laudable Practice

Petertide means photos of ordinations on Anglican X/Twitter. Previous Petertides usually resulted in me sighing in grumpy middle-aged male fashion, as Church of England dioceses published photographs of newly-ordained deacons and priests leaping. I was therefore grateful this year to see a quite lovely photograph of a newly-ordained priest of the Church in Wales, with - I am guessing - her mother and her training incumbent, with a brief message referring to "today's indescribable joy". And then the vile, obnoxious comments started on X, mostly from self-proclaimed 'trad Catholics' from the United States. You can guess the type: the sort who have Integralist fantasies about executing gay people, forcibly baptising Jewish children, and setting up a Francoist dictatorship in the United States. Quite why they have any interest in an Anglican ordination across the Atlantic has yet to be meaningfully explained. Then again, however, perhaps fetid Integralist fantasies ar...

A recent interview with thoughtful post-liberal thinker Adrian Pabst - published on the Together for the Common Good site - provides an interesting example of the limitations and contradictions of postliberal thought.  The interview is significantly entitled ' How Christian is Postliberalism? '.  This should alert us to the importance of theological and ecclesial consideration of postliberalism because it is indeed being presented as a renewal of a Christian tradition of political thought. What is perhaps most striking about the interview is Pabst's admission that all is not well within postliberalism.  His insistence that "the post-liberal alternative is emphatically not authoritarian populism" and the reference to "some self-styled post-liberals" immediately alert us to this.  He then distances himself from those postliberals in the United Kingdom and the United States who have explicitly presented the governments of Poland and Hungary as expressions...