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...unholy coincidence that many took to be divine retribution. Two weeks ago, Canon David Jenkins, 59, who had publicly asserted that neither the Virgin birth nor the Resurrection need be taken too literally, was formally consecrated as Bishop of Durham in York Min- ster amid cries of protest. Less than three days later, in the early hours of the morning, lightning forked down on the wooden roof of the minster's 13th century south transept. By 2:30 a.m., flames were leap- ing from the medieval masterpiece that is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe...
...full scope of the tragedy became apparent: littered with six-foot-high piles of charred debris and fallen beams, the area resembled nothing so much as a bombed-out shell. But the destruction had been limited. Five-sixths of the church, including a huge wooden sculpture of the Virgin and Child, remained unharmed. Best of all, the minster's priceless medieval stained glass largely escaped serious damage. Said Chief Fire Officer Ralph Ford: "The Lord was on our side as we battled with the flames...
...however, than the flames of controversy were rekindled over the new Bishop of Durham. Jenkins, a professor of theology at the University of Leeds, had caused much of the fuss in a TV appearance about a month after he was named to the diocese. He had declared that the Virgin birth and the Resurrection might be more symbolic than literal, and that a person could be a good Christian even while doubting the divinity of Jesus. Immediately, traditionalists mounted a counterattack. The conservative Church of England Newspaper condemned Jenkins as a man "who takes pride in peddling dangerous and false...
...clear that hers is in truth a cri de coeur for the unassuageable pain of growing old before she has even grown up. If this is the heartland, it is as seen by Freud: the husband lusts after the girl and fantasizes about her as the virtuous virgin that his wife was not; the wife acts kittenish even with the milkman; the girl selects lovers, then discards them. Middle age is portrayed as a time of aching sexual frustration, made more acute by the close-at-hand vision of youth. Some of Inge's kitchen-sink exposition seems dated...
Branson maintains that Laker failed because he bought too many planes too soon and then was battered by the sinking value of the pound against the dollar. A big fleet is not Branson's problem. As of last week Virgin Atlantic consisted of one airplane, a Boeing Branson with a model of his Virgin aircraft...