![]() ![]() With the Anglican communion crumbling around his ears with revolt among the remaining rump of high Anglo-Catholics over the church's palsied progress towards women bishops with conservative evangelicals around the world in alliance with some African primates against any accommodation with gay people and with a fierce internecine struggle over authority and property in the sister American Episcopal church, Williams must wonder whether it wouldn't have been better to do what he considered as a student and become a Catholic instead.Īs he shuts the double doors leading to his family's gloomy second-floor flat in Lambeth Palace, among its gothic battlements and surrounded by the high wall that once kept out the London mob, the archbishop must reflect on what on earth he has taken on. What is needed is someone who can get their sleeves rolled up and provide some downright unintellectual leadership." He has all the gifts to be a professor or an academic, but not an archbishop. I am sorry for a man who wants to do what's best but doesn't see it in terms of leadership. The gifts for which he was chosen are being stifled. "Is he the wrong person to deal with this? He looks for consensus where there is none and, when you listen to everyone, you end up losing sight of the plot. He's a godly man, but he's theorising when what is needed is action. ![]() Quite honestly, his personality and way of doing things are not geared for conflict diplomacy. The potential for further disintegration is clear. One archbishop from outside the church said: "There is an unholy alliance of Church of England dissidents and the disaffected. Derided by conservatives, despaired of by progressives, his leadership flounders in division and dismay. Last week, as the Anglican general synod in York overruled his advice to provide stronger safeguards for those opposed to women bishops - even though he himself is in favour of women in the episcopate - he sat with his head in his hands. But now many are not so sure whether holiness is enough and Williams can handle the crisis tearing Anglicanism apart.Īs he prepares to welcome the bishops of the worldwide Anglican communion to their once-a-decade meeting at the Lambeth conference tomorrow, his first as Archbishop of Canterbury, Williams knows that as many as a quarter will not turn up and that there are open challenges to his leadership of the third largest Christian denomination, both from across the world and within the Church of England. He might even be its last chance.Īt the time, the anonymous bishop's remarks seemed out of joint. If anyone could reverse the decline and lead the renewal of the established church, Williams was that man. But for both non-binary options to be the odd one out just feels a little disappointing.At last, after decades of decline, dismay and disillusionment under dull, wily or managerial primates, there was to be a leader who was not only an intellectually brilliant theologian, but someone who was a wonderful speaker, almost ostentatiously spiritual, a deep thinker and self-evidently holy. Boyfriend Dungeon is superb, not just in terms of representation but also its hilarious writing and surprisingly complex combat mechanics. I have already written in defence of Kitfox, Eric’s character, and the trigger warning, so this isn’t me trying to kick the game when it’s down. Eric, the character in question, is brilliantly written, and an important inclusion in the story. Kitfox Games, the developer of Boyfriend Dungeon, has already come under fire for including a character that stalks and manipulates you, despite having a trigger warning for stalking and manipulation in the game's opening moments. ![]() Related: Queer Stories Are Complicated, And Gaming Needs To Show That I scream it from the rooftops “I’m nitpicking!” - but these are important nits to pick. ![]() I understand that complaining about non-binary love interests, in a game that offers you two distinct choices and has no problematic tropes, seems like nitpicking. ![]()
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