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The Times - The Lambeth walk
The Archbishop of Canterbury shows true leadership
No one could accuse Rowan Williams of not saying that extra prayer or going the extra mile along the rocky road. He has wrestled with the tensions, arguments and conflict over homosexual clergy for more than three years in an attempt to hold together a Church of England more rent with division than at any time for the past two centuries. The effort has cost the office of archbishop dear and has brought the Church to the brink of schism. Now he has decided that the time for emollience is over. Exasperated by the repeated failure of the Episcopal Church of the United States of America to heed the pleas for restraint from other members of the Anglican Communion, he has drafted plans to expel the Americans from the worldwide Anglican Church, and offer it only “associate” membership. It is schism in all but name.
Hmmmmm.
So, to once again prove my point whose fault it actually is that people around the world find us overbearing, hegemonic, and inclined to throw our weight around just because we’re rich:
A question that arises, but has rightly played little part in the theological debate, is money. The US Church is rich, and underwrites much of the budget of Anglicans in Africa and the developing world. That, and ownership of American church buildings, is a matter now for lawyers to settle.
June 28th, 2006 at 9:58 am
“…for where your treasure is there will your heart be also”.
June 28th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
And that’s why you can’t fly your Sopwith thru the eye of a needle.
June 29th, 2006 at 5:00 am
A friend of my dad’s saw a Fairey Swordfish fly through a barrage balloon, emerge from the other side minus one wing, and keep on flying. They are featured in that great WWII film Sink the Bismark!
June 29th, 2006 at 5:43 am
Toughness thru simplicity and quality wire.
June 29th, 2006 at 8:13 am
Was that one wing out of the four? Lots of lift surface is really useful when you’re getting shot at.
They flew too slowly for the German gunners to be able to set a fuse for them, I’m told. Even at their shortest fuse they were still hundreds of feet past the Stringbags when they exploded. They’d have had a better chance with a muzzle-loading cannon.
June 29th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Har! Make fun with yr muzzle loading cannon jibs, but many of the pilots preferred the StringBag to the later arriving (Albacore?) much like many US pilots preferred the Dauntless to the much more modern SB2C HellDiver or more colloquially Son-of-A-Bitch 2nd Class.
June 30th, 2006 at 6:44 am
There was something called the Fairey Fullmar which carried torpedoes. Dunno whether it was any good.
June 30th, 2006 at 11:47 am
Maybe the Albacore was a Dive/patrol bomber? Im kinda vague about Fleet Air Arm machinery. Which makes is nice since the RAF was kinda vague about the Fleet Air Arm machinery as well.