Prince William was confirmed into the Anglican Church at 14. Princess Catherine followed before her marriage.
I see nothing wrong with the Prince expressing a quiet faith and attending Church mainly on the great civic and religious occasions.
One of the best features of the Anglican settlement was the decision not to make windows into men’s souls. The Church allows worshippers to develop their own faith and understanding aided by the radical ability to read the scriptures in English for one’s self, first granted in the 1530s. This was in contrast to the latin texts and priest led interpretations of Catholicism.
All this matters because when Prince William becomes King he becomes Head of the Church. He should not be cross examined about his faith and doctrine, as the Archbishop is the spiritual leader. She does need to explain her beliefs and offer a faith that others may choose to follow.
I do not think this would be a wise or good time to dis establish the Church given the cultural wars around us. The Prince by saying he is a Christian but not a zealot or weekly attender of Church will in those respects be very representative of modern Anglicans and many Christians in the UK.
Some of the leading clerics could help by talking more of faith and God and less of social and benefits policy. The Church of England has lost a lot of conservative support by appearing to be the Green and Lib Dem parties in the pulpit, equating morality with higher public spending. Their lobbying nearly always assumes economic and moral problems in society can be resolved by government intervention and by more taxes and public spending.
When an MP who started out sympathetic to the Anglican Church I had to deal with many emails from clerics complaining about social and welfare policy and siding with the Lib Dems and organised email campaigns. They never wrote to me about the Anglican settlement and never mentioned God or Christ in their correspondence. They were often badly informed about economic policy, wealth distribution, progressive taxation and welfare where they often wished to condemn before understanding the data and the basis for the policy.They usually recommended policies that would have increased unemployment and slowed growth, as Labour has proved by increasing spending, taxes and borrowing on taking office,
March 23, 2026
The Anglican Church has really lost its way. It started in the 60s when, as a consequence, I left it and became non-Conformist. One of the best Christian cleric speaking about today’s issues is Dr Gavin Ashenden. He is Roman Catholic. I have fundamental disagreements with (and some dreadful experiences with) the RC Church but I respect it for not bending to wokery and fashionable trends as has the Anglican church.
You haven’t mention King Charles but he is part of the problem. I was appalled when he changed the coronation oath to be defender of faith, meaning all faiths, and the Church allowed him to do so. Only a man with a ouija board could believe two contradictory faiths at the same time (pace F. Scott Fitzgerald). Elizabeth II was, sad to say, England’s last Christian monarch
March 23, 2026
‘Heavens Above’ starring Peter Sellars was an amusing take on these issues. A well meaning and naive vicar is appointed, by mistake, to a rural parish overseen by local aristocrats.
He appoints a black man as church warden. Takes in a family of gypsies – Eric Sykes and Irene Handl and a multitude of feral children. Sets up free food banks, intended for the poor of the parish.
The film was from the bygone days of all gas and gaiters, very different from today.
‘More tea vicar?’
March 23, 2026
Anglicanism has morphed from Christianity into yet another “woke” left-wing, Globalist branch of the Establishment. I was brought up in the Methodist Church since my late mother and her siblings had been evacuated to live with a Methodist Lay Preacher during the war and he became her surrogate father for most of her childhood. Even the generally left-leaning Methodist Church of my childhood in the ’60s and ’70s wasn’t as extreme as the current C of E.
We are going to need a far more muscular strand of Christianity to defend this nation from an attempted Islamist takeover, as demonstrated by the (disgraceful) recent examples of Muslim intimidation in Trafalgar Square and elsewhere.
Bishop Ceirion Dewer appears to have both the necessary faith and cojones.
https://anglicanmainstream.org/article/open-letter-to-his-majesty-king-charles-iii/
March 23, 2026
O’Sullivan’s Law:-
“Any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right-leaning in politics will, over time, drift to be left-leaning.”
Even many they were initailly right leaning. It is easy and perhaps gives you a warm feeling to be “kind” using other people money that you have stolen off them or will do shortly.
