Absurd traditions
Jul 16th, 2010 | By Ian Poulton | Category: Church of Ireland CommentToday’s Irish Times editorial on women bishops prompted thoughts about the absurdity of the institutional church, particularly the Church of Ireland.
A friend who belongs to the Masonic Order once complained that attendance at his Lodge meeting had been so thin that he had played a number of roles to allow the evening’s proceedings to take place, at one point this meant answering his own question. I laughed at the thought of it. He is someone who is always on the edge of a joke or a story and…