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| St Davids Cathedral (photo by Toby Pickard) Source: Church in Wales |
This beautiful photograph of the sun setting over St Davids Cathedral in Pembrokeshire was published in a Provincial News item, Election of new Bishop of St Davids. It is also symbolic of the sun setting on Christianity in the Church in Wales.
In another Provincial News item, New team for Panel as it widens access to ministry, the Church in Wales announces that "A senior journalist and Lay Canon is the new chair of the panel which selects people for ordained ministry."
Their aim is 'to increase the number of vocations and for new priests to reflect the wonderful diversity of our communities'.
Diversity along with inclusivity and equality have come to supersede all else in the Church in Wales.
A commentator under my previous blog entry sarcastically referred to 'eccentric congregations in Pembrokeshire' which, given the context of the comment, implied that traditional, orthodox Christianity was eccentric.
That does not augur well for the election of the next Bishop of St Davids later this month.
Postscripts
[16.10.2023]
BBC News article St Davids chooses successor to 'never trust a Tory' bishop
[17.10.2023]
The Archdeacon of Carmarthen, The Ven Dorrien Davies, is to be the next bishop of St Davids.
The smart money is on it just being another box ticking exercise, with the Holy Ghost having no part to play once again in any process of discernment.
ReplyDeleteTop of the Boxes.
Non-White.
Female.
Trans.
Homosexual, bisexual, pansexual or metrosexual.
Gender, optional.
Stonewall approved.
Common purpose focused.
DEI certified (no, DEI does NOT refer to God).
PhD in Wicca, Druids, Pagans and neo-Pagan studies.
Self-identifying cats welcome to apply.
Criminal record and recreational drug (ab)use of no concern, likewise wearing of gimp suits or BDSM paraphernalia .
Multiple tattoos and body piercings desirable but not essential.
Must hate all Tories but not be so thick as to reveal it on twatter.
God that sounds like one of our clergy within the MA. Bar the non-white.
DeleteRandolph
Only one?
DeleteCount yourselves lucky.
One sees the new panel includes a Naomi Starkey. Would that just happen to be the second Mrs chocolate teapot?
ReplyDeleteOne can neither confirm nor deny such an assertion, but you're not wrong and nepotism is alive and well in the cult in Wales.
Deletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-67025750
ReplyDeleteDrag queen arrested in the Philippines for obscenity and blasphemy over "Jesus" show.
Rapists labelled as "women" by Plod even though they've been told by the Home Secretary not to do so.
ReplyDeleteJust how thick can plod be?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/06/rapists-wrongly-labelled-as-women-by-police/
If plod are so dense that they can't define a man or a woman is it any wonder they can't detect burglaries?
DeleteMetropolitan plod in the news for all the wrong reasons again.
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/09/mohammed-rahman-met-police-officer-assault-father-in-law/
This time it's one of the culturally diverse officers up to no good.
Of course, depending on who is elected +Tyddewi, will mean a new Assistant Bishop of Bangor being appointed soon after. Presumably they will both be confirmed at the same Sacred Synod.
ReplyDeleteSeven Bishop's for 10,000 worshippers? Really?
Whamab
Glass Door.
ReplyDeleteAnother charity gone woke that needs to be boycotted.
Cancelled.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/07/women-only-homeless-shelter-allow-trans-women-access/
Any homeless shelter for women that will admit men is no shelter for women.
Bewildered
Mass murder in Israel of Jews and Christians and not a squeek to be heard from Welby, the chocolate teapot in Wales, Dripford or his new best friends in the Swansea mosque.
ReplyDeleteScum.
All of them total scum.
Gaza, the West bank and Iran.
DeleteBlitz the lot.
It will be the same here at Bangor Cathedral soon enough, with a new assistant Bishop of Bangor. It’s amazing how much has changed in The CiW especially in Bangor Cathedral. New pews and new altar, lovely. The choir make a beautiful sound.
ReplyDeleteCharlie (New To Bangor)
Welcome to Bangor Charlie. I hope you have deep pockets to pay for the wasteful extravagance of new pews, altar, wardrobes upon wardrobes of new and lavish vestments, swathes of new properties being purchased for an ever increasing procession of clergy, canons, and archdeacons, the wine cellar (whisky being served next week at some extravaganza of the spend-spend-spend sub-dean) and of course that choir you mention ... so often outnumbering the number of congregants.
ReplyDeleteAnd by the sub-Dean's own admission, less than 10% of congregant 'giving' is directed to good-causes, Christian charity at home and abroad or local needs ... which begs the question, what's the purpose of the Church? (I really don't get your point that a new assistant bishop will enhance things. The last one was so insignificant she was hardly noticed).
