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Christmas greetings: “the inclusion of annual newsletters an innovation too far”

December 23, 2016
Mrs Proudie
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Goodness! Just in case a dynamite-laden hansom cab comes crashing through the wrought iron railings around the cathedral and attempts to blow up our Christmas Nativity scene, we have set the old gentlemen from Hiram’s Hospital on guard duty, commanded…

Baroness Thatcher of Blessed Memory voted most powerful woman of the century

December 16, 2016
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Goodness, it is nearly Christmas! So much to do and so little time. What with decorations, presents and church services, one feels quite giddy. Yesterday, I went around town delivering…

“It seems there is an anti-populist cabal who believe they know what is best for the British public”

December 9, 2016
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Goodness! It may come as no surprise that The Jupiter has named Mr. Trump as ‘Man of the Year’. This has not gone down well with Archdeacon Grantly, who up…

Snooper’s Charter: does Theresa May want to make windows into men’s souls?

December 2, 2016
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Goodness! There is much disquiet and distress in the Stanhope household, almost equal to the wailing and gnashing of teeth in the Clinton mansion. One’s sympathies for the former are…

“Be on your guard so that your hearts are not weighed down by dissipation and drunkenness..”

November 25, 2016
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Goodness! Having now been informed, by a reliable source, that Melania is in fact the wife du jour of the president-elect and not a Balkan kingdom, I understand she is…

“To a man and a woman.. the Democrats have morphed into Violet Elizabeth Bott”

November 18, 2016
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Goodness, what larks! I believe it was rubber-mouthed minstrel Mr. Jagger who sang about ‘Dancing in the Street’, and now half of the United States is doing it! All because…

The Bolshevik Broadcasting Company attributes Trump’s victory to “uneducated Americans”

November 12, 2016
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Goodness! One is writing this on 9th November – 9/11 in European terms – which, in a way, is auspicious. One feels one is standing on the Yellow Brick Road…

Cathedral service marks the death of objective journalism and unbiased reporting

November 4, 2016
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Goodness! One reaches for the cashmere shawl and woolly unmentionables these days, for the temperature has dropped and the stalls of Barchester Cathedral are distinctly chilly by the time Evensong…

Caliphate Confectioners refuse to make a cake with the slogan ‘Support the Eastward Position’

October 28, 2016
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Goodness! With the goings-on in Vienna very much in mind, my Lord the Bishop has, on my advice, banned the cathedral choirboys from using the Barchester Municipal Baths for the…

Does God still raise up prophets?

January 31, 2016
334 Comments

Prophecy is the most frequently-mentioned charism in the whole Pauline corpus: the role of the prophets is preeminent (eg 1Thess 5:20; 1Cor 11:4f; Rom 12:6; Eph 2:20; 1Tim 1:18).…

The BHA shouldn't get too cocky over forcing humanism onto the school curriculum

November 28, 2015
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When I was at school, not that long ago, Religious Education could quite easily have been labelled Christian Education. I really can’t remember learning much at all about other…

Bishop Philip North – catholic continuity and ecclesial unity

February 2, 2015
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On 7th November 2014, it was announced by The Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street: "The Queen has approved the nomination of the Reverend Philip John North to the…