CofE Urban Parish Priest. Inclusive Orthodoxy. #RangersFC #GCAFC
England, United Kingdom
Joined May 2010
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Reclaiming Orthodoxy for Affirming Anglicanism link.medium.com/eiBXvK0hOEb
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The amendment to safeguard Jewish members was defeated: 684 in favour, 1,026 against. More than a thousand delegates voted against those protections.
This is a deliberate rejection of Jewish members’ right to participate without discrimination. A party that votes against protecting Jews while debating whether their self-determination is racist is practising the racism it claims to oppose.
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After the “Zionism is Racism” UN motion spearheaded by the Soviet Bloc & Arab League in 1975 (repealed in 1990), there was a concentrated campaign at universities around the UK to ban Jewish societies.
Not Israel societies.
Jewish societies.
We know where stuff like this leads.
"To read Matthew well today is to hold together two truths: first, that Matthew is a profoundly Jewish Gospel; and second, that its reception history includes some of the most damaging misuses of Scripture in Christian-Jewish relations."
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The Ashrafi story has shown the ABC needs a strong adviser on interfaith. Very sadly, the Revd Dr Richard Sudworth, who served in this role for 7 years, died last year. An expert on Christian-Muslim relations and parish priest, he also received an award last week, posthumously.
"There are few Gospel stories that have been more confidently misread by modern Christians than the encounter between Jesus and the woman Matthew calls a “Canaanite.” I know this misreading intimately because I once preached it myself.
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“The Irrevocable Covenant“
My sermon from yesterday on Romans 9-11 drawing upon Post Holocaust Theologians, Paul Within Judaism scholars and with a nod to the Kairos debate medium.com/@revdray/the-irre…
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We Live in ‘a New World of Counterhistory’: @tunkuv interviews @simonmontefiore wsj.com/opinion/we-live-in-a… via @WSJopinion
As General Synod agrees to continue debate this morning on the disastrous Kairos motion. I wrote a piece yesterday criticising Kairos through the lens of the excellent 2019 Faith & Order Commission's 'God's Unfailing Word'
open.substack.com/pub/revdra…… – at Wolverhampton, England
It's interesting how some people who build their own politics around a nostalgic 'Britishness' have no idea how the British constitution and parliamentary system work.
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Concerns Grow Over Kurdish Political Prisoners Facing Execution in Iran
Concerns are growing over the fate of several Kurdish political prisoners in Iran as death sentences continue to be issued and upheld. According to available information, at least seven Kurdish political prisoners are currently at risk of execution in prisons across the country.
Among them are Pakhshan Azizi, a civil activist from Mahabad; Hatem Ozdemir, a Kurdish political activist and Turkish citizen; and Yousef Ahmadi, a resident of Baneh. Their death sentences have been upheld by the Supreme Court, and their requests for judicial review have been rejected.
Raouf Sheikh-Ma'aroufi, Mohammad Faraji, and Mohsen Eslamkhah, three political prisoners from Bukan, have also been sentenced to death on charges of “corruption on earth.” Their cases are currently under review by the Supreme Court. Arman Marefati, a Kurdish citizen from Saqqez who was arrested during the January 2026 protests, is also being held under a death sentence in Qezel Hesar Prison in Karaj.
