Talking of bishops and management of the CofE, If you go to the Church Times Website and feed in the following details on the search facility [actually just the author and the "features" category will get you there]:
"To find a new direction for the Church, use a map". 28 March 2003. "Gareth Miller"
You will find an article proposing a radical redrawing of the provincial and diocesan map of Anglican England. Part of the proposal is that by doing so we encourage diocese and bishops to work together and to share resources provincially [a bit more like ECUSA -which administratively seems to have something going for it]. So why not lookat this while we're about it? -nah! The CofE doing something radical and visionary? Sorry -wrong planet.
"Spend and tax" not "tax and spend"
I got a response from my MP which got me kind of mad. You'll see why as I reproduce it here. Apologies for the strange changes in types...
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I've been watching the TV series 'Foundation'. I read the books about 50 years ago (I know!) but scarcely now remember anything...
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"'Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. For truly I tell yo...