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http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,1282084,00.html
Leader
Friday August 13, 2004
The Guardian
A newspaper with Mancunian roots does not lightly take issue with the
Bishop of Hulme, least of all on matters of doctrine. Writing in his
diocesan newsletter, Bishop Stephen Lowe says that the hymn I Vow To
Thee My Country is heretical, on the grounds that a Christian's
ultimate commitment is to God not to the nation state. This seems a
reasonable standpoint for a churchman, and Bishop Lowe adopts it in a
sweeping condemnation of English notions of superiority and fear of
racial difference with which we also sympathise. Towards the end of
his article, however, he then adds that he will not sing the
controversial hymn.
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