Must The Church Always Adapt To Progressive Demands? Rev Calvin Robinson, Banned From Church of England Priesthood, Blasts Trans Agenda In Church as "Idolatry." Worship Of Self
"If somebody asked me how I identify, I'd probably say Christian." Calvin Robinson
“If marriage is no longer between one man and one woman, are we open to the idea of polygamy? We disregard the heterosexual aspect. Why not the monogamous aspect, too? If love is love. Who is to say three men in a relationship is not more loving than two?
And I’m sure someone will echo those dreaded words tonight: love is love. This is about marriage. The Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. Not directly about love. Too many people who utter those words have a confused understanding of love. Agape – love in a Biblical context - divine love is a sacrificial love. It is not lustful. People often conflate sex with love, that is very disingenuous.
Then, of course, atheists often parrot the words “God is love” again without any understanding. Yes, God is love, and he sets the terms, not us.”
—Rev. Calvin Robinson
Our friend Teresa L., aka Pélerine, writes a Substack that, like a tiny shop at the end of a small London road, will have items of surprise not found elsewhere.
Her post on May 20, for example, about the classical minded Deacon Calvin Robinson, now blocked by The Church Of England from the Priesthood, due to his “conservative” ideas and refusal to yield to the melding of the Church of England with the Trans/Woke agenda.
I heard of him a few years ago, and expect to listen to many hours of his podcasts and interviews.
Through his troubling yet fascinating clash with the Right On Church of England, I discovered where the Woke Anaconda is headed—namely straight at the throat of “institutional” Christianity.
I’m not saying that part is a new, or surprising revelation to me;
I began photo-documenting of LQBTQ and MLB logos on NYC churches over 7 years ago. Here is just
one of many dozen I collected all around NYC:
What I am saying is new as of this listening, is that the Woke Anaconda is presently demanding a wholesale owning of the Christian faith, followed by a radical redefining of it that is as “non-binary” as its redefinition of gender. It aims to trap it, threaten it, take it into itself, and then, when all this is done, tell it what it is.
No more comfort can be taken in the notion that the progressive woke revolutionaries “hate” Christianity.
Rather—they’re seeking to overtake it, to remake it in their own progressive image. And not only in the UK.
The Swedish Church, for its part, left Twitter after the uproar when it was reported they declared Greta Thunberg a successor to Christ. This statement does not clarify much but from what I can discern, they actually said she was an Old Testament Prophet.
When The Garden Of Eden went LGBTQ and the Snake was “Transphobic.”
I wrote this (cut and pasted) a few years back for The Epoch Times.
Robinson reports about private airplanes at Davos here.
I’m posting Teresa’s whole post below (Teresa is a Roman Catholic) but first a few words about another Calvin Robinson interview I just listened to.
This one.
At the 18:20 mark of this video begins the most interesting 10 minutes of dialogue I have heard in years. It’s between Robinson and a fellow Christian, professor of theology, who identifies as trans/queer/non-binary /Latinx, whereas Robinson establishes identity labels as idolatry (self idolizing) and asserts that only the Christian faith unifies, nothing else. He says there is an inherent contradiction in woke-Christianity, as it places “identity,” skin tone, gender, etc, before love of God and belief in the resurrection. As he simply and elegantly points out—Woke Christianity does not even get past the First Commandment.
Teresa’a piece below:
Bravo! This Anglican Deacon Could Teach Us Catholics a Thing or Two on Speaking TRUTH to the World.
MAY 20
Meet Anglican Deacon Calvin Robinson. He’s a “political adviser, TV/radio presenter, and conservative commentator,” per his own page.
He was “cancelled” a year ago by the Church of England for his “unacceptable” views on critical race theory and other “wokeist” effluvium.
His application for priesthood in the Church of England was blocked.
He remains with the Anglican Communion, which says that it’s the Church of England that left the Communion by their move to officially bless same-sex unions.
Calvin Robinson: I feel LIBERATED after being CANCELLED by the Church of England
May 22, 2022
From the Reverend’s Substack page:
// The statement from Gafcon and the Global South is both clear and strong. There is great regret that the General Synod of the Church of England in February passed a motion to allow the blessing of same-sex unions, a motion that directly opposes the Scriptures, thus dragging the Church into apostasy. For that reason, the Anglican Communion no longer recognises the Archbishop of Canterbury as first among equals and calls on him and other leaders in the Church of England to repent and return to the Biblical teachings of Christ. God does not bless what he calls sin.
“Both GSFA and Gafcon Primates share the view that, due to the departures from orthodoxy articulated above, they can no longer recognise the Archbishop of Canterbury as an Instrument of Communion, the ‘first among equals’ of the Primates. The Church of England has chosen to impair her relationship with the orthodox provinces in the Communion.”
The call to repentance was met with great sadness, but the Gafcon and Global South delegates who represent ±85% of Anglicans worldwide made it abundantly clear that they are not leaving the Anglican Communion, or even creating a new Communion, but that it is the Church of England which has moved away from the Communion. Gafcon and the Global South will now in essence eject the heretical Church of England until they repent and return to the Gospel. There will be a resetting of the governing instruments of the Anglican Communion.
