Anglican Unscripted 41 – Gippsland
The AU boys are back, and I’m back too – talking about the Gippsland stuff. My part starts at 36:30 straight after the clone. But it’s all worth watching…
View Postthere were four in the bed, and the little one said…
“…what slippery slope?“ THE power couple of Australia’s increasingly open polyamorous community, Rebecca and James Dominguez, have made Senate submissions urging the legalisation of same-sex marriage, as they promote greater acceptance of multiple-partner relationships. The couple have led the way in publicly outlining their own journey from monogamous marriage to one in which each has [...]
View PostThursday filler – Will Smith and Gary Barlow
This is brilliant. Will Smith and Gary Barlow on the Graham Norton Show. Tom Jones there to make up the numbers…
View PostRight Said Fred
Next door are moving, big van outside with hefty removalists. So this is needed… Bernard Cribbins at his very best, and that includes this… and this…
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Bishop John McIntyre of Gippsland reneges on the Bishops’ Protocol on Human Sexuality
The Diocese of Gippsland has had it’s annual Synod and Bishop John McIntyre seems to have decided that when he agreed to the Australian Bishops’ Protocol a few months back he really didn’t mean it. His President’s Address [pdf] shows a clear determination to push against the recently-established collegiality of the House of Bishops. Only in light [...]
View PostBut Boswell Says…
It is the way of advocacy scholarship to seize upon snips and pieces of “evidence” divorced from their historical context, and then offer an improbable or fanciful interpretation that serves the argument being advanced. That is the way egregiously exemplified by Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality. David Wright, the author of the pertinent encyclopedia article on [...]
View PostFriday Brains-Trust Appeal – Songs about Cities
Right-oh, this is how we’re going to make it through Friday. I’m setting up a playlist of songs that have the names of cities in their title. Here’s three to start us off. Falco – Vienna Calling Sinatra – New York Dionne Warwick – Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Your job, add [...]
View PostI am, apparently, an “Anglican Commentator”
… and some slightly more important news. So says Eternity Newspaper, After a decade as the principal of Moore Theological College in Sydney, Dr John Woodhouse has announced he will retire at the beginning of next year. Dr Woodhouse said in an official statement “there is nothing dramatic in this decision. It is simply my judgment about [...]
View PostSame-Sex Marriage in Medieval Irish Churches? Boswell Sinks to a New Academic Low
Like me you’ve probably seen this sort of thing doing the rounds on teh intarweb recently: Prof John Boswell, the late chairman of Yale University’s history department, found there were ceremonies called the Office of Same-Sex Union and the Order for Uniting Two Men in the 10th to 12th centuries. The medievalist published Christianity, Social [...]
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