Indeed organisation in general tend to attract trustees and members of a lefty disposition and often suffer from totally deluded group think. Look at the now dire Royal Society first page on their webside is all about “A Women in Stem Map”, they also pushed the Net Zero/Climate alarmist lunacy for years and have said little about the net harm covid vaccines and lockdowns. How the mighty have fallen.
I have no objection to Women etc. in Stem, engineering or chess or computer science… when they are there on merit – but when only about 20% of some science A levels are female it seems a lot of women are simply not very interested. The idea of pushing for 50/50 by gender is therefor as evil and discriminatory as the RAF banning white pilots. Surely any decent scientist of whichever gender can see this?
March 23, 2026
The Royal Society seem rather keen on LGBTQIA+ too like nearly all other such UK organisations.
https://royalsociety.org/blog/2022/11/lgbtq-stem-day/
Why do they not just discuss the real science they are doing rather than it all being about them?
March 23, 2026
I am happy for the heir and his wife to be ‘quiet’ Christians.
It will be an improvement on the current situation.
I hope they will desist from stunts: dressing up and attending the religious events of other faiths.
I hope they will desist from attending on the Pope with the Queen dressed from head to toe in black!
I am very unhappy with the religious leaders of the Church of England.
Our great churches and cathedrals are for our Protestant church exclusively.
If a Roman Catholic enters a Protestant church, it always was that they were thereby automatically excommunicated.
It is claimed that anywhere the Adhān is performed is a declaration of spiritual authority over the space where it is proclaimed for all time, whether that be St George’s Hall, Trafalgar Square or Bristol Cathedral.
Our Protestant religious leaders should know that. Something must be done!
March 23, 2026
I do wish King Charles and P. William would, for the sake of the Monarchy. keep quiet about their other religions of Climate Alarmism and Net Zero they should:-
A. Keep out of politics wether right or wrong.
B. On this he is totally wrong on this anyway (as his daft past pronouncements have proved)
C. It makes him a grade on hypocrite which is not a good look for him.
Still I do not suppose he is very likely to grow up and get real now at his age. He seems to have dropped his Homeopathy enthusiasm for his cancer treatment though.
March 23, 2026
Ah yes! I forgot the homeopathy!
Well actually I’m more concerned by his Islamic leanings than his political ‘beliefs’.
Charles de Turd as my Irish relations call him, is an unsound man.
March 23, 2026
I object paying to get into cathedrals when I get taxed to pay for them.
We went into Lincoln cathedral on Sunday when it was free and somehow ended up on the altar. So it was then rather difficult to leave until the service ended.
March 23, 2026
“They usually recommended policies that would have increased unemployment and slowed growth, as Labour has proved by increasing spending, taxes and borrowing on taking office” Indeed well logic as we know is no a stand point of religious leaders and believers nor of the Labour Party. The tend to work mainly with envy and irrational emotions and assume they can access load of other people’s money to waste usually doing net harms. Look at the drivel our unelected Bishops in the Lords endlessly come out with.
I certainly was an atheist well before I left primary school. I was in a CofE Choir in a reasonable northern church choir (which I very much enjoyed and gave me a love of music and improved my football skills before and after -but listening to all the sermons and lessons certainly confirmed my atheism.
I was particularly amused by the “thanks to the Lord for saving” say 2 children buried for days under a building following an earthquake & yet never blaming him for the earthquake itself that killed another 5000+ or not rescuing these people. Still as the vicars do like to say “God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform” – this when they cannot find anything more sensible to say.
March 23, 2026
“Not a strong point” rather!
March 23, 2026
LL,
I could imagine you as Witchfinder General, hunting down clergy with PPE degrees and other schooling to which you object.
March 23, 2026
I do not object to such schooling but it might be good if they stopped lecturing us on things like Climate when so often they do not even know the difference between power and energy and their units or what Entropy is. I even remember Lady Thornberry (a shadow energy Sec. at the time I think) telling the nations we could rely on wave energy when the wind did not blow – what did she think causes waves I wonder? Giants dropping large stones perhaps?
