Setting Sail: Conversations before General Synod
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2001
Christianity: The end of privilege…
Christendom is dead – I mean, the way of things when the Western world identified itself with the Christian religion, and Christian churches claimed whole societies and peoples for their own. Christianity itself is still alive, and I am reckless enough to think that it has a future. But not as the religion privileged by statutory law and social custom, in a world where belonging to a Christian church was an ordinary part of belonging to one’s society and the sine qua non of respectability. That was the world of Christendom, and that world is extinct.
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No road to Damascus
What would possess you to give up a promising career in broadcast journalism to go back to school and train to become a priest?” Good question – and one I’ve been asked by bemused friends, family and colleagues more times than I can count since deciding some 10 months ago to do precisely that. And for someone who up until now has made his livelihood talking on the radio, I’ve found myself struggling to come up with words capable of articulating this thing they dub “My Calling.”
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