Miles Ellingham and Cormac Kehoe The Fence Speaking in Small Tongues
Mariann Edgar Budde The Guardian ‘Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’: here is the sermon that enraged Donald Trump
[There is a video of the sermon on YouTube.]
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Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon was described as “nasty” by President Donald Trump. Bold and courageous, yes. Nasty, no.
You have to understand; Trump thinks any woman who challenges his authority is “nasty”.
It was not nasty and probably well meant but the three penultimate paragraphs were personalised, polarising, and selective in their messaging in a way that seemed out of place in a civic service pulpit.
Until then it was a compassionate and relevant recital of some Christian personal and political ethics from a gifted pastor.
Bishops should be a focus of and for wider unity even when speaking truth to power.
Perhaps civic services beg a few questions if bishops cannot speak truth to power in them?
Truth sometimes hurts – particularly those who perceive it as ‘nasty’
PS. During our service this morning our vicar said, (quote) that sometimes the kindest thing we can do for people is to make them face up to their sin, and lostness before God. And yes, he was specifically referring to Trump.
Yeah, well, President Trump doesn’t hear platitudes too well.
The Rt. Rev. Budde is following a long tradition of Christian and other faith leaders who spoke blunt truth to power. Bishop Budde won’t, regardless o Trump’s authoritarian and kleptocratic impulses, but some of those leaders paid for it with their lives. They spoke out anyway.
“They spoke out anyway”…. such as Rev Dr Martin Luther King whose Memorial Day took place the day before (Jan 21). Others forcibly come to mind…
In 2023, Mariann Budde wrote a book ‘How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith’
Perhaps this Bishop believed it to be one of her ‘decisive moments’ to be brave?
You seem to be objecting, in part, to Bishop Budde’s paraphrase of the Hebrew Bible: “You shall not wrong or oppress a resident alien, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt.” (Ex. 22:21.)
It was an invitation-only service for President Trump and those he chose to attend with him. A civic service, I would suggest, is open to any of the public who might be interested. Martin Budde has explained that the inauguration service is like a wedding or a funeral, in that it is held for the benefit of a specific group of people. She felt it right to address Trump individually, as she would address the couple at a wedding or a family at a funeral. As for the message being polarising, when have any of the right-wing evangelicals backing Trump… Read more »
“It was an invitation-only service for President Trump.”
Not quite. The Cathedral has held this service for decades. This time the service was announced in October.
It was a service for the new president, whoever that turned out to be.
But the President, whoever that turns out to be – and that is known in November – invites whom they please. Since the the 2024 election it was know that this would be a service for President Trump.
No, the Cathedral invited its interfaith and ecumenical partners.
I hardly think that Trump invited all the faith representatives listed.
https://cathedral.org/blog/first-look-a-service-of-prayer-for-the-nation/
That doesn’t alter the fact the service was primarily for Trump, and it was appropriate to address him.
How did she balance her call for unity within the main part, with her last 3 paragraphs? Was it possible to reformulate those 3 paragraphs which hint at a possible coming together, and practical suggestions?
As you say, you cannot in one sermon call for unity and also be polarising.
We can decide for ourselves here:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xwwaEuDeqM8
Trump describes everything and everybody as nasty.
… who does not bow down and swear fealty — not loyalty — to him.
My word, no wonder President Trump called the Rt Rev. Budde’s speech “nasty”: It was the antithesis of everything Trump stands for.
And Trump’s speech at the inauguration was utterly charming and kind?????
Thank you, editors of Thinking Anglicans, for The Guardian reprint of The Rt. Rev. Budde’s remarks. “And the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings; who labor in our poultry farms and meat-packing plants; who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shift in hospitals ” Already, ranchers in North Dakota are worried their cow hands aren’t reporting to work. Slaughterhouses are running with too few workers, leading to possible shortages in grocery stores. In the Spring, farmers will have a hard time clearing fields and planting crops. Higher prices or shortages may… Read more »
Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, delivers a brave sermon in front of the inaugurated United States President, Donald Trump.
Are we to look forward to similar acts of bravery from our episcopal counterparts here in the United Kingdom, or are we more likely to see flying pigs being granted landing rights here at Gatwick?
I think the big problem in England is all those who may be asked to preach at such a national service have proved themselves to be so morally bankrupt that they have no right left to speak or credibility from which to be taken seriously. There are, of course, others such as +Newcastle who do speak out with courage, and deserve to be heard, even if those at the top choose to ignore them. They may not have the positional authority of ‘national’ level seniority, but social media gives an alternative authority of influence.
