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| The John/Starkey wedding, Bangor 2021 Source: Facebook |
From Church in Wales Provincial news: 'Archbishop of Wales announces historic appointments at Cathedral':
"The Archbishop of Wales, Andrew John, has announced the appointment of five distinguished individuals to serve as Honorary Canons at Saint Deiniol's Cathedral in Bangor. These appointments mark significant milestones in the Church in Wales, as they encompass a range of 'firsts' ."
Among the firsts is the second Mrs Andrew John, the Rev Naomi Starkey, who has been appointed one of three foundation canons who will be members of the Cathedral Chapter.
Another first is author Fr Jarel Robinson-Brown who becomes "the first gay, black Canon to serve in a Church in Wales Cathedral, a pioneering moment that highlights its commitment to diversity and inclusivity. Father Jarel, who will become Canon Preacher, holds joint British and Jamaican citizenship and is a much sought after preacher, having spoken recently at St Paul’s Cathedral, Yale Divinity School, and Oxford, Cambridge and Durham Universities. He is also co-Chair of the LGBTQ+ Christian Charity OneBodyOneFaith."
Among previous Church in Wales firsts are the first transgender priest and the first same-sex partnered lesbian bishop.
The chocolate teapot congratulates himself, .. and Jesus wept.
ReplyDeleteSeymour
What fantastic appointments there are. They should call them the dream team. It is nice to know Bangor attracts such quality. The future of the Church in Wales is now very easy to predict.
ReplyDeleteIrony, one hopes.
DeleteFollowing in the footsteps of car crash Cathy and cyanide Sue, now it's Nepotism Naomi.
DeleteThe chocolate teapot couldn't run a tap never mind a Chapter.
ReplyDeleteJarel Robinson-Brown is an interesting fellow as he comes from a Methodist background and in fact served as a probationer minister in a Cardiff circuit. When his time there ended he was sent to London, which turned out to be a poor choice by the denominations' powers-that-be. He became a High Church Anglican (he'd always seemed more Anglican than Methodist, anyway!), and served as an honorary chaplain at King's College before coming onto the staff of All Hallows by the Tower. He is in fact very erudite (I appreciate that many who post here might not agree with his theology!) and is also a fine classical pianist.
ReplyDeleteIs "coming onto the staff at All Hallows by the Tower" some sort of Polari code?
DeleteBewildered
No, it's a church in the City of London; and I thought (perhaps wrongly) that he was a Curate there.
DeleteSatire, irony and sarcasm aren't your strong suits, are they?
DeleteBewildered
The Green Bishop.
ReplyDeleteAnglican Unscripted episode 821.
Start listening from around 40 minutes.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0Ng0ZAnUHtA&si=XzviAQR4g9cjW3I1
The chocolate teapot Randy Pandy gets more international coverage for all the wrong reasons.
Baptist Trainfan's mini biography of Jarel Robinson-Brown might be short of a few other locations in his hedge-hopping, theology-switching career. Am I wrong, but did he also serve in South Africa and then again in Saudi Arabia where he must have hushed up his Gay persona somewhat quiet (so much for Gay promotional pride not being honest enough to mention to his sharpened sword Saudi hosts that he's queer!) And that he describes himself on his website as 'Scholar' is see-me, see-me vanity and self-important bravado itself. I'm surprised that the less than academically noted and even IQ challenged ++John or sub-standard-dean ap-Rhys (GCSE Scripture +/-)would dare have a 'scholar' on the Bro Deiniol team who might outsmart or shame them. But to Bangorians, it seems the dear fellow doesn't last long in any one place before moving on with his husband Brendon (who on Bangor Diocese trac record will soon be offered a job of some sort. Presumably another £500,000+ vicarage to be painted in LGBTQ+ Dulux or Durex colours?).
ReplyDeleteWith Canon seats now being created for almost everything imaginable from head of library to poetry it amazes me that cellar-boy and Bargain Booze investor Sion hasn't dreamed up Canon in charge of victualling and wine-tasting. Oh, and presumably more thousands to be spent on more embroidered robes and vestments for the new bunch of wallies.
God forbid.
More interesting reading for you here OB:
Deletehttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9223273/Woke-warrior-clergyman-faces-probe-calling-Clap-Capt-Tom-white-British-nationalist-cult.html
Revealing and sickening.
DeleteDoes Jarel R-B also count as a "Coconut" or does that only apply to Calvin Robinson because he's straight?
Are you sure about Jarel serving in Saudi and South Africa? I've never heard that (unless he was simply in those places for very short amounts of time) nor can I find reference to it. So please could you give me "chapter and verse". By the way, I got his church wrong: it's St Botolph's without Aldgate.
DeleteI would not wish to call anyone by the derogatory term "coconut".
