tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post4000677883162938330..comments2024-02-13T11:11:28.246+00:00Comments on Bishop Alan’s Blog: How to give a Castlemaine Four-XBishop Alan Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-4006902357535522022008-05-25T12:18:00.000+01:002008-05-25T12:18:00.000+01:00many thanks for the Dickens info... great stuff!many thanks for the Dickens info... great stuff!Bishop Alan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-11721919491694987442008-05-19T16:35:00.000+01:002008-05-19T16:35:00.000+01:00Caroline Chisholm was the basis for McCawber going...Caroline Chisholm was the basis for McCawber going to Australia but Dickens later changed his mind and lampooned her in Bleak House. She and The Revd Dr John Lang (an evaglist who feared the Romanizing of Australia - and to many a crook) had some interesting debates on who should emigrate. She advocated whole families - as opposed to the government who said you had to leave all but two children behind and could not take your elderly parents..... unless you paid up.<BR/>SunnyLadyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-76581061569107718122008-05-16T18:57:00.000+01:002008-05-16T18:57:00.000+01:00Interesting bit of censorship, Rosalind. This fill...Interesting bit of censorship, Rosalind. This filleting of lessons slightly annoys me, I have to admit, though I know some passages are very long. But when all they fillet is a single verse, I smell wet fish...<BR/>I Believe there was an early English version of the Bible known as the Wicked Bible because they left the word "not" out of the sixth commandment.<BR/><BR/>I've drawn attention to Rahab (among others) before... http://bishopalan.blogspot.com/2007/12/curveball-grace.html .I'm sorry she got left out f this party, of all parties, in today's lectionary.Bishop Alan Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13879516755776951638noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7132206171945839649.post-63517677665952127862008-05-16T10:28:00.000+01:002008-05-16T10:28:00.000+01:00Hello Bishop AlanNot exactly a comment on today's ...Hello Bishop Alan<BR/><BR/>Not exactly a comment on today's post, though maybe there is a link to a blog about a woman who got on a did something about social injustice etc, but more a comment related to the theme of challenging hypocrisy and not setting ourselves up as arbiters of God's hospitality that has been running through this blog. I was amazed, wryly amused and appalled by this morning's eucharist lectionary epistle - not by what was in but by what was left out. James in fine form on faith and works - so as exemplars are Abraham who set off to sacrifice his son, and...hang on, that verse has been omitted. We can't hear about (sshh) Rahab. Is this because saving the spies and her family is such an awful crime...or is it because she is described as...a PROSTITUTE??!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com