I wonder what the new fur mink on the Sub-Dean's mozetta cost? If it cost nothing and he sewed it on himself, that's even sadder. Just hope the North Wales Hunt Saboteurs don't get to hear about it, there could be a nasty scene in the aisle: blood on the carpet and screams in the sanctuary.
DeleteMinky
We’ll it’s a good job the Canon Residentiary is an expert in first aid. They might need his help if the saboteurs get a whiff of that mink.
DeleteRhydderch
George and Kevin will be having fun with this on their next edition of Anglican Unscripted.
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Found on GB news.
Woke row explodes in US over Columbus Day being renamed as Indigenous People's Day
A woke dispute has erupted across America after Columbus Day was renamed as Indigenous People's Day in 14 states.
By Georgina Cutler
Published: 09/10/2023 - 16:25
The second Monday in October is one of the most inconsistently celebrated US holiday.
An ongoing woke row has again erupted today across America after Columbus Day was renamed as Indigenous People's Day in 14 states.
The second Monday in October is one of the most inconsistently celebrated US holiday which honours Christopher Columbus’ discovery of the New World.
Disgraceful behaviour in London last night outside the Israeli embassy.
ReplyDeleteBut Sydney was even worse.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/10/pro-palestine-protest-sydeny-opera-house-hamas-attacks/
Chants of "gas the Jews".
And still our foetid government let's hundreds of these animals land here every day.
Has there been even a peep heard from Welby or the chocolate teapot over the Hamas outrages in Israel?
DeleteBewildered
Terrorist supporters in Sheffield.
Deletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-67075181
Israeli flag removed from the city hall, thrown to the floor and replaced with a palestinian rag.
Bewildered
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67085625
Delete324% increase in anti-semitic incidents from 7th to 10th October.
Another gift of multiculturalism.
If only our spineless Government in London had the same courage.
Deletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67088547
Has Dripford had anything to say yet?
@ Bewildered
ReplyDeleteNothing particularly 'bewildering' in your observation that the Israeli flag was torn down from Sheffield city hall and replaced with the Palestinian flag. Sheffield is Labour majority run, many of its councillors of the old Jeremy Corbyn school. What surprises me is that Palestine-loving leftie Barry Morgan hasn't chirped up with some new barn-pot fundraising idea for his questionable Palestinian friends or that ++Johnny(as with his madcap pilgrimage to save the French/Calais immigrant 'Jungle' some years ago) hasn't asked everyone in Wales to give up bed-space for 'beloved' Hamas refugees (everyone that is except those living in Vicarages, Parsonages, Rectories or of course, Bishop's Palaces!)
What have you ever given financially to support refugees Old Bill. Sod all I’d imagine.
DeleteXavier
I am very happy to admit that I have indeed given sod all to the Palestinians.
DeleteIsrael and Ukraine get regular contributions, it's the money I used to give to the cult in Wales but they're almost as despicable as Hamas and Hezbollah so also get sod all.
I'd imagine a big girls blouse like you LG supports only Tatchell's Stonewall and Mermaids.
DeleteWithout giving my identity away Xavier (good old Arabic name you've chosen in context), I'm at a loss to open my accounts (and heart) to you ... not that I ought to. But shall we begin in mid 1990's when I gave up a highly-paid job in London to dedicate my unpaid time, fundraising abilities and international contacts into creating Col. Mark Cook's 'Hope and Homes for Children' and the rebuilding of their war devastated orphanage in Lipik, Croatia. (And that cascaded to a huge number of orphanages and care-centres around the world). 14 months of unpaid, unsalaried work draining my own savings to pay my mortgage and feed my own kids without income.
ReplyDeleteOr perhaps as my local MP will attest, my more recent and tireless work in finding refuge and financial stability for an entire community of Kurds in Irbil (and I still contribute financially - into my sixth year now - for the education of one particular child at an English school in Northern Iraq and her parents costs to care for her siblings)
If I could share my true name with you, you could do a Google search of Press coverage for my fundraising towards refugees from the Ukraine and the brilliant donation I secured - among other gifts received - of an almost new six-berth 'Pegasus' camper van converted into a fully equipped frontline field ambulance + transport costs over to Ukraine in the first three weeks of the Russian invasion. I still fork out for one delightful family who fled their home on Day 1 to safety in Turkey. The Manchester-based Ukraine society know me well. I did offer share of my house in Wales but the Welsh Senedd (Mark Drakeford and Co) was and still is in such disarray over that issue (having taken the HMG money) it became impossible to see through.
