Never let it be said that I have indoctrinated my children in the faith. Yet this shall be a solemn feast day unto the seventh generation…
Brief thought about Southwark Ministry Trust
I have no sympathy with Gafcon and schism at all - but I think that what is being proposed on the ground in Southwark is actually the way of the future. That is, I think the present system of parish share is impossible to make work well, and an essential precondition for the prospering of the Church of England is the abolition of parish share. (I’ve said a bit more here)
An alternative system could be very simple: parishes pay for their own ministers; they tithe to the centre; missionary appointments are then paid either from the tithe or from direct giving. Clear, simple, transparent, biblical - what’s not to like?
Let us be Human: Prophecy, Peak Oil and the Path for the Faithful (Sam Charles Norton) (by Elizaphanian)
(Google prompted me to shift to You Tube - so I did, and thought it worth sharing again)
Not long now…
… before the ‘consensus’ on climate change is *seen* to have fallen apart, as opposed to just having fallen apart in practice. Even James Lovelock is calming down: “The problem is we don’t know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books – mine included – because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn’t happened.”
See my “climate change is a secondary issue” for why I have for a number of years seen it as a distraction.
