David Holloway

  • (Evangelicals told to pipe down and listen)
    At a meeting on Saturday, David Holloway, vicar of Jesmond, Newcastle, a senior member of Reform, a hardline evangelical pressure group, and one of the leading spirits of the conservative lobbyists, the Christian Institute, denounced liberals within the church.

    He told an audience of several hundred, including at least three bishops, not one of whom complained, that gay rights people were akin to concentration camp commanders.

    "[Homosexuality] is so clearly a scriptural issue," he said. "Sexual activity outside marriage is sinful, homosexual practice is especially condemned. Modern Jezebels have to be disciplined.

    "If you have a bishop who says on Monday morning that Jews and Muslims should be put into gas chambers, at what point is it right to toe the line? We have lost [our] outrage over some things God says are absolutely wrong."

    Comment - Given that homosexuals in Nazi Germany were remorselessly persecuted with many ending up in concentration camps: these remarks seem particularly inappropriate & offensive.
  • Intelligent Design and the New Thought Police "Chapters 1-3 of Genesis still raise certain questions. But after nearly 150 years of detailed argument and analysis, many thoughtful people at the beginning of the 21st century are coming to the conclusion that Darwin does not provide the answers. Is it not wrong, therefore, to give the ideology of evolution a privileged place in our education today? As a 'myth' or 'model' it may have value if it secures results. But it should not then be taught, with all the secular prejudices we are now so used to, as reflecting what really happened in history. T.H.Huxley invented the word 'agnostic' with regard to belief in God. Surely agnosticism with regard to the theory of evolution is what is now called for in our schools. This is not an unreasonable demand for Christians to make in respect of twenty-first-century education."
  • The General Election In the mean time two things need to happen. First, we need to realize what is going on. Then, secondly, like-minded people have to take action in many small and little ways. That is how cultures are affected. Revival starts and works church by church, Christian by Christian. Schools change, school by school.

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