Leaked documents last week revealed how Winchester Cathedral apparently now plans to remodify its choral foundation in line with its new-found main priorities not of worshipping God, but of instead increasing “reach and access” and “diversity and inclusion”. It turns out the only sins Christ truly died on his cross to redeem were those of white, Western, cisheteronormativity. Cathedral authorities hope to achieve this holy aim by replacing the current choristers with a “variety of singers from other parts of the regional demographic”. Goodbye plainsong, hello nasheeds?
At least Winchester didn’t go as far as Sheffield Cathedral, which in 2020 decided to disband its choir entirely, the better to serve its “mixed urban community”. In the twisted world of DEI, rather than have an unacceptably white choir, far better to have no choir at all. (At least temporarily – Sheffield does seem to have a choir of some sort now, no doubt doing a nice line in raps like this: just wait until you see what the elderly white pastor in question innocently rhymes ‘bigger’ with when describing Jesus’s own admirably racially diverse urban status.)
According to a statement subsequently released by Winchester Cathedral once its leaked plan started getting criticism in the newspapers, what was really meant by increasing “diversity and inclusion” here was actually just spending more money on their girls’ choir, whilst simultaneously maintaining current funding levels for their boys’ one. Having said that, “for the wellbeing and protection of all our clergy and staff, it is Cathedral policy not to comment on confidential HR matters”, added the press release, so who knows?
The very issue of mixed choirs itself is a controversial one, however, with many objecting to the Church of England’s increasing obsession with replacing traditional all-male choirs with ones filled with girls as well. Protests are not limited to the mere ‘It’s political correctness gone mad!’ kind, but are informed by the simple fact that boys’ and girls’ vocal chords enjoy innate physical differences, so the gender composition of a choir makes a genuine difference to the sound of the subsequent music. But then, most high-ups in the CofE don’t seem terribly interested in publicly admitting the existence of biological differences between the two sexes any more, do they? One day, will Carols From King’s be replaced instead with a nice little ditty from Carol, a queen?
Preaching to the Queer Choir
What songs might the CofE’s admirably intersex choirs of tomorrow actually sing? Sympathy For the Devil, obviously. And maybe also Lola by The Kinks. Besides that, 1980s Mancunian misery-guts The Smiths once had a humorous song named Vicar in a Tutu, about a cross-dressing CofE vicar who spent his days secretly donning girly gear and sliding giggling down the banister inside his private vicarage. What stood as a mere joke back in 1986, however, has since come true for real.
Brett Murphy was until lately an Anglican vicar of perfectly normal mainstream Christian opinions which he broadcast to his 14,000 followers on YouTube. One such opinion was that the aptly-named Reverend Rachel Mann, an adult human male who had been appointed the CofE’s first-ever transgender Archdeacon in June 2023, was “biologically a bloke”, or, in single-word terms, a “fella”.
Any simple anatomical examination of Reverend Mann beneath his vestments could have confirmed this fact immediately but, whilst stubbornly continuing to reject the original Catholic position of the Transubstantiation of the Host, it appears the CofE does now accept the rival doctrine of the Transubstantiation of the Zygotes.
“I’m self-evidently a woman, but I’m glad I was once a man,” Mr. Mann once delusionally told the Daily Telegraph; he also equally delusionally self-IDs as “a lesbian”. For any readers who are confused at this point, the actual translation of the word ‘lesbian’ in this context is ‘straight man in a dress’. Trans-substantiation indeed.
From Hymn to Her?
The above blatantly non-scriptural words of Mann’s were not deemed worthy of official CofE censure, but Reverend Murphy’s certainly were. What specific charges – known as CDMs, or actions under the Clergy Disciplinary Measure – were actually brought against the wicked Reverend? Four were registered against him simultaneously, an all-time record.
- Firstly, he had supposedly ‘misgendered’ Mr. Mann by referring to him as a man, which is what he is. Instead of being a ‘woman’, said Murphy, Mann was actually “a radical rainbow activist” being installed “in a position of high authority” which, Murphy guessed, was simply the early part of a wider plot of “positioning” Mann to one day be appointed the CofE’s first transgender bishop.
- Secondly, Murphy had expressed concern over the increasingly gay way human sexuality was increasingly now being taught in CofE schools. No wonder, when official CofE guidance on such issues in Church-maintained schools specifically states small boys should not in any way be discouraged from dressing up in “tutu, tiara and heels”, just like in The Smiths’ old 1980s joke-song.
