Bishop Gavin Ashenden on PB Curry's Wedding Message

Don't neglect to read the whole thing.  It's a real humdinger.  Representative quotations:

"And then he moved into the political as all progressives do. I suspect it is because they have little experience of the metaphysical, and a simple and immediate way round that is to harness the political to both prove something happens when you get God, and to find a way of making a difference in a way that people might buy into, because we are all so tired of pain and injustice.

And this is the hope that alw...ays lets us down. It is the Hebrew prophets who give fire and articulation to this hope. But they see God as delivering political and personal transformation at the end of time; only then will the lion lie down with the lamb; only then will the tears be wiped away from our eyes, and by God himself, not by the army of emoting counsellors of the progressive utopia. . . .

There are two kinds of Anglicanism practised in the world today. One that contains the cross and repentance and touches and transforms sexual desire, and one that doesn’t.

People who don’t intend to change their ways prefer the one that doesn’t.

That was the one that Bishop Curry offered them. And it went down a storm because bishop Curry is a great preacher. And it will change nothing; because it wasn’t Christianity. It was ‘Christianity-lite’." - Bishop Gavin Ashenden, former Chaplain to Her Majesty the Queen

Michael Curry & the Royal Wedding. A star-turn offers the world ‘Christianity-lite’.