The Archbishop of York has been interviewed by The Independent. There are two different online versions of the interview, one on the Archbishop’s own website: Archbishop’s Big Questions Interview in The Independent, and one on the newspaper’s: The big questions: Is milk too cheap? Are the Games worth it? Should young people work for experience?
Esther J Hamori writes for The Huffington Post about Biblical Standards for Marriage.
Peter Selby writes for The Tablet about debt and money: Wake-up call.
Sentamu, in justifying an established church, dismisses the role played by bishops in the House of Lords, probably because many would argue that that role is not a positive one.
The other “virtues” of the church he talks about, however, have nothing to do with establishment. I suspect that he simply cannot imagine a Church of England that is not established.
Let’s hope the next Archbishop of Canterbury thinks more clearly and with more imagination.