ing of a seismic change in our soci- the many vulnerable elderly and *6#6<9?6A< themselves from the therapy but this is the ety towards those who require disabled people in our society who, first time Mr Crabb has done so. The Gov- costly, arduous care day and night. as we have been reminded many ernment has said it is ‘strongly against’ ‘gay “I believe that we should stick to times today, will find themselves cure therapy’ but has resisted calls to ban it the present law, together with the under great pressure should the outright. sensible guidelines of the Director Bill ever become law.” According to the ‘Daily Telegraph’ Mr of Public Prosecutions. The Bill completed an unopposed Crabb was once a CARE intern himself. As “Keeping the present law sends second reading, as is traditional in 0> 87-.;' 0> 8)(>-3+28 well as voting against same-sex marriage, he out a clear message that our society the Lords, but is likely to face stiffer has also expressed support for tightening values every human person, howev- hurdles in terms of time and oppo- %%%&@<$6#<&"?= the laws on abortion and supported the er dependent on others they may sition at later stages and is relative- Nadine Dorries amendment. become, and even if they feel that ly unlikely to become law.

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Leaders of the Church of Nigeria have voiced their dis- bishop of Canterbury and by extension the Church of church according to scripture, there were “no women pleasure with the vote by the Church of England’s Gen- England did not do their homework very well and I do apostles.” He added that “when you ordain a bishop and eral Synod to permit the consecration of women to the not think they consulted widely with other Provinces of he is not recognized by some parts of the communion episcopate. While the Nigerian House of Bishops has the ,” the bishop said, adding the that is not a bishop.” After a wide consultation within not issued a formal statement in the wake of the 14 July Church of England “should see itself as a role model for the church among clergy and lay leaders, in 2005 the 2014 vote, the Bishop of Ngbo, the Rt. Rev Christian the Anglican Communion but unfortunately, it is not liv- Church of Nigeria’s standing committee permitted Ebisike, told the News Agency of Nigeria the Church of ing up to that role.” Bishop Ebisike observed that while women to be ordained to the deaconate, but not to the England was being unfaithful to Scripture. “The Arch- women served as evangelists and teachers in the early priesthood and the episcopate. Uganda has ‘no problem’ Gay marriage opposition in with women bishops The Primate of the Church of Uganda, the Most Rev. Stanley Ntagali, has applauded last week’s vote by General Synod to New Zealand sees clergy quit permit the appointment of women bishops. In a statement given to Church of England Newspaper on on 16 July 2014 the A second New Zealand congregation and its clergy have quit the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Archbishop said: “We do not have a problem with women Zealand and Polynesia over the May vote by that church’s general synod to begin the process towards becoming bishops in the Church of Uganda or elsewhere.” permitting gay marriage. In a letter published in the Waikato Times, the Rev. Michael Hewat, the vicar of Under the communion’s structure of autonomous provinces West Hamilton Anglican Parish in Dinsdale, said he was surrendering his license to officiate on 25 July the “Church of England’s decision to consecrate women as 2014. In a letter to the Bishop of Waikato, the Rt. Rev. Helen-Ann Hartley, and the Primate, the Most Rev. Bishops is a decision that applies to their Province alone. We Phillip Richardson, Bishop of Taranaki, Mr. Hewat said synod’s Motion 30 would “prove to be a disaster” recognize there are some members of the Church of England to church unity. Motion 30 was unlawful he argued, noting “it makes a commitment to changing the con- who do not support the of women and we appreciate stitution of the church which means it probably needs an act of parliament and Motion 30 says that.” The the careful work of their General Synod to make provisions for motion set in place a two year process to develop new doctrines as well as formal rules around the bless- their conscientious objection.” Archbishop Ntagali noted that ing of same-sex relationships. “To change doctrine, in effect, means you have to change sources of doc- “in Uganda, we have women and archdeacons, and trine so, in other words, the Bible is no longer the source of doctrine,” Mr. Hewat said. The members of many of them work for the church in various capacities. We the evangelical parish met earlier this month to discuss their response to Motion 30, and 95 per cent of have ordained women since the 1980’s, so we have qualified the congregation backed the vicar’s decision to leave. In a letter sent to the other congregations in the dio- women who could be elected Bishop.” cese Bishops Hartley and Richardson denied Motion 30 contravened church doctrine and violated church law. The motion sought to find ways of including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people into the life of the church and was an “indication of the church’s willingness to engage in a further process to Church launches explore ways in which different views can exist together, in the same house.” million dollar appeal The Anglican Church of Australia’s Diocese of Bathurst has West Indies applaud women bishops launched a million dollar appeal to fund its legal battle to save its properties from foreclosure. Last week the Rt. Rev. Ian Leaders of the Church of the Province of the West Palmer told members of the diocese they needed to raise the Indies have applauded General Synod’s vote last Rev. Claude cash to pay fight a $25 million claim for a loan repayment. week to permit the consecration of women bishops, Berkeley Commonwealth Bank loaned the money to the Anglican saying the Caribbean churches will follow England’s Development Fund, which used the funds to build and refur- lead. The Bishop of Trinidad, the Rt. Rev. Claude bish a number of church schools. The former Bishop of Berkeley said he “welcomed” the decision, while his Bathurst, the Rt. Rev. Richard Hurford, signed the loan agree- predecessor, the Rt. Rev. Calvin Bess said the way ment as chairman of the fund, which has since been closed. An was currently open for a woman priest to be elected economic downturn in the rural diocese caused a drop in a bishop in the West Indies. “There is nothing wrong income from the schools, which led to missed loan payments. with it. It is not an issue at all. It has been a long time After liquidating the assets of the fund the bank then sought to in coming because women have been ordained for a recoup its loan from the diocese, arguing the bishop’s signa- very long time now,” Bishop Bess told Newsday.” ture, given under his episcopal seal, served to extend the lia- Seven of the provinces eight dioceses ordain women bility to the diocese – a separate legal entity. On 19 July 2014 to the priesthood and deaconate – Guyana does not. the bishop met with representa- tives of the dio- cese’s 34 parishes, spread across Western New South Wales from the Blue Mountains to the Queens- land border, to discuss a way forward. “We don’t think that the demands the Commonwealth Bank have placed upon us are reasonable and in order to mount our defence we need support from the parishes,” Bish- op Palmer said.

