THANK THE LORD SHEFFIELD SPARED RIOTS BUT NO COMPLACENCY

Here is the letter by Cranmer's Curate in this week's Sheffield Telegraph:

Thank the good Lord Sheffield was spared the appalling criminality that devastated major UK cities last week. But we cannot afford to be complacent.

The attack on the spiritual and moral fabric of UK society since the 1960s, and in particular the undermining of the leadership role of fathers in the family, is a major contributing factor to the disorder our country has experienced. A culture of political correctness also initially inhibited the police from taking the robust action required.

As servants of Christ, we as front-line Sheffield clergy have a responsibility to support the forces of law and order by unequivocally denouncing attacks on businesses and the devastation of people's livelihoods. One sincerely hopes that we will not hear from church leaders any relativising of the sheer criminality of theft and looting by blaming such behaviour on government cuts.

This piece - Gangsta & Mammon - idols of the riots - appeared on Archbishop Cranmer.