Archbishop Jonathan Blake
The Most Reverend Jonathan Blake, Presiding Archbishop of the Open Episcopal Church B.A. (Hons), Dip. Pastoral Studies. Mobile: 07767 687711 www.bishopjonathanblake.com archbishopjonathanblake@gmail.com www.openepiscopalchurch.org The Church is a member of The International Council of Community churches and the World Council of Churches. Married and a proud Dad.
About Me
- Name: Bishop Jonathan Blake
- Location: London, Kent, United Kingdom
Gassed Tehran, seized Kabul, helped Mother Teresa, funded TB hospital, priest 1981, went Auschwitz, wrote on Parliament, convicted, began 1st inter-faith NHS chapel, 12 yrs Anglican cleric/vicar - left, baptised 1000's in homes/Mt Snowdon/at circus, wedding underwater, wrote ‘For God’s Sake Don’t Go To Church’, nailed 95 Theses 2 Canterbury cathedral, arrested, co-founded the Society for Independent Ministry, consecrated a bishop, co-founded the Open Episcopal Church, did 1st gay wedding on morning TV, sued Associated Newspapers, co-consecrated 1st women bishops 4 England,Wales,Scotland, accommodated the homeless, posted Mass/took it 2 sex workers, elected Archbishop, arrested 4 climbing with sons,founded ‘When No One’s Watching',made ICV, did Jade Goody's wedding,invited 2 Downing St, wrote 'That Old Devil Called God Again', conviction 4 campaigning against child abuse quashed on appeal, convicted 4 successful blogging 2 stop paedophile. His Christmas Lights raising £79,000 4 Water in 4 Gambian villages. Published "The Tales of Henry the Lovable Hedgehog", the SAFE New Testament + Psalms + radical Book of Common Prayer, ordained priests for UK,US,Thailand,Spain,Ireland
Friday, June 30, 2017
LIVING LIFE TO THE FULL
OMG! BLAKE'S GOT HIS KIDS ON THE ROOF AGAIN
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/police-hunt-ends-tv-station-spots-boy-napping-roof/
JESUS - BURNT TO DEATH AT GRENFELL
They had to flee immediately from the threat of persecution.
They came to the U.K. as refugees but there was no safe accommodation for them.
They were crammed, high in a holocaust chamber, with no chance of escape.
The rich didn't want anyone to know just how ugly were their intentions, so they made the death chamber 'pretty' from the outside.
The religious people looked on and agreed it looked pretty and were too busy dealing with heaven to see the corruption and injustice taking place in front of them.
Jesus looked out that night and saw the flames licking his window.
His Dad was out looking for work and his Mum hadn't got back from her late shift.
Fear gripped him. He muttered under his breath, "My God, my God, why have you deserted me?"
They haven't been able to find his body.
The Prime Minister has promised an absolutely comprehensive and full enquiry, getting to the whole truth, but the judge appointed has said he's been told something different.....
The Council involved has promised to absolutely, comprehensively and fully cooperate but barred the public from their meeting to talk about the fire and barred journalists too and stopped the meeting the moment a judge said the journalists had to be allowed in........
It seems you just cannot ever trust the authorities.....
Our only hope, is that someone should rise from the ashes and create a movement of those unwilling to be pushed around, lied to and duped, and who, whatever the cost, will stand for the truth and for justice.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/keep-costs-of-cladding-down-grenfell-tower-experts-told-6qrhmwzxv
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
HOMELESSNESS - THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX
PEACE
WHEN COURTS KILL A CHILD, JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Never again will State and Court be associated alone with the dispensation of justice, the protection of human rights, the guardianship of citizens and the care of children.
We have had to grow up and realise that those in wigs and ermine, who raise themselves to positions of control and judgement and who feast with the 'highest and best' are even able to have a child die, at their command. They have been toppled from their places of honour and trust by the tiny hands and heart of a defenceless babe.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/human-rights-court-ends-battle-by-charlie-gards-parents-z6p7sqd35
HILLSBOROUGH - A DREADFUL BLOW FOR THE ORDINARY PERSON
The CPS has today made a decision to prosecute those who hitherto were the law enforcers, leaders and guardians of our society, and who were thereby protected, somehow immune from prosecution by the institutional collusion that exists, to pander to organs of governance, however corrupt they may be.
