When The English Hymnal first came out in 1906, the Archbishop of Canterbury (Randall Davidson) wanted every parish in his diocese to reject it. On its centenary, the Archbishop of Canterbury (Rowan Williams) wrote a foreword to a book in its celebration. Now he has written a foreword to the new Revised English Hymnal.
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It was Bishop Charles Gore who in 1900 urged the Community of the Resurrection to work in South Africa and from then until 1977 the Community trained most of its black Anglican priests including Desmond Tutu. So there is a direct line running from Gore to Tutu through Huddleston his mentor
<strong>The long read</strong>: Josh and Jack used to interrogate life via absurdist jokes and sketches. But the questions they had just kept getting bigger – and led them both to embark upon a profound transformation