2022-06-10 10:10:02
“So, two bishops cancelled a talented, if controversial, candidate against the measured judgement of his college principal.
I do not share Mr Robinson’s theology. There are aspects of his politics which make me uneasy. But I believe that, had his curacy gone ahead, pastoral reality would have toned his views over time.
As it is, I regret the loss of his contribution to the C of E. We need conservative thinkers if we are indeed the national Church, not least to challenge the lazy, hand-wringing leftist orthodoxies that refuse to enter debate. The affair is a monumental own goal for the diocese of London, which will now have to cope with him on TV in his clerical collar as a minister of Christ Church (Free Church of England), Harlesden — politely, but accurately, bewailing our moral and theological spinelessness.”
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/10-june/comment/columnists/angela-tilby-c-of-e-needs-conservative-thinkers-like-calvin-robinson
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