Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams in his presidential address to the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) here May 11 compared the Anglican Communion's long-standing divisions to those in the Holy Land."The other day we were giving quite intense attention to the situation in the Holy Land and in that discussion I thought there are echoes of language we hear nearer home," Williams said. "Well, thank God, our divisions and our fears are not as deep and as poisonous as those between communities in the Holy Land, but I think you may see why some of the same language occasionally awakes echoes."
It was also through the lens of Holy Land politics that Williams suggested during his address a possible way forward.
"People find each other in the depths of suffering they have endured; something shifts when those who bear the heaviest cost on either side find each other," he said.
To illustrate this, he shared the story of an Israeli mother whose son had been killed by a Palestinian sniper and a Palestinian man whose brother had been killed by an Israeli soldier. The two travelled Britain together and shared their stories and talked of the "imperative necessity of being with one another."
He then asked: Who are the people who bear the deepest cost in the Anglican Communion?
"There are some who would say that in this conflict the credibility of Christianity itself is at stake," Williams said.
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