The Church of England falls ever further down the abyss.
Posted on 11/27/2015 2:05:49 PM PST by Loyalist
The Church of England has appointed as Bishop of Sherborne a leading advocate of Christian nudism. On 26 Nov 2015 the Prime Minister’s Office announced the The Queen had approved the nomination of the Ven Karen Gorham, the Archdeacon of Buckingham, to the Suffragan See of Sherborne in the diocese of Salisbury in succession to the Rt Rev. Graham Kings.
Archdeacon Gorham was educated at the University of Bristol and trained for the ministry at Trinity College, Bristol. She served her title at Northallerton with Kirby Sigston in the diocese of York from 1995 to 1999 and went on to become Priest-in-Charge of St Paul’s, Maidstone in the diocese of Canterbury. She took up her current role as Archdeacon of Buckingham in 2007. A member of the General Synod for the past 12 years, she has served as a member of the Panel of Chairs for the past two years.
The 10 Downing Street press release said Archdeacon Gorham’s "interests include travel and walking, the coast and Celtic spirituality. She enjoys days out with friends and an occasional visit to a good restaurant to sample the taster menu.â€
The back cover of the 2000 pamphlet on Christian Naturism released by Grove Books she co-authored with David Leal notes Miss Gorham was not a practicing naturist at the time of publication, but “Karen knows and supports many naturists.
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The Church of England falls ever further down the abyss.
I wouldn’t want to see that nude
under any circumstances.
I'm sure plenty of people wouldn't mind if this trend caught on among fit Australian surfer chicks, but it never does. Always fat mooses that decide to take up naturism.
“Celtic spirituality” is a sure sign of craziness. The Celtic Christians of old were rigorous in their ascetic and sacramental practice, and would have abhorred the New Age flumdiddle supposedly bearing their name.
No. Just no.
guilty as hell
Remember Ananias and Sapphira? People think since the death and resurrection of Christ that anything goes and all will be forgiven. Well just remember the above people God will judge all one day. Sometimes He chooses to judge them in the here and now. Vengeance is His. Maybe the judgment is just a further tanking of the society around them. I don’t know. Clearly there is no fear of God in them.
I have never heard of a church that swallowed the women’s ordination Kool Aid and didn’t go into a rapid nose dive. Of course usually the trajectory is already there, but W/O always seems to accelerate the slide into apostasy and ecclersiological irrelevance.
That’s horrible - for a lot more than theological reasons.
I think you're safe. Nowhere does it say that the woman pictured (the new Bishop) ever takes her clothes off, much less publicly.
Being an advocate of something doesn't necessarily mean one does it personally.
Thank God for small mercies, in this case...
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