Tag: Synod

Arrogant Synod scorns the value of marriage

I WOULD like to think that I am realistic about the low level of Christianity at the Church of England’s General Synod. But even I was shocked at the arrogance with which members voted down an amendment at the February meeting in Westminster to ‘reaffirm the value of marriage, especially when loving, as providing the […]

Paul’s reminder to the Synod on sexual morality

THE challenging teaching on sexual morality in today’s Prayer Book Epistle reading is as counter-cultural in the post-1960s West as it was in the Roman Empire of the 1st Century AD. The reading for the 2nd Sunday in Lent is from the Apostle Paul’s first New Testament letter to the Christians in Thessalonica in northern Greece. This, […]