:: On upheaval in the Church
The Anglican Communion has grown a great deal in many parts of the world, such as Nigeria, Uganda, Singapore but obviously we’ve had negative developments.
I’ve always been a believer in principled comprehensiveness. The Anglican Communion and the Church of England are comprehensive ”“ they embrace people of different ideas like evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics and the principled bit is important.
There was a basic belief in doctrine and worship but the difficulty has been that that consensus has been overturned.
We now have people in the US for example, but not only there, who believe things about God, about salvation, about marriage and about human sexuality that seem to be another religion.
In a way it would be better to recognise it as something quite different because then we could relate to it in a more positive and constructive way.