I do not lecure them on Beowulf or Greek translations – though PPE grads often need a bit of help with logic & economics! Look at the dire Ed Miliband who might even replace Starmer or Reeves shortly!
March 23, 2026
Blame is an irrational sentiment and has no basis in science or logic.
March 23, 2026
Anglicanism originated as a means for Henry VIII to get divorced. It was more a practicality than a great difference of belief, as in other ruptures on the continent.
The more fervent types split over time. Wesleey and his followers became Methodists. They split too with Primitive Methodism.Then they reunited.
Some Anglicans returned to Catholicism after the Oxford Movement. Meanwhile all manner of Protestant sects were set up, usually without clergy.
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As faith dwindled.there have been pressures for the Church of England to reflect the zeitgeist – or even worse the political principles of the main parties. Anglicans in other parts of the world, notably Africa, are unhappy with this and may break away and become independent.
Neither the present king nor his son are particularly religious. This is awkward as the king is supposed to be the head of the church. The prince’s words are probably fence building before he comes to the throne.
March 23, 2026
Two big changes occurred.
They did not Raise the Host during the service. Henry VIII went a bit wobbly on this as he lost his faculties in age, but Elizabeth I was adamant and called out instructions to the Clergy mid service if they disobeyed the Protestant Ruling.
Loyalty was not divided between country and a foreign, very earthly power sited in The Vatican to this day.
March 23, 2026
It’s a heresy and a sin to put the Pope ahead of your country on temporal matters. As opposed to spiritual matters (what Catholics believe in terms of theology etc). Does a (good) monarch or prime minister care if you’re a Catholic who believes in the Real Presence? No. What they care about is that you support them in war. Willing to sacrifice your life for your country and win a V.C. That you work hard and pay your taxes and are an entrepreneur building up the economy of the nation. Or a great artist. Or painter. Or sportsman. Or physician. Or comedian. Or moviemaker. Or architect. Or engineer. Or scientist. A great PATRIOT! St Joan of Arc is a great example of this. Did she act as she did because of the Pope? NO! In fact members of the Church colluded in her death (including ‘respectable’ theologians of the University of Paris). Catholics like Protestants or atheists can act from personal conscience but rare in history a Pope has intervened in this capacity (Popes meddling in temporal matters – is a different matter – over the ages was precisely that: meddling a form of corruption – sure, which happened a lot). If a priest, bishop or Pope asked me to act against my temporal duty of putting king / prime minister before clergy I would tell them to F. Off (not literally as a real man is never aggressive in any way towards the clergy, women and children etc) but I would make sure he got the message!
And I couldn’t give a monkeys Queen Elizabeth I was Protestant. She was a baptised Christian woman with a good Christian heart (flawed like the rest of us – and she had to navigate with some arrogant, triumphalist Catholics about – like the Spanish Armada – and later on in James I day, King James had to deal with thugs/terrorists/ heretics-in-spirit such as Guy Fawkes).
For God, family, king and country (and we must all protect our Christian heritage and values – whether we’re Anglican, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist or Quaker etc. Work together here. Not forgetting how the Good Samaratan was a heretic! Although we can still be strong about our denominational Christian beliefs but that’s a personal matter – they musn’t interfere with our duty to county and just acting like the Good Samaratan in general).
March 23, 2026
RIP Sir Tony Hoare, one of the foundational greats in Computing and software engineering.
March 23, 2026
Interestingly Hoare started off studying Greats at Oxford like Denis Healey who got a double first but still thought 98% income tax rates were a great idea before trotting off, cap in hand, to the IMF!
March 23, 2026
That is of no interest and utterly irrelevant to his contributions to British computing and the field of software engineering in general.
March 24, 2026
Indeed it is and I am sure Hoare’s contribution was significant. But did you not think this was interesting – I was not criticising Hoare at all!
March 23, 2026
Many people have great gifts in a couple of sectors, but few have gifts across the board.
