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Praise from Singapore

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From The Christian Post’s Singapore edition:

If many in the Anglican world deem the ten-year leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury a failure, theologians from Singapore interviewed by The Christian Post take a radically different view of the matter.

Anglican theologian Michael Nai-Chiu Poon was one of the respondents to an email request by this paper for comment on the contributions of the Most Reverend and Right Honourable Dr. Rowan Douglas Williams. As the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Williams is the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion.

The Rev. Canon Dr. Poon said: “Dr. Rowan Williams is arguably the most sensitive and erudite theologian in the Anglican world, God’s gift to the church universal at a time when it needs to discern afresh the character of Christian discipleship in the radically altered situation in the 21st century.

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Christopher Wells, PhD is Director of Unity, Faith and Order for the Anglican Communion. He oversees the Communion’s ecumenical relations and serves as secretary of the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO). From 2009 to 2022, Dr. Wells was executive director and publisher of the Living Church Foundation.

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