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What is our vision for the Church of Ireland?

I have a dream! WHAT follows is highly selective. And it ignores certain obvious issues, veritable elephants in the room, whose presence can hinder the emergence of wider shared vision. But like Martin Luther King, let me proceed in ‘I have a dream’ style, just as my then bishop did when addressing the first synod I attended as a curate 35 years ago!

I have a dream! WHAT follows is highly selective. And it ignores certain obvious issues, veritable elephants in the room, whose presence can hinder the emergence of wider shared vision. But like Martin Luther King, let me proceed in ‘I have a dream’ style, just as my then bishop did when addressing the first synod I attended as a curate 35 years ago!

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Michael Burrows

is Bishop of Tuam, Limerick and Killaloe.