(NPR) Anglicans To Get New Spiritual Head

….Churchwarden Jan Tellick thinks…[Rowan Williams has] done the right thing in stepping down.

JAN TELLICK: My personal view is it’s probably good. I think he’s a wonderful man, wonderfully intelligent, wonderful academic, but he’s not a great communicator.

BARKER: Here’s what Britain’s media have communicated about Williams: that his last-ditch attempt to prevent schism – a moratorium on appointing any more openly gay bishops – was about to be defeated, that he has ultimately failed to heal the breach between liberals in the shrinking North American Church and the far more conservative – and fastest growing – African congregations.

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2 comments on “(NPR) Anglicans To Get New Spiritual Head

  1. David Keller says:

    #1–Great article! Gotta love Lord Onslow.