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shold we go to uni cause of all the fees and wot not?
If you are bright enough, yes go for it. if offered a place at Uni, I would encourage you to accept it. Education is worth investing in, and there are grants for students from poorer families.
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Previously Queen Elizabeth’s School in Wimborne wrote:
How can I run for pope?
Not so much run, as be nominated. You have to me male, a Roman Catholic, and a priest. It helps to be a Cardinal, but not essential. Go for it...
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Previously Queen Elizabeth’s School in Wimborne wrote:
Hello again, Bishop Grahdam. Nearly 11.00 so we're going to wind up the questions from this end. On behalf of the group, thanks very much for your time and answers, which have given us plenty of ideas for further discussion. good luck with the rest of your journey.
Richard Foyle and five A level students.
Thanks to you, Richard, and to you, the students. Really enjoyed your questions. Keep an eye on the web site to see other schools interact in this way.
BTW, the video clip and photos of South Sudan I showed at your assembly this morning are on:
http://www.salisbury.anglican.org/news/bishop-inspired-by-visit-to-south-sudan
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Why can't the pope be female?
Because at the moment in the RC Church, only males are priests. In the C of E women are priests and I hope soon there will be women bishops. See this conference I was at on Saturday
http://www.yes2womenbishops.org/2013/03/women-bishops-church-in-all-its-fullness.html
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Do you believe that you can believe in science and christianity e.g. the creation story/big bang?
Thanks. The short answer is Yes. The longer answer will take some time...Science answers the question 'how' and Christianity answers the question 'Why'. I am a theistic evolutionist ie believe that God created humans through evolution.
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Do you believe jesus will return??
Yes, at the end of the age to sum up the universe, but he is with us now by his Spirit.
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When did your faith in God begin ??
Thanks. I went to sunday school and sang in the choir in Chigwell, Essex, but a personal faith in God came alive at Oxford where I was studying law. In January 1974 I prayed a prayer of commitment after much reading and discussion and reflection on people's lives at college.
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What are your views on homosexuals that are really in your face about it, and go mincing about looking to indulge in their urges?
Thanks. I answered this more fully on another thread:
I personally think the Bishops Guidelines in the Church of England, 'Issues in Human Sexuality', form a good and balanced reference point. These state that those who are gay in their sexual orientation and wish to be vicars are welcome to be vicars but should be celibate. They do not say the same about lay people in the church ie that they have to be celibate. In all professions, leaders are held to be more accountable than others: judges and police have to have a higher standard of law keeping than others; teachers have to have a higher standard of behaviour with young people than others; similarly acccountants concerning financial integrity. So, the above distinction between vicars and lay people seems to make sense to me. It is also worth looking at Paul's First Letter to Timothy chapter 3, where he says leaders should be the husband of one wife ie there were clearly people with more than one wife in the congregation, but those could not be leaders.
Oliver O'Donovan has written a fine book, 'A Conversation Waiting to Begin: The Churches and the Gay Controversy' (SCM Press, 2009)
http://www.scmpress.co.uk/bookdetails.asp?ISBN=9780334042105
This is a book of his online essays which may be seen here
http://www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk/page.cfm?ID=130
Again, a huge subject. Hope this helps.
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Previously St Edwards Poole wrote:
i struggle alot with the theories of natural law and utilitarianism, do you have any easier way of helping us?
Yes, Jeremy Bentham is fascinating but not completely nourishing. God reveals himself through his creation - natural law - but especially in his Son, Jesus Christ. Live is more than utilitarian - though there is a danger in today's economic context in Britain, that we are reducing life to that.
Have a look at the life of Jesus of Nazareth in the gospels - better than Bentham.
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