Welby: Church is entering a new spring at last

From The Church Times-

THE Church is entering a new season of revival, despite living in an age of turmoil, the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.

“I believe from the bottom of my heart that the long years of winter in the Church — especially in the Church of England — are changing,” Archbishop Welby said last week. “The ice is thawing; the spring is coming. There is a new spring in the Church.”

He was speaking in Harrogate at a conference for church leaders run by the New Wine movement. He praised New Wine for leading the turn-around. “New Wine have been heroes, and will continue to be. You’ve borne the burden; you’ve turned the tide. There is renewal and life springing up.”

He began his speech, however, by suggesting that the world was seeing a time of deep insecurity and uncertainty — the worst since the end of the Cold War, or even the tumult of the 1930s.
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