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Respect for all help which visual evidence can bring Sir, Within hours of the decision to Sleeping Synod? to the better understanding of a story: YOUR proceed with women bishops, a Sir, During the recent debate in the hence the ubiquitous use of ‘vis-aids’ spokesman for Archbishop Justin General Synod about women bish- at all levels of education and else- TWEETS made clear that they are completely ops one of the speakers in favour of where. I would therefore urge Alan to unable to put themselves in the mind- the motion cited the way in which read (or re-read) a brilliant book by a set of their opponents. God allowed the Israelites a king leading Cambridge scientist Prof Sir Those brought up in the Prayer despite the prophet Samuel’s oppo- Colin Humphreys, FRS, entitled The Catharine @cmmpda Book imbibe from the Psalter that sition as a reason why it would be Miracles of Exodus (Continuum, Love the google search home page “Thy words have I hid within my right to have women bishops 2004). today! #synod heart, that I should not sin against despite some opposition. What the In it, having studied meticulously thee.” (PB Ps 119:9-11). “Teach me, O speaker omitted to mention was both the relevant texts and the terrain Lord, the way of Thy statutes: and I that the Lord told Samuel: “Listen traversed, the author proposes a shall keep it unto the end.” (PB Ps to all that the people are saying to decidedly different route for the Exo- 119:33). “Blessed is the man . . . you; it is not you they have reject- dus journey from that traditionally [whose] delight is in the law of the ed, but they have rejected me as assumed (eg on Map 4 at the back of Lord: and in his law will he exercise their king” (1 Samuel, 8 v7). It is the NIV Bible, 2008); and an even himself day and night (PB Ps: 1:1-2). rather surprising that the speaker more radical (and plausible) location Take just 1 Timothy 2:12: “But I suf- was not immediately corrected and for Horeb, ‘the Mountain of God’, in fer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp informed that he was in fact com- the south of Midian in north-west Ara- authority over the man, but to be in mending a people who had become bia - its traditional location in the silence.” There are two separate prin- apostate. Were the thirty or so south of the Sinai peninsula being ciples: women should (1) not teach bishops present, the Revd Profes- topographically impossible (again, and (2) not have authority. Even were sor Richard Burridge who calls see the same map). the conscience to be misinformed as himself a biblical scholar, and more Sir Colin also anticipates the criti- to these imperatives Paul would still than a hundred other clergy asleep cism of ‘professional’ biblical scholars David Sims @kdwaiting insist “And he that doubteth is at this point? on pp. 204/5 of this book, where he @churchnewspaper wearing robes is damned if he …, because he [does writes: ‘There are very few areas of the main thing that I’m not looking such] not of faith: for whatsoever is (Dr) Charles Hanson modern life in which amateurs can forward to!! not of faith is sin. (Lay member of the General Synod) compete with professionals. [So] Why ” (Rom. 14:23), “So whoever knows Wetheral haven’t biblical scholars discovered David Miller @DavidDusty1978 the right thing to do and fails to do it, Carlisle these [things - as described in his @churchnewspaper @ImGregCook for him it is sin.” (James 4:17 ESV). book]? I believe the answer is that Nothing the UN says matters any Or as Luther famously said “To act they haven’t looked.’ A damning more. Waste of space. against conscience is neither right indictment indeed! nor safe.” that which was the undoubted under- As I discovered whilst doing my To emphasise the gravity of this standing of those of sound judgement own historical research, one has to do matter to some, the first exposition of who held authority in the Early one’s ‘leg-work’ as well as ‘book-work’ Chris @earthbulb70 the Thirty-nine Articles “Perused, Church? to get closer to the truth. @churchnewspaper Jesus gives and by [Archbishop Bancroft’s] lawful Alan Bartley, John M Hughes, LIFE, not death! Get a grip for crying authority of the Church of England, Greenford, Middlesex. Heaton Mersey, Stockport out loud, and think of your position. allowed to be public” the making of #assisteddying #AssistedSuicide women either priests or bishops was deemed heretical. The same was Right to reply asserted in Richard Field’s “Of the Sir, Permit me please to make reply to Listen to nature Jenny Gillies @revjennyg Church,” our third defence after my critics (27 June), John Hazlehurst Sir, Dr Shell, I am sure, can defend “@churchnewspaper: Lord Carey: if Jewel and Hooker. We even altered and Alan Bartley; firstly to thank them himself but Serena Lancaster’s seem- we love ..neighbours as ourselves.. Article 37 of the Thirty-nine Articles both for relieving my ignorance con- ingly never ending use of CEN to pro- can we deny them the death they to make it clear that Elizabeth I, as cerning letters ‘uncial’ in the Greek mote non-celibate homosexual desire #assisteddying” Love God our Supreme Governor, had neither New Testament ‘as originally given’ relationships always avoids the blind- first? power to expound God’s word nor (to quote John Stott’s famous phrase). ingly obvious - that same gender sex- administer his sacraments. Of this fact I was not aware (but ual activity has to make use of areas of should have been); though it makes the human body not designed for Kate Blanton @kateykat85 How can anyone holding such Stott’s phrase even more evanescent, such practices. Happy 90th Birthday @LivCathedral “Anglican” views voluntarily submit as its meaning fades yet further into As such, nature itself confirms such themselves to women teaching or inaccessibility buried in the undeci- activity as illegitimate and therefore exercising authority in the Church pherable. promotion is not only ill-advised but Lotte Leicht @LotteLeicht1 and give the impression that such is Although now somewhat advanced morally indefensible. #ISIS forces last #Iraq #Christians to in obedience to Christ’s religion? How in years, I am currently making a Perhaps, more than at any other leave #Mosul where they’ve lived for can such a person attend, as congre- valiant attempt to learn to read New time, there is great need to adhere to 1,700+ years. gations of the wider church, deanery Testament Greek, since I can no the clear teaching of God through the or diocesan meetings where this is longer trust any of its current transla- Bible and to realise that authentic common place? How can anyone tions into English to convey accurate- love to each other, as Christians, is Sam Tomlin @samjtomlin seeking ordination submit them- ly enough what may ‘originally’ have when we help each other to obey God Remember any kids in #Gaza who selves to women exercising original been ‘God-breathed’. Yet now I learn rather than to disobey. have made it to 7 years old have been or delegated authority to teach them that even this cannot help me much, All, especially those of the clergy, through THREE of these assaults in or judge them fit for the Christian because the New Testament in Greek who by example or word, are leading their lives #GazaUnderAttack ministry? In short how can any such (as we have it) is not entirely reliable, people away from God’s teaching and person ever flourish in the Church of involving a good deal of guesswork. guidance bear a terrible responsibili- England that has abandoned the Vin- As for Alan’s rather pejorative refer- ty. Robert Paterson @marerskine centian Canon that requires us to take ence to my ‘curious speculations’, I Alan Minchin Amused at my new-found status as a as the true interpretation of Scripture see no reason whatever to ignore the Stratford upon Avon diabolical liberal!

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Abolish worship and religious teaching state schools? News of an Ofsted Report, leaked to the BBC, about a state school in , Carlton Bolling College, warned of pupils ‘not being protected from extremism’ under the aegis of a Muslim governing When the going body that aims to meet the needs of the majority Muslim student body, but not others - notably Christians. The BBC News report quoted a woman governor who had resigned over the issue but wanted to remain anonymous as she feared for her safety. The BBC had published concerns of an Islamicising agenda at the school in early June. The Birmingham Trojan Horse inquiry pointed to much gets tough - lie? the same phenomenon, in state schools not religious controlled or aided schools. At the same time the Bishop of Oxford, , is calling up to do with secular mores.” Hats off to Rowan for the end of ‘worship’ in state schools since it smacks of 1940s Peter Mullen then not only for repudiating that commandment compulsion and a vastly more Christian society than is now the but actually reversing it and effectually enjoining case. The Bishop, who heads the Church of England Education The historical process of increasing bureaucratic us, “Be conformed to this world.” Department, said schools should still have to make time for “spiri- corporatism is unstoppable. If I were a Marxist I Christian has been pretty well aban- tual reflection” containing elements of Christianity and the other would describe it as “inevitable.” This is the case doned and Christian moral and social teaching major religions. whether we are thinking about the EU or the C of ditched too. How else to interpret the advocacy of But he said compulsory participation in collective “worship” E. In a rare fit of honesty, Jean Claude Juncker homosexual “marriage”? What we now have is could actively put people off religion and is meaningless to people admitted that this historical development was not just a modernised Church, but a Church that who do not believe. Under the 1944 Education Act schools are always the agenda in the formation of the EU. is so far gone into apostasy that it has actually legally obliged to stage acts of collective worship “wholly or mainly Nothing must be allowed to stop it. Juncker said: adopted the agenda of its enemies. All the jargon of a broadly Christian character”. There are separate arrangements “When the going gets tough, we lie.” So much for of “diversity” and “multiculturalism,” “equality” for Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh faith schools. Last week the the supposed moral idealism of the EU. And he and “inclusivity” has replaced the language and National Governors’ Association, which represents more than added that the discussions of the European Cen- teaching of the gospel. 300,000 school governors across England, called for the abolition tral Bank should be secret. So much for democ- So now comes to my mind Our Lord’s prophe- of the rule for all non-religious schools. It is perhaps difficult to dis- racy. cy concerning the end, which will be nigh, tinguish compulsory ‘spiritual reflection’ from compulsory wor- We see the same things in the history of the C “When ye therefore shall see the abomination of ship. And of course it is worth noting that the ‘Mindfulness’ of E over the last 50 years. From being an histor- desolation standing in the holy place.” programme, based on Buddhist principles and practice, is imple- ical institution that had succeeded in broadly rep- It is widely believed that the abomination of mented extensively in state schools and as a practice, as well as resenting the whole nation for 400 years, the desolation referred to the Roman standard social work and health care. Church has become the plaything of the so-called appointed to pride of place in the Jerusalem tem- Our cultural context now also includes the use of chaplaincy in “liberal” bishops and the synodical elite. These ple. Well today this prophecy has been fulfilled as new ways, as revealed by the Times in its story of Imams in HM ecclesiarchs and bureaucrats are just as ruthless the Church has accepted the philosophical crite- Prisons radicalizing young Muslim inmates into Islamists, and as the secular totalitarians in the EU. ria and the social ethics of a pagan society. So indeed of ‘convenience Muslim’ converts who adopt the faith for The liberals grew suddenly stronger in the here we have it, 2,000 years later, our very own the extra favours it brings under the legislation for minorities. 1960s when there was a rash of appointments of replica of the emblem of abomination. Anglican chaplaincy is increasingly of a general spiritual- modernising bishops, deans and professors, the- So what are Christian traditionalists to do? ity type, moving away from encouraging definite Chris- ological iconoclasts who intended the demytholo- There are some who yet take comfort in “the tian worship and offering counselling rather than Holy gisation and secularisation of Christianity. They swing of the pendulum”: things have gone as far Communion in hospitals and prisons. Imams and school said as much in numerous books: Honest to God; as they can go and there will be a reversal and a governors of the Islamic faith see things rather different- But that I Can’t Believe; Objections to Christian return. I wouldn’t bet on it. For where are they ly. Indeed religion in C of E schools is very much a multi- Belief. Attached to this was who have the courage and faith curriculum and research shows that they are weak the liberal establishment’s the authority to give the in inculcating Christian faith. support for the even more The new Pope shows pendulum the little push Frankly put, the Church, fearful of being compulsive destructive blasphemies com- himself to be an that will start it back in the and insensitive, is watering down definitely Christian ing across the Atlantic: Paul opposite direction? content in its educational and social agencies, but Islam van Buren’s The Secular international socialist How about the Roman is intensifying its message, quite naturally according to Meaning of the Gospel; Harvey option then? It was tempting their strongly held beliefs. This alarming tendency is Cox’s The Secular City; and who has nothing but before the deposing of now causing real danger to pupils. 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New Light on Rowan Christians at risk One of the causes Rowan Williams has taken up in retirement has been the Fast on the heels of Andrew Atherstone’s revised biography of Justin Welby difficulties faced by historic Christian communities in the . When he comes Ruper Shortt’s updated life of Rowan Williams. Is it significant that one tried to lobby a minister in Gordon Brown’s cabinet he got the astonishing reply Archbishop is widely referred to by his surname and the other is just as widely ‘If missionaries will march into Muslim countries trying to convert them then it’s known by Shortt and others as ‘Rowan’? Not that Shortt is entirely favourable to not surprising they have a hard time’. Clearly this abysmally ignorant politician his subject. He draws a telling analogy between the Archbishop’s leadership style had not heard about the American soldier who asked an Iraqi Christian when his and Dostoevsky’s attempt (highlighted by Rowan) to try and keep himself as family had converted and received the reply ‘About two thousand years’ ago’. Few author out of his novels. In an interview Rowan gave Shortt after he left Lambeth people in the West probably realise just how ancient is the Christian presence in he described the church’s current position on gays as ‘not sustainable’ and Mosul, an Iraqi city now in the hands of ISIS. Historian Philip Jenkins reports revealed that he had worried that his own stand on the subject while in office that there was a Christian church there no later than the second century AD. might leave him open to a legal action by Jeffrey John and make it difficult for him ‘This was a vital base for the Church of the East, the so-called Nestorian Church’, to head a Cambridge College. The fellows of Magdalene brushed his fears aside. he told the ‘Christian Century’ . Also present in the city were the Monophysites, Shortt’s goes some way to justifying Welby’s decision to have a complete change today known as the Syrian Orthodox Church. Mosul was a centre for the of staff when he took over at by claiming to have discovered monastic movement and had some of the earliest Christian monasteries. ‘For widespread support for complaints George Pitcher made about the bureaucracy anyone who cares about Christian history it’s like the end of the world’, laments there with many figures appearing outside their depth. Bishop Graham James is Jenkins. The question Christians in the West should be asking is why the threats quoted as saying more people were taken on than were needed and he accuses against Christians by the self-proclaimed Caliph, Mr al-Baghdadi, have caused Rowan of not being ready to lobby enough over such issues as the Covenant. After relatively little outrage. The betting is that too many people still share the the 2012 vote on women bishops Rowan had a period of depression, unable to mistaken assumption of Gordon Brown’s minister. speak to anyone but his wife for several days

