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...just read a long story by Edgar Allen Poe. A novel by a friend of mine called John Preston called, The Dig, which I think is very fine. I am fairly omnivorous I guess. Hmm? what is by the bedside? I am re-reading Christopher Hitchen's book on God, because I am going to be on stage talking to him about it. I have been reading some history too. I think all reading eventually it does have an effect, but not a direct effect on what I eventually do. Something I think I am reading haphazardly and then realize...
...Paul's Cathedral. Williams, the tousle-haired leader of the Church of England and titular head of its global offshoot, the Anglican Communion, performed the liturgy of ordination: "Will you strive for the visible unity of Christ's Church?" he asked. Answered the new bishop: "By the help of God, I will...
...help of God, indeed. Almost from the day he took over, in 2002, Williams, now 56, has been attempting to prevent a schism among the world's 79 million Anglicans. It has been a horrible task. Within months of his taking the job, a simmering debate on homosexuality exploded into a brutal battle, pitting some of the wealthiest and most liberal of the church's 38 provinces, notably those in North America, against a more socially conservative group mostly concentrated in Africa and Asia and known as the Global South. The latter's views were reflected in 1998 in language...
...must be preceded by a broad shift in consensus--and thinks the U.S. church failed in that regard. Old allies, he admits, saw his shift on gays as a "betrayal." But it has won him few new friends--certainly not archconservative Nigerian Archbishop Peter Akinola, who has said that God regards homosexuality as the equivalent of humans' having sex with various animals and who has set up his own Anglican body...
Williams wants everyone to downplay their more extreme philosophical impulses and work to preserve Anglicanism's unique assets. God, he says, intends that members of a church "have something to learn even from the people we most dislike or instinctively mistrust." It's a nice thought. Will it be enough to stop a split? Williams concedes he is not "absolutely confident" that the whole structure of Anglicanism can be kept together. But--by the help of God, no doubt--he's trying...