You’ve got to admire him, the soon-to-be-former Head Druid. He’s been an inspirational captain of his club. Crosses should be worn. Female clerics and partnering poofters need not apply. And unlike his namesake, he has always expressed himself unequivocally without raising a laugh. He even managed to obtain a ‘don’t know’ from Dawkins in a recent encounter. But now he’s hanging up his boots and it’s back to the groves of academe, in one of the cloistered halls of that polytechnic in the Fens. So bring on the next victim – he’ll need the constitution of an ox, as Rowan says.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Well he certainly put in his time when he would have preferred to have run screaming!
I do so hope they pick Sentamu, he can play uncompromising politics with the best of them with a giant plus of being against multiculturalism.
Bet he won’t get it, but he ought to.
Plus, being quite so black, no bugger can play the racism card.
What a difficult job, but he did it for many years and all credit to him. It will be very interesting to see who takes over.
I really hope the next incumbent is Dr. John Sentamu, the current Archbishop of York. Now that would put the cat (or the sparrowhawk) amongst the pigeons on so many levels.
OZ
Sentamu will speak for the masses .Crooked teeth but no crooked tongue. Says Papa just got in pissed.
Yes, John Sentamu would look prejudice in the face. And I was toying with a different headline: The noblest Rowan of them all.
The AB has no bottom. He should have remained to fight tooth and nail against the interference of the government. Cameron and his poodle, Nick Herbert, are odious little turds.
I am inclined to agree that Dr Sentamu probably would be the best replacement. He does strike me as having a backbone containing traces of morality.
Sipu I agree with you, however the interference of government in this silly marriage debate makes me laugh. Can you imagine it when all homosexuals are finally allowed to get married in religious establishments;
as the gay partners leave the Regent Street Mosque hand in hand the congregation happily replace confetti with stones and stone them to death.
Ah justice 🙂
Thought about that too rr, which is why I presume that it would have to be ALL religious establishments that would have to marry the queers. They could hardly have the Churches forced to marry them and exclude the Mosques!
Hence the bye for the lot of them.
I am so sick of queers endlessly taking up govt time when the whole place is going to wrack and ruin.
Also the reason why Sentamu won’t get it, the Anglican Church in Africa from which he comes is totally against queers in all shape and form. ( which is why the reformed Anglican in the USA always has African bishops here, the Episcopalian are a bunch of pro shirt lifters and fall over themselves to have queer clergy)
Needless to say one no longer wishes to share the communal communion cup in an Episcopalian church over here!!!
PS Intincture is all the fashion here these days to avoid contamination from other aids ridden communicants.
CO, but, but….Dr John’s leading rival is a misogynist – so he won’t get it. Which leaves Bishop Cocksomething from….Coventry.
I don’t know any of the ‘prospective’ Archbishops, but I really think that it’s about time that the Church of England looked at the Catholics and Muslims and stood up for what they purport to believe.
It isn’t going to happen while the appointment is politically biased. Perhaps it’s time to disestablish the Church of England.
As a very lapsed member of the Church of Scotland, I don’t care much about bishops and have not been impressed by Rowan Williams. A former colleague of mine was a buddy of his at university and described him as “a good egg”. I didn’t think highly of said colleague and his work ethic, so I may have been prejudiced against Williams from the start, but nothing he did caused me to change my mind. The Bishop of London is a great preacher, but I didn’t care for his stance on the Occupy bunch. I think Sentamu would be good.
Cob what can I say, the country is falling apart and all Macaroon cares about is bum bandits.
Says a lot for them all
I note that all is coming to pass already, as foretold, the establishment will do ANYTHING to keep Sentamu out of that job!
It is now unforgivable for any in authority in the UK to be anti multicultural and anti queers, let alone anti queer clergy. Bunch of faggot loving phonies. Sentamu has more Christianity in his toenail clippings than most of them, unfortunately not the ‘right sort’ of Christianity. (A la leaves on the line)
More like a muscular crusading evangelical sort of Christianity and that wouldn’t do AT ALL would it?
God Almighty, might just get some converts and that seriously just wouldn’t do in morally degraded Britain under the jackboot of the liberals bent on destroying society or what’s left of it.
All positively puke making.
I would have been rather looking forward to Sentamu dishing out some trenchant criticism of the whole place and a few thundering sermons.
Bloody needs it.
I have to agree with Christina’s typically robust comments, which is not difficult akshully. When I wrote earlier about the putative appointment of Archbishop Sentamu as “putting the cat (or the sparrowhawk) amongst the pigeons on so many levels.”, an appointment I support unequivically, I was referring to the fact that the C of E liberal establishment would love a black Archbishop of Canterbury (even better if it were Joanna Sentamu), but how do they balance that against their equally rampant desire for a gay head of the Protestant church? Or, to quote another blogger elsewhere, “Since my religious proclivities are fully extended by the worship of rugby, beer and gorgeous women, I’m just curious about the assumption that any deity must be fluffy. Give me some vindictive pagan Thunder God with a cute High Priestess and a couple of eager-to-please priestess friends. That’s the way to fill a church”
OZ
Here are the odds:
http://www.paddypower.com/bet/current-affairs/archbishop-of-canterbury