Also there is the Bonhoeffer theory of stupidity to factor in.
March 24, 2026
Indeed!
Bonhoeffer theory of stupidity – Ed Miliband.
Some idea’s are so stupid than only intellectuals fall for them – like Healey’s 98% income taxes!
March 23, 2026
St. Matthew 6: 5 – 6.
March 23, 2026
With regard to the second paragraph, most people in England were illiterate during the 16th century. Few owned books.
Reply The bible and prayer book in English were widely available. People who could not read could hear the bible readings in Church.
March 23, 2026
You have raised an interesting conflation of Church and modern socialist ideology John. Your experience of Anglian officials always siding with the socialist/left side of the political spectrum, may explain why the traditional church is dying. The followers of Christianity in Britain have for centuries been a quiet body of supporters. People not given to showing their beliefs every Sunday, and in many cases never outside of Christenings, Marriages and Funerals.
That casual allegiance to their background faith is considered a weakness by the rise of Islam whose members make a point of public shows of their dedication to their religion and more importantly its strict rules and instructions.
We must hope and pray the next King of these islands meets his obligation of that ancient office. Let us hope and pray he states at his Coronation his obligation to his people, is to be the defender of ‘the’ faith.
March 23, 2026
Agreed Lord John ( I am a ‘quiet’ Catholic )
“Give unto Ceasar what is Ceasars..” and don’t try telling Ceasar how to do his job either…
March 23, 2026
Your concluding comments about the twisted priorities of corresponding clerics brings to mind the reaction of Bishop Trevor Huddleston to Enoch Powell’s frequently misdescribed 1968 speech. Enoch had to explain carefully that the clergy ought not to press for their flock to be burdened with challenges so as to test their resilience, because the clergy were unaccountable for such burdens: clerics should draw the line at preaching about virtue, politicians having the task of passing laws to enforce virtue.
March 23, 2026
@David Cooper – all faiths religious and political should at all times be exposed to challenge, it refines arguments, disagreement, creates consensus, if nothing else it makes them stronger.
Those that create laws to outlaw and dampen challenge are the enemies of the ‘people’. Think the so-called ‘hate crime’ its against the law in the UK to challenge or dislike. The definer of the law is not the people but the one holding the reigns of power.
Anyway, I’m finished, I’m off to ‘murder a cup of tea’. While I wait for the knock on the door from the authorities
March 23, 2026
Indeed. Prince William should be supported in this approach and certainly not interrogated as to his faith. Modern technology and in particular applications like X and YouTube are having a similar effect to the radical reformation policy of publishing the Bible in English. The priesthood no longer had a monopoly on the dissemination of truth, and could be questioned and challenged. No wonder the catholic establishment hated it so much. Today our modern priesthood is the blob. During Covid we were constantly exhorted to follow ‘The Science’ (a meaningless term). But we could now access dissenting scientists and see the data for ourselves. It turned out that much of ‘the Science’ was nonsense and the prescriptions of the blob have been hugely damaging. We see the same with the challenges to net zero, a policy which until a few years ago was also protected from challenge by the equivalent of the heresy laws of the Middle Ages. It is a very positive development.
March 23, 2026
A friend in the USA was arrested for refusing to close his Church during the lockdown.
March 23, 2026
“Some of the leading clerics could help by talking more of faith and God and less of social and benefits policy. ”
Quite – Where is the personal responsibility encouraged by the bible. Living off someone else was for beggars and lepers.
The help given to others was voluntary (as in the good Samaritan) and not imposed.
I stopped attending church 40 years ago when the minister preached CND on Christmas day.
Religion should be a moral crusade not an imposition, when a religion tell you what you can eat and when you can eat – it is a cult. No benevolent deity would wish that on its flock.
