Justin Welby
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Justin Welby is the Archbishop of Canterbury, serving as the spiritual leader of the Church of England. This interview reveals his commitment to reconciliation, social justice, and the need for thoughtful engagement in complex societal issues.
“It means changing our trade. It means everything from soup to nuts. Changing our training, changing our deployment and development, changing the way we interview.”
“In some ways, an unhealthy one, yes. Some people, it depends how you want to fight it. We are in a time where culture and historic inherited culture is questioned very, very deeply, where culture's power and privilege are questioned very deeply, as we've seen with the church and many other bodies on things like safeguarding as well as rac…”
“Isn't this the golden age myth syndrome? Churchill was given huge sums of money by his mates. He helped people out, they helped him out. It's how politics worked. We have raised our standards and raised our standards. And of course it's not right to help out your chums or lobby inappropriately or whatever it happens to be.”
“Yeah, but that isn't a moral lead anger. It's a complete failure of morality because apart from anything else, it's not moral because it's deeply hypocritical. Surprisingly enough, this is not news. I'm a Christian. And at the heart of Christianity is the idea that human beings are made in the image of God.”
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