The problem for our bishops is that they have to speak in the Lords. They may well be saying all sorts of wonderful things, but I’m yet to find anyone who really pours over speech records from either house.
The only equivalent to the US service would be a coronation sermon, and well, the king just doesn’t have that much power; you can tell him to rule as mercifully as you want, but it’s Kier that has the power. Contextually, there’s not really anywhere for such a sermon to take place.
“Contextually, there’s not really anywhere for such a sermon to take place”
There is the House of Lords, and in that context we can mention the brave and courageous wartime speeches by George Bell, Bishop of Chichester..
“We don’t always know where the truth lies. But when we do know, when we know what is true, it is encumbent upon us to speak the truth – even when, especially when – it costs us”
Mariann Edgar Budde, Bishop of Washington – January 21 2025
Well said, Peter, and its good to hear from you again. There’s an old old gospel song which concisely fits what you’ve just said. “Brothers and sisters, don’t you know? You’re gonna reap just what you sow.” Or, as the Bible puts it, ‘those who sow calumny will reap destruction’. If a country or a person persists in spreading lies, hatred, cruelty and fear, then they will reap a very bitter harvest. As my vicar said this morning, sin, judgement and punishment for sin aren’t very popular ideas nowadays – but that doesn’t make them any less real. Keep it… Read more »
A few weeks ago, the school where I teach hosted a fascinating talk by Professor Graeme Smith, public theologian, where he essentially argued that we should read the philosophy of President Trump through the lens of the American pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty. To be clear, he wasn’t promoting or endorsing this approach. I have no claim to be anything approaching an expert on philosophy but the nub of Rorty’s approach, I gather, is on pragmatism not seeking ultimate truths. What is right is what works in the here and now. As an extract from the Guardian obituary for Rorty put… Read more »
The reaction from Trump and others is more than an objection to criticism. The whole point is that the MAGA movement believes that their policies are based on positive moral choices and, indeed, for many of them are based on their Christian faith. Some of the leaders are riding that for political advantage, but underlying it is a faith-based movement.
I am still struggling with Budde’s sermon, and trying to unpick it. Is she advocating open borders, for anyone who thinks they may be subject to persecution, including economic persecution? Is she advocating that those illegals who have already made a home in USA be allowed to stay? Is she asking for a faster process for those seeking immigration? Is she asking that churches and cathedrals be a place of sanctuary for illegals? Is she asking for a more sensitive approach to assessing asylum seekers? It may be a bit arm waving, but her plea for humility, truth and unity… Read more »
I have no idea what she thinks about borders, but I also think that’s not really the point of the sermon, rhetorically: it’s not really the sort of sermon for concrete policy suggestions. The point rather is to encourage Trump to reflect on who his choices might be hurting today. We can wax lyrical about borders till the Second Coming, but showing mercy and not doing harm to the innocent are basic moral imperatives of the natural law that always apply. To put this another way, as much as this sermon is being interpreted politically – because like, yeah, of… Read more »
“it’s not really the sort of sermon for concrete policy suggestions”. No, you’re right, but aren’t the questions posed here (in terms of border and immigration policies) precisely the same type of “policy” questions we face as individuals? I live in a rich country with high living standards – and in a nice house with central heating and comfy beds for everyone. I could throw open my house to some homeless people. But I haven’t. Am I in favour of throwing open the borders to all comers? No, I guess not. Which of us lives up to the standards of… Read more »
I repeat a quote from my recent comment. I think you are saying similar things. How do we work out Jesus’ teaching in the real modern world?
To help identify….the political realities which are crucial to the attainment of even an approximation to the ideal and also the political processes through which the realisation of the principles must be sought is, I would claim, no less a Christian responsibilty
I think the problem is not that people like you (and I, frankly) are not throwing open their houses to the homeless….it is that too many of us are electing people who resist using the government’s resources for the same purpose. The US has thousands of abandoned buildings of all kinds (apartment buildings, schools, shopping malls) which could be converted to permanent or temporary shelter for the needy…but such proposals are rejected routinely.
I think one of the issues is for Christians to work out their beliefs in simple practical terms, and using abandoned buildings for shelter is one way. The stadium in Houston is often used for the homeless, or when there are floods. I seem to remember Norwich cathedral amenities were used for similar purposes in the 1970s.
