Snippets

Lesley Fellows

Lesley Fellows, moderator of the No Anglican Covenant Campaign, was on the BBC Today programme yesterday.

She said a lot of sensible things but I particularly liked this from her blog: the Covenant's a

bit like saying to a child they can choose whether or not to eat their broccoli but if they don’t they won’t get any pudding.

Listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vr7c2  (about 24 minutes in).

Giles Fraser wrote Despite the conservatives, churchgoers are inspired by Gene Robinson in the Guardian.

Earlier:
Themethatisme put a Sermon thing on his blog:.

The examiner had Covenant threatens church authority

And Anglicans Online had
5 November 2010: Arguing about the proposed Covenant
The Church Times reports on name-calling in the Church of England that has become part of the ongoing dialog there. Meanwhile, various people opposed to an Anglican Covenant have organized to form No Anglican Covenant, which says it has broad international membership (its website is Pittsburgh-based). We do not see any name-calling or warlike rhetoric in No Anglican Covenant, though.