From here:
Manchester Cathedral is to host a ‘new age’ festival featuring tarot card readers, crystal healers and ‘dream interpretation’.
Local Anglican leaders have agreed to throw open the doors of the historic cathedral in a bid to embrace alternative forms of Christianity.
Fortune tellers, meditation experts and traditional healers will fill the pews during the day-long festival in May. The Bishop of Manchester, Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, said he wanted to celebrate ‘all forms of spirituality’.
The Spirit of Life festival on May 2 will also feature stalls and workshops on angels, prayer bead-making and massage.
Fire-breathing vicar Rev Andy Salmon, of Sacred Trinity Church and St Philip with St Stephen in Salford, will also perform.
Where are the dancing bears, and ritual voodoo sacrifices you are probably thinking.
Is it any wonder the Anglican Church has become a universal laughing stock as it self-parodies its former seriousness by solemnly pondering the virtues of sodomy, opening its places of worship to practitioners of the occult, employing fire-breathing performing vicars and calling the whole mish-mash a celebration of ‘all forms of spirituality’.
One can only hope that someone brings a Koran and the fire-breathing vicar ignites it in a Koran flambé.
– No, it’s the Book of Revelation that the fire-breathing vicars will be aimimng for, and those bits of Paul where he “seems to” be proscribing homosexuality.
No, seriously, it appears now that the Manchester diocesan authorities/communications people have tried to back-track from the furthest excesses of the story; but it still seems clear that the event (and the whole Manchester Cathedral ethos) is promoting, or as good as, the whole “Christian gay” approach. Where do you have to go to get REAL Christianity, these days, I ask?
What can one expect seeing they have a Druid running the organization.