Archbishop of Canterbury election 2012

[J. J.]

I spoke to Charters once, I think.  The guy is a moron. 

[J. J.]

He speaks very highly of you, however.

He couldn't answer the official role of the Queen in the Church of England (It was pre-Internet).

[J. J.]

Saw the words "Bishop of Durham" in a Guardian article and my heart soared, until I read more closely and found out it's the new guy that's being rumored to be the frontrunner.....such a shame...

You might like Justin Welby, actually. I don't like him much, but I'm also not yet entirely familiar with him.

Obviously he's not nearly as much a heavyweight as his predecessor, though.

Williams was too much a heavy weight.  I was very disappointed in his attempts at a "mechanism."

[J. J.]

Fingers crossed for Sentamu!

I think he'd be my first choice.  I don't expect it.

[J. J.]

The Torygraph is already calling him 'just another Left-wing establishment bureaucrat'. That was fast.

I would take out "Left-wing" and insert "increasingly irrelevant."

[J. J.]

He seems like one of those compromise candidates the C of E loves so much. Sort of traditionalist, except when he's not. Sort of liberal, except where he's not. An improvement over Rowan, but that's not saying much.

I think it's actually saying quite a lot (and also untrue), but he's definitely somebody on whom it's very easy to be more or less neutral or unmoved and I do think that was partially the point.

Rowan, and his "mechanism," really turned me off.  I'm at least somewhat sympathetic to the view that gay bishops is something that is unacceptable to parts of the Communion, but I do not want Canterbury to even hint at the idea that it has some sort shadowy, but formal, authority over the ECUSA.

I know that there are parts of the Communion that object, but they don't have a veto over us (or we of them).