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Notes & CommentsMarch 2008 "Constructive accommodation"? On Rowan Williams and Sharia bonds. What is it with Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury? This is the self-described “Druid” and “hairy leftie” who, when he was Archbishop of Wales, held up the cartoon characters Homer and Marge Simpson as worthy exceptions to the entertainment industry’s usual portrayal of the institution of marriage. (We thought the journalist Charles Moore got it exactly right when he described Rowan Williams as “somehow mentally as well as actually bearded.”) Dr. Williams has publicly described his doubts about the Nativity (really, he said, it is a “legend”) and has refused to comment on the veracity of the Resurrection—all well and good were Rowan Williams an ordinary citizen, but what about Rowan Williams, Primate of All England? Do we really want our clergy to be as theologically challenged as a cleric out of a Graham Greene novel? And why should an archbishop of the Church of England reserve a ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 26 March 2008, on page 1 Copyright © 2008 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/constructive-accomodation-3776
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