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As the Rev Paul Flowers at last begins to fade from public attention the poor When Pope Francis met victims of clergy sex abuse the press rightly gave Methodist Church is facing another scandal. The ‘Daily Mail’ has published the event coverage but there was less attention paid to another significant allegations about the former Speaker, George Thomas, who after his retirement meeting at the Vatican. Pope Francis even gave the high five greeting to from the Commons became Viscount Tonypandy. According to the newspaper Texas televangelist James Robinson when he met with him and Kenneth police are investigating claims by a man living in Australia that Thomas raped him Copeland in a three hours session that was as long if not longer than the when he was nine years old. Thomas was a Minister at the Home Office when it is time the Pope spent with Archbishop Justin Welby. The encounter with accused of losing 114 files on alleged sex abuse cases. As Speaker Thomas Robinson and Copeland came just a week after the pontiff met with was a popular national figure. He was a Methodist Local Preacher and Joel Osteen. Robinson was so moved by the meeting that he asked for served as Vice President of the Methodist Conference. He was the high five. Critics have asked what a Pope famous for his stress on regarded as a superb preacher and a sermon he preached before the poverty and his simple lifestyle is doing talking to Kenneth Labour Party Conference was long remembered. In retirement he was Copeland and Joel Osteen, both advocates of the prosperity in great demand for funeral eulogies. As Speaker his voice with the gospel. Copeland has been targeted by US Senator Charles Rhonda accent saying ‘Order, order’ made him a national Grassley among others for his lavish lifestyle. Grassley launched treasure but many MPs felt he was too ready to defer to Mrs an investigation but nothing came of the move when Thatcher. According to his friend, Labour MP Leo Abse, Copeland refused to release details of his finances. The Thomas, who died in 1997, paid money to blackmailers when Pope’s readiness to meet with celebrity evangelical and he was Speaker to keep his homosexuality secret. The Pentecostal preachers probably signifies the Latin Methodist Church will rightly argue that the case against American’s realisation that such people have enormous George Thomas has not been proved. The allegations need to influence in many parts of the world. He recently met with be investigated and substantiated before the church can 50,000 Catholic charismatics in Rome and knelt on stage make a statement. More worrying to some Methodists will be as they prayed for him and spoke in tongues. Pew Whispering revelation that Lynton Crosby, David Cameron’s master of the Research estimates that one in four Christians is now The Gallery dark art of political strategy, belongs to their church. Crosby, Pentecostal or charismatic and that they represent 9 per who hails from the ‘paradise of dissent’, South Australia, can cent of the world’s population. recite all the books of the bible in the order in which they are published.

[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper www.churchnewspaper.com Friday July 25, 2014 Comment 9 The UK needs allies Andrew Carey View from the Pew Every now and then the world looks a very danger- down, they will give way to other conflicts. Those ous and messy place. The reminders are the conflict who believe that the human race is on an inexorable in the Middle East a running sore which has evaded path to progress and peace and the brotherhood of every effort at resolution. man are deceiving themselves. There will be con- Similarly the rise of Russia as a threat to rival the flicts in future over food, resources, energy as well as fears and anxiety of the Cold War presents us with the usual tribal disputes over territory. dangerous and worrying geo-political choices. That is why it is senseless to untie the bonds of a Iraq’s Christians Back in 1989 when the Iron Curtain collapsed and by a Scottish vote for independ- the Berlin Wall was dismantled stone by stone by a ence. That vote will leave the remaining rump with a wave of people power there was a sense of optimism diminished military and diplomatic stature and an The threat faced by Mosul’s Christians is accentuated by which prevailed throughout the world. However the undefended border. The break-up of the UK will pose the markings on the homes of Christians. The homes are phenomenon of Islamist terrorism was already a direct threat to Britain’s nuclear deterrent and to being marked with the Arabic ‘n’ for ‘Nazarenes’ – a beginning to emerge from the wreckage of the Cold the morale of all its armed forces. Qur’anic word for Christians. War. In Afghanistan those freedom fighters and Many of the same arguments, in the economic Many of the Christians have already fled, others have Mujahedin that western powers relied upon to rather than military sphere, apply to the unravelling been killed. Those left face great insecurity. The least of engage the Soviet military threat, were now let loose of the European Union. We are stronger together, their problems is the imposition of the outrageous ‘jizya’ upon the world in the form of Al-Qaeda. Radicalised have a greater influence when speaking with a conti- tax that the Prophet Muhammad imposed on subjugated by Islamist ideology and trained in guerrilla warfare nental voice than as representatives of mere ‘Nation Christians in his own version of the Islamic State. a generation of young men became Islamist merce- States’. That is not to say that the nation should not The aim is the subjugation and submission of all Chris- naries following conflict and terrorism into the for- have more of a role in the European Union but that tians and in the Islamic state. It is not enough to con- mer Yugoslavia, Chechnya, North Africa and we are undoubtedly better off as allies in a looser quer them but to subject them to a secondary status in elsewhere. European Community than as entirely independent perpetuity. This is why religion and political power should And now it seems that in spite of the collapse of states within a bickering Union. When it comes to not mix. It is also another reason to reject and protest Communism, the imperial ambitions of Russia have any potential referendum, the British will probably against the notion of the Islamic state and its system of so- not died. In fact, the sense of national humiliation felt vote for the greater security which comes with mem- called ‘justice’. by many Russian nationalists is now driving the bership of a greater body. megalomania of Putin. I hope the Scottish will make the same decision in This is not a world in which you want to be alone. this autumn’s referendum for the sake of families and We need our alliances and treaties to hold us togeth- friends on both sides of the border and all those val- er in an uncertain world. When the current crises die ues and alliances which know no borders. Woes of the Paul Richardson Middle East Church and World

