Wow, the Archbishop of York is a black guy!
Ruth Gledhill Weblog
Wednesday, 14 June 2006

Most of us in the Church of England are thousands of miles away from the meeting that will determine the future of the Anglican Communion, but we are still shaking them up over there! Hats off to our most beloved John Sentamu, who has astounded some in The Episcopal Church - by being black! No, I am not kidding. You can read about the astonishment of some of bloggers in one of the world's most PC countries on the Classical Anglican gencon site. Some of the choicest examples are reproduced below. But while not minimising the stir created by Sentamu, who is there representing himself, if you believe his office, and representing the Archbishop of Canterbury, if you believe Frank Griswold (and I know who I would rather believe), the other really important contribution has come today from an Anglican who is not even in Columbus, Ohio at all, the Bishop of Durham, Tom Wright. This picture of Griswold greeting my hero is taken from The Episcopal Church's own gencon news service. The latest story ENS reports is the playing of Bob Dylan's Love Rescue Me at a gencon service styled a "U2charist". Well, as the farmers' wives used to say to me on market day in Uttoxeter, Staffs when my mum trailed her five kids and three foster kids around the cow and sheep pens, "You better pray love rescues you ducky, because nothing else will!" Meanwhile, I really recommend a listen to an audio of Gene Robinson, recorded by Classical Anglican and linked to by Anglican Mainstream, in which the Bishop of New Hampshire at an Integrity press conference describes how he heard God say to him: "This is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased." He also said there would be no saying sorry, because that would mean The Episcopal Church was sorry, "and we're not."

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