BY STEWART SLATER Educating in a few short years a Prime Minister who resigned in disgrace from the highest office in the land and, later, from Parliament, and the first Archbishop of Canterbury to fall on his pectoral cross, there was obviously something in the water at Eton back then. For it will not have escaped your notice that Justin Welby has resigned to take … Continue reading Protecting the Work
BY ANDREW TETTENBORN Nemesis overtook the Archbishop of Canterbury this week. He resigned on Tuesday, following overwhelming calls for him to go following the publication of the Makin Review, a report commissioned by the church over his conduct of the John Smyth abuse affair. But there is an irony here. There is a strong argument that this wasn’t really the slam-dunk resignation matter everyone made … Continue reading Welby: Church Safeguarding’s Greek Gift
Dear Readers of Country Squire Magazine, I trust that You are well and healthy. This week I’d like You to think of those who are enslaved and to pray for them. From the Archbishop of Canterbury: Slavery is all around us, but we are too blind to see it. It is in our hands, and yet we are too insensitive to touch it. The enslaved … Continue reading A Prayer for the Enslaved
BY STEWART SLATER “Politicians want to talk about moral issues and bishops want to talk about politics.” While this was undoubtedly true when uttered by Sir Humphrey Appleby in the 1980’s (Mrs Thatcher being the very model of a moralising politician), the times, they have a’changed. Mr Sunak is no-one’s idea of a fire and brimstone tub-thumper, Mrs Truss, well she wasn’t around for long … Continue reading A Turbulent Priest
THE CITY GRUMP They say the Devil has all the best tunes and verily he has had many such to hum as the Church of England loses its moorings in the seas of the pandemic and wokery. It is a terrifying sight and sound. To begin at the beginning. Way back in the run up to Easter 2020 the Lambeth Palace hierarchy ordered their clergy to … Continue reading The Devil Must be Laughing at the Church of England
BY TIM DAWSON Who is Justin Welby to judge? Well, okay – he’s the Archbishop of Canterbury. But his recent partisan interventions – both in a speech at the Trade Union Conference in support of John McDonnell and then, yesterday, in an article for the Church Times condemning Brexit – have moved beyond what is appropriate for the principal leader of the Church of England. … Continue reading Render Unto Caesar, Primate