At first glance the Middle East seems to confirm the answer to all their problems. can use his massive wealth to support other like-mind- late Christopher Hitchens’ view that ‘religion spoils Religion is a factor in the Middle East’s problems ed rulers in the region. everything’. A democratic revolution in Egypt has been though, as has suggested, it is more a The middle class that does exist in the Middle East is reversed in a bid to thwart the Muslim Brotherhood. conduit for misery than its fundamental cause. As Mar- tied into ‘crony capitalism’. Business opportunities Iraq and are torn apart by sectarian conflicts that wan Muasher argues in his book The Second Arab depend on patronage, not on enterprise or ability. The have seen the rise of a new, extremist Islamist faction Awakening, there is considerable support among Arabs ‘rentier state’ exists throughout the Middle East. and the proclamation of a Caliphate. Iran and Saudi Ara- for democracy and pluralism. Opinion polls show sup- Instead of encouraging self-reliance and private sector bia appeared locked in a struggle for regional suprema- port for freedom of speech, freedom of religion and growth, governments have fostered a spirit of depend- cy with one championing Shiite Islam and the other equal rights for women in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. ency in which no taxation has meant no representation. pushing extremely conservative Wahabi Sunni beliefs. People want Sharia as a source, not the only source, for All this has gone with massive inequality and poverty Critics claim that Islam has difficulty living with plu- legislation. Democracy remains an aspiration for many. in such countries as Egypt. At least a quarter of young ralism. Admittedly this is a problem elsewhere in the An important document drawn up in 2011 by Al- people in many Middle Eastern countries are looking world as well. Samuel P Huntington once wrote: “In Azhar, the oldest and most respected institution of for work. Graduate unemployment is a major problem. Islam God is Caesar; in China and Japan Caesar is God; learning in the Arab world, committed all the major par- Gilbert Achar has claimed that rates of growth in the in Orthodoxy, God is Caesar’s junior partner. The sepa- ties in Egypt to a democratic state. It was signed by the Middle East are not just below those of Asia but have ration and recurring clashes between Church and State Muslim Brotherhood. also fallen below sub-Saharan Africa. He puts the num- that typify Western civilisation have existed in no other If religion has not ‘poisoned everything’ what has ber of people throughout the region living below a civilisation.” gone wrong? Part of the problem is that people do not poverty line of $2.70 a day at just under 40 per cent. There is much truth in that generalisation and it trust Muslim parties like the Brotherhood to obey dem- The factors that led to the Arab Spring have not gone helps explains Putin’s Russia as well as other develop- ocratic rules. They fear a democratic vote for the away. Poverty, disillusion with leaders, the grievances ments. But Muslims appear to have special difficulty Islamists will be their last vote. Military rulers or of women and widespread use of social networking are with pluralism. This can been seen in the calls for absolute rulers exploit this fear. People in Egypt were all likely to combine to produce future unrest. Discon- Sharia law or from the way in Shiite Iran much power is genuinely torn. They doubted the sincerity of the tent may have produced an Islamist tsunami but, as vested in the Supreme Leader, Ayotollah Khamenei. Brotherhood’s commitment to democracy and turned Achar argues, we should remember a tsunami is a vio- Bernard Lewis has suggested the memory of past to Sisi. But Sisi is no democrat and the result of the lent but transitory phenomenon. glory when Muslim armies carried all before them and oppression he has introduced will be to make the Where people have turned to Islamists as they did to penetrated deeply into Europe also exercises a malign Brotherhood even more sceptical of democratic rheto- Hamas in Gaza in response to corruption in Fatah it has influence. Arabs see themselves as victims of Western ric. often been for secular reasons. Much of the Brother- colonialism and long for a new age of glory. This makes Together with a fear of Islamists using democracy to hood’s popularity is based on the social relief it offers. them susceptible to such figures as Abu-Bakr al Bagh- gain power goes the absence of an independent middle Long-term democracy, open markets and education dadi with his promise of a new Caliphate. But it is not class. Middle Eastern economies are heavily dependent offer the only hope for change in the Middle East. just Arabs who are inspired by this fantasy. Young Mus- on gas and oil. This gives power and influence to Unfortunately the journey to those goals is likely to be a lim men in Cardiff or , dissatisfied with life for a absolute rulers like the King of who does long one. Islam is neither the only answer nor the only number of reasons, see in religious extremism the not have to depend on his subjects for taxation and who problem.

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You’re incredibly busy? You were then recommended, but do you think How did that change you? I honestly don’t think I’m busier than most parish you have changed or has the Church of England Well, it changed the whole direction of things really, priests. If you look at what the vicar does, I suspect changed? because it was such a clear thing that I knew. A couple that he works more or less the same number of hours Probably both. The Church is always changing; it has of weeks later I was sitting in my room and I was that I do. Most clergy work incredibly hard. I’m no moments when it changes for the worst and moments reading John’s Gospel and I got to Chapter 3 verse 16 busier than anyone else; you just have to manage your when it changes for the better. It’s a living thing: it and I realised that was me – that I was personally, time. grows, it declines, things get better, and things get individually loved by God and so was everyone else. If worse. The Church has changed, I’ve changed; I’ve no you are profoundly loved by someone who knows What does it mean to be an Anglican? doubt I’ve become more institutionalised, more exactly who you are, bad and good, it’s got to be very It first of all means to be a Christian – to be a disciple accustomed to it. bizarre if you are not changed by that. of Jesus Christ. The most important decision any person can ever make is to become a disciple of Jesus You did have some kind of a church upbringing, And have you always been aware of that love Christ. It’s the best thing anyone can do. Secondly, but you have said that you had an encounter with through the years since? they follow in a particular tradition, which varies Christ when you were at university? I’ve always known it. I’ve not always felt it but I think around the world. It was 12 October 1975, at the beginning of my second that is very important. We can’t rely on our feelings – year of university. it’s lovely when they are there but I’ve known, What about the Church of England? sometimes more in my head than my heart and other f you go to Starbucks in London and then to a What happened? times all together, that I’m loved by God. And there Starbucks in Liverpool they are similar, you know what Well, between school and university I was in Kenya have been moments of great dryness and struggle but you are going to get. But in the Church of England, and I met some Christians who just profoundly actually I’ve always known God was about, that he you can go to services in London and Liverpool and affected my life and then I tried to run away from that loved me and that he was there. they are completely different. in my first year of university. But at the beginning of That’s because people and cultures are completely my second year, a friend of mine who was a Christian You then started going to church and you are different. And the Church is a family, it’s not an said, ‘Come and listen to this bloke who is speaking.’ part of the Church now. The Church appears to organisation. It’s the people of God called by God – to So I went along and he was talking about the gospel many to be full of rules, regulations and serve him and follow Jesus Christ. And as in any and it was a really bad address. And so at the end of it, traditions that aren’t always explained to us. One family, bits of it work better than others. So you go to the person who took me along said, ‘Come on, let’s thing that Jesus said to us was that we nullify the one church and it might not be working brilliantly well have some supper.’ So we went to have something to word of God by our traditions. Do you think that at a given moment, to another and it’s really fizzing eat, went back to his rooms and he simply explained sometimes traditions can along and is absolutely amazing. But the wonderful the gospel to me: that Jesus had died for my sins and suffocate the presence of thing is that churches can change very dramatically that I needed to give my life to him. He explained it God? and when the Spirit of God moves among us – and very clearly and I saw the point – and so I did. There are only two when people turn afresh to Jesus Christ – even the things that matter in equivalent of a Starbucks that is all over the shop Did something happen to you? the life of the Church, suddenly becomes the living presence of God in its Totally. essentially. One is that community. So yes, it is different all over the place, it’s we worship Jesus better and worse, it’s up and down – the only Christ as Lord and thing that is common to every church is that it is God and the other is full of Christian disciples and it’s full of sinners. that we share the knowledge of his Who monitors quality control in the Church love with the of England? world. Well, it depends who you are talking about. If it’s in a parish it will be the area dean, the archdeacon and the bishop. If it’s a bishop it will be other bishops they meet with; we have regular reviews. There is feedback from people and there is a system.

So do you think that system is working? I don’t know any institution or organisation where it works 100% of the time. But yes, I think it is on the whole. I think people are more held to account than they used to be.

When you first went forward for ordination is it true you were not recommended? I had this meeting with a bishop and after about three minutes he said, ‘You know, I’ve Archbishop Justin Welby, interviewed more than a thousand candidates for right, J. John ordination and you don’t come in the top 1000.’ He said, ‘I can tell you, you have no future in the Church of England.’ Did you find that your mind was illuminated, or your heart? Were you discouraged on that day? Someone came into my life; there was a Well, actually I was rather pleased because I was presence in my life who had not been there hoping I would be turned down, but my vicar at the before and I knew the presence of God. It time, a man called , went round to see him wasn’t an emotional reaction. I just knew that and persuaded him to change his mind. Jesus was there and I had met him.