March 23, 2026
The first and primary question is whether Anglicanism is true – for it to be true one must show that both God exists and also that God exists in the particular way that Anglicanism describes. If as I say God does not exist (how could any human distinguish between a much more powerful and eventually mortal entity and an all powerful and immortal entity? Indeed how could any entity that seemed all-powerful actually know it itself is both genuinely all-powerful and immortal? So I argue the very notion of omniscience and of God is contrary to Logic) it is absurd to grant any status in the state to those whose main occupation is to proclaim an untruth (or even a very dubious dogma).
March 23, 2026
You should read Professor Flew’s last book ‘There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind.’
Flew was a good friend and attended all our conferences in Oxford, a member of The Freedom Association, he was a ‘Brexiteer’ before the word was coined and renowned philosopher and former prominent atheist.
He published his last book in 2007 just before he died.
Closely argued in the light of new evidence, it’s a fascinating read.
From memory he said that while he now believed in God, he did not expect to survive death and had not addressed the claims of Jesus of Nazareth.
I rather wish he had enjoyed a longer life because I remain fascinated to know what he would think of those things unaddressed, in the light of his change of mind.
March 23, 2026
I have bought and read Professor Flew’s book (in his atheist days I had met him in person) and his fallacy is the same as William Paley’s before him. Paley had claimed (at the famous beginning of his book Natural Theology) that while a rock on the road would be simple and not need an explanation if one found a watch on the road that would require design and a designer. Likewise Paley claimed (as eventually did Flew) the world is so complex as to require a design and a designer and that designer must be God. While most atheists say the equivalent to design is the system of Evolution (which I personally now think is inadequate as a full explanation) even if there were some designer the fallacy in Paley’s and Flew’s argument is the designer may not be immortal nor God any more than the human watchmaker who makes a sophisticated watch is immortal or God!
March 24, 2026
Inverting a God as designer explains nothing – who or what is God and how did she come about or get designed? Where did the laws of physics come from who chose them? See Just 6 Numbers book by Martin Rees.
March 24, 2026
You argue from a point of what is known about physics,not what could be.The laws of physics have to be proved and scientists somehow cannot get out of a rigid mindset, passed on from old fashioned universities from this paper and that paper where arrogance rules.As humans our perception is limited and these physical laws may just be a physical construct which humans are capable of recognising and cannot escape from.
March 23, 2026
A very apt observation.
Going to church to be preached at when Christians can obtain guidance from the bible at any time puts people off.
What we don’t need any more of though is woke preachers who have adopted the religion of climate change without being fully informed but well able to mouth sound bites.
March 23, 2026
The Church particularly the Anglican side of it was always a safe haven in troubled times, a stable, constant.
However, the UK active side of that Anglican Church is not now by design similar to the World-wide Anglican Church. They are now different religions. You have the Canterbury version, and the traditional side.
The UK chapter of this once fine religion moved to accept what a lot of us call WOKE as their new interpretation of the religion. As you say Lord Redwood they wanted and have become political, have put national politics and socialism above their faith.
March 23, 2026
You are being kind , they are more like the Marxists at prayer , having previously been the small ‘c’ conservatives at prayer, which was seen as one of the strengths of the CoE / Anglican faith , the self reliance one of reasons I understood it has taken root in previously Roman Catholic dominated areas like South America . The CoE seems to have forgotten such teachings as ‘The Ladies with the Lamps’ . Recently a Bishop took issue with the gender God was being designated with in the Lords prayer , which as it was a teaching from Jesus shows what an arrogant bunch of left wingers they are, where cultural Marxism gets to rewrite Jesus teachings .
March 23, 2026
It doesn’t help when the Head of the Church of England is quoted that his desire is to be seen as a defender of ‘faith’ all ‘faiths’. Then as the Head of the Church of England in that position engages with heads of other faths in a unifying way.
The Church of England is lost because its leadership is lost.
