tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post2506919666039883228..comments2023-12-15T21:49:46.651+01:00Comments on Pluralist Speaks: Do Go (But it's Just a Rumour)Pluralist (Adrian Worsfold)http://www.blogger.com/profile/01922153724523820866noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-5805326215667337522011-10-20T06:14:36.474+02:002011-10-20T06:14:36.474+02:00Why not disestablish your church and let it pick i...Why not disestablish your church and let it pick its own clergy and bishops? If you're re-designing the House of Lords, why not just leave bishops/archbishops out of it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-61760503581225853382011-09-11T22:18:56.734+02:002011-09-11T22:18:56.734+02:00Re: Chris and Adrian on sources -
Much of the spe...Re: Chris and Adrian on sources -<br /><br />Much of the speculation in the Telegraph report was covered between Peter Ould and The Church Mouse on their Twurch of England podcast from 13 August. If you find it, the conversation begins at around 28'00".Tim Moorehttp://timothyjmoore.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-61134743925739587752011-09-11T19:14:52.219+02:002011-09-11T19:14:52.219+02:00If you think about it, the appointment of an ABC r...If you think about it, the appointment of an ABC revolves around the Lambeth Conference, that decennial opportunity for bishops worldwide (except for openly gay ones) to have tea with the Queen. It's held in years ending with 8, normally. There are a few (perhaps 3) years of intensive planning. So any ABC appointed next year must be younger than 62 in order to have a good run up to Lambeth and a couple of years to decompress. Sentamu is too old. So is Chartres. So are all except one of the current Lords Spiritual (except for the bishops-designate of Durham and Winchester, and they are too wet behind the ears to get Canterbury next year). So we will have to look to those Bishops not yet in the Lords. My money would have been on Nick Baines of Bradford, but he's embroiled in the morass of diocesan merging in Yorkshire and may not be ready to be translated. The Bishop of Coventry is also a possibility. Due to Buggin's Turn, the next ABC is likely to be an Evangelical and both Baines and Coventry are centrist Evangelicals.<br /><br />And, in any case, it's "Queen Anne's Dead", because Rowan said publicly last year that he would retire before he was 70. I think that you're right about the "sources" for this "story", and it's something overheard in a pub.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534842755063770798noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-78985237910203141362011-09-11T14:14:06.223+02:002011-09-11T14:14:06.223+02:00It's still summer silly season for newspapers....It's still summer silly season for newspapers. The Telegraph, a noted Roman Catholic paper, probably had this story up it's sleeve as a mischievous stocking filler all summer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5449677811690616608.post-1076467891145321602011-09-11T09:48:42.382+02:002011-09-11T09:48:42.382+02:00As an outsider I would have to ask, 'What has ...As an outsider I would have to ask, 'What has all this got to do with people's spiritual lives?' It looks like politics and power and not much like compassion and creativity.<br /><br />Perhaps time for the Church of England to start again but this time from the bottom up. xxLouisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271769998586735852noreply@blogger.com