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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 ...
On 11 February 2017, Harries was one of 14 retired bishops to sign an open letter to the then-serving bishops of the Church of England. In an unprecedented move, they expressed their opposition to the House of Bishops' report to General Synod on sexuality, which recommended no change to the church's canons or practices around sexuality. [20]
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "Bishops of Reading" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 ...
One of the show's longest running features has been "Pause for Thought", a short interlude of religious-related opinion at around 7:15am or 9:15am, similar to "Thought for the Day" on BBC Radio 4's Today. In the 1960s-1970s, Rev. Frank Thewlis was a frequent "Pause for Thought" guest.
Vicky Gene Robinson [a] [1] (born May 29, 1947) is a retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire. [2] [3] Robinson was elected bishop coadjutor in 2003 and succeeded as bishop diocesan in March 2004. Before becoming bishop, he served as Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of New Hampshire.
On 17 January 2011, the British Government announced Proud's appointment as the Bishop of Reading, one of three suffragan/area bishops in the Diocese of Oxford. [3] He was installed at Reading Minster on 16 April 2011. [8] As Bishop of Reading, his official residence was in Tidmarsh, Berkshire. [1] Proud retired on 1 May 2019.
Helen-Ann Macleod Hartley (née Francis; born 28 May 1973) is a British Anglican diocesean bishop, Lord Spiritual, and academic.Since 2023, she has served as the 13th Bishop of Newcastle in the Church of England.