Justin Welby after his enthronement as Archbishop of Canterbury in 2013 Credit: Luke MacGregor/Reuters
SIR – The Church of England is in a bad way, and the succession to Justin Welby is a case in point.
Notwithstanding the increasing numbers of plausible candidates distancing themselves from consideration, in discussing the situation with colleagues, we are all hard-pressed to think of anybody suitable. How the Church and the Anglican Communion resolve this is not clear, but the task for the next Archbishop of Canterbury must be to return to basics. We must become a pastoral and spiritual organisation again, and put the inherited faith of the nation at the centre of what we do.
It will require someone of stern mettle to achieve this, as the rot has gone deep.
Rev Simon Douglas Lane
Hampton, Middlesex
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SIR – The Church of England is in a bad way, and the succession to Justin Welby is a case in point.
Notwithstanding the increasing numbers of plausible candidates distancing themselves from consideration, in discussing the situation with colleagues, we are all hard-pressed to think of anybody suitable. How the Church and the Anglican Communion resolve this is not clear, but the task for the next Archbishop of Canterbury must be to return to basics. We must become a pastoral and spiritual organisation again, and put the inherited faith of the nation at the centre of what we do.
It will require someone of stern mettle to achieve this, as the rot has gone deep.
Rev Simon Douglas Lane