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The Bishop of Buckingham continues to be my favourite member of the C of E's episcopate. Here he comments on the (utterly iniquitous and wicked) proposed Ugandan homosexuality law: Straining at a tiny but contentious gnat, it swallows a sociopathic, genocidal camel.*

Double points, from an Anglican perspective, for pointing out that the same people who go on about ECUSA breaching the Lambeth moratorium are simultaneously breaking what was agreed at Lambeth, in the other direction.

I'd be the last person to deny that the Anglican Communion has a lot of problems and failings, some of them pretty serious. But - even though I don't always agree with all of what he says - I find the fact that + Alan not only has a purple shirt, but hasn't let it stop him calling things the way he sees them, very cheering.


* As usual on CiF, the comments generate more heat than light, on both sides. And I see Marcionism is still not dead.

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Fascinating, and very moving story from the Guardian: Jonathan Freedland visits a drop-in centre for elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors where they never serve thin soup and there's always plenty of bread, the particular shape work with them has to take, and some of their stories.