It is time for the U.K. to disestablish the Church of England because its episcopacy is bringing shame upon the country, and has apparently abandoned the teachings of Christ and his apostles.

If the Church of England survives at all it should truly broaden, not to include atheists, heathens, and sexual deviants, but to represent all churches who believe in the morality of the Bible and the divinity of Jesus Christ. This is clear enough; both Old and New Testaments excoriate homosexuality, as well as fornication and adultery.

Perhaps there should be some ground rules: All bishops and C of E officers should believe in Jesus Christ and support the consistent morality taught in the criptures and summed up in the Ten Commandments. The Queen and any future sovereign should vow to uphold Christianity as taught by Christ – or they should resign or be debarred from the monarchy.

Aside from that, one wonders whether this troublesome priest thinks the Anglican Church has anything to set beside Sharia to improve the English legal system.

All of you are welcome here. Even the socialists.

We are your children, your nation’s legacy. It greatly saddens me to see you come to this. I wish there was a way we could peel Britain away from the EU and Islam, and bring you under US rule. Of course it will never happen, and you are too proud to become a 51st state of the union.

In his tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan has from time to time made public statements in such areas as sexuality, international politics and American foreign policy, that are perfectly rational in themselves if delivered to friends in an Oxford Common Room; but, with an attentive media and the Web, are read by many in politically populist or common sense way. That is, any subtleties or sub-themes are missed and his statements with little context are sent into the world to be understood at one level only, the crudest one.

With this experience under his belt, it is amazing that Rowan went a few days ago before the legal establishment in England and argued that it was time to allow the use of Muslim Sharia Law within British Law, just as Orthodox Jewish Law is allowed in certain areas. All perfectly reasonable and reflecting an appreciation of the powerful traditions of Islam, but a position which is a minority position in Church and State. Further, the Archbishop was not speaking to friends inside Lambeth Palace but publicly, with the press there to listen and report. Further, he was speaking within a country where tensions between Muslim areas and neighborhoods around them are ripe for explosion. Then also he was speaking as the leader of the bishops of the Anglican Family, and many of them live in situations where they face all kinds of difficulties and problems caused by the local imposition of Sharia Law.

Rowan did not have to make this speech and say what he did. By this one speech, Rowan has lost much support in Britain, the Church of England, and the Anglican Communion of Churches. It appears that he is not able to discriminate between when to share his (complex) thoughts with his friends and when to share them with the world. This failure to discriminate would seen to disqualify him from high office. Regrettably, this business casts another cloud over the forthcoming Lambeth Conference, weakening his leadership and making it now very difficult to persuade the Nigerian Bishops to attend!

Oh how very, very sad! More chastisement of the Lord upon the Anglican Family, already in such pain and confusion.”

I’m a bit concerned about the new dean at Bryn Mawr College: An internationally known scholar of Islamic studies whose expertise is in the Quran and relations between Islam and Christianity was selected as the eighth president of Bryn Mawr…

Who will rid us of this troublesome priest?

Who will rid us of this troublesome priest?