In deference to his successor, Katharine Jefferts Schori, Bishop Griswold declined comment on current events in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. He did, however, revisit some themes from his tenure as Presiding Bishop.<\/p>\n
Contrary to some Americans\u2019 assumptions, he does not believe that Nigerian Anglicans are fundamentalists. \u201cIn Northern Nigeria, your Muslim interlocutors are very clear about their theology,\u201d\u009d he said, \u201cso you have to be very clear about yours.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Anglo-Catholicism has nurtured his sense of Christians living in communion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see the Catholic tradition as alive and constantly unfolding rather than as constrained by the past,\u201d\u009d he said. \u201cThe Eucharist is about [drawing together] this gaggle of unlikely souls, many of whom would find it difficult to put up with each other, if not for sharing one bread and one cup.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n
Echoing the words of Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, his longtime friend, he said that both communion and baptism \u201cdraw us into solidarities not of our own choosing.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n