Is quitting his job in December.

He and his god had a falling out.

They now both stand back-to-back with arms crossed in defiant manner with his god muttering "I'm not speaking to the people through him anymore".

If there isn't a plague of frogs or hot-hail after he goes then presumably that means his god approves of gay clerics and weddings ?

Is Canterbury a promotion from York?

I bet the Sentamu household are already packing - has there ever been a non-white head of the Anglican church?

A plot to bring the Church - State thing to a head?

Canterbury is top dog, so Sentamu will be promoted if he goes there.

Has Williams had a better offer from Cambridge?

More importantly, is he going on a free at the end of his contract or will there be a fee involved?

Going to do "God's work" at Goldman Sachs, I heard.

Couldn't take any more of Rock God X's barbs.

I believe it's a free from York but because he's under the age of 103 he's classed as a homegrown product of Uganda. So a compensation fee is due to the estate of Idi Amin.

Did Dawkins turn him when they debated a few weeks back?

is he federation trained?

There may be several others in contention, but I think he's a dark horse for the job.

We don't want that sort of talk on here.

Technically no, but I believe he was briefly at a small south Welsh church which moved north and then went bust. So the C of E gave him a special exemption.

I have a sort of soft spot for Williams. He doesn't really seem to have been a tub thumper or one for going around claiming that all Christians are being discriminated against by militant secularists etc.

I suspect that, if all believers were more like Williams, there'd be a lot less of this so-called 'militant secularism'.

In strictly CofE terms, he's actually managed an extraordinary thing in keeping the global Anglican communion together inthe face of such massive division.

I think he has proven extremely weak and is partly / largely responsible for division due to his lack of clarity.

Good Ridance

That would be an ecumenical matter.

Pun intended?

Much fun to be had yesterday watching "The Big Questions" on BBC1 - the liberal and raving loony wings of the Anglican church sat tearing strips off each other while a smug Catholic sat in the front row grinning himself to death.



It all comes down to how you interpret the Bible, and whether you believe it to be the word of God or not apparently. Given the New Testament was written about 400 years after the fact it's pretty funny to see those who are prepared to treat it as a contemporaneous record of events defending their position.

He's hardly the only priest who ever felt the urge to kiss the ring though is he?

I have yet to read anything about his church castrating young boys either to 'help' them against homosexuality or as a punishment for speaking out about abusive priests, as per the stories now coming out of the Netherlands, which also include the revelation that a former Dutch PM knew what his church was doing and help keep it secret.

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If ever there was a case of religion attempting to trump common sense, then these three should be thrown out of office on the grounds that if lunatics cannot vote, they should certainly not be allowed to serve in Parliament.

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They are now asking the ASA for scientific evidence that god cannot heal. They're even citing the case of Patrice Muamba