All is not well
Sir: Mr A.N. Wilson does not inhabit the same Anglican Church that others do. At least so it would seem from his recent article in The Spectator (Anglican unsettle- ment', 16 July).
The hijacking of various Anglican minis- tries by political revolutionaries is well documented. Mr Wilson ought to find out a bit more about the Jubilee Groups, COSPEC, Christian Action and the Gay Christian Movement. He could read Agen- da for Prophets which openly and consis- tently advocates revolution and violence as a suitable answer to the problems of the modern world. It will also show how these are worldwide phenomena, not just con- fined to the Church of England but spread abroad to the Anglican communion else- where.
I recall a visit to Chichester Theological College where I spoke to the Jubilee Group there. An ordinand asked me about Intergenerational sex' (paedophi- ha). I was astonished: sexual relations between adults and children were not repugnant to his moral theology. I tremble for the children of tomorrow. The Group were open to any number of other ideas that could only be described as 'loopy'. Mr Wilson seems wholly unaware of them.
I also remember a visit to a Monmouth Diocesan youth conference in Wales. The young teenagers were by and large charm- ing and innocent. They were treated to a lecture by a member of the Gay Christian Movement who turned the Bible almost into an apologia for sexual permissiveness of homosexual relations. The Sodom and Gomorrah incident was explained away as failure of hospitality (for which the just treatment was fire and brimstone, no doubt?). He carefully omitted to refer to the Epistle of Jude which does not hesitate to ascribe the blame to unnatural lust and debauchery. The speaker, it was revealed, was an ordinand to the Anglican Ministry. One wonders what prompted Mr Wilson
LETTERS
to write his white-wash of modern Angli- canism. It looks like a panicky attempt to pretend that all is well where it clearly is not.
James Bogle
34 Barnard Gardens, New Malden, Surrey
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