GB NEWS presenter Calvin Robinson has accused Bishops in the Church of England of trying to block his ordination to the priesthood because of his conservative views. The Sunday Express has more.
But senior clergy in London including the Bishop of London Sarah Mullally have taken exception to his criticism of woke culture and other conservative comments on social media and blocked the original plan.
Mr. Robinson, a former teacher and well-known right of centre political commentator has been training for ordination at St Stephen’s College in Oxford and was supposed to begin a curacy in Holborn later this year
Mr. Robinson has told the Sunday Express that he has consulted a barrister about possibly taking the Church of England to court over the issue arguing that he and others are facing prejudice for “having orthodox conservative opinions.”
He said: “The problem is that there is a disconnect between the Church of England hierarchy who are increasingly woke Guardian readers, and the congregations who are mostly Daily Express and Daily Mail reading conservatives.
“I am much closer to the grassroots, I tend to read the Express and the Mail and I am willing to stand up for those orthodox Christian opinions against things like trying to allow gay weddings, rebaptisms for trans people and the like.”
The original plan was for Mr Robinson to be a part time curate and continue his media work on GB News and elsewhere.
He said: “I felt that the media work was part of my calling and future ministry so the two were not separable.”
However, at a Zoom meeting on February 25, the Bishop of Fulham Jonathan Baker who was his sponsor told him that he “needed to make a choice” and warned that it would be too difficult to do both because of complaints which were being made about him.
A few hours later the Bishop of Fulham emailed the Bishop of London to say that Mr Robinson’s curacy in Holborn had been cancelled.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has described the Government’s plan to relocate undocumented migrants to Rwanda as “ungodly”. So the Anglican church stopping a black man from becoming a priest because of his conservative views is perfectly acceptable, but a policy designed to stop people smuggling is “ungodly”?
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The current CofE hierarchy – especially the whited sepulchre Welby – are no more Christian than our cat.
Take for example the discovery of the CofE’s investment in the payday loan company Wonga.com – a more obnoxious gang of usurers it would be difficult to find – and his closing the doors of his churches and disappearance to his second home in Brittany at the beginning of the Covid affair, when the support of the Church for its members was required perhaps more than at any time since WWII.
Personally I wouldn’t want to be associated with such an utterly hypocritical institution.
Calvin Robinson would make an excellent Archbishop of Canterbury. First and foremost, he’s a Christian, which I’ve never believed Welby is – and if Welby wants to be political he should put himself up for parliamentary election and let a Christian take his place, in which he has proven himself unworthy, as did his predecessor. Unlike Welby, Robinson doesn’t seem to believe that the 10 Commandments – God’s word – should be altered or diluted according to fashion or politics. By trying to appeal to the woke crowd, he is driving more and more people from the Church, as we have more than enough woke madness in everyday life without having to tolerate it within our ancient Institutions as well. The majority of us are sick of it.
There are other places of worship, Mr Robinson, which are not continually twisting the Christian message but are continuing to preach the Word of God regardless of the sick times we live in. You should join one of those, and be a beacon of light in this murky world of soul-less wokery.
“The problem is that there is a disconnect between the Church of England hierarchy who are increasingly woke Guardian readers, and the congregations who are mostly Daily Express and Daily Mail reading conservatives.”
I don’t read any newspaper – is there a congregation for such?
It has been obvious for some time that holding Christian beliefs is incompatible with being an ordained minister in the Church of England. Perhaps he should consider Catholicism instead?
And this is just ONE instance. How many others has this happened to, those without such a prominent platform as Mr Robinson?
Today’s clergy – especially those overpaid and arrogant ones at the top – are a disgrace to their profession. (I won’t say ”their calling” as it was obviously just the lure of power and money in their case.)
The C of E has clearly lost its flock and any legitimacy it once had. The thing is there are all those magnificent cathedrals and churches. How are they to be recovered and given into the hands of the true faithful?
They will probably just become buildings of historical academic interest, except for the faithful few, who will have to pay the extortionate entrance fee (as in shameless Salisbury and Canterbury cathedrals, among others).
Welby is Satan incarnate.
Mr. Robinson, you are truly a national asset in this time when intelligent, articulate defenders of truth are sorely lacking. What has happened to you puts paid to Richard Cole’s accusations yesterday in the Telegraph that the CofE is turning fundamentalist and overly conservative. I would love to have you with us, and you would be warmly welcomed in the Catholic Church and fit quite well. Keep up the good fight.
The C of E has about the same number of members as the Guardian has readers. And they’re the same people. In 10 years, as the very elderly congregation dies off, it will just consist of nice, but redundant buildings.
I’m not a ‘Guardian reader’ and I’m not ‘very elderly’ – and our church has many young families in its congregation. At least it did have, until the vicar let them down just when they needed him most. It’s the right sort of leaders that are lacking – people who inspire and attract. People like Mr Robinson – which is why his chance of success must not be allowed.
