Parables

The Conservative-DUP deal is good for the whole country: Labour’s hypocrisy stinks to heaven

"The DUP are, let's face it, the Wahhabists of Protestantism," Labour's Angela Eagle told the audience of the BBC's Have I Got News For You on the evening of 16th June. Not a word was uttered in their defence; no…

Abstaining: Martyn Percy’s excellent (but flawed) Lenten reflection (on Sheffield)

March 8, 2017
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Martyn Percy has written an excellent Lenten reflection on abstaining, in the context of the appointment of the next Bishop of Sheffield. We wait with bated breath to see if…

Ukip MEP bashes Archbishop for offering sanctuary to refugees

September 22, 2015
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What do you think? There was an archbishop who loved to read The Guardian and watch the BBC. He saw that thousands upon thousands of Christians were suffering throughout…

Sentamu: Jesus would pay the living wage (despite His disciples being unpaid interns)

April 25, 2015
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It is not a divine intervention into the General Election campaign. Even less so is it an episcopal exhortation for the faithful to cast their votes for a particular…

Holy Tuesday: questions, qualifications, hypocrisy

March 31, 2015
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And when he was come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority…

Cameron rebukes the Pope

January 18, 2015
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The Pope of Rome hath erred. Again. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Pope Francis was asked by journalists aboard the papal plane what he thought of the…