Hnaef takes great delight in pointing out to me that today the Anglicans celebrate John Keble, the patron saint of ugly church architecture.
It warms Hnaef's thin, light-blue blood to consider that my alma mater was responsible for burning several people in the Calendar, who came from Cambridge. And those who went to Oxford whom the Anglicans remember - the Wesleys, bl JH Newman - they are most famous for their preference for other denominations.
And here we have John Keble, Oxonian and true-blooded C of E. And how is he remembered in Oxford?
With a chapel so ugly it could have been built by a Presbyterian. I need say no more.
John Wesley was an Anglican all his life. The big problem was, he started ordaining people. O dear!
ReplyDeleteIt's all about power structures, and that says everything about where the church goes wrong.
John Henry Newman's brother, Francis William Newman, was a Unitarian.
ReplyDeleteThat was some family, Yewtree!
ReplyDeleteRobert - I think Wesley thought it was all right ordaining people as long as they only went to America.