Baptism, Sin and the Mail
There has been a lot of fevered comment since the Mail on Sunday published an article (on its front page no less) that the Church of England had abandoned sin in its new baptismal liturgy. There is much that is simply wrong and lacking in understanding on the part of the Mail and its rentaquotes. For example: Contra the headline ('Welby casts out "sin" from christenings') Justin Welby himself had little to do with it - the origins lie in a decision of the General Synod The liturgies are experimental, and only being used so that they can be 'road-tested' and amended Just because the word isn't used doesn't mean that we no longer believed in sin There's nothing wrong with the language of EastEnders, and Common Worship isn't really the language of Shakespeare anyway I could go on, but this is an article in the Mail - what would you expect? But what it has done is provoke some really good and intelligent commentary from within the Ch...