Archbishop of Canterbury warns churches must learn to embrace complex modern families
from Mailonline:
The Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday warned that churches must learn to live with a world in which families are no longer led only by married couples.
Even Church of England schools are now filled with children from ‘myriad combinations’ of men, women and children, the Most Reverend Justin Welby said.
In a speech that pointed at a fresh direction for the Church’s attitude towards marriage, the Archbishop said that ‘in the last 40 years there has been a great shift in the understanding and the reality of family life’.
He threw his support behind the idea that different forms of families can provide a stable home, adding: ‘The family, however it is experienced, is the place where we can be at our strongest and most secure.’
Last night his intervention provoked protests from evangelicals and social conservatives, who said the Church should be standing up for marriage.
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