Ex-Rev Canon Angela Tilby, Christ Church Cathedral Oxford

“God is great!” shouted the men who spat on the naked body of the young woman, Shani Luk.

I wish to make it totally clear that these are a bunch of religious nutters who are in no way related to my Invisible Magic Friend. There’s is the sort of Invisible Magic Friend that would justify all sort of terrible things, like obliterating entire cities, flooding the planet to kill everything, punishing a guy remorselessly for a bet, or inventing a myriad of trivial, pointless rules, violating any one of which can condemn you to death.

My Invisible Magic Friend on the other hand… oh, wait a minute.

https://mega.nz/file/A390ESJa#Xn9rRgfnlvKXURA1_LlGhzk8AHnR206QnuA0eigKKXk

Canon Dr Rachel Mann, Archdeacon of Bolton and of Salford

Isn’t war terrible. There are lots of very bad adjectives about war. A theologian agrees with me so I must be right.

What we, and by “we” I do of course mean you, need to do is stop talking and listen. There’s too much ill informed babble. Too much pointless noise. Too many opinions without experience. Silence would be better than all this useless jabber.

https://mega.nz/file/h2dCFL4A#sdpnykcvIZiVKOK8zMXO5fzeN2yvLRlw-8j9YOLIxg4