You want more Xavier??? There's loads more. My little niece, (adopted as a parentless refugee from a massacre in central Africa) is still much reliant on my old aged pension contribution to her new life. But as Tosser is probably your second name I really can't be ar*s'd.
Old Bill
Nothing to Palestinians? Well done for the other stuff though. Sounds truly remarkable. Truly does.
DeleteXavier.
@ Xavier
ReplyDeleteOddly Xavier, it was Palestinian multi-millionaire and general 'good guy' Jaweed al Ghussain who dissuaded me from any benevolence towards his countrymen. Google his name and you'll find that he was once finance minister to the political (rather than terrorist) arm of the PLO. I knew him very, very well - professionally when working in the Middle East and socially when he'd visit London. Jaweed slowly discovered that the billions of dollars international aid being ploughed into Palestine were being syphoned off to Yassar Arafat's murderous PLO-wing ... so quit. (I think I've mentioned before through AB blogs that Jaweed was the same guy who dug deep into his own pocket to build a beautiful Catholic church in Abu Dhabi when he realised that thousands of Filipino domestic servants in the UAE had no where to pray. Nice guy). So my reckoning was that if wise and generous Jaweed distrusted his Palestinian brothers with his gifts, then why should I? J Henry Ford had a saying: "It's easier to make money than it is to give it away wisely". A lesson for all.
But I did once give to the Palestinian 'cause': the time when the idiot Barry Morgan put out an appeal to all C-in-W churches in the Province to donate towards the rebuilding of a community dental hospital in Palestine - funded by the C-in-W - which he and his press office claimed had been obliterated by the dastardly Israelis' bombing. I chipped in a fiver. Stupid me. ++Morgan had cocked up again. The dental facility hadn't been hit at all; nor had there been a bombing. He was lampooned by the Press. No apology of course - and nor did I get a refund from being conned. I trust all this answers your curiosities ref how much I give, who I give it to and why not the Palestinians (not that it is any of your business of course) Tosser.
Al-hassol ola hasho.
Old Bill
I wouldn’t judge the cause of Palestine by a rich acquaintance you once cavorted with. As regards the dental hospital, there was a mobile clinic the CinW funded for years. Your fiver was well spent, though sad to hear you wanted it back.
DeleteKeep giving big guy!
Xavier
Yet another warning, if another was needed, of the Stonewall trans poison being spread among our youth.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/i-refused-to-play-along-when-sister-switched-gender/
Bewildered
A couple of AB contributors have wondered where +++Justin Welby has been hiding since Hamas's murderous onslaught on Israel. Having just watched the TV coverage of the joint US-Israeli press conference with Lloyd Austin, I'm convinced that Welby has a second job as Israeli Defence Secretary (even wearing black clergy-shirt but without collar). Either that or he has an absolute 'spitting image' double. But if it was Welby doing some moon-lighting to supplement his stipend, then well done Your Grace. Strong message indeed.
ReplyDeleteAnother piece of Muslim terrorist scum being called anything BUT a terrorist by the scummy BBC.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67101089
Excellent news and result in Australian referendum.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-australia-67100354
The bleeding hearts mob are in tears and already resorting to bleating and labelling their winning opponents as the "disgusting NO campaign".
Just holding an opposing view automatically makes you "disgusting".
Sounds as though they've caught the Remoaning virus.
All six states in Australia voted no.
DeleteA full house.
Albinese should now resign in disgrace, just like David Cameron.
I thought The Teapot did not look too happy as he announced the the Election of The Archdeacon of Carmarthen as Bishop of St. David's, today. He actually looked quite bored. Perhaps the wimmin complained. I'm told The Dean was very disappointed she did not bag the prize!
ReplyDeleteUnison Off
The Archbishop would be thrilled I think. Why anyone thinks it’s unimaginative or disappointing I’m not sure. And also retirement soon !!! He can give the CinW 10 years. He’s a very able man and well loved. The diocese will be thrilled at this inspiring appointment! Llechryd.
DeleteDD should be a safe pair of hands, especially after the disastrous DodoJo.
DeleteHowever, Llandaff continues down the alphabet soup queering the church cul-de-sac with Canon Preece's replacement.
Bewildered
Disappointing result. Unimaginative. At least he’ll be retired soon.
ReplyDeleteRhydderch.
Rubbish.
DeleteHe's not even 60 yet.
ReplyDeleteWhamab