Please forgive the egotistical title for this blog-entry, but my inner cheer is too buoyant to repress. I’ve been banging on about the lack of theological seriousness in the Church, the creeping managerialism, and the effect it has on clergy morale for a long time – and focussed all those concerns on the women bishops question here. In the aftermath of the Synod debacle, Professor Sarah Coakley, who is an all round star, weighs in here. Go read.
Elizaphanian
“I come not from Heaven, but from Essex.”
She puts her finger on the causes of something that even some non-Anglicans (like me) have found disturbing — see Speaking the truth to power: two Anglican archbishops | Notes from underground