From The Church Times-THE laughter and standing ovation that the Archbishop of Cantebrury received in the Royal Albert Hall on Monday suggested that, despite his saying that the "deepest wounds" he had suffered had been at the hands of his fellow Christians, he does not lack support.
The Archbishop was the first speaker at the leadership conference organised by Holy Trinity, Brompton (HTB), the Evangelical church in London. The event drew 5500 people from 86 different countries, all "united around Jesus", the Vicar of Holy Trinity, the Revd Nicky Gumbel, declared.
Archbishop Welby's appearance took the form of an interview, conducted by Mr Gumbel, which perhaps vindicated the headline in The Daily Telegraph that greeted his appointment ( "HTB lands its first Archbishop").
Introduced as a "great friend", Archbishop Welby was asked what it "felt like" to be Primate, to which he replied: "A bit less overwhelming than this! What does it feel like to be Vicar of HTB? . . . We're in the same boat." It was the first of several self-deprecating jokes.
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http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2013/17-may/news/uk/welby-fêted-by-htb-in-albert-hall
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