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Traditions that enable that to happen better are in an area. We are educating more than a million Juba, which had been taken and re-taken four times; wonderful but when they are a ball and chain around children. We take the vast majority of funerals and take it’s on the Foreign Office list of places you absolutely worship and the sharing of the love of Christ they have care of and love the bereaved – regardless of whether mustn’t go to under any circumstances ever! And he to be changed and we have to adapt. Living traditions they came to church or not. We love them because God said we’d go with Missionary Aviation Fellowship, so are never quite the same one year to the next but in loves them. We seek to bring them to faith, but we we went in a single-engine plane. Now that was tradition we hear the voice of the Wisdom of the Ages. don’t do it in a manipulative way, we do it because we theoretically a risk, but why was it the right thing to love them. We have chaplains in the hospitals and in do? Because he’s a Christian, I’m a Christian; you stand What if we find that the tradition is becoming a the prisons. We are working in some of the toughest alongside people in suffering and by the grace of God it stumbling block to us experiencing God? environments on the face of this earth. The Church is was a profoundly shattering experience. I had to The tradition should be growing and changing so, if it’s doing more socially today than at any time since the consecrate a mass grave – it’s a pretty extraordinary not, you remove the stumbling block. Secondly, you was invented, and we are doing it better. place to be. And the two of us met the people who were think very hard about what that means for other people suffering and by the grace of God we were able to because Christian worship is not ‘me and God’ it’s ‘us When you took over as Archbishop, you had encourage them, but you find the grace when you take and God’. three priorities and the first was the renewal of the risk. I remember John Wimber saying, ‘One of my prayer and the religious life. Can you just explain favourite prayers is, “Oh God! Help!” ’ And we’ve all Did you say, ‘The Church of England must be that? been there, we know that feeling. We need to be a risk- realistic about dwindling congregations, but a We need a renewal of prayer in our churches and taking Church. The signs of being a risk-taking Church good vicar can still increase the size of their people, living in communities or separately, but are that you have plenty of failures. If there aren’t flock’? meeting to pray together, usually under some common failures, you aren’t taking risks. Go and take risks and What I meant was that growing churches on the whole discipline. The fact is that since the early sixth century fail – it’s better than not taking risks at all. have very good clergy and very good leadership. That and St Benedict there has been no renewal of spiritual doesn’t mean necessarily that shrinking churches have life in the Church without a renewal of religious Archbishop, there appears to be a global bad clergy. You sometimes get very difficult situations. communities. There’s Benedict, there’s Francis and persecution of Christians. What should our I remember one church that had an absolutely brilliant what did Wesley do? He formed groups. Now they response be to that? vicar. Whatever he did, the church just went on sliding. didn’t live under one roof, but they met together under Well, support! Presence. Contact. Support in prayer. He really struggled with it. After about seven years, he a common rule. On that same trip we were then down in the Congo in moved on somewhere else and the next person came an Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp of 25,000 in and the whole thing took off. Now actually what the Prayer is the point that stops us being an NGO with a people. This group of people had had no food delivered first man had done was to dig the ground. He’d worked pointy roof. Prayer is the point where we do something for quite a long time and were extremely hungry. The very hard; it was just really hard ground to dig. that to the non-Christian makes no sense whatsoever place was shatteringly awful. The people gathered We need clergy and lay people of all sorts, who are and to the Christian we know changes the entire world, round and the bishop who was with me said, ‘Say profoundly convinced about the importance of bringing completely. If you want the nation to be converted, you something that will encourage them.’ No pressure! people to be disciples of Jesus Christ and who have pray. If you want people to be healed, you pray. If you When I don’t know what to say, I talk until I work out confidence in the gospel – that the gospel is good news want churches to be renewed in the Spirit, you pray. I what I need to say, so I started off by saying, ‘Jesus for all people, always and everywhere. For that to met someone at a Christian conference shortly after I Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever,’ and happen, you need good clergy: clergy who inspire. It was converted who said, ‘What are you doing here?’ He they all cheered and clapped. And I suddenly may be in preaching, it may be in their lives, it may be knew my grandmother and I said, ‘I’ve become a remembered that the gospel is good news for the poor in a combination of things so that people look at them Christian.’ He said, ‘I’ve got to go and ring my wife. We and I went on to talk about Jesus and that seemed to be and think, ‘If that is what Jesus does, that is what I have been praying for you once a week since we knew all that was needed. want.’ your mother was expecting you.’ If someone said to The gospel is good news for the poor and the me, ‘Who led you to Christ?’ I suspect he’s pretty near persecuted. It’s about presence, when we can go there But if the churches were a bit like soccer teams, the top of the list. or support other people who can go there and stand most of the managers would have been sacked by alongside the suffering. The biggest characteristic of now wouldn’t they? Your second priority is reconciliation, what do persecuted areas is the sense that everyone has Yes, but the Church is a family, it’s not a business, it’s you mean by that? forgotten that they exist. That’s what people feel, not an organisation; we can use these analogies, but we There are lots of ways of defining reconciliation but if because quite clearly people are out to get them and need to recognise their limitations. The Church is a I’m going to give you a very short definition it is ‘good they wonder if anyone knows they exist and if anyone collection of sinners; it’s a refuge for sinners, not a disagreement’. The Church is full of people who differ. cares. The fact that they get contact from people is home for saints. What happens if you put lots of We are not all the same, we are all different. One could amazing. We want to do something; we want to change sinners together? You get lots of sin. If you get lots of say the gospel is reconciliation; it’s reconciliation the situation. Well that may not happen straight away, sin, you need to work it out. Let’s be real about what between human beings and God. But God gives us far but you change it by letting them know you haven’t the Church is! It’s full of sinners, saved by grace and too much reconciliation for it to be contained within the forgotten about them and you are praying for them. that is the miracle of the Church: that God looks at us Church. If the Church is doing its stuff it’s reconciled and still loves us and draws us together. It’s incredible! reconcilers: it sets an example of love in diversity and How was it when you went to meet Pope Francis? in the community, it’s the go-to place for people to find Did you enjoy that? Are you like the Protestant Pope? out how to love each other and live in community and Oh Yes! Who wouldn’t? No! when they do that as they watch the Church they begin to find Jesus Christ. It’s the greatest blessing we have He comes across as a really nice man. So are you not able to tell the Commissioners or for the world. God copyrighted reconciliation on the Yes, that doesn’t do him justice, I think. He’s an the bishops what to do? cross and in the resurrection and he has given us the extraordinary man and he’s witty as well. No, I can’t tell them what to do. licence to operate it and we’d better do it. Did you laugh together? Can you tell anyone what to do? And your third priority? It was the first thing we did when we met. We were Well, I can tell them, but they don’t usually pay any Evangelism and witness. sitting across the desk and there was an interpreter attention. My dog sometimes does what she is told. there and we looked at each other and we laughed for a My area of expertise – tell us more about that. minute. I think what we both felt was that it was so Does the Pope have more authority than you do? Indeed. It’s the overflow of the love of God. What is extraordinary we were both there, because neither of About a million times more. the last thing that Jesus tells us? Go and make disciples us expected to be there. Then he leant across and said, – we are there to worship God and make disciples; ‘I’m senior to you.’ And I thought, ‘How disappointing. I And the reason that the Archbishop of Canterbury everything else is decoration. Making disciples means thought you were not going to be that kind of person.’ doesn’t have that kind of authority is because … ? so overflowing with the love of God in action and word So I said, ‘Well, of course you are, Your Holiness,’ It’s because we have a reformed tradition which says that people see the compassion and love of Christ and completely missing the point as usual! He said, ‘By two that decisions about the Church are made by the whole are brought to know and love him. They need to have it days!’ And the interpreter laughed. But he was great; people of God, by the laity, that we have to be rather explained to them and they also need to see it. we then talked about really profound things – cautious about people laying down the law from on enormously significant things. high. And I quite like that. It’s slower, it’s less tidy, it’s You have written and spoken about risk-taking, sometimes really frustrating, but the reality is, I think so what kind of risks should we be taking? God is re-positioning people for a time such as this. it’s the right way to do things. Read the New Well, first of all we need to risk our lives. Secondly, I He is. It seems to me there is more opportunity for Testament: Paul really struggled with some of the think it was Stanley Hauerwas (a theologian in the US) the Church now than I can remember in my lifetime. decision-making processes, but he accepted that was who said, ‘The Church should act so that what it does There is more space for us to tell our story, to serve the right thing to do. is meaningless if God does not exist.’ That is risk- our communities, to change the world, to proclaim in The Council of Jerusalem – exactly the same thing – taking! We bet our lives literally and metaphorically on word and deed who Jesus is. At the end of time, God is they had to struggle through to find the right answer. the existence of God and we get up the next day and not remotely interested in whether I was Archbishop of we do it again. Risk-taking means going to the worst Canterbury, but did I worship Jesus Christ as Lord and I think we need to hear more of the good stories. I’m places on the face of the earth with the love of Christ. God with every part of me? Did I trust in him for my not sure people are aware of the good the Church of We take the risk of the church starting projects, which, salvation? Did I seek to share his love with others? Did England has done and is doing – the parishes that are if God doesn’t show up, aren’t going to work. I obey God and walk with him through my life? That’s doing great work. I think it’s because people like to Caroline and I were in the recently. The all he is interested in for any of us. report bad news, they don’t like to report good news. Archbishop down in South Sudan is an amazing man. Absolutely. In 2008 there was the financial crisis. There’s a civil war going on and he rang up two days So Archbishop, what are your hopes for the Around that time there may have been 150 food banks before we were due to get to Juba in the South Sudan Church of England, your hopes for Britain? in the country. Now there are well over 2000. More and he said, ‘Will you come with us to Bor?’ Bor is a My hopes are for a Church that learns much more to than 99 per cent are run by churches, usually in groups town of about 1/4 million people, 100 miles north of disagree well and to cope with diversity, that is 12 www.churchnewspaper.com Friday July 25, 2014 Classifieds & Feature

