Somewhere in the interplay of personalities, cultures and beliefs of the archbishops gathered this week in the crypt of Canterbury Cathedral is a great novel waiting to be written. This isn't it.
Action and adventure wait as you read through this account, but no great work of art is likely to spring forth from my keypad today. But couching the January 2016 primates gathering in the cold prose of chronology does not capture its essence. Tolstoy’s dictum found at the start of Anna Karenina, “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way”, may help explain the “why” of the primates’ censure of the Episcopal Church of the USA – for the story of the primates meeting is the story of an unhappy family.
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