All his efforts concentrated in frantically Rowan without a paddle.<\/p>\n
Since, in the essence of my being I am empathetic and soft hearted, I feel rather sorry for Rowan Williams as he throws in the towel as Archbishop of Canterbury. By any measure he has been a dismal failure \u2013 but not for lack of trying. The sad thing is, when not wasting his time by tilting at windmills, his trying has been directed at attempting to achieve the impossible: reconciling the irreconcilable, squaring the circle, synthesising a happy medium between zero and infinity .<\/p>\n
As has become transparently apparent in North America, Anglican liberals and conservatives adhere to different religions: both call their beliefs \u201cChristian\u201d but that\u2019s where the similarity ends. Rowan Williams has staunchly attempted to occupy a position mid-way between the two, a contributing factor to the incoherence of everything he says.<\/p>\n
And he still hasn\u2019t learned his lesson; he believes that if he had visited the \u201cUnited States when things began to get difficult\u201d it might have gone better. But without him doing the one thing he could not do \u2013 take a stand for one side or the other \u2013 it would not have made a blind bit of difference.<\/p>\n
From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n “Thinking back over things I don’t think I’ve got right over the last 10 years, I think it might have helped a lot if I’d gone sooner to the United States when things began to get difficult about the ordination of gay bishops, and engaged more directly with the American House of Bishops,” Williams said in September.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All his efforts concentrated in frantically Rowan without a paddle. Since, in the essence of my being I am empathetic and soft hearted, I feel rather sorry for Rowan Williams as he throws in the towel as Archbishop of Canterbury. … Continue reading