The media promotion of everything queer doesn't stop, not even for Christmas day. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/25/bible-pro-trans-queer-guidance-church-of-england/ Bewildered
What a miserable Christmas some folk seem to have ... their highlight to spend this joyous festive period harking (not like Herald Angels) on about their moans and groans about homophobic issues, critiques of the ++York sermon and other Christmas irrelevancies.
So to reciprocate your cover-page to this blog, Happy Christmas Mr. and Mrs. AB and to all others in similar 'forgive and forget' festive mood.
There's nothing more irrelevant to Christmas and Christians than the Church of England today, alongside the chocolate teapot and the Cult in Wales. They're utterly corrupt.
@ Old Bill Well said, Old Friend. Hopefully your message of 'give it a rest' continues through 2025. I notice that others' 'off-message' whinges seemed to stop once yours was published. Perhaps, after all, some spirit of seasonal goodwill has dawned.
This website seems to be dying a natural and welcome death. Not surprising, as there is never anything life affirming or positive to be found here. Just bitchiness, gossip and whinging. I confidently predict that 2025 will see its demise. Alleluia.
Well well. Almost ten months after mysteriously disappearing from Bangor as both Sub-Dean of the cathedral and Diocesan Secretary, announcement has been today made that the weasel Sion ap Rhys Evans has at last resigned from both positions. Ten months of presumably still banking his stipend and DS salary for doing .... nothing (except to please most clergy and congregants alike by vacating St Deiniol's).
Today's announcement adds that the Archbishop/Bishop of Bangor with his cabal of cronies is now deliberating appointment of a replacement Dean. The omens are bad. Andy John - having appointed and then got rid of two predecessors to ap Rhys and several archdeacons who have resigned (or later sacked) - doesn't have a good record in appointments. Prayer is that his advisors recommend that before appointing a new dean, Andy John himself should quit.
Bangorians, meanwhile, are intrigued by the timing of the ap Rhys announcement and whether it has any connection with growing rumours that some disciplinary action against a 'said person' was reaching crisis point. Better a resignation and suggested pay-off than the bad PR which open-honesty would create.
Meanwhile, ap Rhys apparently retains his licence to officiate as priest as part of his 'farewell package' so watch Church Times clergy appointment's for the snake's next venture. God forbid.
I haven't seen or read this overdue announcement but my hope is that now that some sort of statement has been released that the 'ostrich' of an Archbishop of Wales will extract his head from the sand and learn from the lessons taught to Justin Welby that scandals can't simply be brushed under the carpet. Too many of Bangor's sackings, resignations and transfers out of the Diocese have remained 'hushed up'.
My bet is that a 'keep your mouth shut' pay-off won't be part of ap Rhys's package for reasons known to some. Poor Sion. I also hear he'd have appreciated the pay-off to purchase an air ticket to the more accommodating Episcopalian welcome of the USA. Only a rumour of course !!!
'Menai Strait' of course is usually better informed on Bangor matters ....
The ears in the wall are suggesting a move, for a year to eighteen months, to some obscure backwater like Thaxted, in the footsteps of that other dud in a Deanery Gerwhine the antiques dealer. From there then back to St Asaph's as an Archdemon.
I know nothing of goings-on at Bangor, but I do have a question: are clergy moving to Thaxted required to learn Morris Dancing, of which it seems to be the epicentre?
The religion of peace strikes again. "The deceased suspect in the New Year's Eve vehicle attack in New Orleans has been identified as a 42-year-old US citizen from Texas, Shamsud-Din Jabbar."
Cottrell's "empty words" for his Christmas sermon.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czenj288welo
Self-serving sanctimonious berk.
The media promotion of everything queer doesn't stop, not even for Christmas day.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/12/25/bible-pro-trans-queer-guidance-church-of-england/
Bewildered
I wonder why the "Telegraph" published this article when it did, since it is derived from a book precis placed online as long ago as October 2018.
