The Northampton Seminar
The bishop of London is describing the weight of the episcopal burden. A bishop’s destiny, he says, is to be tossed about by storms while struggling to resolve the tension between leading and serving his people. The words, boomed sonorously at half a dozen worshippers gathered for the 8am Eucharist, are those of a fifth-century prelate, dismayed by the encumbrance of promotion.
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