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Episcopal (related) quote of the last Millennium
“One of the main targets of (Bishop of Lincoln) Robert Grosseteste‘s (c. 1175 – 9 October 1253) criticism was the Papacy, which he believed was levying over-harsh taxation in England and appointing...
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A Lincoln Lark
The Sage of Kettering and I have been on another day trip, this time to Lincoln. We have also visited a mystery town I shall leave you to guess below, and also at Stow-by-Lindsey, a tiny village west...
View ArticleMoney without Kings
It appears that Kenya has some something surprisingly sane: it has decided to remove portraits of real people, especially politicians, from its currency. At one time, policy in the United States was...
View ArticleThis new thing we have instead of respect for the elderly
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, says the Book of Leviticus, alongside other injunctions about such matters as how to sprinkle of the blood of the sin...
View ArticleDiscussion point: the fate of the ISIS bride
What do you think should be done with her? Former MI6 director says schoolgirl who joined Isis should be ‘given a chance’ Although Shamima Begum has shown no remorse, Richard Barrett says Britain...
View ArticleA cursory search of the soul
“France has an antisemitism problem – and not just from the gilets jaunes”, writes Cécile Guerin in the Guardian. With a headline like that the obvious next question is where else is France’s...
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Leaving the EU – a Jersey jaunt and a Guernsey gallivant
Rightly not trusting our leaders to deliver on their statements (there were, IFUC, no promises about leaving the EU from Mrs May), the Sage of Kettering and I have left the EU in that recently, we have...
View ArticleThe fall of the Temple of Reason
Terrible news from Paris of the fire at Notre-Dame Cathedral. As I write, I understand that not all is lost of this masterpiece. The collapsed spire was a 19th Century addition, but the damage must be...
View ArticleThere is nothing new under the sun
“What has been will be again,” as it says in Ecclesiastes, “what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Yesterday – to my shame I did not spot it until today – the Times...
View ArticleIf you want Pride you must allow the cry of “Shame!”
The Daily Mail shows a video in which Muslim woman wearing a niqab shouts ‘shame on all of you despicable people’ in shocking homophobic rant at Pride march in London This is the shocking moment a...
View ArticlePresident Bush will soon bring Gilead to America!
Some time ago a striking article by Fiona Maddocks appeared in the London Evening Standard. The link that Google gives you to the Evening Standard’s own site is dead, but I found a working one on...
View ArticleLet us pray for our bishop, Mug
ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who alone workest great marvels: Send down upon our Bishops, and Curates, and all Congregations committed to their charge, the healthful Spirit of thy grace; and that they...
View ArticleThe importance of keeping good company
Jeremy Corbyn is in trouble over the Labour party’s anti-semitism problem. This clip from his interview earlier this evening with Andrew Neil is painful to watch. The UK’s Orthodox Chief Rabbi, Ephraim...
View ArticleThere is a much simpler way to do this, you know
Like someone who comes out blinking from having seen a crime movie in the cinema only to find a crime scene in real life, I have emerged from being obsessed with the most important British election...
View ArticleIf women own their bodies they can choose to modify them
The BBC reports, Calls for ‘virginity repair’ surgery to be banned Campaigners are urging the government to outlaw “virginity repair” surgery. Many Muslim women risk being outcast, or in extreme cases...
View ArticleRight, you heathens, us Christians are going to make you observe Lent.
True to its promise to leave no strategy untried that might help alleviate the coronavirus epidemic, Her Majesty’s Government, in accordance with the advice of the Lords Spiritual, has decreed that in...
View ArticleThe return of the Test Acts
The (Glasgow) Herald reports, Mandatory climate change classes plan for Scottish leaders MSPs, business leaders and newly enrolled university students may be asked to take mandatory climate change...
View ArticleThe choir
“For centuries, the cherubic faces of choirboys in white ruffs have been part of church culture”, said the Guardian. Whenever a news report begins by saying that a tradition has endured for centuries...
View ArticleAn architect is struck off
I originally read this story about the striking off of the architect Peter Kellow by the Architects Registration Board (ARB) on page 19 of my paper copy of today’s Times. The headline reads “Architect...
View ArticleThe bonfire of the vanities comes to Wales
I know Wales sometimes has been partial to a medicinal drop of puritanism – some areas prohibited the sale of alcohol on the Sabbath as late as 1996 – but I struggle to see what conceivable benefit...
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