"We are all in this together." (7)

Off Piste!As the rubbish built up across Great Britain the Chancellor George Osborne left for a £11,000 ski break before welcoming his 'progressive' 20% VAT increase to help get us out of the mess the bankers dropped us in.We have yet to hear what the Minister's reaction...

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Happy (Orthodox) Christmas?

The Church of the Nativity,BethlehemWhile we in the West celebrate the Epiphany of Our Lord today (January 6) the Armenian and Orthodox Churches are celebrating or are preparing to celebrate theirChristmas. For Christians, Christmas is the time for peace and goodwill. This is...

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Racial discrimination

To their great credit, I heard two prominent members of the Muslim community speak on the BBC 6 o'clock News about their disgust that Muslims could perpetrate the sexual predatory crimes currently in the news. This is in stark contrast to the report in The Telegraph...

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Double standards

Following yesterday's sexual exploitation story, there has been a revealing interview with a former Home Secretary, Jack Straw, who described how vulnerable white girls are regarded as "easy meat" while Muslim women are out of bounds. Similar double standards were evident...

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Islamophobia 2

In a comment on my previous posttsavogadfly said...  "I want the whole world to think about the phrase you put so neatly, regarding the merits of pen versus the sword to express disagreement." The illustration above is one of many which neatly emphasises the problem...

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Blasphemy

Just a glass of water!Many die for lack of it. Another will probably die because of it.Many people in the world are without clean water but in Pakistan some Muslim women said that a glass of water was unclean because it had been touched by a Christian. This small episode has...

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"We are all in this together." (8)

Some of the 600,000 redundant public sector workers lucky enough to find another job may be less than thrilled with those the Prime Minister and his allies have managed toconjure up for th...

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Question Time - Evasion or ignorance?

"Was it right for Jack Straw to say that Pakistani men saw young white women as easy meat?" A perfectly reasonable question from Asim Khan (apologies if the spelling is incorrect) on a topical issue proper to BBC Question Time but the panel completely missed...

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A new dawn

Just a small item listed among other 'News' items on Google but a momentous event despite the fact that the major interest in the Ordinariate would appear to be from abroad. Listed among the overseas commentators was theBBC although 'auntie' chose to highlight...

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Upstairs downstairs - NHS reform

Government plans for reform of the National Health Service are under fire before they have been officially published. While cutting expenditure left, right and centre the Government has already made a start in lining the pockets of the private sector. The average patient may be more than a little bemused that General Practices that cannot cope with...

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"We are all in this together." (10)

Don't worry! I'll prescribe Asprin and if you make it to the next financial year we'll get you into hospital then if we can afford ...

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Church of England baptism!

From Mail Online: "The christening without much Christianity: Anglican church offers 'baptism lite' to attract non-worshippers". The story refers to "themotion from the Liverpool Diocesan Synod [which] asks for additional texts to be prepared as alternatives for passages...

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Islamophobia

Creditphobia /pho·bia/ (fo´be-ah) a persistent, irrational, intense fear of a specific object, activity, or situation (the phobic stimulus), fear that is recognized as being excessive or unreasonable by the individual himself. There is nothing irrational, excessive...

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FOR SALE

Back in 1985 Harold Macmillan likened Margaret Thatcher's policy of privatisation to selling the family silver. Much of Britain's infrastructure is already in foreign ownership and in 2010 the Office of Fair Trading set up its first UK stock-take to see who owns Britain. Now...

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Success!

Welcome news this morning of a U turn on the forest sell-off farce. Thanks to 38 Degrees and all the Big Society people who signed the petition and for "Making it happe...

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Parliamentary interference in the Christian faith

According to The Telegraph "A group of influential MPs will tomorrow call for Parliament to intervene over the historic reform as fears grow that the Church will reject plans allowing female bishops." For 'intervene' read 'interfere'. I am not surprised to see Sir Peter Bottomley...

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"We are all in this together" (12)

Nat Wei, the man charged by the government with making the big society happen, is to cut down his government role from three days to two, because he needs more time to earn money, see his family and "have a life" after discovering that working for free three days a week...

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Church in Wales fake marriages

The UK Border Agency (UKBA) says it is working with the Church in Wales to train clergy to spot fake marriages.Meanwhile their Archbishop has been otherwise engaged in business, care of the elderly and tracing ancient footsteps for aTV series although he did have...

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Prisoner votes for profit

Prison vote vultures: No-win, no-fee lawyers line up thousands of convicts to claim compensation for being denied their polling rightsBankers' bonuses, obscene football fees and now compensation for convicts. According the the Mail online article highlighted above, "lawyers...

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Ass Bishop

What a shame we no longer have the Llandaffchester Chronicles to comment on the state of the Church in Wales, ruled as it is with the rusty iron hand of Bazzer, the boy from Neath. Unable to find anyone worthy in the Principality, His Darkness appointed David Wilbourne as Ass...

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An Englishman's word is his bond?

An Englishman's word is was (?) his bond.Promises are in the news again, this time thepromises that were made in the winning of the 2012 Olympic Games for London - as if we need them with huge cuts in essential services plus the security implications but...