March 23, 2026
Dear John,
You express dismay at the morphing of the Anglican Church into a branch of social services in your normal quiet succinct manner. As an outsider, I observe full churches not in the ‘middle of the road’ but among Evangelical and Catholic congregations, and a very elderly, small congregation in Anglican churches. I ask myself why. Like many attributes, ‘holiness’ is difficult to define, but obvious when one meets it. Whatever it may be, when I occasionally listen to a local Anglican sermon, it sounds more like a reading from the Guardian newspaper than an exhortation to holiness. Among parishioners I observe some clear simple ‘true believers’ but not, I regret among most of the local clergy. Recall Pope John-Paul’s comment when reviewing with dismay a list of potential candidates for Archbishop of Westminster: give me a holy man, not a church administrator. Time will soon tell which camp Dame Sarah falls into.
March 23, 2026
Reminds me of ‘Thought for the Day’ on the radio in the morning. It was predictable and tiresome. Lapsed Catholics, comedy rabbis, dinner party Muslims and middle of the road Protestants.
It would have been more interesting with a few outliers. However, the presenters and staff eventually admitted that they hated the segment. So no wonder.
Evangelical churches in London are often black folk who are very active. Catholicism used to be Irish with European Catholics and a some recusants. Polish immigrants have reinvigorated the Catholic parishes. Irish Catholicism is in a sorry state, as evidenced by the nonsense voiced on St Patrick’s day by a leading politician.
March 24, 2026
Oh Lionel blue was great
March 23, 2026
Completely agree John, but you haven’t gone far enough.
The Church as a whole has let us down, down very badly. I would say this country is almost morally bankrupt and hasn’t taken a lead on anything.
I’m particularly mindful of the recent abortion laws allowing abortion, at will, for any purpose even based on sex selection, right up and until the moment of birth.
This used to be called infanticide, which it is.
Its murder of a weak defenseless human being and the church stays silent so in effect, are complicit.
I though the church stood up for the weak and vulnerable, the strong were supposed to help and protect the weak, I guess I was wrong.
March 23, 2026
What seems to be absent from the discourse is a consideration of the women involved. For a woman, to lose a baby even in the womb is a desperate tragedy. They have to pick themselves up and somehow move forward. For a woman driven to actually wanting to abort her own baby, her condition must be tragic as well. This must be an immense psychological disaster driving misery perhaps for the rest of their lives. Then the authorities criminalise people who seek to save the women from their horrendous fate.
March 23, 2026
The acid test, whether you are King, Prince, Archbishop, politician or ordinary believer, is found in Matthew’s Gospel chapter 7 verses 21 to 23. To be told by Jesus that he does not know you after a lifetime of good works in his name is a dreadful prospect.
As for social justice, the modern version seems to have degenerated into a Godless parody of Christian virtues that sticks two fingers up to the 10th Commandment (thou shalt not covet..).
March 23, 2026
Indeed appalling I would call it murder myself. True the “mother” may be suffering from mental health issue and this deserve consideration but why encourage such murders with such a law?
March 23, 2026
Christian folk need to hit back hard as our civilisation crumbles. We must remind people what Christianity has brought to the West in general (and that part of the Lord’s Prayer ‘thy kingdom come’ means to bring Heaven to Earth in all its order, peace, joy, beauty etc – which is part of God giving Adam and Eve the authority to be stewards of this world and how one day this earth will be glorified and properly united with Heaven). So for each point, let me choose one person and then things really make sense more:
1) Politics (war and peace) – CYRUS the Great (mentioned as holy man in Old Testament). 2. Music (BACH – devout Christian who devoted all his music to ‘the glory of God’) 3. Business (the QUAKERS). 4. Science (Sir Isaac NEWTON – Biblical scholar, studied Bible for hours every day). 5. Art and Sculpture – MICHELANGELO 6. Architecture – Sir Christopher WREN 7. Literature – Jane AUSTEN (a quiet Christian woman but with strong beliefs about faith – I have a copy of one of her beautiful prayer books). And that’s only the tip of the iceberg.
