Every time there is some controversial moment in our contemporary society, whether it is a police shooting, a slight about a female politician's weight, nonsensical statistics about crimes in colleges, or the horror involved when the government won't pay for every single band-aid, I receive "calls for action" via my e-mail accounts from Christian, often Episcopal, organizations. Sometimes these are organizations that I had never heard of before and never hear from again, as if they are a chimera summoned solely to exploit one issue. Weird, huh?
One would expect that the events in Rotherham, in Yorkshire in England's north, would attract the attention not only of those who compose perpetual calls for action, but some commentary from the Church of England or Anglican Communion as this concerns a very real example of a "patriarchal system" and "rape culture". If expecting such, one would be disappointed, however.
Well, that's alright, we still have our own portion of the Anglican Communion. Although I have received nothing, nada, skint, zero from the
Diocese ECCT, an entity that recently sent me an e-mail that included 78 words explaining why a new font was chosen for their letterhead, we still have a national church news agency with a paid staff.
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