Pete Young on Triple J - well done

[Tim Patrick]

Did anyone hear Triple J yesterday at 5.30pm? They aired a segment on 'young people's' thoughts about the outcomes of gafcon and got hold of Pete for comment.

They crafted the whole piece around the idea that conservative Anglicans are fighting an anti-gay battle (surprise) but Pete did a great job of explaining that it's far more about submitting to God's will as revealed in the Bible. He did especially well given that the lead-in to the story was a strongly biased rant by David Marr. (I was pretty disappointed in this. I know David Marr has his head around the issues more than he demonstrated. But pitching to a younger crowd, he just simplified gafcon down to another expression of the church's militant homophobia.)

Pete also spoke well about everyone being welcome to come to church - even if we can't endorse all their sins.

He represented us really well in a national broadcast. Good job!

Tim

[Will Briggs]

Tim Patrick wrote:

Did anyone hear Triple J yesterday at 5.30pm? They aired a segment on 'young people's' thoughts about the outcomes of gafcon and got hold of Pete for comment.

I didn't hear it then, but someone saw some of my blog pieces on gafcon (blatant blog plug http://god-s-will.blogspot.com) and sent me the link which is
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/triplej/hack/daily/hack_mon_2008_06_30.mp3 if anyone wants to listen.

I agree: David Marr was simply annoying (even perhaps condescending to listeners and subject matter alike), Pete did really well.

W.

[Jereth]

While we're on the topic of GAFCON commentary in the media... Here's what Justice Michael Kirby had to say yesterday in the Age.

The big challenge before us is to telescope centuries of experience, law, culture and tolerance in the West into a few decades in the rest of the world. Unless we do so, the mixture of religious intolerance and weapons of mass destruction will be a great threat to the world and everyone in it.

Translation into English:
"Let's go shove our western intellectual superiority and 'enlightened' ideas down the throats of those ignorant, spear-toting, superstitious, barbaric, dark-skinned savages and make them think like us."

Good to see White Colonialism and xenophobia is still alive and well!
(Can you blame the African Christians for being absolutely ****ed off at Western arrogance?)

[Pete Young]

Thanks Tim.

Having listened again from the podcast it actually turned into a rather strange segment, with all that militant rhetoric at the start and some rather odd liberal soundbites from Tony Storey, an "ex youth pastor"....

But I will say that I was not misrepresented or shut out and for an ABC station, that's pretty good!

The guy asking the questions started off asking about GAFCON, but it pretty quickly turned into:

"What do you/your church think of gays"
"Would you try and change a gay person who came to your church"
"Why would God disapprove of people in a consenting, adult relationship"

These questions probably revealed more of the true nature of the segment.

Blessings
Pete

[Jereth]

And here's what Muriel Porter had to say (ABC World Today, 30th June)

This is an attempt to stand over, if you like, the bishops who'll be meeting at Lambeth, starting in mid-July, trying to bully them, that's the only word I can use, bully them into going the way that this quite small group of Anglican dissidents want the church to go.

And I think we have to remember, they are a group of dissident Anglicans, very conservative, very hardline, who want to push the church in a particular direction, but I hope and pray the bishops and the church in Australia and elsewhere will not agree to. We must not be bullied.

So GAFCON delegates are bullies?

[Luke Isham]

(I also post on occasionally on the vaguely Anglican forum, Ship of Fools.)  I commented on there a while ago that negative liberal-white-Anglican comments about the backwardness of conservative-black-African-Anglicans sounded to me alot like racism.  It was met with howls of protest, how dare I make that link, the West always knows best!

This transition of power from the materially wealthy northern hemisphere to the spiritually wealthy southern hemisphere is long overdue.  Bring on Lagos 2018!

[Jereth]

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/us-anglicans-look-to-the-world-20080703-317n.html

Can I just say that I am greatly impressed by Peter Jensen. What an outstanding and godly leader he has proven to be in recent months. May the Lord continue to bless and increase his ministry.