March 23, 2026
Although Catholicism has a much more hopeful view of salvation than Protestant fundamentalism for example (but without falling into the heresy that all will naturally be saved which you often find in the C of E – although in the C of E there are even vicars who don’t believe in God) who believe, essentially, that only baptised Christians can be saved and that you have to be almost spotless. Where as Catholics teach that baptism also involve baptism of fire and blood too. Which means that someone living in the spirit of Christ even though they are not Christian can make it to Heaven. And that there is also Purgatory (where the dead have to be purged of their sins but with 100% certainty will get into Heaven. This is the hope for so many of us who are not nearly spotless. And thanks to all this Catholics are allowed to hope all will be saved – except the demons – which is not the same as universalism). So Catholicism is clear, and offers great hope, but without falling into the WOKE trap of universalism (nor of the GRIM trap on the other hand, of Protestant extremists and some Catholic heretics like the rigourists / Jansenists, who believe that only a few will be saved). Fear of the Lord is still necessary and a good thing that brings about so many virtues – including patriotism! But it must be a healthy Fear of the Lord conformed to the spirit and will of God).
Heresy is one of the great enemies of Christianity that can tarnish its beauty and power in so many ways.
March 23, 2026
On science, please also add Michael Faraday. One of my heroes.
March 23, 2026
I was brought up a nominal Anglican, and whilst I’m so grateful for our Protestant heritage, I did not come to a true, rock-solid ‘saving’ faith till I read the Bible, notably John’s Gospel. This was by the grace of God.
Quiet or not, all Anglicans need to heed the Lord’s warning to the Church of Sardis (Revelation 3:1-5). Meanwhile, the return of the Jews to the land of Israel and to Jerusalem could not be more prophetic of Christ’s soon return, and the blessed hope of all true Christians.
March 23, 2026
King Charles’ statement that he is the “defender of faith(s)” is a terrible mistake. Not all faiths are benign and equal and some have, as we are finding, unacceptable views, beliefs, practices and laws alien and even in contradiction to our modern civilised western culture. To attempt to embrace and give equality to all faiths within a single nation is a recipe for social disorder. For any nation to survive and avoid civil conflict it needs to have a single, core faith or belief.
March 23, 2026
Let Prince William and his wife walk their own path in regard to their Christian faith and beliefs. The leaders of the Anglian Church seldom preach the gospel powerfully these days. For example, when did you last hear the AB of C, or a Bishop preach a positive sermon on marriage?
I suspect, at grass roots level, there are some very good local vicars who do a good job in their own quiet way.
But the leadership went woke some years ago and are increasingly ignored by the people. Another example is that only 2 out of 26 Bishops were in the Lords when the abortion up to birth bill was debated and then passed.
If they don’t care about that, what do they care about?
Reply I saw 10 bishops there and they voted with those of us voting against abortion up to the birth of the baby.
March 23, 2026
On that point you can be arrested for silently praying outside an abortion clinic!
Abortion used to be illegal until quite recently. It is a denial of basic freedom from on high, enforced by low level police officers.
“If they don’t care about that, what do they care about?”
I don’t know. I am not sure that all of them necessarily believe in God.
March 23, 2026
The Anglican Church is now the new church of appeasement
March 23, 2026
HS2 trains to run slower than planned…
You couldn’t make this stuff up
Really
March 24, 2026
HighSpeed2 Trains to be renamed …..Trains
March 24, 2026
I was brought up in High Church of England by my Mother. My Father was a Methodist and I have tended to follow his examples in later life. I believe the Bible should be read in schools as the stories are some of the best in circulation and you can take their views, or not. I also believe in the ministry of people like John Wesley who preached the written word on the road and in the fields of England. He also brought in watering points for horses which took in animal welfare which we must also consider in religion. Walking round in silly robes whatever their significance is a no-no for me. Christ would be horrified to see these people going round like some sort of Klu Klux Clan people. The way Christ walked the streets, as John Wesley did, is the way forward as far as I think and I would follow a person like that in preference to the ones walking round in robes. However, I do love church music and the old churches built on ley lines certainly have a spiritual element which newer churches do not. You come out of service lightened in feeling after a service in the older churches. However, I do not have that feeling in Westminster Abbey for some reason.