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Posted in Existential, Faith, Humanity, Religion, Society on Jul 23rd, 2009
The Church of England’s liturgical committee (what a way to kill the opening of a blog!) has recently devised a new service which will enable clergy to offer couples who wish to get married in church the chance to get their children baptised at the same time - all for the modest fee of £272.
This [...]
I suppose it makes a change from a sex scandal, though you could argue that, in the scale of things, it could actually be worse.
According to The Times:
A 60-year-old vicar was charged yesterday with involvement in an alleged criminal conspiracy to organise “sham marriages” for illegal immigrants.
The Rev Alex Brown was one of four people [...]
Posted in Faith, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Nov 10th, 2008
Yes, it’s musterbation again! No, no, no, NOT masturbation, but MUSTerbation! I’ve written about MUSTerbation before (though judging from my blog search stats, thousands of people think masturbation is spelt with a ‘must’.)
Quite simply, MUSTerbation is when human beings decide that something has to be done or stopped at all costs. It is [...]
Posted in Education, Existential, Government, Morality, Religion on May 25th, 2008
What would you do with £1.5 million?
I suppose if I were given it to spend just on myself and not feel bound to give it away, I could quite happily think of things. In order of priority - a new phone with all the latest gizmos (yes, I really am that shallow), a visit [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Morality, Religion on May 12th, 2008
In Structural and Moral Failure I first wrote about the scandal of sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic church.
Although during his recent visit to America the pope repeatedly expressed shame and remorse for the church’s role in the disgrace and met with some of its victims, the willingness of the Catholic church to deliver its [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Morality, Religion on May 1st, 2008
Why is sexism still tolerated within the Anglican church?
In a hard-hitting article in The Guardian, Theo Hobson takes the Church of England to task for its ‘wet clerics’ and their failure to carry through a reformation of the church in relation women. He laments the fact that division and injustice are being perpetuated because [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Humor, Humour, Religion on Mar 9th, 2008
I’m grateful to Freethinker for this posting which seemed too important to pass by:
THE Roman Catholic church in the United States paid out £306 million in 2007 to victims of sex abuse involving members of the clergy – an increase 54 percent over the previous year, and the largest sum ever paid in a single [...]
Posted in Education, Government, Religion on Jan 28th, 2008
Senior clerics within the Church of England are protesting that trainee priests will be brought to their knees because of UK government plans to reform university funding and raise tuition fees for second degrees.
Three quarters of the 1,500 students training to become Church of England clergy at any one time are taking second university [...]
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