by Gavin Ashenden on substack
From ill-equipped clergy pontificating on socialism 101, to the challenge to resist the growing anti-Christian ruthlessness of the state.
In the last few days, the ecumenical gift that keep on giving, Stephen Cottrell, the Archbishop of York, has taken it into his head that the nation needs to hear his views on illegal immigration and taxation policy.
As Julia Hartley Brewer put it succinctly, in an interview with me on Talk TV, this is all from a man who has a degree in media studies from a not very demanding educational establishment for which to use the descriptor ‘higher education’ would be thought by the experts to be over-generous. His qualifications for making the kind of comments he offered are thinner than slim.
Is that mean?
Well, we wouldn’t be discussing it if he hadn’t decided quite gratuitously, to offer his opinions in the media as ‘acting head of the Church of England.’ No one asked him, but he obviously felt that the Government may have been in such a quandary that they couldn’t find their way out of unless he helped. They had just forgotten he was there, on hand to help.
Why the ‘ecumenical gift that keeps on giving?’