More news reports in addition to those I linked to yesterday
Isabel Hardman The Spectator Meet Libby Lane – the first interview with the first woman bishop
John Bingham The Telegraph First woman bishop ‘grew up believing that anything was possible’
First woman bishop: ‘Now I hope to see more like me’Ruth Gledhill Christian Today Rev Libby Lane will be first woman bishop for Church of England
Emily Dugan The Independent Manchester vicar Rev Libby Lane will be Church of England’s first woman bishop
Edward Malnick The Telegraph First woman bishop: profile of parish priest Libby Lane
Caroline Crampton New Statesman Meet Libby Lane, the Church of England’s first woman bishop
Megan Gibson Time Meet the Church of England’s First Ever Female Bishop
A welcome from the Archbishop of Canterbury
And a few comments from campaigning organisations
Very gracious of FinF to offer good wishes and prayers to the new Bishop. How disappointing to find that spirit completely absent in the Reform statement.
Yes, Reform’s comments were not the most generous – but they are a small group. They claim to have about a hundred churches where “one or more of the leadership at this church is a member of Reform”. Does this mean one member of the PCC? It is not clear. There are only perhaps about ten “Reform Churches” according to their website – you have to search area by area. Their claim that Reform churches are on average 30% bigger is a hollow claim indeed. Small country churches of ten or so elderly parishioners are unlikely to be members of… Read more »
David Runcorn,
My thoughts exactly. The contrast between the two statements was striking.
Yes, t’is gracious indeed.
I thought all three Statements were quite good, though, in the circumstances.
Though, I should not have known from them that
1. God has come among us in the flesh and
2. Christ has been raised from death, ascended, Glorified and Awaited !
maranatha