Monday, August 4, 2008

Archbishop of Canterbury Upbeat after Lambeth Conference

London Daily Telegraph exclusive interview with Rowan Williams-

"I'm content, I think," he said. But surely he was elated? "Encouraged," he replied carefully. "Elated is a very dangerous thing to say." But if he'd been offered this Sunday two months ago, would he have taken it? A pause, then: "Yes, definitely."
His body language was speaking even more definitely. After two weeks, averaging 17-hour working days, he sat forward on a leatherette sofa in a soulless suite of rooms he's been using at Kent University, which looked like they hadn't been redecorated since Michael Ramsey was Archbishop in the 1960s shirt-sleeves rolled up as though he was about to start the conference.
"I feel a great deal of what I hoped for has happened," he said. "We've found that very slowly there's a slightly different way of doing business. What we haven't had is a very consistent counter-narrative flowing through the conference from people feeling disenfranchised."

Its all here -

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/2497482/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-upbeat-after-Lambeth-Conference.html

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