Welby dedicates the next year of his ministry to the defence of freedom and Judæo-Christian values

Nov 29, 2016 by Jill

by Archbishop Cranmer:

You might almost have missed it – especially if your favourite spiritual sport is Welby Wanging, which is open to all people irrespective of age, sex, sexuality, race, creed, religion, nationality, and beliefs about the EU. The Archbishop of Canterbury made quite an important speech about freedom. Actually, he’s made two or three important speeches of late, which, considered apart, merit a few dutiful column inches in the MSM because he is who he is. But, taken together, there are nuggets contained within them which really ought to mollify hyper-critical minds and mitigate the carping of those who believe they have eyes and ears but are really quite insensible to the signs of the times and the way the wind is blowing.

At the launch of ‘In Good Faith’, a new Christian-Jewish dialogue project in partnership with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, Justin Welby set out a bit of what the Governor of the Bank of England calls ‘forward guidance’:

It is vital that we can make a substantial contribution to the debate around our shared values in this country – what the government has referred to as British values. As members of the Jewish and Christian communities, it is imperative that we remind the nation that our values have not emerged within a secular vacuum; but from the resilient and eternal structure of our Judeo-Christian theological, philosophical and ethical heritage. I’d want to add here that over the next 12 months this is one of the major themes of my writing and speaking – the issue of where we find our values, and a re-emphasis that we find our values in this country within the Judeo-Christian tradition, whether we are believers or not.

One might almost think he reads this blog every morning and meditates upon its musings. (Dear Archbishop, you could save yourself a bit of time by reading THIS, too). Note he says “what the government has referred to as British values”. He hammered the point further in a speech on religious freedom:

Read here