But the issue of open borders remains, and Trump uses the perceived concept as a weapon. I don’t think the gospel necessarily leads us to approve open borders.
Yes. I think that is the most direct answer. The fact of the absence of any effort to discriminate and distinguish tells you what you need to know. Being against mercy is being against mother and apple pie. A bromide. If you are inner city African American, paying taxes, and trying hard to make ends meet with child care and bills, handing over gyms and schools and playgrounds to house illegal immigrants isn’t ‘merciful.’ No matter how dulcet your tone. The point was to broad brush and paint Trump as merciless. Compare her performance with that of Cardinal Dolan, or… Read more »
Let me give another perspective. My father wrote a book ‘Britain and the United Nations’ in the early 1950s, and he had a chapter on the Palestine issue. His main comment was that the UN decided all kinds of things, but neither the UN nor US nor Britain did anything to effect anything. He was originally a military man, and a committed Christian. He co-authored books on Christian ethics and policies. Roll on, and we all kinds of calls and demonstrations for a cease fire (or cessation of hostilities – i don’t know what the difference is), from all political… Read more »
My father also edited a book in 1982 ‘Ethics and Nuclear Deterrence’ as a result of a Council on Christian Approaches to Defence and Disarmement, with a foreward by the then AC Robert Runcie. Runcie wrote ‘In these circumstances we have a duty to listen to each other, to use our minds as well as our hearts, and to wrestle with the deep ethical problems which these issues involve. Peace will not be won by superficial or sloppy thiinking.’ My father was not enamoured, at the time, with CND, although Bruce Kent wrote one of the chapters. The essays have… Read more »
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators were shouting “jihad and caliphate” but couldn’t tell you whether they wanted rid of Israel? That sounds… highly unlikely. And why “of course”? Most people who support Palestinian rights have an idea of a final status they want to see, whether that is a 2 state solution on the 1967 borders, a single democratic multi-national state or (and it would be foolish to pretend this minority don’t exist) want a wholly Palestinian state with Jews expelled, exterminated, or relegated to second class status as Palestinians currently are in Israel.
Why highly unlikely? Would it not be illegal or something? Or they are useful idiots who do not want to be exposed? For avoidance of doubt, I don’t agree with the annihilation of Palestine either.
I can answer that as a pro-Palestinian demonstrator. Yes.
Good, you are honest at least.
This site is amazing, write something deemed transphobic and get censored. Call for the destruction of the state of Israel, not.
Scottish independence would bring about the destruction of the UK, depriving some people of a dearly held identity, but no one of their lives and homes.
A single democratic state in which all people living between the Jordan and the Mediterranean would have equal rights to vote, live, work and travel where they wished, could marry who ever they wished to, could have equal access to resources, education and healthcare, is the only just and desirable future outcome, but it would not be Israel as currently conceived.
Maybe the ideal. But how do you get there?
Kumbaya.
Trying to use Black Americans as a shield for your shilling for the self-publicist, bigot, and apologist for sexual abuse Franklin Graham is unseemly. The US is an enormously wealthy country and can afford to help both refugees and poor American citizens. It chooses not to.
And the fact is that Graham, Trump, Hesgeth and their whole coterie are against mercy. They no more want to see your putative “inner city African American” helped than they want to help immigrants.
Well, that settles that.
Little wonder Kamala Harris fared so poorly. The general public has tired of this kind of cant.
You don’t speak for the “general public”. Own your own opinions, don’t ventriloquise them into the mouths of others.
Jo I’m afraid that is the favoured approach of your correspondent here. And it comes as no surprise
He’s got three PhDs and written lots of books and learned articles though.
