Ok, here are my predictions for 2011, to add to the lists from the Pluralist and the MadPriest:
1. Archbishop Rowan Williams will recognise that the Anglican Covenant is a lousy idea and appoint me as his chief advisor.
2. In a shocking turn of events, Archdruid Eileen will be exposed as a man.
3. The building programme for the Olympics will be on schedule and to cost and the Tabloids will express their joy at being British.
4. The Church Mouse's identity will be discovered and he will found to be a human being - Richard Dawkins indulging in his secret fetish for being reasonable on the subject of church.
5. The MadPriest will get a job as a priest in the Church of England with special responsibility for the proliferation of polite language.
6. The Pluralist will draw a picture of someone that is flattering (preferably me).
7. Bishop Nick Baines will do an excellent job in Bradford, which will be amalgamated with York, Ripon and Leeds and Wakefield. Archbishop John Sentamu, being newly unemployed, will take up a post training Bishops in the art of non-coercive persuasion.
8. Bishop Alan Wilson will be appointed to Salisbury, most of the other Bishops, realising the benefits of blogging, will take it up to improve their prospects of promotion.
9. The Ugley Vicar and Peter Ould will change their minds about LGBT people and join forces with Changing Attitudes.
10. Jeffrey John will become the Bishop of Reading, and there will be peace and harmony in the Church.
A very happy new year to you all. Please add some of your own.
11 comments:
There's nothing to add, the list is perfect!
My own thought had been that the CoE would be the only province to sign the Covenant but I agree that your point 1 is much more prophetic!
Happy New Year!
I thought that you would have Gurdur becoming a Christian on the list.
Happy New Year and welcome back.
Please - not my Bishop to start blogging. I've already has to listen to his podcasts.
Wicked stuff, far too close to the bone. I like it.
I think 3 has a chance of coming off. If any of the others (apart from 2, which bets are off) comes true in its entirety, you deserve to made Archbishop yourself for your powers of foresight.
These are also as likely to come true as my dog saying it doesn't like chocolate biscuits. That's a dog in a parallel universe.
I have a dog who doesn't like chocolatle biscuits.
Do you think that could help?
I am fully behind points 1 and 10. I'm hoping MP finds a job soon... but a special ministry of polite speech? Hmmm...
Happy New Year!
"I thought that you would have Gurdur becoming a Christian on the list." <--- naughty, naughty.
Besides which, you'ld hate it if I did. I would re-organize you all, have you all up at crack of dawn doing axe, sword and crossbow drill, making you all sing songs designed for bass and alto not bloody soprano or treble voices, that kind of thing.
Gurdur,
you're not the secret mind behind the Covenant, are you?
Charming, you'll be suggesting that Drayton Parslow's a member of the Church of England next.
Gurder – I sing a really average alto. Can I sing in your band? By the way one of my cats doesn't like fish, which is the same as a dog who doesn't eat chocolate isn't it? Happy new year!
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