Archbishop Rowan Williams. (Credit: Photo courtesy the University of Notre Dame.)
Archbishop Rowan Williams offered the example of Malcolm Muggeridge, a celebrated British journalist and satirist who was attracted to Communism in his youth and later converted to Christianity under the influence of St. Teresa of Calcutta.
ROME – One of Christianity’s leading theological minds said Wednesday that believers who strive to make rational arguments for the faith in conversation with secularists should have fairly modest aspirations – basically, he said, their humble role is to keep a “foot in the door” until a saint comes along.
“You may not see this, but we do not inhabit completely separate universes,” is how Archbishop Rowan Williams, who served as the leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion from 2002 to 2012, put the message believers should strive to deliver to secularists.