It has only taken 30 years of protests, inquests, public inquiries and millions of pounds to FORCE the CPS to act and to SQUEEZE the truth into the public domain and for justice to take its proper course.
What hope is there for you and I?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-40419819
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
TURNING 'NORMAL' UPSIDE DOWN WITH A COFFEE
PAKISTAN TAKES A STEP FORWARD IN PROTECTING WOMEN
TRUE LISTENING
THE DEATH TOLL COULD BE HUNDREDS - WE WILL NEVER BE TOLD - YOU CAN'T TRUST THE MEDIA ANYMORE
The media and their billion pound backers are just organs to manipulate the masses into compliant behaviour, to ward off the tumult and to silence those who really know.
When you begin to observe truly and to participate in social action as I have, and the systemic corruption becomes so clear, at every level, one is left incredulous.
In the heady days of my youthful idealism, I did not have a clue just how deep the contamination went. In fact my very idealism, 'tolerated' as it is by the powerful, accommodated and channelled, is itself their play thing, to be teased and tossed, but never taken seriously.
All around, facts are being squashed, information withheld, truths screened and those, like myself, who have discovered, are being gagged.
Democracy, if it ever really existed, is going in to meltdown.
Wealth and power has managed to purchase the system of governance so that it can be usefully employed to its own interests.
However, the pressure cooker is heating and the seals are beginning to fail. Too many are realising. The hordes are gathering. The world is on the move. The borders are being breached. The Tower Blocks are burning and the poor are being wilfully cremated.
Despite the media, the truth will out.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/death-toll-covered-up-to-prevent-riots-suggests-mp-30x920pp9
LORD CAREY, PETER BALL AND ARCHBISHOP WELBY - JUST ANOTHER BIG CHILD ABUSE COVER UP
And what is more, what they do is irrelevant, achieves absolutely nothing and rather then help the victims of child sexual abuse, it actually harms them.
Why?
Because it all plays into the great game the 'leaders' in our society appear good at playing, that they are taking this whole child sexual abuse things seriously, with investigations and special police operations and child protection policies and safeguarding structures.
In truth, it's all just a front to silence the noisy victims and wrap their inconvenient protests up in pseudo actions and empty promises.
What actually happens, is that the public remain duped about the level of child offending that exists in society, that those who want to inform the public about known child abusers, even the media are gagged, even convicted, and that those who are guilty of cover-ups, like Carey, are protected, until their actions finally come to light, when the 'great and the good' are seen to leap into 'righteous' action, that is in fact a lie in motion.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/lord-carey-quits-church-role-after-peter-ball-sex-case-cover-up-sgcxk7mrn
CHILDREN ROT IN LOCAL AUTHORITY 'CARE' RATHER THAN BE GIVEN GOOD HOMES
Repeatedly, local authorities make perverse decisions that pander to their 'systems' rather than the needs of the children.
Excellent parents are turned down, often because they are screened out for political or other irrelevant reasons, and inept parents, who are deemed compliant to the 'system requirements' but are ill-equipped or purely financially motivated, are accepted.
There are of course notable exceptions, but they are few and far between. Sandeep and Reena Mander are just the latest victims of a flawed process that leaves children to rot.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/sikh-couple-told-they-were-wrong-culture-to-adopt-a-white-child-skmbq3db3
Thursday, June 22, 2017
MORE TO LIFE
THE FOREIGN AID BUDGET USED TO SEND PEOPLE BACK TO POVERTY AND WAR
TEACHER BANNED FOR LIFE FOR AFFAIR WITH PUPIL
NOTHING BESIDE REMAINS
Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias"
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away. |
ONE BILLION MORE PEOPLE WILL BE BURNING BARRICADES AT CALAIS
The technological advances erode the need for human beings.
The powerful find the protests of the poor a nuisance.
When they start to knock at our door, worse still.
Brexit is that door being slammed shut and reinforced.
Can it withstand the rising pressure.
One billion more hands a pushing, wanting to be fed, to drink clean water, to be healthy, to be housed, to be free, to have smart phones, cars, fridges, dishwashers, computers, gaming consoles and bots like the rich, not to mention luxury yachts and private jets.
The tide is rising, the invasion looming, the deluge is near.
