Sunday, October 19, 2003

Tom Wright does Face to Faith

Bishop Tom is not only talked about but talking in yesterday's Guardian, penning this week's "Face to Faith":

That Special Relationship

It's quite clever, drawing parallels between the Anglican primates' gathering in London in the face of "unilateral actions in north America" and UN responses to America's doing the same in Iraq. But in the end it's more about "how to talk" than the talking itself, so one is left with the impression that this is somehow far too complex an issue to deal with in one newspaper column, and personally I'd like to have a bit more than that. Here's an excerpt:
Many, myself included, want to insist (in new ways) on the authority of scripture. But it is equally urgent to reinstate reason as well. Without that, we are left with empty rhetoric, whether the nasty version ("You only say that because you're a liberal/ homophobe, or whatever") or the nice version ("We have to go on listening to each other").

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