Dr Michael Nazir-Ali is only 59 and could have stayed for another decade in his post, one of the most senior in the Church, but has chosen instead to devote the rest of his career to working in communities where Christians are in a minority.
While this is likely to see him involved in the Middle East and Pakistan, the bishop revealed that he also plans to work with Muslim converts to Christianity in Britain.
The Christian world needs more such leaders.
He’s going to be missed at his post. One of the few Christian leaders who spoke prophetically to the leadership over the issues of culturalization of the Western Church (i.e. calling them back to God).
I understand the serious, life and death, persecution in some parts of the world. Fortunately, we have nothing like that here. Still, I can’t help but hope that he might have at least a few words to say to TEC and its legal staff.