Welby confronted

en staff  |  UK & Ireland
Date posted:  1 Dec 2023
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Welby confronted

Justin Welby

A prominent evangelical leader in the Church of England (C of E) says Justin Welby should resign.

Lee Gatiss, Director of conservative evangelical grouping Church Society, was among about 25 leaders who met with the Archbishop and his staff at Lambeth Palace Library to discuss the direction of the C of E and the situation in relation to same-sex issues. Gatiss said he was asked at the meeting ‘what we thought about some clergy teaching a view which we considered to be a threat to people’s salvation and condemning them to hell’.

He told en that he responded: ‘They ought to leave and they ought to be disciplined by the bishops who promised to banish error at their consecration services.

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