Friday, July 06, 2007

For God’s sake

From the Times Online, check out Ruth Gledhill's article on Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria. From the article:

I met this enigmatic Archbishop, who in his 63 years has never given an interview to a British national newspaper, in his office in the Abuja diocese. In the small room up a narrow stairway, the most ornate structure was a set of beautifully crafted wooden shelves that this former carpenter designed himself. “God has used my upbringing in carpentry to bear in my work as a bishop,” he says. He wouldn’t be the first to say so. He wore a clerical shirt with no collar, a cross around his neck. His feet were bare. The contrast between this and the Archbishop of Canterbury’s splendid palaces in Lambeth and Canterbury could not have been greater.

And so one wonders, why is ++Akinola doing an interview now? Hummmm. . .

(And also, there are You Tube videos of parts of the interview - h/t Kendall Harmon and the elves.)

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