[Emphasis added]
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Rev. Calvin Robinson drew more attention just this past February when he gave a “controversial” speech filled with Christian truths at the Oxford Union Debate (see video below).
He addressed the catchphrases, “Love is love,” “God is love,” and all the good-sounding blurbs used in twisted, deceptive fashion by activists to advance their nefarious agenda among the unwitting.
He even quotes the Catholic Catechism in his speech! (Makes sense, since he self-identifies as an Anglo-Catholic — Anglicans who recognize and emphasize the Catholic heritage of their faith. Read more about Anglo-Catholicism here.). He actually sounds more Catholic than many nominally ‘Catholic’ priests and bishops in the USCCB.
As he says to Matt Fradd in the interview below, he really thought he’d completely failed Christianity with that speech — contrary to the actual reaction of cheers and applause from Anglicans and Catholics who would hear it later on.
MUST-VIEW, MUST-HEAR:
Rev. Calvin Robinson | Christianity SHOULD NOT allow gay marriage - 6/8 | Oxford Union
Feb 15, 2023
From Video Description:
Currently, Church of England members of the clergy are not permitted to carry out same-sex marriages, whilst homosexual Anglicans are required to remain celibate. In recent years, however, the Church of Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church, and, most recently, the Methodist Church, have all embraced marriage equality. In February 2023, the General Synod met to discuss the issue, raising the question across the Anglican Communion and Christendom: should Christianity extend the sacraments to same same-sex marriages?
I SO LOVE Rev. Robinson’s crystal clear, unequivocal, no beating-around-the-bush, no-walking-on-eggshells talk. I so love how he truly embodies a living, walking witness to Christ’s authentic teachings.
He even criticizes the closing down of churches — even to priests — in the UK during “COVID”!
Galvanizing to listen to his crisp, brisk cadence, too.
SHAME ON those cowardly and craven UK Catholic Bishops who turned down the offer to debate on the Reverend’s side at the Oxford Union event.
The transcript of his speech is here:
Fr Calvin Robinson
Below is a transcript of my speech to the Oxford Union debate on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, in opposition against "This House Supports Same-Sex Marriage in Church." I will upload the video to this post, when it becomes available. Dr Ian Paul and I went up against the Bishop of Buckingham, the Bishop of Dudley and the Bishop of Worcester…
4 months ago · 95 likes · 222 comments · Fr Calvin Robinson
LISTEN TO A MOST WONDERFUL CONVERSATION:
INTERVIEW ON Pints with Aquinas with Matt Fradd:
IN THE VIDEO BELOW, Rev. Robinson chats freely, frankly and wonderfully with Matt Fradd on Matt’s show, Pints with Aquinas, earlier today. (Matt is himself is an Aussie revert to Catholicism)
Funny that he “can’t stand ‘praise & worship’ music” — “Give me Handel any day!” LOL, a holy man after my heart.
Being an Anglican, he is not bound to priestly celibacy, and he could get married in future.
It’s an interesting and respectful discussion on topics that Matt and Calvin disagree (from their respective Catholic and Anglican positions).
The Q&A (questions from Matt’s viewers) starts at about 1 hr 39 min.
He’s happy as an Anglo-Catholic minister. Nevertheless, I still pray for the good deacon to eventually cross the Tiber to Rome. 🙏
(Although his comments about the UK Anglican Ordinariate do not sound very encouraging! Apparently, ex-chaplain to the Queen and recent convert to Catholicism, Gavin Ashenden, did not get much support from the Ordinariate, either! What the heck! Things are really a mess in the hierarchy — including the Anglican Ordinariate!)
EXTRA:
[PROGRAM WAS JUST OVER AT THE TIME OF INITIAL POSTING]
His latest:
Calvin's Common Sense Crusade | Saturday 20th May
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I want to clarify something. If we believe in freedom, it starts with the freedom to not be forced to BECOME something else, being imposed upon you. Taxonomy keeps all things separate. A frog is a frog. A mushroom is a mushroom. There are five kingdoms of life. etc. Christianity is not de facto "homophobic" in my view, for holding the belief that marriage is a God contract to procreate within marriage and that contract is by God's design between a man and a woman. I may defend or in any case not threaten to abolish either gay marriage and/or gay families AND draw the line a offering up Christianity as a whole, to be demolished and re-written to this end. No. Christianity has every right to define ITSELF. I am aware Christianity's bloody history includes forced domination over people who did not wish to be Christian. Today, LGBTQ is forcing the world to become LGBTQ and forcing the Church to lead the charge. That's malignant narcissism encoded as globalist agenda.
To complicate matters further, I have gay friends who are devout Christians. I would not wish for them not to be Christians, nor would I ask that they magically become heterosexual. These men understand the Christian faith, and do not impose demands of homosexual culture onto it. They are Christians first.
What say you, Doug Reed? Eager to have you help me with this.
Being obliged to see men as women—or even as "transpeople" is like being obliged to see that 2+2=5. There are two genders; one cannot change his or her gender. That's science. That's the truth.