Justin Welby Interview: continued incredibly flexible, that holds to the traditions where – that relaxes me. We do watch TV: we are West Wing people know. they serve the gospel and is incredibly flexible about fans, Borgen, politics. We go out for a meal, we sit and living in a rapidly changing culture and learns how to chat. Archbishop, how can we pray for you? deal with that. A Church that grows in the number of You can pray first of all for wisdom to know what to do, the faithful, committed disciples of Jesus Christ, year But now, being a public figure, is it difficult for because it’s sometimes very difficult. Secondly, for in and year out, and has a new confidence in the gospel you to go away? patience, to know when to do it, because timing is and, above all, a Church that is consumed by love for No! The really reassuring thing is that my face is so often everything. And thirdly, for courage to do it even Jesus. utterly forgettable that if I’m not wearing a dog collar, when it’s going to be really difficult. almost nobody notices who I am. So you are quite optimistic and positive about the Archbishop, I will be praying those things and I future? I gather that you sometimes use public transport know many people who have listened to what you have I’m absolutely not optimistic, but I am profoundly in London? said will be as well. We think that you are a man for hopeful. Yes, normally. such a time as this and I’m personally privileged and delighted to call you my Archbishop. Thank you very What do you do to relax? Do you take a sabbath? And people don’t recognise you? much. Oh golly, yes, if I can. Except in emergencies, I have a If I’m wearing a dog collar they sometimes do. One of The Rev Canon J.John day off a week. If I lose it, we’ve developed a system the great privileges of the job is there is a bus stop Director where every few weeks we have a long weekend to called Lambeth Palace. So if you are wearing a dog www.philotrust.com make up for the days we lose. Family relaxes me. And I collar and a cross round your neck and you get off at read economics, I love reading economics. I read a lot the bus stop marked Lambeth Palace, on the whole Follow J John on Twitter: @Canonjjohn www.churchnewspaper.com Friday July 25, 2014 The Register 13

THE 2014 BIBLE CHALLENGE ANGLICAN CYCLE OF PRAYER The Rev James Poole, Associate Vicar, Cambridge Holy Sepulchre (Ely) will resign with effect from 31 August 2014. James will be Day 206: Proverbs 29-31, Psalm 18: 21-50, Philippians Friday 25 July. Psalm 35, Gen 16. Ekiti Oke - moving to Oxford to become Executive Director of 3 (Ondo, Nigeria): The Rt Rev Isaac Olubowale Wycliffe Bible Translators. Day 207: Ecclesiastes 1-3, Psalm 19, Philippians 4 Saturday 26 July. Psalm 36, Gen 17:1-14. Ekiti The Rev Canon Ann Slater, Day 208: Enjoy hearing the Scriptures read aloud in West - (Ondo, Nigeria): The Rt Rev Samuel Oke of Heyford w Stowe-Nine-Churches & Flore w church Sunday 27 July. Pentecost 7. Psalm 37:1-11, Gen Brockhall (Peterborough) is to retire from this role on Day 209: Ecclesiastes 4-6, Psalm 20, Colossians 1 17:15-27. PRAY for Province de L’Eglise Anglicane 12 October 2014. Ann will be appointed Canon Day 210: Ecclesiastes 7-9, Psalm 21, Colossians 2 au Rwanda: The Most Rev Dr Onesphore Rwaje, Emeritus of Peterborough Cathedral from this date. Day 211: Ecclesiastes 10-12, Psalm 22, Colossians 3 Archbishop of L’Eglise Episcopal au Rwanda and The Rev Wendy Anne Wale (née Brown) Day 212: Song of Songs 1-3, Psalm 23, Colossians 4 Bishop of Gasabo Asst (Summerfield, Christ Church and Monday 28 July. Psalm 37:12-29, Acts 8:14-25. El Edgbaston, St Germain), (Birmingham) to resign with Camino Real - (VIII, The Episcopal Church): The Rt effect from 27 July 2014. APPOINTMENTS Rev Mary Gray-Reeves The Rev Edwina Margaret Wallace Tuesday 29 July. Psalm 38:1-9, Acts 8:26-40. El Vicar (Sutton Coldfield, St Chad), Diocese of Salvador - (Central America): The Rt Rev Martin De Birmingham, to retire from 30 September. Jesus Barahona The Rev Jennifer Walters, Next Bishop of Hereford Wednesday 30 July. Psalm 38:10-22, Gen 18:1-15. Assistant Curate at Southampton St Mary Extra The Rt Rev Richard Michael Cokayne Frith, Eldoret - (Kenya): The Rt Rev Thomas Kogo (Peartree) and Woolston will retire with effect from , is to be Bishop of Hereford. Thursday 31 July. Psalm 39, Gen 18:16-33. El- 7th September 2014 (Winchester). Obeid - (Sudan): The Rt Rev Ismail Gibreil Abugigin The Rev Neil Weston, The Rev Julie Anderson, Incumbent, Kington, Old Radnor, Kinnerton, formerly Curate Norris Green Christ Church Huntington and Titley, to retire from 30 September (Liverpool), has been appointed Priest in Charge of (Hereford). Longstanton and Over (Ely). NSM Assistant Curate, Arbourthorne and Norfolk The Rev Stephen Anderson, Park (Sheffield), to be Priest in Charge of Sheffield St LAY & OTHER APPOINTMENTS PTO (Ely), has been appointed Associate Priest, to be John the Evangelist Park (Sheffield). known as Priest Vicar, Cambridge St Clements (Ely). The Rev Susan Hollins, The Rev Philip Bowden, Priest in Charge, Boxley St Mary the Virgin & All Assistant Curate of St Mary’s Portsea () Saints, with Detling (Canterbury) and Area Dean of Mrs Jan Payne, has been appointed Priest in Charge of Dallington St North Downs, has been appointed Vicar-Chaplain of St LLM at and Honorary Bishop’s Adviser Mary and Northampton St James (Portsmouth). Edward’s (Ely). for Music (Ely), has been appointed Authorised Lay The Rev Susan Bowden-Pickstock, The Rev Canon Nick Moir, Ministry Training Officer. Curate, Bluntisham cum Earith with Colne and Vicar at Chesterton St Andrew (Ely), has been Holywell cum Needingworth (Ely) has been appointed appointed in addition Priest in Charge, Cambridge St DEATHS Priest in Charge of the Saxon Shore Benefice Clements (Ely). (Norwich). The Rev Claire Parr, The Rev Richard Burbidge, Curate, Hampreston (Salisbury) has been appointed The Rev David Prytherch Assistant Curate of Christ Church Lowestoft, has been Associate Minister, Hemingford Grey St James (Ely). Retired Priest died 26 June 2014. Formerly Incumbent appointed Associate Vicar of Moulton (Peterborough). The Rev David Parr, of Thornton-Le-Fylde Christ Church in Blackburn The Rev Linda Cronin, PTO (Salisbury) has been appointed Associate Diocese. Mr Prytherch retired in 1994 and held Chaplain at All Saints Academy and also based at St Minister, Hemingford Grey St James (Ely). Permission to Officiate in Chester Diocese from 1996. Mark’s, St Barnabas, St Aidan & Emmanuel, The Rev Pauline Reid, The Rev Canon Timothy Roper Cheltenham, Gloucester, to be Priest in Charge of Priest in Charge, the Raddesley Group (Ely) has been died on 28 June (Peterborough). Madeley (Woodside and Sutton Hill), (Hereford). appointed Priest in Charge of the Cley Hill Benefice The Rev Robert Thorn, The Rev Kevin Downham, (Salisbury). Appointment as Rector of Bride Valley (Salisbury) previously Chaplain at HMP Woodhill and was also on The Rev Howard Robson, ceased on 8 April. He died in service. the Diocesan Synod (Coventry), has been appointed as Vicar, Littleport St George with St John Little Ouse Preb. John Francis Wentworth Watson Managing Chaplain at HMP Long Lartin (Worcester). (Ely) has been appointed Rural Dean of the Ely died on 28th June 2014 aged 85. The Rev Preb Paul Dunthorne, Deanery (Ely). Formerly Curate, Egham, Vicar of Howell Hill, Rector Team Rector of the Ledbury Team Ministry, to be The Rev Emma Rothwell, of Ashstead (Dio Guildford), Vicar St Andrew’s Mission and Training Adviser (Winchester). Associate Priest, Gamlingay and Everton (Ely), has Plymouth The Rev Bonnie Evans-Hills been appointed also Director of Practical Theology of The Very Rev Alex Wedderspoon, has been granted Permission to Officiate for six the Eastern Region Ministry Course. Permission to Officiate (Guildford), died on 10 June. months from 1 August 2014 in the first instance. The Rev Keith Ryder-West, The Rev Robert Charles Wright Bonnie’s curacy at St Paul’s, Oadby, and consequently Vicar of Parson Cross St Cecilia (Sheffield), to be also PtO Norwich from 96, died 19 June 2014 aged 83. her role as Bishop’s Interfaith Adviser, ends on 31 July Priest in charge of Norwood St Leonard (Sheffield). 2014 (Leicester). The Rev Susan Simpson, The Rev Ian Fletcher Curate, Soham and Wicken (Ely),has been appointed Subscribe to the CEN in the has been appointed Priest in Charge of Eastleigh Rector of Somersham with Pidley, Old Hurst and Apple Newsstand (Winchester). Woodhurst (Ely). The Rev Dr Jenny Gage, The Rev Canon , Associate Priest, Three Rivers Group (Ely), has been Team Rector, Papworth Team Ministry and Bishop’s appointed Bishop’s Adviser for Self Supporting Adviser for Women’s Ministry, has been appointed Ministry (Ely). (Chichester). The Rev Val Gagen, The Rev Dr Denise Linda Yeldham, has been appointed House for Duty Assistant Priest in Assistant Priest of St Stephen’s with St John, Rochester the Parish of Smannell with Enham Alamein in the Row (London), has been appointed Priest in Charge of Pastrow Benefice, and Chaplain to the Enham Trust Margate, St John the Baptist and Margate, All Saints, (Winchester). Westbrook (Canterbury). The Rev Rebecca Gilbert, Curate, Three Rivers Group (Ely) has been appointed as Team Vicar in the Lordsbridge Team (Ely). RETIREMENTS & RESIGNATIONS The Rev Dr Christine Gore, Principal of the Yorkshire Ministry Course (YMC) and previously on the staff of the Wilson Carlile College of The Rev Ally Barrett, Evangelism in Sheffield, to be the Director for Vicar, Buckden with the Offords (Ely), will resign with Formation of Ministry and Principal designate of St effect from 31 July 2014. Ally will be spending a year in Peter’s College (Sheffield). Columbus with her family, to enable her husband to The Rev Christian Heycocks undertake an academic sabbatical at Ohio State Vicar of Sheringham has been appointed to a new University from July 2014 to July 2015. Online (additional) position as Rural Dean of Repps The Rev Derek (DW) Carberry, Meet Pete Nevland, the (Norwich). Priest in Charge of Horton (Newcastle), has resigned. The Rev John Hibberd, The Rev James Nolan, poet sharing the Gospel. 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7th Sunday after Trinity - Life at any cost? Sunday 3rd August 2014 Isaiah 55:1-5. Romans 9:1-5. Matthew 14:13-21.

