10 October 2012
Good Morning from the Church of England Communications
Office
Daily Briefing for Wednesday 10 October 2012
Issued at 09.30 by lh
Paulinus, bishop, missionary, 644
Thomas Traherne, poet, spiritual writer, 1674
Tomorrow: Ethelburga, abbess, 675
James the Deacon, companion of Paulinus, 7th cent
Guardian website (8/10/12) The Archbishop of York writes
that "only far-reaching changes to the global economy will stop the
burden of debt falling on the poorest in our societies".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/09/unjust-debt-heart-inequality-jubilee?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
D Mail p16 (leader) Support for Lord Carey on same-sex
marriage.
E Std p15 (Sarah Sands) Short diary-type piece on the
politics of the same-sex marriage campaign.
http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/cameron-needs-boris-however-galling-it-may-be-8203611.html?origin=internalSearch
(scroll down)
D Tel p13 Report of research finding that majority of
British Christians would not be offended by jokes about Jesus, and
agree that freedom of speech should not be restricted even if it
offended against deeply held religious convictions.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9597207/Christians-not-offended-by-Jesus-jokes-poll.html
D Tel p16; Times p21; D Mail p35 Reports that the US no
longer has a Protestant majority, and that 20% responded to survey
that they had no religious/denominational affiliation.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9597074/US-no-longer-has-a-Protestant-majority.html
Times p13 Further report about Cadbury's and the colour
purple. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/faith/article3563362.ece
D Tel (Business) (City Diary) Diary-type follow-up to
earlier reports about home re-use of jam-jars.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/citydiary/9597295/Richard-Branson-wheels-out-the-brainstorming-B-Team.html
(scroll down)
D Star p19 Report of controversy at Birmingham University
where the President of the Christian Union 'blacked up' for a
Caribbean-themed fancy-dress party.
Times p4; D Tel p9; D Mirror p31 Reports that a Bible
belonging to a 20-year-old soldier killed in 1918 has been returned
to his family after 35 years of research by the family which found
it.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/first-world-war-heros-bible-1370188
Letters
Times p27, about scripture, tradition and 'liberalism', from Rt
Revd Prof N T Wright
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article3563065.ece
i p14, about same-sex marriage and abusive language, from Amanda
Morton-King; James Gorrie; Revd Philip Jepps; Warren Hoskins; and
Su Hough.
D Tel p23, ditto, from Liz Walmsley; Henrietta Royle; and G B
Newman.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/9596945/Vital-defence-needs-must-be-examined-before-BAE-merger-is-approved.html
E Std p43, ditto, from Philip Morris; and Matthew Ruby.