Steering Committee - D.S. Gibbs

A church-goer who values greatly the role and the work of his Church in society. He also values the legacy of its great music: Anglican chant, its hymnal, and the beauty of some of its liturgy which records the changing ways in which clergy and laity have thought over the years. However, he finds much of the Old Testament too unChristian to be alloted a place in worship, much of the established dogma fossilized, and the required statements of belief disastrous. He is repelled by the legacy of the scapegoat and the history of blood-sacrifice, and is unable to understand salvation, atonement and redemption. He wishes that the thoughts, words and deeds of saints through the ages could have a regular place in worship and in the curriculum of schools. He likes the books of Patrick Francis.