Each of our readings this week focuses on We seek medical advice compassion for the lost, and its provision in Christ.

Isaiah 55 is a rousing marketplace call to respond to the free offer of life in the gospel. “Ho! Come!” grabs the attention of the passerby. But more strik- ing still is the deal on offer: satisfaction for no cost! Eat and drink without money, without price! People spend their hard earned cash on all sorts of things which will not satisfy them, whether at a spiritual or merely physical level. We are often left disappointed by the shoddiness of workmanship or inbuilt obso- lescence of the items raved about by today’s retail- ers. But Isaiah claims to offer something rich and delightful, at less than a bargain basement price. Is it a literally unbelievable deal, or an old trusty prom- ise backed up by divine guarantee? The prophet claims the latter, an everlasting covenant, the one that has stood for hundreds of years in David and his dynasty and will endure the purging of the exile. Israel is glorified and nations shall run to it for blessing, because of the work of the suffering ser- vant, despite current appearances or despondency. Who will listen carefully and come? In Romans 9 we barge in on an emotionally unpleasant truth: many in Israel would not only reject Isaiah’s offer, but they would reject the Mes- siah himself when he appeared. Moses offered him- self as a penal substitute for Israel in Exodus 32, when they rejected God in favour of a golden calf. “Blot me out of your book!” he suggested, but for- give their sin. Likewise Paul feels so strongly and deeply for his people that he has great sorrow and unceasing anguish in his heart for them. If it were possible, he would be willing to be accursed and cut off from Christ in their stead, placed back under the wrath of God he spoke so eloquently about in chap- ter 1. The privileges Israel enjoyed were so immense and numerous that their current rejection of the fulfilment of all their hopes and longings was doubly tragic and lamentable. The glory of the old covenant with its temple worship and future promis- es was theirs, and they were humanly related to the patriarchs of old and to Jesus Christ himself. Yet they had not embraced the one to whom all things pointed, when God in their flesh had appeared. No wonder Paul was so deeply troubled by this, when in Romans 8 he had just praised the unbreakable love of God to sinners. If Israel turned aside, had God’s word failed? The answer must come back - “by no means!” But the agony of heart is real even as we wrestle to the ultimate conclusion. Jesus too felt gut-wrenching compassion for Israel, even when they gathered together in a world- ly fashion to compel him into political action. But he is greater than an earthly king, and more glorious By Elaine Sugden The suffering of a younger relative might not be in the patient’s best than any prophet. His free offer of satisfying food, (in his 50s) was prolonged by innu- interests. and bodies made whole, is like manna in the desert Surely keeping alive by artificial merable anaesthetics and spinal oper- Leaving the family to make such under Moses, or Elisha’s multiplying of the loaves means (as we understand was the ations, which occurred every few decisions alone is not fair, though of in a time of need (2 Kings 4:42-44). But will they case with ) and ter- days, even when his legs were use- course patient or family can be given respond with merely temporary gratitude for needs minating self-sustaining life are two less and short-term memory com- the right to insist on further interven- met, or see in these things a sign of something different things? pletely destroyed. His consultant tion. greater - the fulfilment of all in the person of the self- I am recently retired but during my accused me of a death wish when I Speaking with another elderly rela- sacrificing God-man? Our congregations too need to career in oncology I was saddened asked him to desist, which he refused tive (in her late 80s) and her retire- face this question: are we here to satisfy our felt when supportive treatment was con- to do. My relative died within a few ment home friends, I learn that most needs, or to meet the One who feels our need and tinued when there was no hope of days of the conversation after several are concerned that they might be took our place to give us eternal life? even the most basic enjoyment of life. more medical and surgical interven- coerced into agreeing to die but they This activity gave patient, family and tions. are equally, if not more so, concerned Dr Lee Gatiss is editor of the NIV Proclamation Bible friends false hope of recovery. So I maintain that regularly we are that in the event of a life-threatening and Director of Church Society In my own family two elderly rela- indeed “striving officiously to keep situation they might be resuscitated, (www.churchsociety.org) tives (80 and 90-plus) were kept alive alive” - a very useful mis-appropria- only to live on in a twilight world in after severe strokes to do no more tion of a quote from Arthur Hugh the undignified way they have wit- than sit in a chair all day unable to Clough - and that is where effort nessed in friends and relatives. They communicate and needing to be tube should be placed. We should support are keen on ‘living wills’ but also HYMN SUGGESTIONS fed. In both cases there were missed doctors in truthfully discussing likely know that medics often ignore these opportunities for the medical profes- outcomes with the patient or with rel- in a bid for life at any cost. Beauty for brokenness sion to refrain from intervening once atives when the patient is not con- We have a gospel to proclaim it was realised that reasonable recov- scious, suggesting to them, when Elaine Sugden is retired Consultant From the squalor of a borrowed stable ery was very unlikely. appropriate, that further intervention Oncologist from Oxford I the Lord of sea and sky Filled with compassion for all creation

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The Ten Commandments have surely been one of the most important moral codes in history. A new dawn Michael Coogan of Harvard Divin- ity School has written The Ten Commandments: a Short History of an Ancient Text (Yale) to trace the history and development of this spawns a new hit code. Why did the Decalogue become so significant? Why are there different versions? What do the commandments actually mean? What is their enduring significance? This short book casts new light on a familiar subject. Highly recom- mended.

As well as the canonical gospels we can find accounts of the childhood of Jesus in the other collec- tions such as the ‘Infancy Gospel of Thomas’. Some- times Jesus is described as turning clay birds into live sparrows or working other miracles. In Christ Child (Yale) Stephen J Davis looks at early ideas of child- hood and at how communities remember the past to show what light the apocryphal gospels shed on the history of early Christianity. Interdisciplinary meth- ods are adroitly employed and a good case is made for paying attention to apocryphal texts.

