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Wednesday 17 October 2018

Errors


Revd Sarah Jones                                                                                          Source: Church in Wales

From a Llandaff Diocesan press release "Cardiff’s new city centre vicar the Revd Sarah Jones is to be licensed tomorrow (October 18) in a special service at St John’s Church".

She takes over at St John’s from Canon Dr Sarah Rowland Jones who left the diocese in the Spring after four years in the post to become "Dean of St David’s [sic] Cathedral". That is after extensive, expensive refurbishment of the deanery which had satisfied the requirements of numerous male Deans before her.

St David's should be St Davids (Communications Officer please note) but that is not the only error.

According to the press release: "Hailing originally from London, where she lived until her mid-twenties, the keen musician worked in sales and management and training roles before returning to education as a mature student to study Experimental Psychology. After university she ran a consultancy in addition to playing on the acoustic music scene before finally putting herself forward as a candidate for ordination".

Actually he lived in London. By her mid twenties she was "a married man, working in industry". The Rev Sarah Jones spent more than half her life as a man before becoming the Church of England’s first gender-change priest, something of which she claims to be proud.

Wanting to raise awareness her blog is headlined "Transgender Priest; Singer-Songwriter".

Odd, then, that the Church in Wales should be so coy about an aspect of the Revd Sarah Jones' life of which she claims to be particularly proud.

Could it be that she has come 'Out4Marriage' which is not the policy of the Church in Wales despite the efforts of the bench of bishops to make it so?



Ignoring the facts the bishop of Llandaff is in error as she thumbs her nose at the wishes of the dwindling number of Anglicans in Wales, pursuing her feminist agenda instead of spreading the Gospel of Christ.


9 comments:

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  2. Another Cathedral I won't be visiting whenever I make it to Wales.

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  3. Come now AB, this could be the solution to the whole conundrum of women priests.

    After all, if they started out as men, surely Traditionalists could raise no objection?!

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    1. Sorry Parish Pest I deleted this comment in error:

      And Monty Python hits the proverbial nail on the head here!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFBOQzSk14c

      Parish Pest

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  4. Well if the bench under the new law registered as the opposite gender and dressed accordingly, Job Done lol PP.

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  5. Alwyn from Abertawe19 October 2018 at 14:46

    An interesting piece in today's Church Times by Angela Tilby, who says that any rounded theological consideration of transgender issues cannot ignore that what we desire to be cannot be simply divorced from the identity we have already been given.

    If there was actually a theologian on the Bench, may be we would have had some rounded theological discourse on the subject by now.

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    1. A complete lack of theology is not the only absent prerequisite Alwyn.
      There's not a one of them with sufficient backbone to stand up and be counted by preaching God's word rather than the latest zeitgeist and fads.
      A moral compass would come in very handy too but even if they had one they would be unfamiliar with its use.

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  6. A tremendous coup for the Bishop - transgender, transsexual, female all in a single candidate. No-one else stood a chance.
    Cromarty

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  7. What's the point?20 October 2018 at 15:32

    "It's symbolic of his struggle against reality!"

    https://www.facebook.com/desmond.lee.581730/videos/10157800847177067/

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