Rowan Williams: God's boxer

The archbishop of Canterbury talks to David Hare about taking on the coalition, the atheists – and why life isn't like a Woody Allen movie.

"Like Barack Obama, Williams seemed a good man dealt an impossible hand. If you had happened, at any point, to follow the unending rows about gay clergy and women bishops, then it was obvious that the archbishop had endured a great deal from some insufferable oafs in the higher reaches of Anglicanism who had always been ready to pretend that their lack of Christian kindness towards colleagues was somehow justified by faith."

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