Thou Shalt Steal After All
Dear me. Father Tim has got himself into a bit of a pickle hasn’t he? A priest from North Yorkshire has advised his congregation to shoplift if they find themselves in hard times. Father Tim Jones, the parish priest of …
Category: Pastoral
Casting Aspersions
Following on from the power of Twitter in the Trafigura case earlier this week, it now appears that Web 2.0 is going to bring down one of the Daily Mail’s leading commentators. In a controversial article Jan Moir uses the …
On Suffering
I wrote this for our church magazine, published this Sunday. —- Flicking back through previous issues of the magazine, I’ve read again the piece I wrote earlier this years about change and moving on. Here we are though, over six …
Boy or Girl?
The latest on the South African runner Caster Semenya is on the Telegraph’s website. The tests carried out on the 18 year-old shortly after her victory in Berlin are believed to have shown that she has a chromosomal abnormality that …
Some thoughts on Reparative Therapy
Jay has some interesting things to say in response to this weekend’s conference: It’s a rather odd subject, really. If I had to sum it up easily, I think I’d say that the majority of SSA men and women I’ve …
More on Hillsborough
If you haven’t seen it yet, you must read Alastair Cutting’s amazing personal story of his Hillsborough experience. So, back to the house quickly to find some of my spare ‘clergy shirts’ (with dog-collars). Pam was swamped in hers; broad-chested …