Unless we think again and act now, either the poor or the rich will be in grave danger.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/one-billion-will-be-added-to-world-s-population-by-2030-fcc7rrjnx
BREXIT - THE U.K.'S COLONIAL DREAM
Those who still hanker after lost influence and those old colonial days when we ruled our empire and travelled with a sense of privilege and advantage.
Those who fantasise now about going it alone, dreaming about all we will achieve by ourselves.
It's the sort of thinking that leads to the 'Brexit means Brexit' approach, as though there was just one interpretation, one analysis.
It often goes with the illusion of 'Britishness' that there is such a thing as a 'pure Brit'. We are an island of minestrone soup. Dip the spoon into any inhabitant, even the most apparently 'British' and you'll find multiple ingredients.
So what does 'Brexit' actually mean? The truth is no-one knows.
It is a hybrid word, born of in-house Tory politics and Cameron's lost gamble, that has resurrected our colonial fantasies and threatens to add to world fragmentation.
Hopefully, as the negative consequences of the Brexit experiment emerge and sweep away the deceitful Aladdin's Cave promises of the Brexiteers and the prejudices which provided the fuel to drive them to victory, a more considered and nuanced interpretation of the word will be found, that will awaken us to the fact that the Commonwealth replaced our Colonial rule.
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
LONGEST DAY JOYS
DRONES FOR LIFE - AT LAST!
STRONG LIVES
FIRST OFFICIAL ADMISSION THAT THE GRENFELL DEATH TOLL MAY BE MUCH HIGHER AND NEVER KNOWN
The rich of Kensington and Chelsea Council knew that the rabbit box flats at Grenfell were bulging beyond the seams and yet cladding it with Hydrogen Cyanide emitting panels and charging £2000 a month rent were all a means of appeasing local protest. It looked better and was a cash cow.
That the poorest, the war and poverty fleeing migrants and those at the edges of life and luck faced immense danger was of little consequence it seemed.
Now they admit, we will never know just how many were consumed in a tragedy, borne of criminal negligence.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/amnesty-for-illegal-migrants-scared-to-say-they-survived-grenfell-blaze-hpmhrv9lw
ESCAPING A LIFETIME OF REGRET
Husna, Hamid and Hanif Begum chose to die with their Mum and Dad, rather than leave them and escape.
Sometimes there are horrendous choices we have to make, because we know, that though one choice may save us from temporary suffering or calamity, it would only deliver us into a lifetime of regret.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/bride-to-be-chose-to-die-with-parents-in-grenfell-tower-vrszpfn0l
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
HOW TO COPE WITH HOT NIGHTS
1. Drink plenty of water through the evening.
2. Have a cool/cold shower or better still lie in a cool/cold bath for a while before lying on the bed.
3. Wear no clothes at all on the bed.
4. Have a fan blowing gently over you.
5. Have just a sheet nearby, in case you cool in the night.
You should sleep well
SHEKEB NEDA - BEARING THE MUM WHO BORE YOU TO SAFETY
THE TRUTH
THE MUSLIM ATTITUDE
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grenfell-tower-fire-muslims-kensington-sunset-meal-ramadan-fast-street-residents-victims-a7793336.html?cmpid=facebook-post
U.K. PRISONERS - EVEN THE ELDERLY ARE TREATED INHUMANELY LIKE OTTO WARMBIER
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/ailing-prisoner-died-shackled-to-officer-q8mxhl6qq
The Ministry of Justice said: “We have guidance in place for the management of older prisoners and we are committed to ensuring all prisoners are treated fairly and with dignity.”
ANT MCPARTLIN AND CARRIE FISHER - THE FAME WARS RAGED BY THE STARS
When we milk normality from individuals we render them often incapable of coping with the demand. The constant draw upon their beings and expectations that surround them denude them physically and mentally.
When, with every competition and reality show, a new star is born, I fear for their lives and rue what we are about to do to their raw hopes and aspirations.
