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    Passed with a synod and a wink

    Oct 28, 2021 3 minutes

    O THE RESULTS ARE IN. A new dawn has broken, has it not? Where there is discord may we bring harmony; let’s get it done. Et cetera. What? You didn’t know there was a General Election on? Well there was. All across England (and the Channel Islands). At least, sort-of. An election for the General Synod, which is the Church of England’s parliament and has the power to pass measures which, unless they are blocked by the national Parliament, enter into the laws of the

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