CS Lewis Slippery INSIDE questions questions Aslan in over soap, new play, p12 p11 THE FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2013 No: 6191 www.churchnewspaper.com PRICE £1.35 1,70j US$2.20 CHURCH OF ENGLAND THE ORIGINAL CHURCH NEWSPAPER ESTABLISHED IN 1828 NEWSPAPER All-clear for Church divided over Archbishop fracking debate AFTER WOMEN BISHOPS energy bills on the least well- and Gay Marriage, could The Cuadrilla off. fracking be a new source of Resources site in The statement emphasised division in the Church of Eng- Lancashire the importance of care for the land? environment but referred to a Criticism of fracking has report by the Royal Academy been expressed in a leaflet of Engineering which con- published by the Diocese of cluded the fracking ‘can be Blackburn and by the Bishop managed effectively in the UK of Chichester, whose diocese as long as operational prac- includes the village of Bal- tices are implemented and combe, but Philip Fletcher of robustly enforced through Church of England Mission regulation’. and Public Affairs group has “Fuel poverty, the creation emphasised that the Church of jobs, energy self-sufficiency has no official view on the duces gas that is ‘as, if not which concluded it was safe to and the development of tech- subject. more, toxic than coal’ and can go ahead provided the nology that may reduce the In its leaflet the Diocese of only be burnt in power sta- process was carefully modi- impact of more polluting fuels Blackburn describes fracking tions that have installed spe- fied. are just some of the factors as using a mix of water and a cial, expensive equipment The Bishop of Chichester that need to be taken into ‘cocktail of toxic chemicals’ with effective carbon capture said the fracking debate account alongside the con- and accuses the process of processes. ‘raised huge questions about cern we all have about the removing ‘millions of gallons The statement says that ‘the our contemporary lifestyles’. impact of fossil fuels upon cli- of freshwater from the water rush to benefit from the gas- He warned it was ‘easy but mate change,” that statement cycle’. drilling bonanza is an obvious dangerous to claim the moral concluded. It claims that ‘we know from temptation for many’ and says high ground in the complex In the media there was experience that minor earth- this raises the ‘question of debate about the environment speculation about whether quakes can result from the how God the Creator enters and our quest for new energy the Archbishop of Canter- THE ARCHBISHOP of York, Dr John Sentamu, small-scale drilling done so into the decision-making sources’ but wondered bury, a former executive in has recently been given an excellent long-term far’ and alleges that in Ameri- process’. whether our present con- the oil industry, had played a prognosis, following prostate cancer surgery in ca ‘there have been reported Many of the claims about sumption of energy is justifi- role in encouraging the issu- May 2013, during which surgeons were able to surface, ground and drinking fracking made by the Diocese able.A category of people ing of the statement. ‘completely remove’ the cancer. water contamination due to of Blackburn are disputed and apparently overlooked by the Fractured over fracking? “My advanced localised cancer of the prostate fracking’. nowhere in its leaflet or state- Bishop of Chichester figured Stay tuned from more stories was thankfully just outside, but otherwise con- In a statement on its web- ment does it refer to an impor- in the statement from Philip about the issue that is causing fined to, the prostate gland and was completely site the Diocese expresses tant, independent report on Fletcher, which referred to fresh divisions in the Church excised/removed by the surgeon and his team,” concern that fracking pro- fracking by the Royal Society, fuel poverty and the impact of of England. said Dr Sentamu. PETER MULLEN 7 • COMMENT 7 • LETTERS 8 • ANDREW CAREY 9 • ANGLICAN LIFE 13 • CLERGY MOVES 14 • PAUL RICHARDSON 16 2 www.churchnewspaper.com Friday August 23, 2013 Inside... The original Church newspaper Wakefield’s ‘mobile Cathedral’ on line By Christina Dierschke For two months, visitors will engines) with which we have a from the Cathedral in Septem- hear the daily life of Wakefield spiritual disconnect and invests ber, a live broadcast for BBC WAKEFIELD Diocese’s “mobile Cathedral – from choir practice, them with something more fun- Radio 3 of choral evensong, con- cathedral” project is poised to worship, the sound of the verg- damental and significant: an versations in the nave with take a step further next week. ers vacuuming to the footsteps action, the human body, the reli- Wakefield Council leader, Peter With the purpose of taking the of those walking the new gious ritual, the spiritual.” Box and a peace vigil. cathedral ‘out into the churches labyrinth. Hiorns wanted to further The Dean of Wakefield, the of the diocese’, a carefully placed A spokesperson for the Hep- influence the meaning of ‘Unti- Very Rev Jonathan Greener, microphone will send a live feed worth Wakefield explained: “Rit- tled’ by transferring the sounds said: “Over the last year we have from Wakefield Cathedral ual is a key theme in Hiorns of the cathedral - both day and experimented with what we call straight into a new exhibition. work and Youth implies a new night - discreetly into the space ‘mobile cathedral’. News . 