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Thread: Jezebel's Trumpet
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KevinL
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Why is The Church Times called Jezebel's Trumpet?
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Clavus
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It is said that Robert Runcie, when Principal of Cuddesdon, told the ordinands: 'It is your duty to read the Church Times - and a sin to enjoy it.'
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Mark Betts
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According to the wiki article:
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Wiki Article on Church Times:
The Church Times is an independent Anglican weekly newspaper. It is published in the United Kingdom on Fridays.
The Church Times was founded in 1863 to campaign for Anglo-Catholic principles and has always been independent of the Church of England hierarchy. It was a family concern (G. J. Palmer & Sons Ltd) until 1989 when ownership passed to Hymns Ancient and Modern, a Christian charitable trust. Since the 1940s the paper has become less specifically Anglo-Catholic and broader in both its outlook and coverage. It is popularly nicknamed "Jezebel's Trumpet" (alluding to Jezebel the wife of King Ahab of Israel; II Kings).
I am guessing that the nickname was originally pejorative, and was coined by evangelical Anglicans because they didn't like Anglo-Catholic influence, especially from outside the C of E hierarchy. Nowadays I would suppose it is used in a more humorous sense.
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Snags
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And from such prejudicial assumptions come many potential arguments ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
A very quick Google brings up this:
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This does not prevent some from making unwarranted assumptions about the newspaper's editorial stance. Some assume that it is a liberal Catholic paper while others believe that it is anti-Evangelical. Some still call it “Jezebel's trumpet” because of its perceived failure to defend the finer points of Anglo-Catholic doctrine. One former news editor suggested that the publication had “something to irritate everyone”.
(Librarian's Christian Fellowship, about halfway through)
Which rather implies it's more of a back-stabbing/selling down the river monicker than an external dissing.
Me, I have no horse in this race, and have an entirely different set of publications to be rude about
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Bishops Finger
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Oh, I dunno. I rather like irritating everyone, so it's no Bad Thing so to do IMNSHO.
Jezebel's Trumpet seems to me to represent the broad-church nature of the C of E quite well. It's donkeys years since I last looked at the CEN, and the FinF paper usually succeeds in depressing me.......
Ian J.
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KevinL
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Thanks each and all for the enlightening. I could not turn anything up in my Google searches, so I appreciate the sourcing. Cheers!
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