At 85, George Carey is understandably the same as he has ever been.
He has always assumed his own experience to be theologically normative.
"Exonerated" (His Honour Judge Nathan Adams, Durham Crown Court, 8 May 2025). Two-time political prisoner. Beaten up in prison, so I fear only God. Activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach".
Do you think he's really an Evangelical?
ReplyDeletePerhaps he used to be. But just as there are a lot of Anglicans who look a bit like Catholics, and a few Anglicans who look a lot like Catholics, at the end of the day they are not. They are really like this. I have long thought much the same thing about the Evangelical wing.
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