The church has an uncanny knack for tenaciously latching on to strange obsessions. We used to be able to content ourselves with the knowledge that clerics spent most of their time searching for ways to make sodomy holy.
But things have moved on since the simplicity of those halcyon times: today our clergy are more interested in how to turn men into women – an updating of turning water into wine, one presumes.
And now, in order to spread the good news of salvation through Jesus by faith, the church is distributing menstrual products. I am still struggling to see the connection, but I suppose there must be one.
From here:
A small-town Manitoba parish is making menstrual products available to women in need by means of a special mailbox affixed to the outside of the church—and at least two other churches are following its example.
Since last spring, staff at Christ Church The Pas have been placing tampons, pantiliners and pads in a red mailbox hanging from the church wall, and inviting community members who need them to help themselves. The Rev. Jann Brooks says the service is being used to the point where she has to refill the mailbox every second day.
Where was the Anglican Church of Canada when we all ran out of toilet paper I’d like to know.
Surprising scale of demand, with so many men ‘transitioning’ these days. There ought to be proportionally fewer “menstruating persons”, surely?
There is legislation in Scotland and even some US states requiring governments to provide free hygiene products, so this is an issue becoming widely recognised.
Of course the question is to what extent should churches be covering gaps in the social welfare net. Drawing attention to a wide variety of needs and meeting them for a time can become a distraction, just as ignoring the physical suffering in our communities can become a dereliction of the gospel duty to minister to others.
Dare I say it, what would help in these matters and particularly in the way they are presented by the Anglican Church of Canada, is some thoughtful reflection on scripture. What is the significance (in the synoptic gospels) of Jesus healing the hemorrhaging woman whom he calls a daughter? Why are we so uncomfortable about when women bleed, but still tend to glorify men when they bleed, in war?
Andrew: When I think of all the young soldiers that were lost , I dont see any glory in that, and I’m sure you dont either. Of course, the Media hypes up their “sacrifice”, what a crock.
Were in the information age, and when we look for reasons for these wars, I dont find any good reasons. But lots of distractions.l
Was the sexually State-confused (“abomination” is the + Levitical-Scriptural term in The LORD GOD’s basic biology class) young man wearing a dress who raped a fifteen year old biological girl in her school’s washroom thus in search of such altruistic aids?
VA Governor McCaulliffe and his equally confused AG, Merrick Garland, think not; not during Pride Parade week at any rate; and not since. It just did NOT happen.
The righteous Triumvirate Senators Cruz, Hawley,et al., beg to differ, demanding Garland`s resignation, and working for the Governor`s Electoral defeat;
so does the unlikely Troika of Vladimir Putin (“teaching children trans ideology a crime against humanity”), J.K. Rowling and Margaret Attwood.
Go Green Glasgow……Biden’s X passports mark the spot.
`The Land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.“
– Climate Crisis as it is written in + Leviticus ch.18.
November 2, 2021, The Commonwealth of Virginia
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