SPCK have released a statement, text here which contains much sense.
I don’t propose to comment about the general SPCK case any more on this site, unless and until that legal process is concluded. However, I reserve the right to talk about the more general free-speech (“Free Dave Walker!”) issues, as occasion permits.
An interview with John Shelby Spong.
And then, if you need some mental cleansing, go read Rowan on him: “I cannot in any way see Bishop Spong’s theses as representing a defensible or even an interesting Christian future.”
“Looking through the paperwork from the so called Bankruptcy case involving St Stephen the Great, and more particularly SSG Ltd we have the following conundrum. J Mark Brewer is chair of the trustees of St Stephen the Great Charitable Trust – a body that has the same charity and business number as SSG Ltd that he is trying to make bankrupt through the US Courts. J Mark Brewer is also a director of ENC Shop Management, Chichester Shop Management Company and Durham Cathedral Shop Management Company. J Mark Brewer is a partner in Brewer and Pritchard P.C. Brewer and Pritchard’s address is 3 Riverway, Suite 1800, Houston. So is a strange charity called Orthodox Christian Mission Fund… So Mark Brewer is also behind the Orthodox Christian Mission Fund…
According to the documents given to the courts in Houston Texas, SSG Ltd owes Brewer and Pritchard $56,694.98 and owes Orthodox Christian Mission Fund $494,097.55. If we add the $75,000 retainer Mark Brewer has agreed to, Mark Brewer, as trustee of SSG Ltd, owes himself, or his own companies, $625,792.53.”
This is the context for USDAW taking him to court. Ho hum. They’re also trying to take various Sheffield people to court, including someone I was at Westcott with…
Found here.
“Looking through the paperwork from the so called Bankruptcy case involving St Stephen the Great, and more particularly SSG Ltd we have the following conundrum. J Mark Brewer is chair of the trustees of St Stephen the Great Charitable Trust – a body that has the same charity and business number as SSG Ltd that he is trying to make bankrupt through the US Courts. J Mark Brewer is also a director of ENC Shop Management, Chichester Shop Management Company and Durham Cathedral Shop Management Company. J Mark Brewer is a partner in Brewer and Pritchard P.C. Brewer and Pritchard’s address is 3 Riverway, Suite 1800, Houston. So is a strange charity called Orthodox Christian Mission Fund… So Mark Brewer is also behind the Orthodox Christian Mission Fund…
According to the documents given to the courts in Houston Texas, SSG Ltd owes Brewer and Pritchard $56,694.98 and owes Orthodox Christian Mission Fund $494,097.55. If we add the $75,000 retainer Mark Brewer has agreed to, Mark Brewer, as trustee of SSG Ltd, owes himself, or his own companies, $625,792.53.”
This is the context for USDAW taking him to court. Ho hum. They’re also trying to take various Sheffield people to court, including someone I was at Westcott with…
Found here.
How to get by on the London Underground.
All too true.
A wonderfully lazy Sunday morning – quite a rarity really :o)
This is going to be one of those ‘central posts’ where I’ll gather some threads together, principally about the problem of suffering, and the relative merits of atheism and Christian faith.
For those who don’t know, at two of the establishments where I studied Philosophy and Theology I was tutored by Stephen Law, who I found to be a great teacher and a very nice man. He’s also a very intelligent and committed atheist, which gives rise to more or less helpful discussions!
My first post on the problem of suffering here.
Stephen responds here and here.
I respond here.
Stephen takes up Hart’s essay on theodicy here, my explanation of Hart here, and he takes up some of my comments here, here , here and here.
I comment on this blog here.
And I offer a more substantial response here.
When Stephen responds to that I’ll link it in.
Even though I end up being abused rather a lot (eg ‘bullshit artist’!) I find the process helpful and it helps to clarify my own thinking, even if that clarity doesn’t seem to get shared very far.
