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Just who is Justin Portal Welby?
BBC Religion and ethics – Profile
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/0/19847046
Justin Welby : The worldly capitalist looking to spread the Word of the Lord
Telegraph – Justin Welby will bring brains and bravery to the almost impossible job of Archbishop of Canterbury …There are two ways of looking at the decline of Christianity in England. One is to bemoan the relentless secularisation and the supposed decay of society in general. The other is to accept that being Christian in Britain now means being part of a minority, and that the Church’s mission is to explain the Word of God to people who have grown up having never heard it. Those who know Bishop Welby place him firmly in the latter camp, and say that his mission is evangelical, and that his approach to the task was summed up by his predecessor-but-six Archbishop William Temple: “The Church is the only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members.”
This explains the relevance of Bishop Welby’s involvement in the Alpha course, one of the most successful innovations of modern British Christianity. It is a 10-week introduction to the faith, and an evangelical movement that has attracted two million Britons so far. It started at Holy Trinity Brompton, an influential church in west London, and now goes out to prisons and council estates, bucking the general trend of religious decline. Bishop Welby is an admirer and a friend of the movement. At Liverpool, he gave his blessing to a Halloween service called “Night of the Living Dead”, in which a man jumped out of a coffin to convey the message of Resurrection.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9664319/Justin-Welby-The-worldly-capitalist-looking-to-spread-the-Word-of-the-Lord.html
Justin Welby named as archbishop
BBC – The next Archbishop of Canterbury sets out his support for the ordination of women bishops, as his appointment is confirmed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20264520
Canterbury: See of Twitter
Ekklesia notes that the newly seleted Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby uses Twitter and other social media and will be the first tweeting ABC:
For the first time in history, the announcement of who would succeed
to the See of Canterbury was seen first on twitter (via the @Number10press office), before the formal Downing Street and Lambeth announcements of the archbishop elect.
Now Bishop Justin Welby, who will be enthroned at Canterbury Cathedral on 21 March 2013, has announced that he will continue to make use of the popular social media site – though he spoke knowingly of its dangers.
Before “the announcement” he had 2,500 twitter followers. Now he’s approaching 6,000 and growing. It’s going well so far, then.
His first tweet after a silence probably necessitated by the impending news of his elevation was on the afternoon of that historic day, 9 November.
With the wryness that seems to be one of the characteristics of the man, he wrote: “Just heard of protest call to Lambeth at appointment of a woman as ABC. Am spelt Justin, not Justine. No agenda, just a matter of fact.”
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Follow the archbishop-to-be on twitter: https://twitter.com/Bishopofdurham (presumably the handle will change at some point)
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/17351
ADVICE IN SPADES
Essential reading for the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby
Christopher Howse of The Telegraph on Cosmo Gordon Laing, archbishop in the hot seat during the abdication crisis of edward VIII
http://www.anglican-mainstream.net/2012/11/10/essential-reading-for-the-new-archbishop-of-canterbury-justin-welby/
Next Archbishop will need Bible and newspaper
As the world waited for Bishop Justin Welby to be named the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the outgoing Dr Rowan Williams says his successor will need to heed the advice of Karl Barth.
The Church of England press office has refused to confirm the appointment of Welby, the current Bishop of Durham, but Ladbrokes and William Hill suspended betting on the next Archbishop after a flurry of bets on Bishop Welby.
Asked what qualities the next Archbishop of Canterbury would need to have, Dr Williams quoted from the great theologian Karl Barth.
“I think it was put very well by a theologian of the last century who said, ‘You have to preach with a Bible in one hand and a newspaper in the other’,” he said. ”You have to be cross-referencing all the time and saying ‘How does the vision of humanity and community that’s put before us in the Bible map onto these issues of poverty, privation, violence and conflict?’
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/3/next.archbishop.will.need.bible.and.newspaper/31003.htm
New Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby Inherits a Divided Anglican Communion
Trevor Grundy writes for Religion News Service
http://feeds.christianitytoday.com/~r/christianitytoday/ctmag/~3/4TL_waBi1h0/new-archbishop-of-canterbury-justin-welby-inherits-divided.html
CHURCH REACTION
Initial Reactions to new Archbishop of Canterbury
http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/archives/005730.html
Statements from the Provinces
http://www.aco.org/acns/news.cfm/2012/11/9/ACNS5245
What Christians are saying about the next Archbishop of Canterbury
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/3/what.christians.are.saying.about.the.next.archbishop.of.canterbury/31015.htm
Scotland welcomes the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury
http://www.scotland.anglican.org/index.php/news/entry/comment_on_announcement_of_the_105th_archbishop_of_canterbury/#When:11:03:36Z
PRAYER
Prayer for the new Archbishop of Canterbury
The Church of England has published a specially written prayer for the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the Right Reverend Justin Welby
God our Father, Lord of all the world,
through your Son you have called us into the fellowship
of your universal Church:
hear our prayer for your faithful people
that in their vocation and ministry
each may be an instrument of your love,
and give to your servant Justin
the needful gifts of grace;
through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
Adapted from “Collect for the inauguration of a new ministry”