@ Baptist Trainfan
ReplyDeleteWell according to one of the very few (non sychophants of the majority) who still attend St Deiniol's cathedral, Bangor, the glowing introduction written by the bishop's robe-hem slobbering sub-dean in his newsline to the new Canon-in-charge-Preaching had ministry in South Africa and with his 'wife'/'husband' Saudi Arabia although not quite reasoned why or what he was doing there. Despite all its notoriety in matters 'Gay' and Anglo-Catholic I am informed by well placed senior (straight) cleric in the Dioc. of London that the dear fellow will not be much missed. Pompous little 'git' is how he is described there.
What credible exit from total demise does the idiot Andrew John have as Plan 'Z' ... he's out of his depths.
@ Ancient Briton
ReplyDelete'Strewth ! Drawing my attention to this www.http sums it all up doesn't it. Ignoring the diminishing numbers of Bangor cathedral camp-followers (camp being no pun), the clergy upstart Robinson-Brown might be wise to find sanctuary in the doors-bolted vestry. Bangorians can be ruthless in venting their views. Still, if his parish-bouncing record is as published, he won't last long here either. What a turnip and what a chump Andrew John is to allow Sion ap Rhys to run the show. I might have to start attending the cathedral again just for a laugh.
OB
I think you've got the wrong chap - it's surely Rev Neville Naidoo, who'll be working as a University Chaplain, who comes from South Africa and who appears to have lived in Saudi.
ReplyDeleteJarel wouldn't be old enough to have worked in all those places!
You may well be right Trainfan. I was going by what a congregant told me. But if correct that's two more LGBTQ+ oddball clerics to add to the processions of them already ensconsed into the Diocese of Bangor and cathedral particularly. There was, of course, one very fine and excellent Priest who was head-hunted from Africa to serve and lead this once strong diocese; the Rt Rev JC Jones of CMS Uganda who similar to his other fine successor, Tony C. died in office. Neither would have tolerated this nonsense. Left to them, ++John would still be a curate and ap-Rhys never ordained.
ReplyDeleteThe real reason the NHS is short of money.
ReplyDelete240 NEW posts for woke DIE lunatics.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/17/nhs-england-diversity-roles-despite-crackdown-waste-wokery/
A total waste of scarce resources.
Bewildered
More of the same rainbow drivel.
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/24/healthcare-workers-diversity-conference-pronouns-gender/
NHS staff must have far better things to do than three days of Stonewall diversity crap?
Not a "first" for the BBC so much as the latest of many.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/17/bbc-urgently-investigating-claims-over-russell-brand/
Another Jimmy Savile or Huw Edwards scandal.
Brand is a vile creature and been getting away with it for years. I hope he has the book thrown at him.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-66835997
DeleteAll his shows have been cancelled.
Couldn't possibly happen to a more deserving piece of human excrement.
I remember hearing Brand and Ross telephoning Andrew Sachs live "on air" and leaving a voicemail to say Brand "had f%#*&d" his Granddaughter, as though it was some sort of funny prank by a couple of teenagers.
DeleteTotal scum, both of them.
Hopefully, Andrew Sachs' granddaughter is one of those making complaints to the press and plod.
Although it's highly doubtful telling the Metropolitan plod will achieve anything positive.
One suspects this might turn out to be a very large can of worms.
Deletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66843297
"I raped someone once".
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/18/video-emerges-russell-brand-joking-i-raped-someone-once/
"Then I killed her".
Just listen to the fools in the audience laughing outloud, and the interviewer.
Bewildered
@Enoch
DeleteYou're not wrong about the Met plod.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66842521
1,000 officers suspended.
It will "take years" to root them all out.
This was the "Sachsgate" incident report ten years on from when it occurred in 2008.
DeleteIt would help if I had remembered to paste the link.
DeleteApologies AB.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comedians/10-years-sachsgate-puerile-prank-call-broke-bbc-made-comedy/
More BBC and Russell Brand filth from 2008.
Deletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66882644
Arts and entertainment?
Sincerely, I hope all right minded people stop paying for a TV licence.
With which financial institution deos Brand bank? Does he meet their corporate "values"?
Ditto the BBC.
Why on earth are they both not being debanked?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66876213
DeleteRape victims feel worse after having spoken to plod.
Is it any wonder Brand's victims have been very reluctant to come forward and complain?
Which bank holds Constabulary accounts and especially in the case of the Met plod with all its rapists and thugs in uniform, why haven't they also been debanked?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/21/bbc-liz-kershaw-russell-brand-toxic-culture-witness/
DeleteLiz Kershaw describes the toxic BBC culture that surrounded Brand.
Lesley Douglas gets slated too.
Stop paying for a TV licence.
I read that the BBC have released Lesley Douglas from her contractual vow of Omerta so she can assist all agencies with their inquiries into the Brand scandal.
