Tonight I have listened to one of the most powerful sermons I’ve heard for a long time. The Provost was on good form on Sunday morning in the Cathedral. Listen here.
It put into words, in a way I’ve been unable to, how I feel about the whole Lambeth thing, and the, now (for me), tiresome, issues of sexuality. Yes, let us deal wth these issues, and punt Paul’s bit in Romans to all who feel marginalised. That is the Gospel. Our Bishops need to listen to the marginalised!
But the Provost’s take on the average Anglican was wonderful. Wot I’ve been trying to say, unsuccessfully, for weeks in my Blog and getting pelters for saying it.
The average mother in Dumbarton’s “worst bits”, (like Bellsmyre, Castlehill, Brucehill), is concerned tonight for her teenage child who will, again, come home with needlepoint pupils and another brush with authority under their belt. The house will be damp and nobody in the family will be employed. Addiction, poverty, lack of self-worth, hopelessness, helplessness…
And, here, like everywhere, it doesn’t help us when a single issue is punted by the press as the only thing we’re interested in as Anglicans.
Show the world our best bits? Aye, but sometimes it’s hard to, because the people have already made their decision.
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