1-6 Now, from August 30 until kind of ritual that aims to recon- thus creating a connection “We are delighted to have this Your Church . 2 November 3, the sounds of the nect the human body to the between Wakefield Cathedral new opportunity to take ‘mobile UK News . 1-4 Cathedral will provide the back- objects and architecture that and the gallery space. cathedral’ a stage further and to World News . 6 drop to the exhibition ‘Untitled’ surrounds it. During the exhibition run, let people in the new Hepworth by Roger Hiorns at The Hep- “Hiorns emphasises objects amongst the everyday sounds, Wakefield gallery experience Comment worth Wakefield’s new art from the present day (street visitors can also expect to hear a something of the daily life and Leader . .7 space, The Calder. benches, aircraft engines, car bell-ringing competition live prayer of Wakefield Cathedral.” Peter Mullen . .7 Letters . .8, 13 Andrew Carey . .9 Whispering Gallery . .9 Lord Williams to speak on the role of knowledge By Amaris Cole Rowan Williams will talk about it’s also a profoundly important prin- Cricket . .10 how knowledge has to come ciple for our human relations, our Arts and Media . .11 THE FORMER Archbishop of Can- through experience and sharing life politics and economics. We need to Books and Media . .11 terbury will be speaking about how with others: “Our culture has a very get beyond a picture of knowledge Janey Lee Grace . .12 the pursuit of knowledge affects clear and very dysfunctional idea of that assumes we are disembodied Crossword . .12 human relationships and can be the what it is to ‘know’ things,” he said. minds managing dead matter. This source of ‘frustration and injustice’ “We still regularly talk as though is the source of many of our current at a wellbeing festival in October. it was a matter of a disembodied tangles of frustration and injustice.” The Record Resurgence Trust’s Festival of mind surveying a dead landscape. Also speaking at the festival will Clergy Moves . .14 Wellbeing, organised by Resur- Other ways of thinking about this be Booker prize-winning novelist Sunday Service . .15 gence & Ecologist magazine, will need revisiting, especially those that Ben Okri, author Tony Juniper, poet Bob Mayo . .15 focus on ‘the shift from economic stress that knowing is some sort of Ruth Padel and campaigning journal- Paul Richardson . .16 growth to growth in wellbeing’ and sharing of life: we know the world as ist Tamsin Omond among others. People . .16 is being held at the Bishopsgate part of it, not as something separate. For more information, or to buy a Milestones . .16 Institute in London on Saturday 12 “This is an essential aspect of a ticket, visit www.resurgence.org/well- Next week’s news . .16 October. religious approach to the world, but being.. News from Your Church your diocese Blackburn: On 13-14 August Carlisle: On Saturday 14 Septem- Forum debates, 10 influential choristers, eight new probationer York: The Rev Phil Lamb, Vicar Channel Four’s ‘Food Fight Club’ ber, the leading preacher and speakers, including Director of choristers and new organ scholar of Hornsea and Atwick, will be with Jamie Oliver and Jimmy social activist Dr Tony Campolo Liberty Shami Chakrabarti, MP Edward Reeve. The 18-year-old is cycling across England in 24 Doherty came to St Oswald’s will speak at a special evening at for Tottenham David Lammy, spending his gap year at Salis- hours to raise money for Prostate Church in Preesall for two days of Carlisle Cathedral. Campolo shar- charity leader Camila Bat- bury Cathedral before taking up Cancer UK. The priest from filming. The pair are making a ing stories from many decades of manghelidjh and former Arch- his Organ Scholarship to Queens’ Hornsea will be cycling the 174 series of programmes about lost ministry, and exploring how our bishop of Canterbury Rowan College, Cambridge, in Septem- miles route from Ravenglass in foods in the UK that will be aired world of injustice, conflict, pover- Williams, will discuss ‘How to ber 2014 to read music. George Cumbria to South Shields, known on Channel Four in 2014. In Lan- ty and inequality could be trans- Change the World’.