Justin Welby has been speaking to Premier in a wide ranging interview and admitted there’s no simple answer to the ongoing battles within his Church.
While some claim the Church is moving away from the Bible, others claim a greater welcome needs to be given to LGBT people.
“Is there a simple answer?” he asked. “If there was a simple answer we would have found it. It is a complex of things and every church – not just the Anglicans – every church is struggling and has always struggled between the balance of what holiness looks like and how we treat those who fall short.
“Do we condemn them and expel them? Or do we only let them go on in the Church under certain conditions? Do we ignore it and say it really doesn’t matter? Of course not. But the difference between setting the ideal and applying that ideal pastorally has always been a tension for the church and these issues are hugely, hugely, hugely important.”
Welby called on those on both sides of the divide to work towards a better understanding of each other.
He said: “It’s real people who’s lives are deeply impacted and whoever it is, whatever view they take, conservative or liberal, revisionist or orthodox traditionalist, part of it – and I struggle with this, I’m not pretending I find it easy – we have to hear what they are saying.
“The trouble is sometimes people…
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