ReplyDelete@AB
ReplyDeleteWhat a miserable Christmas some folk seem to have ... their highlight to spend this joyous festive period harking (not like Herald Angels) on about their moans and groans about homophobic issues, critiques of the ++York sermon and other Christmas irrelevancies.
So to reciprocate your cover-page to this blog, Happy Christmas Mr. and Mrs. AB and to all others in similar 'forgive and forget' festive mood.
Old Bill
There's nothing more irrelevant to Christmas and Christians than the Church of England today, alongside the chocolate teapot and the Cult in Wales. They're utterly corrupt.
Delete@ Old Bill
DeleteWell said, Old Friend. Hopefully your message of 'give it a rest' continues through 2025. I notice that others' 'off-message' whinges seemed to stop once yours was published. Perhaps, after all, some spirit of seasonal goodwill has dawned.
Happy new year to you 'Bill' when it too dawns.
Ad Clerum.
No.
DeleteCymru'r Groes has it right.
Absolutely! Probably a bit late for Christmas, so Happy New Year greetings instead.
ReplyDeleteThis website seems to be dying a natural and welcome death. Not surprising, as there is never anything life affirming or positive to be found here. Just bitchiness, gossip and whinging. I confidently predict that 2025 will see its demise. Alleluia.
ReplyDeleteLudwig
Not before the Cult in Wales and the Calamity of England, no great loss in either case.
DeleteBewildered
@Ludwig
ReplyDeleteWhy wait Ludwig. The exit door is as close as the 'delete' button on your PC.
Byeeee.
News from Bangor Cathedral?
ReplyDeleteWell well. Almost ten months after mysteriously disappearing from Bangor as both Sub-Dean of the cathedral and Diocesan Secretary, announcement has been today made that the weasel Sion ap Rhys Evans has at last resigned from both positions. Ten months of presumably still banking his stipend and DS salary for doing .... nothing (except to please most clergy and congregants alike by vacating St Deiniol's).
ReplyDeleteToday's announcement adds that the Archbishop/Bishop of Bangor with his cabal of cronies is now deliberating appointment of a replacement Dean. The omens are bad. Andy John - having appointed and then got rid of two predecessors to ap Rhys and several archdeacons who have resigned (or later sacked) - doesn't have a good record in appointments. Prayer is that his advisors recommend that before appointing a new dean, Andy John himself should quit.
Bangorians, meanwhile, are intrigued by the timing of the ap Rhys announcement and whether it has any connection with growing rumours that some disciplinary action against a 'said person' was reaching crisis point. Better a resignation and suggested pay-off than the bad PR which open-honesty would create.
Meanwhile, ap Rhys apparently retains his licence to officiate as priest as part of his 'farewell package' so watch Church Times clergy appointment's for the snake's next venture. God forbid.
I haven't seen or read this overdue announcement but my hope is that now that some sort of statement has been released that the 'ostrich' of an Archbishop of Wales will extract his head from the sand and learn from the lessons taught to Justin Welby that scandals can't simply be brushed under the carpet. Too many of Bangor's sackings, resignations and transfers out of the Diocese have remained 'hushed up'.
DeleteMy bet is that a 'keep your mouth shut' pay-off won't be part of ap Rhys's package for reasons known to some. Poor Sion. I also hear he'd have appreciated the pay-off to purchase an air ticket to the more accommodating Episcopalian welcome of the USA. Only a rumour of course !!!
'Menai Strait' of course is usually better informed on Bangor matters ....
The ears in the wall are suggesting a move, for a year to eighteen months, to some obscure backwater like Thaxted, in the footsteps of that other dud in a Deanery Gerwhine the antiques dealer.
DeleteFrom there then back to St Asaph's as an Archdemon.
I know nothing of goings-on at Bangor, but I do have a question: are clergy moving to Thaxted required to learn Morris Dancing, of which it seems to be the epicentre?
ReplyDeleteThe religion of peace strikes again.
ReplyDelete"The deceased suspect in the New Year's Eve vehicle attack in New Orleans has been identified as a 42-year-old US citizen from Texas, Shamsud-Din Jabbar."