But the chairman, Lord Brabazon of Tara, couldn’t resist an opportunity to have a dig at the ongoing crises in the church and shot back: “If that were all that I was expected to express sympathy for in the Lambeth Conference, that would be easy to do. But I gather that it has other problems.”
For those of us who are covering the conference, at which no decisions are likely to be made nor any differences resolved, it’s not the carbon emissions which cause concern so much as the amount of hot air being generated.
Just read this article. Loved this comment below it.
[blockquote] “Other problems”: I wonder what possibly he could be referring to other than a gathering based upon: sheer incompetence; frivolous, counterproductive and often internecene politics; greed of both a physical and intellectual nature; lack of commitment to and belief in the words and works of Christ and his teachings; intellectually pretentious and without good purpose in their sordidly self-centered musings; and on and on. I seem to be entering into a rather close approximation of the Seven Deadly Sins and wonder if that is the shoe best fitting a knarled, warted and gout-ridden Anglican foot. [/blockquote]
Rather carbon emissions than methane emissions. At least carbon dioxide is tree-friendly. Of course, there is no guarantee that Lambeth will be a methane-free zone. Perhaps it will be–when the cows come home.
William Shontz
http://www.willsho.org
(Yikes!– the “cows” reference is to be taken as the cliche that it is. No unkind double entendre intended here)
William Shontz
http://www.willsho.org
I’m with you Mugsie. That was a masterpiece of the sort of writing one gets in the better British periodicals like the Spectator and the Field. Brilliant stuff.