Quotes Sep 18

I went down to Salisbury
To listen to the choir,
A pair of Russian tourists
They were staring up the spire,
Staring up the spire, they were,
Silent and aghast,
Against the sky, hurtling by,
A piggy flying past.
Pam Ayres@PamAyres

Here in the West, there are lots of liberal Christians.  Some of them have assumed a kind of reverse mission: instead of being the church’s missionaries to the world, they have become the world’s missionaries to the church.  They devote their moral energies to trying to make the church more democratic, to assure equal rights for women, to legitimize homosexual marriage, and so on.  A small but influential segment of liberal Christianity rejects all the central doctrines of Christianity.  H. Richard Niebuhr famously summed up their credo: “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross."
-- Dinesh D'Souza, What's So Great About Christianity?"

“As a Christian church we really don’t regard pride as a virtue – there is a lot to be said for humility.   We don’t agree with the somewhat confused and simplistic message of these Pride marches.  However we recognise that people have a right to march for their cause and to express their views.    We won’t be going to the march, but nor will we be organising a counter march.     We hope however that, at a time of council cuts and shortages,  public money will not be spent on funding and helping promote one view.   If the Council were to fund this march then surely they would be duty bound in the name of love, equality, diversity and tolerance to fund a Christian Humility march?!    We also reject the simplistic narrative that those who are opposed to these marches are necessarily homophobic.  There are some gay activists who have come to deplore the commercialisation and corporate sponsorship of many of these events.    We would hope in a pluralistic society that we would be given the freedom and opportunity to express our view that the traditional Christian view of sex, sexuality and family is the best for our culture and to be allowed to question the sexual philosophy of our cultural elites, which, in our view, is wrecking havoc in our communities. We remind people that the rainbow is a Christian symbol speaking of a covenant keeping God who lovingly warns us of the consequences of turning away from his ways and who delights to show mercy. We would also like to point to the need of all of us to repent and seek the face of God.   The Pride marchers talk about Love…we follow the One who is Love and would want all, whatever their sexuality, to know Him.”- David Robertson
How Should the Church React to Inverness/Stornoway Gay Pride?, https://theweeflea.com/2018/09/17/how-should-the-church-react-to-inverness-stornoway-gay-pride/