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A number of Anglican bishops appeared on Thought for the Day speaking out against Thatcher's social policies including Tom Butler, Jim Thompson and Richard Harries. To protect against accusations of bias in the run-up to the 1987 General Election, David Hatch told producers: "I don't want some lefty bishop on Thought for the Day queering our ...
James Lawton Thompson (11 August 1936 – 19 September 2003) was a British Anglican bishop.He was firstly the suffragan Bishop of Stepney (one of five Episcopal Areas of the Diocese of London in the Church of England since the 1979 creation of the London area scheme) [3] from 1978 to 1991 [4] and later the diocesan Bishop of Bath and Wells in succession to George Carey who had become ...
Richard Douglas Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth, FRSL FLSW (born 2 June 1936) is a retired bishop of the Church of England and former British Army officer. He was the Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006. From 2008 until 2012 he was the Gresham Professor of Divinity.
Bishop of Ripon: supporter of women priests, but opposed to active homosexual priests and same-sex marriages [1]: 603 Lionel Blue: 1950: Rabbi (first to come out publicly) BBC Radio 4 broadcaster - "Thought for the Day" Occasional guest speaker of the Jewish Gay and Lesbian Group and a patron of Centred (formerly Kairos).
Westwood was a regular contributor to Thought for the Day on BBC Radio 4's Today programme. [8] He was a member of the Press Council (1975–81), the IBA Panel of Religious Advisers (1983–7), the Video Consultative Council (1985–9) and the Broadcasting Standards Council (1988–92).
The synod, which will run through Oct. 29, follows a first-of-its-kind two-year outreach in which bishops and other clerics around the world met with lay Catholics to learn about their hopes for ...
He led the youth of the diocese to World Youth Day in 2002 and 2005, and also travelled to Rome alongise his brother bishops for their quinquennial visit ad limina in 2006. [6] McKeown is also a regular contributor on Thought for the Day on BBC Radio Ulster.
Facebook users also commented on Bishop's Facebook page in a plea to get him to reach out to his mother. "Please go home," one woman wrote. "Your family needs you around. I lost so many people ...