Person of the week

Is the Most Reverend Justin Welby, now Archbishop of Canterbury, who is already being recognised as a new spirit beyond his own diocese. It must be a long time, if ever, that the New York Times wrote a leading article in praise of the head of the Anglican community but it did so last week to commend the Archbishop for chasing “pay-day” loan sharks out of the British temple, so to speak, and proposing instead the establishment of 500 CofE credit unions on the American pattern. “A church leader who can track spread sheets alongside scripture was the NYT's judgement.