Handel’s ‘Messiah’ continues to be a popular work and Handel himself is attracting new attention as we cel- ebrate the 300th anniversary of the arrival of the Hanoverians. Tainted Glory in Handel’s ‘Messiah’ (Yale) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (dir. Matt Reeves, cert. with a boy aged 5, and over a few days filming each takes a critical look at Handel. 12A) takes us “ten winters” on from the battle on the year, create a story of his family life, his adolescence Author Michael Marissen is a Bach Golden Gate Bridge in Rise of … (although if words and eventually leaving home for college, age 18. specialist who is Professor of Music mean anything Dawn would logically precede Rise). Ellar Coltrane plays Mason, named for his father at Swarthmore College. He is con- These are of course “prequels” to the 1968 original, Mason (Ethan Hawke), largely absent but trying to cerned to promote understanding explaining how Charlton Heston found himself on a fulfil some parental responsibility. Mason’s mother between Jews and Christians and is planet of talking apes (based on Pier re Boulle’s 1963 Olivia (Patricia Arquette) bears the brunt of bringing troubled by a disturbing message of anti-Judaism novel La Planète des Singes) . him up and elder sister Samantha (played by Lin- buried in Handel’s celebration of Christ. Caesar (Andy Serkis in motion capture) now leads a klater’s daughter Lorelie). colony of apes in the Mount Tamalpais hills above San It’s as much about wider relationships, and Olivia’s is one of those commemorated in the Francisco, complete with rudimentary construction choices here are poor. She marries Bill (Marco Perel- Martyrs’ Memorial at Oxford. There is also an impos- work. In the city, human survivors from the plague la), a college professor who turns out to be alcoholic, ing memorial to him in Gloucester where he served that swept the planet struggle with diminishing and part of her children’s trauma is to flee their home, as Bishop. An early Protestant martyr under Mary, resources including means of power generation. leaving Bill’s own children to an unknown fate with his story is recorded in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs. Now Maybe the old hydro-electric power station – in the him. Pete Sullivan has produced a new, short biography hills - could be made to work, and it’s a team on a that draws on Hooper’s own papers. John Hooper is recce who encounter the apes. The meeting does not published by EP Books in the ‘Bitesized biographies’ go well, despite Malcolm (Jason Clarke) deploying series. his best talk to the animals negotiating skills. The plot then is essentially that of Avatar – co-oper- The ‘Song of Songs’ has long had ate to enable the human race to survive, or go to war. an appeal for those looking for inspi- Actually it’s even closer to 1973’s Battle for the Planet ration and help in prayer. It is one of of the Apes. the richest and most mysterious Caesar trusts humans, but Koba (Toby Kebbell) is books in the Bible. Graham Watson less accommodating, ready to challenge Caesar as has written The Song of Songs: A leader, and devious with it. He does have a point as Contemplative Guide (SPCK) to the San Franciscans’ leader Dreyfus (Gary Oldman) help modern readers use the text. has a Plan B to wipe out the apes and an arsenal that The commitment of the four principals to the “12 As well as being a wonderful exposi- makes that feasible. year project” is itself remarkable, though if anyone tion of the Song of Songs in a way Modern medicine saves Caesar’s “wife” Cornelia else wanted out, they could (e.g.) be turned into an that unlocks its rich resources for (Judy Greer) but there are trigger-happy characters alcoholic and left behind. By the end, the ensemble prayer and contemplation, Watson among both humans and apes, and Plan B looks ever was collaborating on the script, and the scary thing is also gives us a good model of how to approach scrip- more likely. At a time where proportionality in human how rare are the moments when any of the scenes ture in a way that nourishes our spiritual life. conflict is part of our news feed, it is rather intriguing, seem forced. and a bit depressing, to hear apes discussing ele- Late on we meet Olivia’s pa rents, played by couple Paul Murray has written a num- ments of the just war doctrine. Richard Andrew Jones and Karen Jones. They’re ber of books on prayer. In Scars Would that the great powers in 1914 could have devout Christians – there’s even a suggestion that (Bloomsbury) he gives us a series counted the cost, as does Caesar when asking of a Mason Sr should get baptised, and we get a bit of a of poems, articles and meditations potential conflict, “How many apes will die?” Investing sermon from their pastor (Gordon Friday). on what it is like to live with the apes with the capacity for such calculation only rein- To their adolescent grandchild on his 15th birthday memory of suffering and pain. forces human fallibility, past and present, in this field. they give a Bible (red-letter) and a shotgun. Well, it is Wounds heal but scars remain. All Don’t wor ry, though, there’s not much moralising Texas (Linklater’s home state). of us carry such scars and this before the main action, so as long as you don’t mind Linklater is best known for the series following the book can be a great help. He tells plot holes and general nonsense, it’s a decent follow- love-life of a couple played by Hawke and Julie Delpy the story of people who have suf- up, and the motion capture techniques have come on (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight ) fered and the way in which they in leaps and bounds (which the apes do quite well). filmed at nine-year intervals - but that was unplanned. have dealt with their pain. One Crucially, enough humans and apes survive to ensure Possibly seeming pretentious nonsense when first chapter, for example, is devoted to martyr victims of a sequel. pitched, Boyhood is a work of art, and watching the past 100 years; another section, ‘The Scars of Coltrane literally grow into the part is fascinating. God’, contains meditations on the seven last words of Boyhood, trailed last week, took some planning. Christ. Writer-director Richard Linklater’s idea was to start Steve Parish

[email protected] facebook.com/churchnewspaper @churchnewspaper I am sure many of you sport fans are gearing up for the Commonwealth Games. Will this be England’s chance to reclaim some pride in sport? I hope so! But while Glasgow prepares, we should remember this is not the first time Scotland has been at the centre of the COLLEGE STREET Commonwealth’s attention for the games. The first Commonwealth Youth Games were held in Edinburgh in August 2000 where 733 Athletes from 14 countries competed in 8 sports SW1 over 3 days. These Youth Games are important. They prepare young athletes for their future competing careers. All competitors in the Commonwealth Youth Games are a minimum of 14 CITY OF WESTMINSTER and maximum of 18 in the year of competition (i.e, their 18th birthday is during the calendar year in which the Games is held) and a maximum number of 1000 competitors are invited to participate from every Commonwealth Games Association. The Youth Games are a good with Amaris Cole indicator of who will go on to bigger and better things. We are meeting a few. Let me know your favourite Games event on @AmarisColeCEN.

NAME: AMELIA MAUGHAN REPRESENTING: ENGLAND NAME: LYNSEY SHARP NAME: MARI DAVIES Amelia Maughan says she is excited as she REPRESENTING: ENGLAND REPRESENTING: WALES prepares to make her major championship debut Lynsey Sharp made her mark when she took 800m Welsh swimmer Mari Davies is aiming to make the as a member of England’s swimming team at the bronze at the Commonwealth Youth Games in the swimming finals at the Commonwealth Games in Commonwealth Games. Indian city of Pune. She is now back for more. Glasgow. The 16-year-old, from Caernarfon, is one The 18-year-old was selected as a member of the of the two fastest swimmers of her age in the UK. England squad for the 4x200m freestyle relay in “The Commonwealth Youth Games were really She hopes to win a medal in either the relay, 100 Glasgow next Saturday. She also has an outside important to me,” she said. “That was my first or 50 metres front crawl. chance of a place in the 4x100m freestyle squad on major medal. I ran the heat at 8.00am, and the final “I’m going to try and get to the final in the relay the first day of swimming on Thursday. at 5pm the same day. The temperature was 42 and maybe reach the semi-final or beat my Amelia, who has been training with the England degrees!” personal best (PB),” she said. “My goal was to team at the Olympic pool in London in the run-up Injury robbed Sharp of the chance to represent reach the Commonwealth Youth Games next year to the Games, told her local paper: “It’s really good. Scotland in the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games. in Samoa – I didn’t expect to go to Glasgow.” I had a 10-month break from swimming in 2012-13 But four years later she stands ready to extend a Mari was picked after notching a time of 2’.02 for various reasons but it’s great to be back.” family tradition set by her father, Cameron Sharp, when she won the 200m at the British Junior At 13, Amelia became the European Youth who won five Commonwealth sprint medals, Championships in April. Olympics champion in the 100m freestyle. She has including gold in the 4x100m at the 1978 She started swimming for fun as a youngster; since won medals at world and European junior Edmonton Games at the age of 20. enjoyed it and entered competitions and galas with championships but Glasgow 2014 is her first senior I think his Commonwealth medals are more Swim Gwynedd. She said: “I enjoy it. I am a international championship, having also been important to him than the European medal,” she determined person.” selected as one of eight British swimmers selected said. “He’s very Scottish, so he really enjoyed Her ultimate dream is to win an Olympic gold for the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China, representing his country.” medal. from August 16-28. FREE CEN ONLINE FOR ALL STUDENTS! Email your course details to [email protected]

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