Except of course Kamala didn’t fare that poorly. Her share of the vote was 1.6% behind Trump. And Trump didn’t quite get 50% of the vote. Christopher, you would do well to read Jim Wallis’ book ‘The false white Gospel’. You will of course dismiss it, in your customary way, as ‘cant’, but it shows up Trump for that which he is, and which you most seem to admire – a very long way from Gospel of Jesus Christ, and a long way from any of the beatitudes taught by the founder of our faith. That you are a Trump… Read more »
I think AP has previously stated he is not a Trump supporter. Indeed, many voted for Trump who are not Trump supporters. I was in Houston during the first presidential election, I was having breakfast in a hotel which was also being used as a polling station. I asked someone at an adjoining table about the election. He said he did not like Trump, but voted for him, because he really could not stand Hilary Clinton. This was fairly common, I think. Maybe similar for Kamala Harris? Why do many people dislike her and the democrats? Too easy to say… Read more »
You know when even the Washington Post writes, “Many of the actions he has taken enjoy widespread support within the party. Some, like the deportation of undocumented immigrants with criminal records, have public support” they are tuned into the realities now obtaining in our country, and that includes the African Americans speaking up proudly and with concern in Chicago City Hall meetings, excoriating the Mayor; or Hispanics who have had enough in Texas and across the land. Your comment insults them. If the wealth of the US is a magic wand to solve immigration overrun and open borders, Biden had… Read more »
“Even the Washington Post”? The WP that refused to endorse a candidate? Whose owner just surrendered to Trump? That WP? It’s practically state media at this point.
And here, again, we get into the question of whether just because something is “popular,” is it right and moral?
I point out that, based on the Gospels, Jesus’ scourging and crucifixion were the popular choice of the crowd in Jerusalem.
They want a border policy that considers each case on an individual basis, so that the reason you seek to immigrate is more important than your country of origin, your race, your religion, your political affiliation, your wealth (or lack thereof), your education (or lack thereof), etc. Trump (and those who support him) want a border policy that lumps individuals into groups–the wealthy, the educated, those from countries whose governments support ours, those with friends and relatives in the US who will vouch for and support them. Most of all, they want immigrants they can count on to support THEIR… Read more »
Immigration to the UK depends on wealth and qualifications. I have a close friend who was an immigration officer. Standard question, how will you support yourself while in the UK. Sometimes the answer was for a briefcase to be opened and hundreds of thousands of pounds in bank notes to be shown. They were quickly allowed in. Once in, who knows what happens. If the applicant was black, and they said they are coming to visit an aunt, and 30 mins later they said they were visiting a cousin, no way jose. They were obviously lying. [mojo] Certain professions are… Read more »
“In contrast, I have queued for immigration many times for long times at Houston. Beware of saying you are coming to work, you have to say ‘I am coming for meetings’. I had a visitor/business visa. It involved interviews at US embassy. It generally allowed for visits up to 3 months each time, although I only stayed maximum 1 month.” The real question is, as a white, English-speaking, UK citizen, how long did it take you to get that visa (not how long did you stand in line to clear immigration once you arrived)? Whatever time it was (and I’d… Read more »
Of course. The interview was ‘which college did you go to’ and i answered and that was the end.
My sentiments exactly Nigel.
Until the final plea section, the Bishop was preaching in a considered, eloquent, and relevant way.
Had she concluded then, or continued in that vein, it would have been a widely acclaimed and exemplary sermon.
Changing gear to an implicit denial of the complexity of dominant policy issues, and also ignoring the electorally decisive democratic desire for major policy changes, was bound to have a divisive Cathedral and wider public impact.
As Bishop Rowan used to remind English Anglicans, there has to be some correlation between truth and unity.
Doubtless she has personal views on many of those points but, if you can’t discern what they are, that is evidence that she got the balance right between articulating Christian principles without advancing her personal political views.
No, she was just asking for a compassionate approach.
Perhaps Bishop Budde was mindful of the inscription on the Statue of Liberty.
Just so we are dealing with history and facts. The Statue of Liberty was given by France to celebrate the American Independence. Mid 19th century. De Tocqueville. France buddying up to the America that looked like herself, after a bloody revolution. Proud of LaFayette. Our friend! There is also a Statue of Liberty model in Paris. In 1903, because of Ellis Island, processing lots of legal immigrants from the Old World–compared to our southern border, wide open; no Ellis Island, bless them all arriving, doctors examining them, a true tabernacle of generosity). Old World coming to the New World. My… Read more »
You cannot have it both ways. Not all immigrants coming up from central America are as Trump caricatures them. Not all are criminals just as Italian migrants in the past were not all mafiosi. I lived in the US Mexico border for a couple of years and have seen the problem with my own eyes and, yes, it is real. However it is wrong to demonise all refugees and economic migrants coming from the south. How many US citizens ancestors were refugees or economic migrants. Perhaps Trump’s own were the latter? Perhaps there should be an addendum to the inscription… Read more »
Isn’t much of the problem a problem of perception? Facts are a blunt tool to change perception.