- Thirdly, a complaint had been made that Vicar Murphy had cruelly neglected to visit a sick parishioner in his hospital bed – possibly because nobody had ever told Murphy this individual was ill in the first place.
- Fourthly, Murphy had spotted a bizarre ‘Prayer of Approach’ published by Reverend Mann online, in which Mann had appeared to claim Jesus was “Our Sister”, who (at least in one possible reading, I’m unsure) had menstruated on the cross, and that God was actually female, before then comparing ‘Her’ to a “chuckling wise woman” (i.e., a practitioner of old-time village witchcraft). In response, Murphy had scandalously re-tweeted Mann’s words, together with implications Mann was engaged in acts of “blasphemous idolatrous theology”.
Mr. Mann Or Little Miss?
Thankfully, when the CDM complaints tribunal first convened last year, the presiding woke witchfinder, the Bishop of Loughborough, found Reverend Murphy not guilty of all charges – but still sent him a strongly-worded letter of rebuke, warning him of using “intentionally derogatory and disrespectful” language against Mr. Mann by calling a bloke a bloke, deeming such words “not appropriate” to be used by “a clerk in Holy Orders”, unlike, say, Reverend Mann’s own competing highly respectful language arguably acclaiming Jesus as a public menstruator.
Even worse, by using YouTube to give his sermons, the Bishop further accused Murphy of trying to spread his own Good Word to “as wide an audience as possible”. Isn’t that literally what priests are supposed to do?
Feeling the process to be the punishment, Brett Murphy resigned his post, joining the rival schismatic Free Church of England instead (the one the similarly crucified Reverend Calvin Robinson is also now in), decrying the CofE’s abysmal queerness-fuelled “landslide into apostasy”.
Reverend Murphy was wise to seek shelter elsewhere, as, in December last year, the CofE announced that, even though he was no longer one of their vicars, he was having a second CDM re-opened against him for one of these same prior charges anyway – that of ‘insulting’ Mr. Mann by accurately referring to him by his correct birth-sex. In late March this year, it was announced that Murphy was cleared of all charges once again, having “no case to answer”. Indeed not. All he was guilty of was telling the truth.
A Mann on a Mission
Who is the Reverend Rachel Mann? According to Wikipedia, he is a woman, but that particular online encyclopaedia never was well known for being entirely accurate. In Reverend Murphy’s own considered opinion, Reverend Mann was actually little more than a self-righteous queer heretic, or “termite”, hell-bent upon infiltrating the CofE and then rotting it from within.
Is this really so? Look at some of the evidence and judge for yourself. For one thing, the acclaimed poet and thinker Mann is the proud author of many books of a queer-friendly nature, with titles like Dazzling Darkness: Gender, Sexuality, Illness and God, and Still Standing: A Lent Course Based on Rocketman, a song by noted homosexual pop star Elton ‘The Baptist’ John.
Like so many trans ideologues, Reverend Mann also paradoxically purports to be a committed feminist, as shown by the title of his 2020 novel The Gospel of Eve. I haven’t read it myself, but according to Reverend Murphy’s assessment of Mann’s general message, the author thinks that “not everything was bad about ‘The Fall’ in the Book of Genesis, and that Eve’s rebellion against God was not that bad”. (Wasn’t that the specific opinion of the Serpent who tempted Eve, too?) “To me that is a heresy,” said Reverend Murphy – before then being treated as a heretic by the CofE himself for pointing this out.
Open Wide and Swallow Your Tablet
A sycophantic 2020 interview in leading weekly religious newspaper the Tablet has as its headline a quote from Mann to the effect that “I was only able to find God after I had transitioned”, possibly because the true ‘God’ he worshipped was actually himself. Every night as a child, Mann would pray to God that he would wake up as a girl, but – Hocus Pocus! – the spell never worked. Possibly this was why, as a young philosophy student, Mann temporarily transitioned away from the faith of his childhood to become “a hard-nosed atheist”.
As an adult, however, once he had “become who I am” (a man in a dress), he was finally placed “in a position to allow God to get at me” and detransitioned away from atheism back towards Christianity. Well, they do say Jesus loves a sinner.
The transphilic contemporary media-world certainly do, with Mann being asked to go on Big Brother, an offer he declined, possibly waiting for the show to be re-named Big Sister instead. The CofE loves a sinner nowadays too, allowing Mann to serve on its official Faith and Order Commission, its expert body on questions of doctrine, which the vicar has jokingly compared to the Vatican’s old Spanish Inquisition – hence, perhaps, Reverend Murphy’s later burning at the stake like Giordano Bruno.
