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Article: The modern Mary Magdalen
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- The Spectator
- Article date:
- November 9, 1996
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THE LAST few weeks have seen a retired Scottish Episcopal Church bishop barred from exercising his episcopal orders in the diocese of Ripon, because he blessed a 'gay' couple. Also a vicar's wife, Anne Atkins, has been reprimanded by the Church of England's director of communications, Eric Shegog. On Radio Four's Thought for the Day she attacked the Provost of Southwark's decision to allow the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement to use the cathedral for a service marking their 20th anniversary.
The row in the supposedly 'liberal' Southwark Church of England diocese has been rumbling for some time. Conservative evangelicals who belong to the 'Reform' movement, rabidly opposed to any ...