“Church” is the wrong word.
The CoE and Christianity have clearly parted ways. I’m guessing that it’s not a mistake, but another means of destroying Christianity from within, just as the woke Pope is doing.
That’s why we need a new Church. Calvin Robinson is the kind of person that new Church will need. There are others.
As for Jellybaby, why doesn’t he go to Rwanda, in solidarity with the illegals, and make himself Arch-Primate of the Trans Chimpanzee Church of Wokeafrica?
Locking the faithful out of churches is not ungodly.
Licking the government’s arse is not ungodly.
Forcing people to delete their faces is not ungodly.
Treating children like toxic waste is not ungodly.
Bio-medical apartheid, backed by threats and coercion, is not ungodly.
Discouraging traffic in human flesh is ungodly.
The god of Dustbin Jellybaby. A horrid, shrivelled little idol, befitting his miserable acolyte.
He is a Globalist to the hilt.
I suppose it had to happen: the C of E bans the ordination of someone whose views are as conservative as those expressed in the Bible.
Not so much a church, more an unconvincing comedy script…
Did you put Calvin Robinson up to it, Toby?
His approach seems similar to yours when you paid three pounds to join the Labour party in the belief that if you voted for Jeremy Corbyn as leader you’d help the Tories.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-work-consigning-labour-to-electoral-oblivion-is-done
What’s wrong with Rwanda? Is he suggesting Rwanda is somehow worse or beneath th UK? That’s not very Christian. I would be pretty offended if I was Rwandan by the insinuation that my country was somehow “ungodly”.
That is what someone from there said on GB News last week to Mark Steyn. She really didn’t let go, it was fun watching mark’s face. Probably trying to work out, ‘how do I get out of this one’.
‘Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has described the Government’s plan to relocate undocumented migrants to Rwanda as “ungodly”. ‘
OK. So let’s make it godly and send them to Lambeth Palace and the Vatican – plenty of room there.
Aren’t both places full to bursting with refugee Ukes?
Why would he want to be part of the C of E clergy? highly suspect.
Why did Toby join Labour?
Some people have the integrity to fight for what they believe is worth saving.
ATL, quote: So the Anglican church stopping a black man from becoming a priest because of his conservative views …
How about you just say: So the Anglican church stopping a man from becoming a priest because of his conservative views …
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I am an atheist and a believer in freedom of speech. I have a particularly high opinion of Calvin and if he decides to take formal action against the hierachcy then I would be only to pleased to swell any fighting fund.
Were it not for the Church of England, I would very likely be a member of said “Church of England”. Which seems to have been infiltrated by people I see as evil.
So they won’t let you join the reformed Church of Satan, not a bad thing.
In the US, God apparently is a member of the NRA. In the UK, he’s a card-carrying member of Momentum.
This sort of thing has been going on here for decades – remember the Yes, prime minister episode about choosing a new bishop and them not believing in God? That was 1986 – 35+ years ago.
Even in the US there have started to be warnings (recently) of Churches (even Catholic ones) being infiltrated by woke left wing activists. They know that, like with the Civil Service and especially the teaching profession, religion is an easy, cheap way of indocrinating many people without most of the Right noticing or doing very much.
This sort of thing has been going on here for decades – remember the Yes, prime minister episode about choosing a new bishop and them not believing in God? That was 1986 – 35+ years ago.
I do indeed. And I’m struck by how many of the things ridiculed by Yes MInister, Yes Prime Minister and Monty Python have become either a new orthodoxy or so commonplace that we no longer bother to mock (well, we do here – but there are plenty who simply accept them).
Good comedians are wonderful observers of incipient trends. I think much of what we were laughing about remained incipient until 2001: when things suddenly got very serious indeed. When I joked about what I saw as absurdly excessive and manifestly stupid security measures at airports, I found that others weren’t laughing at all. We got frightened.
Except that people are deserting the C of E and the Catholic churches in droves.
When Eco Charlie gets the top job that should see off the C of E for good.
How many black African migrants has Justin Welby taken into his own home?
My guess is none.
Justin Welby – as splendid an example as one may wish of all that is wrong with the Church of England today.
The words of an old rugby song spring to mind:
Why was he born so beautiful,
Why was he born at all.
He’s no fcuking use to anyone,
He’s no fcuking use at all.
Other readers may also remember the second verse …
I wish I could 🤣🤣
My advice to Calvin Robinson is to leave the idiots to their “church”.
It’s obviously screwed, why anyone would want to join their “church” beats me.
It’s like lesbians and gays demanding to be “married” by a “church” that says they’re evil. Why bother?
I follow my own religion: me and those I love.
If we pursue this kind of thinking, and do not fight for things that matter, in twenty years you will be advocating that whites abandon the UK for other countries. Leave Britain for the “New British”; why anyone would want to live there is beyond me, it is obviously screwed etc.
