Thinking Anglicans

House of Laity meeting

David Pocklington of Law & Religion UK looks ahead to tomorrow’s meeting with these Questions for the House of Laity (and the Church), and suggests that members of the House of Laity might ponder the following:

  • What will be achieved by holding this debate?
  • Is this a responsible use of Church resources?
  • Has the issue been discussed in the parishes/deaneries/dioceses other than between members of the House of Laity? If not, on what basis are the views of these groups to be represented?
  • What message is the meeting likely send to those outside the Church (and to those within who were not consulted)?
  • How does this fit into the bigger picture of: a] the ordination of women into episcopate; and b] synodical governance?

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Duncan
Duncan
11 years ago

If only members of the house had asked these questions at the time of the original debate the evangelical movement might not now be in melt down

Simon Butler
Simon Butler
11 years ago

I think snow may well have the last word tomorrow now…

James
James
11 years ago

How does this fit into the bigger picture of synodical governance

Most of us realised that it was a train wreck years ago. Now the Synod are waking up to it.

Jeremy
Jeremy
11 years ago

“Is this a responsible use of Church resources?”

One might think that the Church of England’s reputation is beyond all price.

Conrad Henley-Calvert
11 years ago

“Responsible use of Church resources”? Let’s not forget the time and years that went into getting the Church to this point only to have the vote scuppered by organised evangelicals who, in the main, never had any intention of voting for women as bishops, whatever the provision for opponents. They speak nice(ish) and play nasty.

I have no qualms about people strongly organising to do all they can to minimise the influence of the evangelicals.

johnny may
johnny may
11 years ago

I’ve just posted something on another thread about the need to support our assertions with evidence. So I’m going to try. How about this:- in response to Conrad- I found this on VirtueOnline a couple of days ago,(it is from a much more substantial piece from May 19th 2012, “No definitive statistics exist on conservative evangelicals in the Church of England because official church forms do not exist about such things; however, Church statistician Peter Brierley says that 40% of Church of England attendees currently go to evangelical churches – up from 26% in 1989.” If this is true (and… Read more »

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