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Collected works: a detail from the Psalms from the oldest surviving Bible, the Codex Sinaiticus (Comment, 22 August 2008), this week released free online at www.codexsinaiticus.org New Bishop to the Forces announced THE Bishop of Dover, the Rt Revd Stephen Venner, will succeed the Dean of Windsor, the Rt Revd David Conner, as Bishop to the Forces. Dean Conner has held the post since 2001. Bishop Venner will retire as Bishop of Dover in November, but continue as Bishop for the Falkland Islands. North-East ordination course to close THE North East Oecumenical Course, which provides ministerial training for the Anglican, Methodist, and United Reformed Churches, is to close at the end of September, when it will be split into two regional training partnerships. To mark the transition, a reunion will be followed by a sung eucharist in Newcastle Cathedral on 19 September. Officer sacked over ‘God in the workplace’DUKE AMACHREE, a Homelessness Prevention Officer for Wandsworth Council in London, has been dismissed after encouraging a client with a terminal illness to turn to God. Michael Phillips, a solicitor from the Christian Legal Centre, representing Mr Amachree, said that his client’s employers had told him that “God had to be kept out of the workplace.” The Council also said that “God bless” would be not be an appropriate comment for Mr Amachree to make. Mr Amachree plans to take the Council to an employment tribunal. |
 “Yielding a rich harvest”: the Bishop of Warwick, the Rt Revd John Stroyan, preaches at the opening of the 160th and last ever Royal Agricultural Show, on Tuesday |
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Union to draw up survey on vicarages
THE trade union Unite is compiling a survey on the state of rectories and vicarages, in response, it says, to concerns expressed by some of its 2500 faith-worker members over dilapidated accommodation. Clergy with housing problems are invited to email faithworkers@unitetheunion.com College inspection report published THE inspection reports for St Mellitus College and the Chelmsford and London Reader-training courses have been published. All three received an overall rating of “confidence with qualifications”. St Mellitus College is a new theological college set up by the dioceses of London and Chelmsford, with links with Holy Trinity, Brompton, Chelmsford Cathedral, and St Paul’s Cathedral. Students can study in Kensington, Shadwell, or Chelmsford. The college was praised for its the breadth and quality of staff and teaching, and its mixed community of staff and students across age, gender, and tradition, but it was encouraged to increase the provision of role-models for women ordinands. Chief Rabbi criticises ruling THE Chief Rabbi, Sir Jonathan Sacks, has criticised the Court of Appeal’s ruling that a Jewish School in north London discriminated on grounds of race by prioritising applications from children with Jewish mothers. He said that the decision had in effect declared Judaism racist, something he found “distressing. To confuse religion and race is a mistake.” Vicar testifies to vandals’ remorse A VICAR has helped two young men who vandalised his church avoid prison sentences. The men, Samuel Hosford and Benjamin Turp, caused about £30,000 of damage to St Mary Magdalene’s, Taunton, in Somerset, in a drunken rampage. They broke 21 leaded windows and damaged two lecterns, an altar, and the pulpit. The Vicar, the Revd Rod Corke, met the men and received a written apology. They undertook restorative work in the vicarage garden, and he told the court that he was impressed by their “deep sense of shame and remorse”. |
 Rainbow’s end: the Bishop of London, the Rt Revd Richard Chartres, with children dressed as animals from Noah’s ark, in a protest to the Government last week before the Copenhagen climate summit in December PA |
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