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...Archbishop cannot talk the American church out of a done deal, but he may be able to broker a peace plan. Anglicans officially declared homosexuality to be "incompatible with Scripture" at their most recent Lambeth Conference--a once-a-decade meeting of the world's Anglican bishops--in 1998. Still, dioceses have traditionally been granted generous latitude in deciding their local practices. Archbishop Williams announced last Friday an emergency meeting of the 38 primates from around the world to consider the actions of the U.S. church. "I hope," he said in an official statement, "we will find that there...
...Home Secretary David Blunkett suggested holding talks with music industry executives about "what is and what isn't acceptable" in song lyrics. But few people were buying that lame old line. "So Solid Crew might not be setting a good example," says Mike Franklin, a member of London's Lambeth community-police consultative group, "but no one is driven to murder by rap lyrics." More substantive proposals emerged from Blunkett's confab with police officials, including tough new measures against guns. The officials discussed greater protection for witnesses, and an amnesty for those who turn in illegal weapons. Blunkett promised...
...always on the side of liberty and instinct. "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom," he wrote in the Proverbs of Hell. And also: "Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires." (The latter sounds more like Sade than the gentle poet of Lambeth, who wouldn't have hurt a hair on a child's head...
...make matters worse, a kind of liberal racism underlies Spong's frenzied insistence on discarding Christianity in favor of what he (wrongly) perceives to be the demands of modern science. At the 1998 Lambeth Conference in England, the Anglican bishops from Africa and Asia passed several resolutions affirming the traditional Christian stance on sexuality--that sex is best expressed between a man and woman married to each other...
Ackroyd unfolds and eventually provides a solution for these crimes through a succession of short chapters and shifting points of view. Much of the attention goes to a woman once known as Lambeth Marsh Lizzie, who escaped poverty by way of the London music halls, giving innocent performances of suggestive songs: I Don't Suppose He'll Do It Again for Months and Months and Months; Don't Stick It Out So Much. Under the tutelage of Dan Leno, London's most beloved comedian and a precursor of Charlie Chaplin, Lizzie became a star and eventually married the newly rich...