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Church of Sweden: God is not ‘Lord’ or ‘He’, but It is Father and Mother, Brother and Sister

November 25, 2017
Mrs Proudie
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Goodness! I’m sure you are all waiting to hear the latest gossip doing the rounds in the salons and dinner parties of Barchester. Much was discussed at the banquet at Courcy Castle on Thursday evening. I shall begin with Scandinavia,…

‘Scottish National Socialism has more of Calvinism about it than it would care to admit’

November 18, 2017
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Goodness! Dr. Livingstone’s latest dispatch from the Heart of Darkness, published in The Jupiter, is most encouraging. There has been a coup in Debra Dowa, with His Excellency the Supreme…

The Rev’d Dr Jasper Wright-Onn preaches his inaugural sermon at St Platitude-upon-Twaddle

November 11, 2017
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Goodness! One is subjected to so much nonsense these days, don’t you agree dear friends? Crank up the electrical magic lantern on any given night and the anti-Christian bile pours…

Low-Churchophobia Week to combat militant High-Churchers

November 4, 2017
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Good heavens! Eyebrows were most definitely raised this week as The Jupiter reported on the murky doings of Westmonster. It seems no young person’s seat is safe from the wandering…

The archaic notion that universities are bastions of liberty and free speech

October 28, 2017
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Lawks a-mercy! The townsfolk of Barchester were somewhat startled the other day when a gaudily-dressed charivari trundled through Bishop Fondling’s Postern (13th century) into the Market Square. The vivid rainbow…

Crime up 13%? Police are too busy tracking down hate-criminals who plot against Common Purpose, diversity and equality

October 21, 2017
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Good heavens! A headmaster at an Anglican school has banned a Christian group from taking assemblies, simply because a small band of lemon-sucking Guardianistas decided to raise their scrawny necks…

Militant Calvinists at Snowflake College, Oxenbridge, demand closure of Science Faculty for being “harmful, intimidating and predatory to Christian students”

October 14, 2017
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Goodness! When is a Conservative not a Conservative? Why, when she is a neo-Marxist deep-state Stalinist surveillance-addict out of her depth in a puddle now occupying the Home Office, of…

“Satan’s fist and the Big State are but one and the same”

October 7, 2017
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Hwæt! There you are, something different to open proceedings – not at all ‘another week, same stuff’, as some might opine. As you may suppose, I have been brushing upon…

Wrestling with Scripture? Is it time to transgender our macho theology?

October 2, 2017
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The Rt Rev'd Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool, posed the question of whether the phrases we use to describe biblical exposition are "too macho". The Rt Rev'd Pete Wilcox, Bishop…

The letters of St Paul have always needed a woman’s touch

September 30, 2017
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Oh my Goodness, what a week! Barchester may have settled into the slumbering season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, but the rest of the world continues to be rocked by…

“The devil’s arm grows longer by the minute…”

September 23, 2017
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Goodness! In the light of recent events in Parsons Green, the ever-dynamic government of Sharia Dismay has taken action, as I discovered when I called in at Mr. Ballcock’s Ironmongery…

“We are leaving the Unholy Bureaucratic Empire in the nick of time”

September 16, 2017
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Goodness! One wonders if Mr. Clegg’s pants are on fire, now that we know for sure the Zollverein are planning a European Army and a non-elected supreme Kaiser-president with full…

Why doesn’t Piers Morgan criticise Islam’s “archaic” views on marriage, abortion and homosexuality?

September 9, 2017
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Goodness! One sits at one’s escritoire with correspondence and newspapers scattered hither and thither wondering which snippets of news to comment upon. Outside, the evening draws in. The lamplighter makes…

Trump donates $1m of his own cash to Hurricane Harvey relief fund: “howls from the left that it is not enough!”

September 2, 2017
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Goodness! One is quite relieved that hurricanes hardly happen in our dear Home Counties, though the occasional flash-flooding is not altogether unknown. The news from Texas is terribly upsetting, but…

Pope Francis says the rights of migrants trump the security of nations. Will he disband the Swiss Guard, tear down the Vatican City Walls, and put up a sign saying ‘Mi casa su casa’?

August 26, 2017
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Goodness! Let me try to understand: you invite a poor migrant into your home, expressing compassion and understanding, whilst providing food, clothing and shelter; the migrant then asks if his…

Anti-statue-ism: Wellington must fall (he called his troops ‘the scum of the earth’)

August 19, 2017
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Goodness! The pen is mightier than the sword, or so they say, and the truth of this is clearly demonstrated by my letter to Mr. Kim Jong-un, which seems to…

“White slavery is alive and well in this sceptred isle, and nothing is being done”

August 12, 2017
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Goodness! One shall think twice about accepting invitations to Newcastle. The prospect of being lured into a lust-pit of Ugandan relations with swarthy multi-kultis is too horrifying to contemplate, and…

The Abominable Gove and the Piece of Cod which passeth all understanding

August 5, 2017
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Unlike Mary Kingsley, I have never had the slightest desire to spread the word of the Lord in Africa. Too many insects for my liking, not to mention all the…

“We traditionalists have kept our finger in the dyke for long enough…”

July 29, 2017
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Goodness! There has been so much rain over the last few days that Barchester has almost become an island, cut off from the rest of humanity. We discovered the Palace…

An illicit blessing ceremony for the transgendered

July 22, 2017
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Goodness! A copy of the proposed ‘New Revised-Revised Post-Synodical Common Purpose Bible’ was delivered by courier yesterday for my Lord the Bishop to peruse before it is presented to Parliament…