Maybe if the US made legal migration as easy as it was in 1903 they wouldn’t have empowered people smugglers.
Besides which there is little to no evidence that undocumented migrants are a net cost to US taxpayers, given than they generally pay tax themselves and are less able to access government services.
On This Day – January 27 1825
US President James Monroe urges Congress to approve creation of Indian Territory, west of the Mississippi River, for the relocation of Eastern Indian tribes to ‘promote their welfare and happiness”
Just saying…
As you note, “legal immigration” before World War I was largely a case of arriving, being interviewed and examined for disease, and then being put on a ferry for Manhattan.
It is far more complicated (and expensive) today.
One more thing – peace, peace where there is no peace, and this quaint idea about urging for unity. Is that consistent with what jesus said? I think not. I seem to remember verses about him coming to divide.
There is no peace, there is no unity, it is a deeply divided community, but at least there could be mutual listening and respect.
To be clear, I don;t really have a major issue with Budde’s sermon, I am just wondering about the various reactions to it, and am fearful of where USA will go next.
“I am just wondering about the various reactions to it…”
Great reaction from Rex Huppke – a columnist at USA Today:
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/01/23/trump-response-bishop-budde-fox-news/77881230007/?
Echo chamber
The Speaking in Small Tongues essay is in many ways heart-breaking. Welby’s personal life is one daunting set of challenges that would ruin many a man. I hope his traumas have been opened up before professionals skilled at treating such things.
I hope too that +Justin’s traumas find healing, and – despite his overseeing the loss of Anglican memory and identity – that history will come to treat him a little more charitably.
Yes, we must be very careful about correlation v. causation. Any losses or declines may have happened anyway independent of who held the office during the period.
It’s also called confounding. Increases in ice cream sales are caused by increases in sun lotion sales.
Is this available other than by subscribing to the web site? Without knowing the full content of the article but knowing something of the background to Justin’s life maybe it would be a good read for all those who were so vocal in calling for his resignation
At the end of the day all of us I want to believe are seeking a Christlike approach to our problems and differences which I hope might include understanding and forgiving our weaknesses and frailties
i have only just read the article. Complex man. i wish him well. i discovered he visited the school where we both taught, kiburu seconday school, in 2020. He was 2 years before me. it seems the house still stands – built by Swedes.
“The New Sonnet” is a sonnet by American poet Emma Lazarus1849–1887). She wrote the poem in 1883 to raise money for the construction of a pedestal for the Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World) In 1903, the poem was cast onto a bronze plaque and mounted inside the pedestal’s lower level. This poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works conducted by the “Art Loan Fund Exhibition in Aid of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund for the Statue of Liberty” to raise money for the pedestal’s construction. Lazarus’s contribution was solicited by fundraiser William Maxwell Evarts. Initially, she refused but writer Constance… Read more »
Do the “huddled masses yearning to breathe” free include fearful gay and trans people in your opinion? Trump terrifies them
You’ll probably find that not a few voted for him, though
The actual title, BTW, is “The New Colossus”
Thanks. It was a sonnet and I missed out the full title.
Yes, those were the days when those clamoring to come to the US could not wait to become citizens. They were more law observant that our own people, given what they were fleeing.
May those days return, and for those who enter and become citizens, that is still the case.
Today (Sunday) we had people come to services who had never been at an Episcopal Church before — they were so impressed with Bishop Budde’s sermon that they wanted to check the church out.
Christian faith in the US has been so poisoned because the only variation that receives any media coverage is the ultra-MAGA sort that can be astonishingly cruel and hateful. They seem astonished to find out there’s another expression of Christian faith that’s available.
Will they come back? Who knows. But maybe the seeds of faith have been planted.
$Lorenzo Sewell, the Michigan pastor who led the benediction at Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony last Monday, launched his own memecoin shortly after leaving the stage, so maybe he was praying for something else at the time. It later crashed (the value of the memecoin, not the stage). Maybe this is what the presidency is all about, crypto.
The speaking in small tongues assessment is indeed heartbreaking. But I am more worried by the rise of the charismatic movement within the CofE. A Leonard Payne, on another site, recalls that he had a “meeting [with] a charismatic Bishop from Brompton who early on gave me Justin’s prayer card with a picture of him and his wife. The bishop insisted that Justin was ‘one of us’.” That sense of self righteousness, entitlement and being part of some elite just smacks of Gnosticism. I find it worse than irritating. I think it is dangerous. And it demonstrably hasn’t advanced the… Read more »
I wonder where all this irritation comes from? The resentment industry perhaps? Self righteousness? Probably.