Today we give them a crown and a garland - tomorrow, an early grave.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/40318604/ant-mcpartlin-checks-into-rehab-for-alcohol-and-drug-problem
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/carrie-fisher-had-cocaine-heroin-and-ecstasy-in-her-system-when-she-fell-ill-on-flight-8qt2fblpq
MOHAMMED MAHMOUD - DO NOT TOUCH HIM
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/do-not-touch-him-imam-mohammed-mahmoud-saves-finsbury-park-driver-from-angry-mob-53cvsb56f
Friday, June 16, 2017
WE ALL NEED TO HELP EACH OTHER WALK AGAIN
RUIN
CONTENTMENT
ISHMAHIL BLAGROVE SUMS IT UP WELL
AND JONNY POURS SCORN ON FEMINISM
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/man-tied-wife-to-railway-line-and-let-200mph-paris-tgv-kill-them-hmlhjbqc2
£3.5 BILLION FOR THE PALACE BUT NOT £5000 FOR GRENFELL
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/17/houses-of-parliament-repair-bill
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4609334/Fireproof-cladding-Grenfell-cost-5k-more.html
THE PROFLIGATE PLAY WHILE THE POOR BURN
Different worlds in parallel. The doomed and the darlings of society.
https://uk.westfield.com/london/luxury
TAKE CORBYN'S LEAD AND REQUISITION BUCKINGHAM PALACE
Buckingham Palace has many rooms for the Grenfell Tower homeless.
The Monarch can set the example.
It is time for change.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/corbyn-seize-properties-of-the-rich-for-grenfell-homeless-7shxj9zjs
STAY IN YOUR FLATS AND BURN - THE PRIME MINISTER WANTS CONTROL
Never could there have been a more nonsensical instruction from officialdom.
Emergency operators were telling families to stay put for hours while the flames licked around them and smoke seeped into their homes.
Why?
Because, it is claimed, the fire fighters don't want to have the stairwwells blocked by hordes of escaping residents. They wanted more control over the situation, a little like May yesterday.
The concept of the state trying to exert order in the eye of a horror that the wise are escaping is folly.
Just as it was a folly for Theresa May to choose not to meet the residents yesterday, not to shed a tear, not to display her humanity.
These are cold official demonstrations of why human beings must always question what they are told and assess what is true and best.
A Dad managed to rescue his family at 4.30 a.m. from one of the highest floors by taking his own initiative.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/grenfell-tower-fire-theresa-may-criticised-for-snubbing-victims-as-she-orders-inquiry-g80dx5rbd
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/14/stay-put-safety-advice-under-scrutiny-grenfell-tower-fire
NOW WE ARE BEING TOLD WE WILL NEVER KNOW HOW MANY DIED
NO ONE WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR GRENFELL - IT'S A HOLOCAUST POLICY
I warn that it will fade rapidly.
The penetrating questions will be avoided, by officials batting them towards some distant investigation that will find that every player covered their backs and followed all the protocols in place.
The buck will stop with no one.
Officialdom hope that by then the raging anger of the victims and their sympathisers will have lost its bite and even any recommendations for action can be safely ignored and forgotten like the coroner's report that tower blocks should have sprinkler systems retrofitted.
The devastating truth is that fire certificates are not issued for older tower blocks because they couldn't be and condemning them would cause a housing crisis. The powerful are content to cram the poor into unsafe units of accommodation where they may well be baked alive.
In brutal truth, it's a holocaust policy.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/us-banned-cladding-that-was-used-on-grenfell-tower-kd02bwjlx
Thursday, June 15, 2017
FIND YOURSELF
LEO VARADKAR MAKES HISTORY
https://www.positive.news/2017/archive/27532/irelands-first-gay-prime-minister-formally-elected/
WHAT JESUS INTENDED - A MEAL OF LOVE
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/11/532102736/this-dinner-party-invites-people-of-all-faiths-to-break-bread-together
GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN
IT'S JUST ALL A MATTER OF MILLIONS
OH FOR A WORLD WHERE CHILDREN HAVE THE CHANCE TO BE CHILDREN
TIM FARRON - SUNK NOT BY FAITH BUT DUPLICITY
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/liberal-democrats-farron-resigns-after-his-faith-made-leadership-impossible-6pgwwn9fh
DURHAM UNIVERSITY STUDENTS CAN PRAISE TERRORISM BUT I CAN'T WARN THE PUBLIC ABOUT A PAEDOPHILE
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/durham-islamic-students-gave-out-leaflets-praising-terrorism-5lk99b8ht