I grew up in Cardiff where, in the city centre, you can find St. John The Baptist Anglican church. As a child I was much more interested in what was opposite the church: Cardiff Market wherein was all the excitement of competing vendors manning their stalls and shouting their wares to passers-by. There was a lot of fish as I recall; the whole place stank of fish. I bought goldfish in a plastic bag for threepence.
Coincidentally, this Sunday’s Gospel reading is about John the Baptist and it includes this verse:
As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
The path of St. John’s new vicar has not been entirely straight. Rev. Sarah Jones, started life as a boy, married at the age 20, decided she was supposed to be a girl, had a sex change, renamed herself “Sarah” and became an Anglican vicar.
I have no reason to doubt her sincerity. What seems odd is that up until now so many new Anglican vicars have been gay; now the transgender phase is beginning. Rather like Cardiff Market, the odour of something fishy is wafting through Western Anglicanism.
From here:
The new vicar of Cardiff’s city centre parish St John The Baptist has ambitious plans to make it more open to the whole community.
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She had an unusual route into ministry. Leaving school at 16 after her parents’ marriage broke up she had to change her original plans:
“I wanted to go to university but that disappeared overnight. I got a job in a music shop and I realised that I really enjoyed interacting with people”. Over the years she had a variety of jobs in sales and training in the music business and in industry.
However this is not the most unusual part of her background. Sarah was brought up as a boy and is the first Anglican priest to have undergone a gender change before being ordained into the church.
“I looked like a boy and there was no reason to doubt it when I was born. However I knew from the age of six or seven that I was more one of the girls than one of the boys.
“I was slightly different. I did fit in and I wasn’t bullied but by secondary school I knew deep down inside that I should have been one of the girls.
“However I thought that I just had this feminine side to me but that I could carry on with a normal life.”
Logical that the illusion that same-sex persons can unite has now proceeded to the illusion that sex can be changed. This man is terribly ill.
The Church in Wales is seriously ill.
This disease has become an epidemic in the Anglican Communion as under the leadership of the ABC it now worships that detestable “god of political expediency”. The only Christian parts of the Anglican Communion are those affiliated with GAFCON, ACNA and ANIC.
Saying that a transgender woman is not a real woman can get a person injured these days. But Dr. Turner is correct, Rev. Sarah Jones is terribly ill. She and her church need our prayers.
There will be no sex in the next life; but Jones still lives on earth now.