Some things are worth fighting for.
Ideas are the most powerful things. They exist in the minds of man. They are not tied to territory. If “your country” abandons those ideas, then the ideas need a new home.
Like the protestants who fled Europe for the Americas etc. I sort of agree. But what do you do when there’s no more “spare” land or land that you can take control over?
Surround yourself with enough people who agree with you and are ready to take up arms to defend your ideas.
Have you seen how simple it is to declare a new country? Hint: it isn’t about filling in a form or any other bureaucracy, or asking for permission, or any of that.
And I say it is simple – not necessarily easy.
My country is not abandoning anything, it is being invaded. There is a difference. The overwhelming majority of citizens in most European countries want an end to mass immigration.
I take it we can’t count on your support when the civil war comes?
Most of my ‘fellow Brits’ (whatever that means) appear intent on destroying things from the inside, Vax.
“When we resist strangers, we risk strangers grown amongst us.”
100% with you Marcus.
C of E and RC teaching doesn’t describe gay people as evil; that’s a line that has been pushed by anti-Christian zealots. Gay sex is described as a sin, but heterosexual sex outside of marriage is likewise described.
Here’s a question, who invented Christianity? Aah could it be the self same clergy who now openly and judgmentally decide who joins this increasingly secret society? Oh wait that’s the Illuminati and the Jesuits….
Define invented.
If it’s so secret then how do you know so much about its machinations?
Genius. You should publish your findings.
Welby and the C of E generally seem to have abandoned even the slightest pretence of being interested in Christianity, as distinct from Sanctimony. Their behaviour, in shutting down all religious observance, apart from “online services” during the pandemic, was craven, ungodly and downright cruel in many instances. Welby himself is a disgrace to the Church and to his worldly country, which he seems to despise and abhor.
It would appear that the Catholic Church is, in many regards, as delinquent as the C of E, and the Holy Father is as ridiculous as the Archbishop. It is not surprising that evangelical Christianity and former dissenting branches are those that keep the religion alive, albeit moribund, in the UK.
We need to purge these people from their positions of power.
We have inflation at the moment which would be cured by less government spending. Who is going to go through the government departments and ALB accounts and start asking what the point of them is?
Let’s start with the “diversity” jobs and go from there. Civil service jobs would be a starting place.
After that we need to go after the public funding for University jobs that serve no purpose. We should be funding STEM only at this point.
The more of these oxygen thieves we can get on the dole queue the lower inflation will be.
Go to it.
A simpler, faster approach is to remind people diversity is dangerous. We don’t want a diverse group of pilots flying our planes, we want all pilots to conform to a strict set of requirements i.e. good hand-eye coordination, nerves of steel etc. That is, we want a homogenous group with these traits.
From there we must recast the diversity brigade as strange obsessives. Why are they so focused on superficial differences? Why are they racist? Why are they not focusing on skill and aptitude? Come to think of it, is this kind of myopia itself dangerous?
Quite. Where’s Uncle Joe Stalin when you need a good purge? For frankly, that’s the sort of purge we need. Paraquat level…
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-do-we-celebrate-easter-in-the-shadow-of-war
The Church of England is a disgusting temple of sanctimonious wokery.
Well, Easter does relate to an event that took place during the Roman occupation of the Holy Land. That said, I fully agree re the C of E…
‘Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has described the Government’s plan to relocate undocumented migrants to Rwanda as “ungodly”‘
So he is claiming that the plan is immoral? Can anyone explain to me how it is immoral? These people have paid thousands of pounds, travelled thousands of miles and risked their lives crossing the channel to get to the UK, with some losing their lives on the way. To my mind anything that helps stop the vile trade of people smuggling is morally justified. Rwanda is nice this time of year.😷✊👍
I prefer the older, more established reason. A country without borders isn’t a country, just a geographical territory. Since this stuff is often pushed by those banging on about our colourful imperialist past, and the sins that it implies, I say it is one or the other. If borders don’t exist for them they don’t exist for us either. We could conquer India and the former African colonies in a few months. To this day they are dysfunctional to the point of absurdity.
A more sensible approach is to act upon our natural impulses; a hoard of third world peasants descending on us will add absolutely nothing of value. We must send them all home, including the ones born here. They are not us and they do not belong.
Allow me
https://www.roger-scruton.com/articles/276-the-need-for-nations
This article by the late, much lamented Conservative philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton, on why we need the nation state, is, IMHO, spot on.
Boils down to – who else will defend you once the nation is gone.
Get thee behind me, all transnational institutions, starting with the UN, WHO, WEF. Oh and the ****ing BBC…
Bookmarked, will read. Thanks for sharing.
Not sure what language it’s in – would need a transliteration….
I agree but flooding the country with third world immigrants is integral to the Reset.
Indeed. Destined to fail here, Even after a century none of them will be northern europeans, including their behaviour.