A divided house... of bishops

David Baker  |  Comment
Date posted:  1 Mar 2020
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A divided house... of bishops

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What a tangled web we weave, when our bishops don’t believe…

A kingdom divided against itself, Jesus said, cannot stand. So some kind of split in the Church of England and the wider Anglican world which involves more and more people seems increasingly inevitable.

I mean, really. Towards the end of January the CofE’s House of Bishops issued a statement about opposite-sex civil partnerships, and how church teaching relates to it.

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