Bogus article by Andrew Brown on the women bishops farrago on the Guardian website:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/nov/20/women-bishops-debate-suicide-note
No explanations, no interviews, no interpretations. He just told us he went to the General Synod, was bored, and concludes the Church of England has no future. Perhaps he was so bored he fell asleep and then in a panic had to write his piece for a deadline?
Anyway, I have looked again to see if there is any information in the piece I might have overlooked.
There are fourteen repetitive paragraphs all of them saying how dull it was, how bored he was, how incomprehensible was the Synod.
And then it occurred to me that perhaps his piece was inspired by the Synod. It is certainly a dull, boring and incomprehensible article (if you don't believe me click on the link and see for yourself). I am judging it as journalism when perhaps all the time it is aiming to be a piece of performance art.
And heaven help us, even socialist atheist Owen Jones has an opinion on the subject (interestingly he uses the definite article and a capital C, so at least he is recognising the Established status of Anglicanism).
My fear is that it is going to be impossible to listen to Thought for the Day for the next month or so without an endless procession of earnest trendy inclusive clerics telling us how misguided the decision was.
And even now Giles Fraser is probably writing an admonitory lecture.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2012/nov/20/women-bishops-debate-suicide-note
No explanations, no interviews, no interpretations. He just told us he went to the General Synod, was bored, and concludes the Church of England has no future. Perhaps he was so bored he fell asleep and then in a panic had to write his piece for a deadline?
Anyway, I have looked again to see if there is any information in the piece I might have overlooked.
There are fourteen repetitive paragraphs all of them saying how dull it was, how bored he was, how incomprehensible was the Synod.
And then it occurred to me that perhaps his piece was inspired by the Synod. It is certainly a dull, boring and incomprehensible article (if you don't believe me click on the link and see for yourself). I am judging it as journalism when perhaps all the time it is aiming to be a piece of performance art.
And heaven help us, even socialist atheist Owen Jones has an opinion on the subject (interestingly he uses the definite article and a capital C, so at least he is recognising the Established status of Anglicanism).
My fear is that it is going to be impossible to listen to Thought for the Day for the next month or so without an endless procession of earnest trendy inclusive clerics telling us how misguided the decision was.
And even now Giles Fraser is probably writing an admonitory lecture.
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