DeleteNow the plod who police plod are up to their necks in it.
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/24/director-of-police-watchdog-at-centre-chris-kaba-scandal/
Director of the IOPC charged with underage sex offenses.
You couldn't make it up!
Harking back to a previous link/blog subject regarding the closed/shut St. David's Church in the centre of Bangor and the mystery of who and how lorry-loads of fixtures and furnishings including stone tablets, the font, pews, etc suddenly disappeared more bad news apparently for whoever authorised the removal ... ie the one person who held the keys. Once the church had been stripped bare causing significant damage in the process, the 'church' in its shame was cornered into making a 'Retrospective Planning Application' (thus admitting in a round-about way that it was responsible for the outrage) to Gwynedd Council. I hear from a friendly local councillor that at last meeting of Bangor City Council the application was rejected in such fury that Gwynedd Council has been asked to note that it carried an OVERWHELMING rejection and this to include the chairman of the Gwynedd itself. This will not go down well with Dioc. Sec. ap Rhys-Evans who preferred it rumoured that someone 'unknown' must have crept in in the dead of night to steal the stuff. He denies all knowledge. Question now is what happens next? With the Retrospective Planning Application thrown out, will the owners be forced to own up and make good the damage? As Bangor Diocese nor the RB report 'theft' to the police nor - apparently - make claim on insurance, this might prove costly. It was from all accounts, a massive haul. Anyone have any ideas? Any AB bloggers seen an ancient Baptismal Font used in a neighbour's garden as a bird-bath or their local pub decked out with wonderful polished church pews?
ReplyDeleteOld Bill
Get in touch with Martin Shipton and give him the story.
DeleteGet it into the national press and onto Anglican Unscripted.
We all know how much the cult in Wales hates bad PR disasters.
Lots of firsts indeed. Ah well, the firsts shall be last.
ReplyDeleteScottish "trans care" proposals will be the future Thalidomide and Lobotomy scandals.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/21/nhs-scotland-treatment-of-trans-children-is-medical-scandal/
Keep your confused children well away from the quacks.
Bewildered
Did anybody hear Mary Stallard on Radio 4 this week? It appears she was recently offended that someone decided that her pronouns were she/her, and didn't bother to ask beforehand. It just shows that the plankers haven't got enough going on in their lives that she has time to worry about this.
ReplyDeleteSeymour
Typhoid Mary has me confused with someone that gives a flying fig what HER pronouns are.
DeleteStallard's problem is that SHE hasn't got enough going on between her ears.
DeleteI missed the poison dwarf on Radio 4 thankfully, but I made the mistake of tuning in to Radio 3 for evensong on Wednesday. Sounded dreadful.
DeleteI listened to the recording this afternoon and can only agree with you 1662.
DeleteThe treble line was shrill throughout and, unless my ears deceive me, was a mixture of boys and girls voices that completely failed to blend.
Coarse sums it up.
Virtually no variation in dynamics.
DeleteSounded like a bad junior school choir that could only sing loud and bloody louder.
If the Friends of Llandaff Cathedral are still coughing up their £25k annual subsidy then they're being mugged.
With the tenth anniversary fast approaching, of the assistant organist Sachin Gunga and the Lay Clerks being made redundant, there's another begging letter doing the rounds asking the gullible to dip into their pockets to the tune of £100k once more - from the CEO on a £65k salary no less.
DeleteThe Cathedral won't be seeing a penny of mine.
DeleteIf they need £100k they can start by getting slippery Dick to forego his Sherry giveaway and then issue redundancy notices to their two staff on salaries of £50+k, including the insipid impersonator of the gay hairdresser in the film Grand Slam, who read the second lesson during Wednesday's Evenshriek.
Anglican unscripted 823.
ReplyDeleteGeorge and Kevin on good form tonight
https://youtu.be/0KLGtwNVYsc?si=MQAswz0cmU0IBxN9
The Cult in Wales and the chocolate teapot get another roasting over new virtue signalling Canon in Bangor, plus "feckless idiots" in Canterbury, London and Washington.
Bravo George, don't hold back, speak your mind and truth to power.
George is very animated this week and sums up Randy Pandy very well.
DeleteBewildered
Another first, but no surprise, in the downwards spiral of standards.
ReplyDeletePlod, individual officers and Constabularies, widely abuse the use of body-worn cameras.
Cameras are either not being switched on, switched off mid incident and footage being deleted or not disclosed to defense lawyers at all.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news
Body cameras were introduced, at significant public expense, not merely to protect plod from abuse and false allegations, but also the public who have paid for them.
The Met and Merseyside plod feature highly in the report. No surprises there either.
Time for the public to also be issued with their own bodycams since, once again, plod are not to be trusted.