None of those – the fact that it has turned the church into a club for those who are ‘one of us’.
I still believe we are all one in Christ Jesus in spite of the different flags we wave. The apostles were charismatics so there is nothing intrinsically wrong in the charismatic movement and like it or not it has been a factor in helping the church to continue to grow in the midst of some very adverse circumstances.
The Apostles were not charismatics in that sense. They were enabled to be good linguists at Pentecost. Peter became a fluent Latin speaker, not a gibberer of nonsense.
Thank you Matthew. I was suggesting the apostles were charismatics in a much broader sense than just their linguistic ability as demonstrated throughout the book of Acts notably in the healings that occurred and the wisdom and knowledge displayed by their preaching
I found this yesterday https://yournameislikehoney.com/category/new-wine-htb/thesis/ which gives a very complete account of issues around charismatic v. conservative evangelicals. I have by no means read all the chapters, and don;t know how factually reliable it is although it seems impressive, but it is very clear that there is a big distinction between them. Quote from part 30, which is worth reading in whole: But nevertheless by the 2020s, conservative and charismatic evangelicals in the CoE barely knew each other and had little meeting grounds in common. I also read We charismatics must be honest and put our hands up here. The… Read more »
I agree with much of this extract. This blog site is hosted by Richard Moy – a vicar in the HTB charismatic mould. He has done some interesting research as a critical insider into his own theological tradition. We might note his comment in the article to ‘ the Church of England’s nosedive into revisionist theology had a peculiar side effect. It brought many streams back together into what may yet appear to be one gospel river.’ He is part of The Alliance – Conservatives and Charismatic united in opposition to the move towards the full inclusion of LGBT+ and… Read more »
Yes. he says very little about sex, so I assumed he took a ‘traditional’ approach. He is obviously ‘thinking’, and it is good to listen.
Well OK Andrew. I don’t like it either. But I have, at times in my ministry training roles attended A-C gatherings and heard just the same tribal, insider language being used there. You could write this of groups in any corner of the church could you not? We all do it. In passing – there is no such thing as a ‘Bishop from Brompton’ either – the Brompton Oratory perhaps?
David I agree totally about the tribalism thing. It’s poisonous. But it was the language of ‘one of us’ that I found so objectionable. And I was quoting exactly from a contributor to a blog. The context makes it clear that it was a charismatic bishop at HT Brompton. Maybe a retired one? Maybe a visiting one?
The link I put up two comments above shows that there is a breadth of views and commonsense within charismatics
I don let like it either, but why assume this one moment by an un-named bishop represents a whole movement?
David I am sure I overstate my case as usual…I am an Enneagram Type 8 after all…but sadly my experience of the charismatic movement within the CofE has been characterised exactly by those things I have identified here. Your experience may have been different and I totally understand that.
I am happy to give TA back to CofE contributors whose site it is. Immigration is a tough issue, and (in my experience from my life in France) particularly fraught in the US geographical context. I view the cause of legal immigration as crucial to our American polity and way of life and rejoice in our heritage of ‘give me your poor.’ Those who passed by Ellis Island and entered our country at the turn of the last century have been among the very finest citizens we have had. Many of those ‘poor and destitute’ — not unlike the father… Read more »
At least the British PM, Macron and Schultz are not convicted felons. How the mighty USA has fallen!
I consider a polite and respectful diversity of views is important to be shared. Sometimes I express views which are intentionally diverse, with which I myself am not wholly aligned.
This, the employee told us, is a problem because ‘the [Centre for Cultural Witness] is not accountable to the synod or required to publish its accounts’. – Ellingham & Kehoe. “Small Tongues”
This makes CCW sound even more sinister than it actually is. CCW is a registered charity. As a recently-registered charity (May 2023), it has a fairly-imminent due date for the filing of its first set of annual Report & Accounts. So let’s see.
Having let it run for several days, we have decided to draw this discussion of US party politics to a close. Comments on other aspects of that article or on the other articles are still welcome.
Thank you. Re the Welby article, I simply registered. It is free and the essay appeared without a problem. I repeat: he has had a life full of trauma and I pray he has had clinical help.