There was a splendid interview of Dr John Sentamu, the new Archbishop of York, on the BBC Today programme this morning. Listen to it here.
Friday afternoon update
A number of online reports of the interview have now appeared.
Telegraph Archbishop of York reveals his anger at racist letters
Times Racists sent excrement-filled letters to black Archbishop
BBC Hate mail sent to new archbishop
Anglican Mainstream has published this fragment of a transcript.
Posted by Peter Owen on Friday, 21 October 2005 at 11:50am BSTSplendid, indeed. :-)
I particularly liked, when the interviewer asked about "The Issue" how +Sentamu responded (IIRC) "I'm just working for a Church where ALL are transfigured in Christ". Amen to that!
Re the "letters": those who sent (s*)it, are full of it!!! >:-(
Posted by: J. C. Fisher on Friday, 21 October 2005 at 11:46pm BSTI'm appalled by the racist letters to +John Ebor:, but I don't quite know what to make of his response. Is it a suitably gracious response by someone who has just become "His Grace" or is it a touch naive? I speak as one who comes from what Americans might call a "poor white" area and I know that racism is all too prevalent in Britain. Can we find a collective way of showing our support for His Grace?
Posted by: Alan Harrison on Saturday, 22 October 2005 at 12:11am BST