Newly appointed Most Reverend Dr John Tucker, Archbishop of York spoke to the public on his ordination:

Why should my baggage as a heterosexual be more acceptable than the baggage of a gay person? The Church of England has to reconnect with England. There is such a wealth of tradition, the relationship between Christianity and social order, we are all part of the same society

I couldn’t agree more with his assessment for the current state of the Church. I don’t think the Church will find its spiritual ground by following what public commentators are directly telling it to do, by being led by the extreme wings of taste. In reading a piece by Andy Kershaw in The Indepedent titled ‘Peel the unpredictable’, I came across a lesson that I think could be well applied to religions around the world. In his career with the BBC, radio disc jockey John Peel exposed millions to new music and news sounds with a philosophy that hadn’t really been seen before:

We’re not here to give people what they want but what they didn’t know they wanted.

Churches aren’t there to satisfy an individuals’ desire for a particular ethos, for a brand of society, but to give spiritual guidance. You may not want the world to be different, but you might just like it when it is.

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