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Oh what gay day!

If God had intended this, why did He make male and female? He could have done without men and perhaps tucked something under Eve's arm to go with her hand bag.Apparently the Church of England has pledged not to allow any of its buildings to be used for civil partnership ceremonies....

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Windbag or saviour?

Mr Cameron's Big Society is under the spotlight again (Photo: Getty)Back in the news is the Big Society. As a former communications man one would have thought that the Prime Minister would be able to put over his big idea with the utmost clarity but people still struggle with...

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Shabbaz Bhatti RIP

May Angels lead you into paradise; may the Martyrs receive you at your coming and lead you to the holy city of Jerusalem. May a choir of Angels receive you, and with Lazarus, who once was poor, may you have eternal rest. Pray for the repose of the soul of Shabbaz Bhatti,...

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Into Lent

For many Christians Lent begins with the sign of the cross, in ashes, generally on the forehead. Less fortunate Christians around the world from Ethiopia to the Philippines have ashes all around them, their churches burned to the ground often with mosques built on the hallowed...

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Not such a gay day

There is a delicious irony in today'sannouncement  of government plans to allow churches in England and Wales to host civil partnership ceremonies. The church is complaining of "a breach of undertakings made by government ministers during debates on the Civil...

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Ponder these things

While taking a half-term break I thought I might leave some video links to ponder. Above is the 'pale blue dot that we call home' taken from the video linked under my Blog header. As Carl Sagan said, that is where every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. It is...

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Immigration gone mad

Though deprived of media links during my half-term retreat, much sad news reached me via another's mobile phone. Amongst stories of the tragic loss of life and destruction in the New Zealand earthquake and in the turmoil in the Middle East was areport that 3.2 million foreign...

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Judgement

No, not bankers with their noses in the trough, completely oblivious to natural justice, but judges themselves who persist in trying the patience of ordinary law abiding citizens.Yesterday it was the turn of Mr and Mrs Johns from Derby who had already fostered many children...

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A religion of peace?

As the 7/7 inquest drew to a close following five months of hearing evidence,Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan's Minister for Minorities was being laid to rest, after being assassinated, the latest but probably not the last Christian victim of the so called religion of...

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Guess who!

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Islamic doctrine towards Infidels

Thanks to the Voice of the Copts blog I have just picked up this moving video which you may wish to share with others.Postscript: Meanwhile the battle for hearts in the US continu...

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Sick

The cost of two minutes chanting during the Remembrance Day silence followed by burning the poppy, the symbol of remembrance, calculated to insult our dead and those who mourn or remember them - fine ?50.Emdadur Choudhury, 26, of Spitalfields, east London, receives £792...

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The 'religion of peace'

Another report of the burning of a Coptic church in Egypt has appeared on the Voice of the Copts blog (see blog list).Looking at the scale of this attack perhaps that is whatEmdadur Choudhury  had in mind when he described his punishment for burning our national symbol...

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Thought for Lent (2)

"Have faith, and let faith be your guide."Pope Benedict XVIJESUS of  NAZAR...

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A thought for Lent

"The common practice today is to measure the Bible against the so-called modern worldview, whose fundamental dogma is that God cannot act in history - that everything to do with God is to be relegated to the domain of subjectivity. And so the Bible no longer speaks of God, the...

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Religion to become 'extinct'

The 2011 census forms are due for completion on 27 March. Included is the voluntary question, 'What is your religion?' giving eight options including 'No religion' and 'Any other.....'. In addition to English and Welsh forms, translations are available in 56 languages which...

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Thomas Cranmer 1489 - 1556

My thanks to theCranmer Blog for this beautiful video link on the anniversary of Thomas Cranmer's martyrd...

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The Book of Common Prayer

Stir up Sunday collect from 1637 Book of Common Prayer (St Andrews copy)"The Book of Common Prayer provides for Anglicans worship that is majestic, beautiful, above the ordinary level of their lives, and orderly and dependable.  It is Scripturally based, it has been developed...

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Liberal values

Women in waiting                                                                          ...

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Just about Eve

Creation of Eve, Sistine Chapel ceiling                                                                   ...

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More lies, damned lies and statistics

WATCH: "To choose a bishop based on one specific view, held by only a small group, can only serve to be divisive."                                       Photo Credit: PAFollowing on...

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Have a revolutionary Christmas!

Credit: negativityscene.ComWhile reminding us of the poor and needy this Christmas, Dr Morgan takes the opportunity to advance his personal revolutionary topics: women bishops and his next big project, the "advent of same-sex marriage". That sounds like another foregone conclusion...

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The Islamization of Britain in 2014

Fast food giant Subway has removed ham and bacon from stores, halal only - Pamela GellerSome 2014 headlines:"Britain remains the world's leading recruiting ground for al-Qaeda." — Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph."When she sought help from the police and a lawyer, 'the family of...

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Loser

"Rev Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales at the vote for women bishops."      Photo: WalesOnlineAccording to media reports today (here) the Church of England’s first woman bishop has been chosen. That must be one in the eye for the Archbishop of Wales. The Church...

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