rational geekery

Giles Fraser the Anglican vicar of Putney has written an excellent Op-Ed in today’s Guardian on the ongoing crisis faced by Dr Rowan Williams (The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury below) and the Anglican church.

From The Guardian:

When Henry VIII invented the Church of England as a handy way of sorting out his messy social life, he could hardly have expected to be founding a denomination of Christianity that would come to have some 70 million adherents spread across the globe. During the 19th century, public-schoolboy missionaries would ride alongside the armies of the British empire to plant Anglican theology throughout the globe. It proved a remarkably successful export. For while the mother church continues to shrink, African Anglicanism is rapidly expanding. In the 1970s there were 5 million Anglicans in Nigeria; there are now 18 million - and that figure that is expected to double by 2025.