Julian Mann is vicar of the Parish Church of the Ascension, Oughtibridge, South Yorkshire. Is there a link between professional politicians' attitude to public service and collapsing party membership? There was much soul-searching in 1993 when Conservative Party membership fell below 500,000. Many Conservative activists, both politicians and volunteers, could remember the days in the […]
Julian Mann is vicar of the Parish Church of the Ascension, Oughtibridge, South Yorkshire The socialist cleric, avowedly old Labour, who led the seminar on faith and politics at our diocesan development day was rather taken back when I expressed support for the return of capital punishment. When I argued in favour of lowering the […]
Julian Mann is vicar of the Parish Church of the Ascension, Oughtibridge, South Yorkshire. Every parent of teenagers in the United Kingdom should be thankful for the way in which Louise Mensch MP communicated her moral abhorrence of illegal drugs, fuelled by her past experience of taking them as a young person. Appearing on BBC […]
Julian Mann has been vicar of the Parish Church of the Ascension, Oughtibridge, South Yorkshire since 2000. Before getting ordained he was a reporter for Retail Week. He is married to Lisa and they have four teenage sons. A survey of Christian knowledge in a local community has exposed disturbing ignorance of the basics in teenagers of the GCSE generation. The […]
The teacher really did tell the Anglican clergyman from Jos, Nigeria, not to say that his friend had been murdered by a Muslim.