A truly innovative theologian, Mann is willing to debate any given element of Church doctrine, with one curious single exception: “I won’t debate my identity. I’m happy to have a conversation about theory and theology and concepts, but not whether I am a woman.”
Mann does, however, appear prepared to debate whether or not Jesus Christ was really a woman. Observe his aptly titled 2023 essay ‘Twisting Words’, which appeared on the website Christian Century (not sure which specific century they mean there, but it’s certainly not this one). The piece aims to deconstruct how the books of the Bible are really “texts of terror” against women, in part because they use words like “women” in an excessively simplistic and literal-minded way (i.e., to refer to women). Apparently, “words and phrases do not carry self-evident meanings”, as so ably demonstrated by the fact that the Reverend Mann chooses to describe himself as “a lesbian”.
Jesus Wept – Like a Little Girl
Mann is not crude enough to say Jesus has a vagina (he left that to a different stupid CofE cleric). Instead, as far as I can understand Mann’s sophisticated exegesis, it is claimed the famous Son of God actually acts as some gender-fluid, gender-subverting agent of “liberative theology”, whose crucifixion acted to save humanity not from eternal damnation and sin, but instead to sow “the seeds of our liberation from toxic patriarchal conceptions of identity that ruin and limit us”. How so?
Jesus models a way of being fully human that subverts a key problem which has damaging effects not just for women and girls but for boys and men: toxic masculinity. Consider Jesus’s death on a cross. It would have been coded in Roman imperial culture as shameful. Why? Because it reduced a man to a passive, humiliating death suitable only for a woman… On the cross, Jesus also shows abiding solidarity with women, those to whom violence and exploitation is most likely to happen [e.g., when you let male rapists into female prisons]… When Jesus says, from the cross, “My God, why have you forsaken me?” I think he cries out to the god who needs to die: the patriarchal god who only values power and power-over [other people], the god of macho force and action… Is it any surprise, then, that the first witnesses to Christ’s resurrection are women?
I apologise if I have misunderstood any of Mann’s ideas above, of course – but then, the precise semantic meanings of even incredibly common words like ‘man’, ‘woman’ and ‘complete and utter sacrilegious bollocks’ are very fluid these days, aren’t they, so I hope he won’t mind too much if I have failed in this area.
Apologia Pro Vita Sewer
According to one online profile, “Rachel has a tattoo on her arm in Latin, translating as ‘know yourself’, which is something fundamental to her religion and trans identity.”
He can’t be that self-aware, though as, besides agreeing to be interviewed by the Tablet, Mann has also done a teen-mag-style ‘Quick Quiz’ interview with OutNorthWest, the Greater Manchester area’s leading homosexual lifestyle periodical, answering such severe theological posers as “If you were a biscuit, which one would you be?” My first guess would have been “A chocolate finger” (although as he can’t have periods, “Jammy Dodger” would also have sufficed), but instead Mann answers, “A custard cream – comforting, satisfying and not very grown up.”
Asked to “Tell us a secret about yourself”, meanwhile, I would have expected him to answer “I have a penis”, but instead Mann confides that “I wrote a very bad and silly sub-Twilight vampire romance five years ago, centring on the life of a lesbian vampire vicar and her partner. It got very close to being published. I’m kind of glad it didn’t now!” So am I.
Finally, when asked to complete the Shania Twain-like sentence “The best thing about being a woman is…” Mann commendably answered “I wouldn’t know”. Only joking! He actually replied, “I’d say it’s always being right.” Personally, I think what Mann most likes about ‘being’ a woman is quite simply the attention.
Examine a 2013 profile of Mann the theologian in cultural journal The Quietus, where Manchester Cathedral’s one-time Poet-in-Residence reprints a verse about “my own weak tight male arse” and how, when a 24-year-old ladyboy just starting out in the world of semi-professional cross-dressing, he used to walk down the street “flicking” it out “far and wide, side to side” at passers-by like a cartoon harlot of the Jessica Rabbit kind, hoping to thereby “grow it fat and round as an orange”. Was the main attraction of the Anglican priesthood to Reverend Mann really only that it allowed him a platform to swan around proudly wearing a big white dress in public?
