Newsletter 5 Jan 2020

January 2, 2020 in Newsletters

Archbishop links death rate to racism
“THE endemic and long-standing racism” in society is one of the reasons for the disproportionately higher death-rate among Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) from the Covid-19 virus, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said. He was speaking on T...
1st Sunday after Trinity
“IT SOUNDS archaic, hardly short of embarrassing, to say that ‘Jesus saw the crowds and felt pity for them in his bowels.’ But it would be a more accurate rendering of the text: splagchna, which is the root of the verb used in verse 36, means ‘vis...
Bishop of Lincoln to be investigated under CDM
THE Bishop of Lincoln, the Rt Revd Christopher Lowson, who has been suspended for the past 12 months over a safeguarding issue, is to be investigated under the Clergy Discipline Measure (CDM), a spokesperson for the Church of England confirmed on ...
Presiding Bishop rebukes Trump for using church in a political stunt
THE Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States, the Most Revd Michael Curry, has rebuked President Trump for using a church for “partisan political purposes” while riots, sparked by the death of George Floyd, continued to escala...