Posted on 08/17/2006 10:55:25 AM PDT by vimto
The vicar of hell on Earth
He's the Anglican vicar of Baghdad, a diplomat, a hostage negotiator and an adviser to the US government By Stephen Moss THE GUARDIAN , LONDON Sunday, Jul 30, 2006,Page 18
Reverend Andrew White, right, preaches at St. George church in Baghdad, whose residents, left, face lives full of car bombings, kidnappings and deprivation. PHOTOS: AGENCIES Andrew White is the ultimate loose canon. This may be stereotyping, but I generally think of Anglican churchmen as thin, balding men with an interest in cricket. White is large, voluble and stylishly dressed. He is also carrying several mobiles on which he is receiving e-mails from the US State Department about the latest atrocities in Iraq and talking to someone at the Pentagon.
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He doesn't like “woolly liberals,” either. When he was parish priest in Clapham, London, in the 1990s, he combined pastoral care with being a Conservative councilor.
He still takes what politicians like to call a robust line with liberals, especially in the church. “I can cope with anything,” he says when I ask him where he stands theologically. “I can cope very well with orthodoxy? . I can cope with Anglo-Catholicism, evangelicalism, charismatics. I just can't cope with the woolly liberal bit in the middle that doesn't believe much.”
It is in Baghdad and Gaza — among the believers — that he clearly feels most at home. “I love the Middle East,” he says. “I love the people, I love the way they express their faith, I love their food. They're not woolly liberals. I have never found any woolly liberals in the Middle East.”
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I know this is a bit old but I Just got home and my wife tells me about a radio interview with this cagp on Radio 5 (BBC). The interviewer apparently asked a disparaging question about Bush claiming to be spoken to by God.
He anwered something like "Why shouldn't God speak to him - that's the God I believe in."
The interviewer was floored.
So I thought I would post this to encourage you in this great man of God.
"My sheep know My Voice" -- JC
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