This is the central truth of the new religion. The Sermon on the Mount and the Ten Commandments, the truths proclaimed by Moses and St. Paul, the Apostles and Nicene Creeds, are amusing old-fashioned anachronisms, but are completely outmoded thanks to man's brilliant discoveries in the 19th and 20th centuries, as outlined for us by Jack Spong in his Internet Theses. Humanism has triumphed.

Just this week in Canada, two retired bishops were brought back to active duty, but under the authority of Gregory Venables, archbishop of the Southern Cone, which encompasses much of South America. The move coincided with the launch of a parallel national Anglican church, the Anglican Network of Canada, designed to represent the interests of a small, conservative group. In May, the Anglican archbishop of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, installed a bishop in Virginia, snubbing the U.S.

We are equally delighted to receive Bishop Malcolm Harding as our co-worker.

He too is a man whose very being is centred around the gospel and whom the Lord has used for the salvation of many. Please honour and look after these two precious brothers and their families.

Our bishop, of course, is not one of the radicals, some of whom now so reinterpret classic Christian doctrine that, even though they dress up in traditional garb and recite a somewhat familiar sounding liturgy, they are, in fact, like the pagan priests of the late Roman Empire whom Gibbon so devastatingly described as, "Viewing, with a smile of pity and indulgence, the various errors of the vulgar, they digilently practiced the ceremonies of their fathers, devoutly frequented the temples of t