{"id":3636,"date":"2009-11-07T15:36:01","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T15:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/11\/best-selling-anglican-author-prepares-to-desert-a-sinking-ship.html"},"modified":"2009-11-07T15:36:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T15:36:01","slug":"best-selling-anglican-author-prepares-to-desert-a-sinking-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/11\/best-selling-anglican-author-prepares-to-desert-a-sinking-ship.html","title":{"rendered":"Best-selling Anglican author prepares to “desert a sinking ship”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Noted British author G. P. Taylor<\/a> is about to swim the Tiber: <\/p>\n

\n\"graham-taylor-460_951263c.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>Vicar-turned-author Rev G P Taylor says he will desert the “sinking ship” Church of England, which he said was the “spiritual arm of New Labour”, for Roman Catholicism.<\/p>\n

The Rev Taylor, whose children’s book Shadowmancer became an international best-seller, said he was turning instead to the Roman Catholic church, which he believes is less afraid to stand up for important moral issues.<\/p>\n

Writing in the Yorkshire Post, he said the Church of England had ”sunk into a liberal pit that was no earthly use and offered no hope, no love and no grace”.<\/p>\n

He added: ”It was going through the motions of faith and was largely irrelevant to the people it once thought it served. ‘Like so many other Anglicans, I am at that place where I feel I must desert a sinking ship.”<\/p>\n

Rev Taylor said: ”The Church I once loved has become the spiritual arm of New Labour.”
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\nThe author said many bishops ”spend more time preaching about climate change or dressing up as Druidic bards than preaching a gospel of salvation that would cure the ills of society overnight if properly embraced”. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read more about Taylor and his decison at the link.<\/a><\/p>\n

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