Extract from the Rowan Williams' Easter address from the BBC
Life or death
The
Bible is not the authorised code of a society managed by priests and
preachers for their private purposes, but the set of human words
through which the call of God is still uniquely immediate to human
beings today; human words with divine energy behind them. There are
places in our world where conversion to Christianity is literally a
matter of putting your life on the line. We have all been following
the story of Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan and we know that his story is
not unique. We can say with absolute certainty that whatever the
Gospel means in circumstances like that, it isn't a cover-up for the
sake of the powerful.
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