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Letters to AO

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Letters from 6 to 13 June 2004

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Not losing the plot

HERE IS AN IDEA for marketing 'tombs'. (See the AO front-page letter last week.) How about a cybermemorial page / plot with nice gothic or baroque cartouches waiting to be filled -- at a price -- with the details of a loved one. Immortality could not be guaranteed of course, but as long as Anglicans Online remained online, the plot / page would be visitable. A one-off fee would apply.

Best wishes from your separated brother.

Joe Hooper
Our Lady of Jesmond, Traditional Anglican Church (part of TAC)
Newcastle upon Tyne, ENGLAND
8 June 2004

The Trinity as shibboleth?

I FOUND YOUR COMMENTS about the Trinity and heresy very interesting. Many people who ask the clergy for an explanation are fobbed off with remarks like 'Think about it and you'll eventually understand'.

Would it be useful to regard the Trinity as a shibboleth: a mere sound-badge of loyalty, without any meaning at all: something we must say in order to be accepted into the group; 'wind past your ear', as the Chinese say? Then we can all stop agonising about it.

Many thanks for your wonderful website.

Kindest Regards,

David Crowther
Clayton, Bradford
Bradford, ENGLAND
11 June 2004


Earlier letters

We launched our 'Letters to AO' section on 11 May 2003. All of our letters are in our archives.

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