In an accompanying interview, Mann echoes leading gender-theorist fraud Judith Butler by proclaiming that “there is a huge performative dimension to who we are”. So much so that, when young, Mann was invited to join the National Youth Theatre, as “like so many acting types, I’ve always been inclined to see the world as a kind of stage with me as the central actor who should be offered the best parts in all circumstances”. You don’t say. How long before Mann ends up being offered the “best part” or “central actor” role of the CofE’s first transgender Bishop, then, as predicted by the sadly martyred Reverend Brett Murphy?
With those of Mann’s blinkered mindset very firmly ensconced within positions of power and moral authority inside all of our major institutions these days, even the supposed Christian churches, I’m not entirely sure the findings of the recent highly sceptical Cass Review into trans matters, no matter how commendable or logically irrefutable, will suddenly just help dismantle the gender cult at all, as many delighted observers hoped when the review was released last month.
How much, do you think, someone with the unassailably solipsistic personality and outlook upon life of the Reverend Mann will care about petty little trifles like evidence, rational argument and medical reality? A true post-modernist, Mann doesn’t even think words possess stable shared meanings to them – very possibly he could read the entire review and conclude it was all really very ‘positive’, in some obscure and twisted semantic fashion?
As Brett Murphy has found, thanks to such Foucauldian linguistic Hocus Pocus, you can’t even call a Mann a man anymore. Ironically, in today’s CofE, it is people like Rachel Mann who now very much wear the trousers.
Steven Tucker is a journalist and the author of over 10 books, the latest being Hitler’s & Stalin’s Misuse of Science: When Science Fiction Was Turned Into Science Fact by the Nazis and the Soviets (Pen & Sword/Frontline), which is out now.
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Life’s too short to read about idiots like this. Any road up, I’m an atheist. (Thank heaven).
First point, agreed.
Second, nah, I just say I have no blooming idea. Agnostic on this point. Prefer to focus on doing what is good and right in the here and now. Let the Afterlife look after itself.
MAk, You may not have noted I deliberately hedged my bets in a nod to ‘Pascal’s Wager’ in my last two words.
No need to describe yourself as anything if you are not religious. After all we don’t have a word for people who don’t play golf do we? This world “atheist” must have came about when it was assumed everyone was religious except this bunch of cretins who needed to be given a name. I remember when I was going off to work on US Air bases, and ofcourse you have to fill in a form, with personal information etc, for security purposes —fair enough. One of the questions asked was “what religion”? ——I had put NONE. A call came into the office where I was and I was told I had not answered one of the questions. I had not said what religion I was. I replied that I had answered it and that my answer was “No Religion”. ——Remarkably this answer was not acceptable. So I told them to put down whatever they wanted. They put down Catholic. I was not going to get into any kind of argument over this so I let it go. I wanted the work. —-But I found that totally bizarre.
Non-golfer. Golf’s a sport, religion is a belief. Chalk ‘n’ cheese.
Landed at lots of USAF bases in the 70s. Guam, Wake, Hickham (Hawaii), Thule and Ascension, plus plenty in the US. Always a warm welcome, (except Thule. Minus 20C).
Don’t take my criticism of the word Atheist as criticism of you for using it. We don’t need a word for someone one who does not participate in something, whether that be religion, sport or anything else. Atheist is a non word. I do not participate in religion either but I refuse to use that term that tries to categorise me and put me in a little box. —–On the Americans, I also found them very hospitable when I worked on bases all over Europe, but I just find it absurd that they would not accept that a person does not participate in any religion and could not work on their bases unless they had a religious label —cheers.
The Yanks are very serious about religion, often to the point of absurdity that you recall – not being allowed to have none! Is there another country in which the PM/President/leader is expected to say at the end of a public address ‘Gawd Bless (this country) regardless of whether everyone is a believer or not?
But on the subject of education the American Constitution excludes religion from the curriculum and rightly so. We should take a leaf out of their book and ban ‘faith’ (aka indoctrination) schools altogether. It is the role of parents to inform children about the family religion if they have one, not schools.
Muslim schools (madrassas) are a serious problem as we have seen over and over again, but even CofE schools have had bad publicity recently for kowtowing to wokeness. Why should RC and Jewish schools have the further opportunity to promote the religion over and above what is drilled into kids at church and synagogue?
Religious belief or non-belief is a private matter for the individual to decide when reaching adulthood. Schools are there to educate, not indoctrinate.
