Free the Lambeth One
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Description:
Our dearly loved archbishop, Rowan, has been held captive in Lambeth for four years: around about the same time he was installed on the episcopal fence.

It is time to storm the palace and Welease Wowan.

The proposal:

1. Invite your facebook friends to sign up to the mission.

2. Flash mob (internet based impromptu gathering for the express purpose of silliness and subversion).

3. Storm the Palace (non-violently, offering tea and biscuits) and greeting one another with the sign of peace... (read more)
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Mother Superior
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Wise One
Steve
Secretary of State for Vegan beer
Marie
Corruptor of the Saints?
Keith
Ceremonial Basher of the Bishop
Ruth
Sign O The Times
Emma
Awesomely Named
Helga
Health & Sanity Adviser
Sue
Scissors-Stone-Paper (ginger nuts, tea)
Darrell
Minister of the absurd
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Name:
Free the Lambeth One
Category:
Just for Fun - Fan Clubs
Description:
Our dearly loved archbishop, Rowan, has been held captive in Lambeth for four years: around about the same time he was installed on the episcopal fence.

It is time to storm the palace and Welease Wowan.

The proposal:

1. Invite your facebook friends to sign up to the mission.

2. Flash mob (internet based impromptu gathering for the express purpose of silliness and subversion).

3. Storm the Palace (non-violently, offering tea and biscuits) and greeting one another with the sign of peace... (read more)
Privacy Type:
Open: All content is public.

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Recent News
 

News:
* Ooh, the Lambeth Conference is on the way...

* Williams calls on government to do more for the most vulnerable.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/7061

* On a more serious note, have a look at the Easter sermon and the Observer 'culture of blame' article - posted below. Fine stuff.

* No cracks on here about Rowan's predecessor, Sharia Carey. That's good.

* Recent events may suggest that action is URGENT...

* 300! We're only 300 people! We really need to do somethin' now....

* Happy Christmas, Rowan... we're still comin' to rescue you...

* The Official Lambeth Conference 2008 Escape Committee has been formed. (Donations of stackable Common Worship books and any spare heavy digging/tunnelling equipment are invited)

* Welease Wowan attempt might well be made before the next General Synod... WATCH THIS SPACE.

* Williams on Dawkins: http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5925

* Wowah! We are over 200 members - is the momentum now unstoppable? Watch out Rowan, we're coming to getcha....

* We have 102 potential members who "haven't replied" yet - including one St Francis of Assisi... Hmmnn. Holiday, Rowan?

* Ooo-er, we are nearly at 200 members. A "tipping point", surely? Recruit, dear friends, RECRUIT!!

* A careful demographic survey of membership suggests that we are totally representative of all very nice people.

* A review of 'Christ on Trial' - http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5603

* Is a bit of 'substitutionary atonement theology' made use of at the Episcopal Church this week, as the vocation of lesbian and gay priests is laid out on the altar of unity?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7013552.stm

* A Lambeth staff member *has* joined us now, btw. Plus we have all the best-looking people on Facebook signing up. Allegedly.

* Triple figures on members. We may get the fella out after all. A lot of people left when they discovered that this was more than a discussion group but it seems many more are 'up for' a bit of godly japery and sandwiches (and cake).

* Rowan and the 'drift to idiocracy' - http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/barrow/article_06099rowan.shtml

* A Lambeth staff member has courteously declined to join us. They are worried they'll lose their jobs if Rowan is released.

* This group has many more members than the General Synod C of E one. Plus we have a better social life :)

* This group makes the news.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5575

* Williams still in binds while Akinola at large
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5516

* Is Rowan Williams a prisoner of the Evangelical Right? Asks Sergio Carranza-Gomez.
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/5452

* Dr Williams says that at a fundamental level prison is not working http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/news/uk/070202prisons

* One member of the Synod told 'Free the Lambeth One' that they had been advised that they should vote for the Covenant because it is "What Rowan would want them to do.". Suggesting that synod policy has descended into personality-based ecclesiology over and above personal responsibility for decisions.