You will be Muzzie soon thanks to The Cof E letting things slip to this degree ! They will be showing our Eurovision entry in church’s soon to drum up some more business
It has nothing to do with belief or conviction.
It is all about using IMHO useful idiots to destroy basic human social and other values.
Bye, bye Western democracy.
Destroyed from within with a lot of help from without.
I guess if you’re religious then belonging to an organised church may be helpful or pleasant but I think sooner or later if you set much store by that organisation to lead you spiritually then you’re going to be disappointed. I’m not religious but having a personal relationship with God sort of makes sense to me, having something that is mediated by people with title in frocks or whatever seems to be missing the point. Perhaps someone who thinks the clergy are important could make a counter argument.
This is totally protestant. The theory behind the Church is that it’s God’s BBC, ie the keeper, transmitter and arbiter of all official truths. Or an inexhaustible source of comfy lifetime jobs for retards who are convinced that their ejaculations are really the highest form of poetic utterance. Much like the original BBC. Or is that the copy?
I loved the biscuit humour!
I just couldn’t take any of this seriously.
And what effect does the church think this will have on the number of its traditional flock filling the pews? Pandering to the few at the expense of the many! They’ve lost the plot
The Rev Mann is probably preaching to the converted as far as most of his flock is concerned. Churches being much more like social clubs where people don’t discuss theology any more than members of political parties discuss politics in their clubs.
I think they lost it a long time ago. CofE vicars used to be the subject of gentle, affectionate humour. Now too many of them shock, disgust and repel us in order to get noticed by mass media. Exhibitionists, in other words.
Woke Welby should be the last Archfool of Canterbury before the CofE is disestablished,
Where is all this “Social Justice” in the Bible? —tick tock tick tock
https://twitter.com/mick_o_keeffe/status/1789997119241150782?s=48&t=z-QEFmo-T7EyF1VraAWbsg
More worrying are these “immigrant” invasions but it’s not an army.
No of course not.
Best dressed, best equipped, healthy. They are definitely not here for ‘asylum’
Shouldn’t the Rev Mann be offended by his own surname?
Despite his opinions on scripture, he can’t be that conversant with it if he wants to assert that Jesus was a woman. He cannot have understood Rev.i.13.
In the Gospel account there is an episode where Jesus tells his followers to sell their garments and buy swords. An example of toxic masculinity one might have thought. It is not doubted by anyone that Peter used one of the swords in the confrontation in Gethsemane. It used to be conjectured on circumstantial evidence that Mark used the other.
As swords would have been expensive items, the garments sold must have been those of the wealthy. Again, Mark’s mother, a woman known to have been a wealthy landowner, was thought to have been the source of them. None of this really fits some of the claims of the transclergy or the priestesses of the C of E.
Change it to The Right Reverend Trann/y?
I thought the bloke in the headline picture was Alan Carr with a bit of lippy on.
You can put lipstick on a pig….
Jesus wept, a feminist lesbian who’s still in possession of her penis?
Reinstall the ducking pond, stat!
Thank the gods it was only celibate men in frocks in charge for so long, and men that covered for men by keeping the scandal under wraps all those years, that’s all I can say. ‘Women of the cloth’? Bah…sounds daft! Whatever next?
No but in all seriousness, this sacrilege would never have happened if women hadn’t been allowed to join the clergy. Honestly, it’s been downhill ever since they were allowed to be ordained and it’s a very bad idea to have them in charge, as exemplary men of the cloth Pope Francis ( well he wears a frock , does he not? ) and Justin Welby perfectly demonstrate.
I just shudder to think how much worse the decades-long child sex abuse crisis within the church would have been if women were made priests, bishops and whatnot sooner. Can you imagine all of those many more choir boys and vulnerable kids put at risk by these known sexual predators who are female clergywomen?
“Women, know your limits!” H. Enfield.
Maryolater Steven Tucker derides the Protestant Church of England for refusing to violate their own Thirty-Nine Articles, in particular Article 28, dealing with Catholic Transubstantiation, which is Actual, Horrific Cannibalism.
“Article XXVIII. Of the Lord’s Supper.
THE Supper of the Lord is not only a sign of the love that Christians ought to have among themselves, one to another, but rather it is a sacrament of our redemption by Christ’s death: insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith receive the same, the bread which we break is a partaking of the body of Christ, and likewise the cup of blessing is a partaking of the blood of Christ.
Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lord, CANNOT BE PROVED BY HOLY WRIT, but is REPUGNANT TO THE PLAIN WORDS OF SCRIPTURE, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
The body of Christ is given, taken, and eaten in the Supper, ONLY AFTER AN HEAVENLY AND SPIRITUAL MANNER. And the means whereby the body of Christ is received and eaten in the Supper is Faith.
THE SACRAMENT OF THE LORD’S SUPPER WAS NOT BY CHRIST’S ORDINANCE RESERVED, CARRIED ABOUT, LIFTED UP, OR WORSHIPPED.”
I think you misunderstood that. He derides the CoE for rejection the ‘substantial’ transformation of bread into flesh by clerical fiat but accepting the equally ‘substantial’ transformation of men into women (or vice-versa) by self-declaration. The Critic article he linked to explains this in more details.
I didn’t “misunderstand” anything, you Pompous Git.
You did. But considering that your reaction to an attempt to clear this up is to become abusive, the problem is perhaps that you are, as someone once put it in another context, “simply not the sharpest knife in the drawer”.
I don’t need to “clear anything up”, you Bloated, Slimy, Obnoxious Toad.
Lola is a superbly clever song written by the great Ray Davies, even more relevant now than it was when it was written more than 50 years ago.
Here is what Wikipedia says about the “controversy for its lyrics”:
‘In a Record Mirror article entitled “Sex Change Record: Kink Speaks”, Ray Davies addressed the matter, saying, “It really doesn’t matter what sex Lola is, I think she’s all right”. Some radio stations faded the track out before implications of Lola’s biological sex were revealed. On 18 November 1970, “Lola” was banned from being played by several radio stations in Australia because of its “controversial subject matter”, though some began playing “Lola” again after having made a crude edit, which sounded like the record had jumped a groove, to remove the line “I’m glad I’m a man and so’s Lola”.
Well, I’m not the world’s most masculine man
But I know what I am, and I’m glad I’m a man
And so is Lola
Lo-Lo, Lo, Lo-Lola
Lo-Lo, Lo, Lo-Lola
In a story all about gender ambiguity, the final line, “I’m glad I’m a man and so’s Lola”, is brilliantly ambiguous. It can be interpreted EITHER as (a) I’m glad I’m a man and Lola is glad I’m a man, OR (b) I’m glad I’m a man and Lola is a man.
The second interpretation would now be regarded as “transphobic” by the current cult of trans ideology, but Ray Davies was so clever that he wrote an ambiguous line with an alternative meaning which takes the wind out of the sails of any accusation of ‘transphobia’!
Ray is a songwriting Genius ! I challenge anyone English whoose Parents & Grand parents were involved in the Wars to Listen to Waterloo Sunset & not shed a tear at what the political class who used our Boys ( & Girls ) to fight their battles & then Shat on their memory ever since !
My Guess is the Rev. ‘Rachel’ Mann will be pro Palestine/Hamas and pro immigration? Probably relaxed about the Islamification of the Western World too.
I’m intrigued to know what kind of interview the CofE gave the Reverend?
The sad majority of posts on here are symptomatic of the moral collapse of the western world.
When we were young, we used to pass mental asylums and point at them. Then they closed them and the inmates are now running the country. Lord help us!!!
An utterly depressing article which shows the depths the CoE has sunk to. I was brought up CoE, became a Christian in the CoE, but have now been a member of a Grace Baptist church (where they teach the unadulterated Bible) for almost 30 years. Why on earth do truly believing Christians, especially ministers, stay in the CoE? By passive (in)action, they are allowing God’s name to become besmirched and bring great dishonour to his name. In these dark times we need God’s infinite mercy, love and light to shine out! I’m not sure how helpful such an article is except to make us aware of Brett Murphy and pray that others would have similar courage to stand out against darkness and evil.
So, another troublesome Mann. A bit less litigious and without so many fawning experts.
Well, all I can say is, “Jesus wept.”
Reverend Mann needs psychological help but not as much as those who are prepared to sit through his service. At least Reverend Mann is smart enough to be paid for his woke evangelism and may enjoy a decent pension whilst his flock may end up in the loony bin if they engage frequently in this freak show.
I can remember when this was considered satirical: Bing Videos
Say goodbye to the modern Church of England…
Steve, I agree with almost everything you write and it is imoportant that you highlight the issues that you do.
However I find your articles FAR too long. You’d have much more impact if you cut out up to 3/4 of the text or even more. It’s the message that’s important not all the verbiage round it.
Just my POV.
Good luck Roger