Andrew Brown on Akinola and The Atlantic
Andrew Brown's article on the recent Atlantic cover story about religion in Nigeria is now out from behind the subscription wall at The Church Times. He writes:
I HAVE never been able to understand the attraction of Nigeria for English Anglicans: if this really is the future of religion, we can give up any attempt at defending Christianity on the basis that it promotes civilised values.A long report in the magazine The Atlantic this month by Eliza Griswold (daughter of the previous Presiding Bishop in the US) casts some light on the situation in the belt where Muslims meet Christians, and the part played in this encounter by the Nigerian Primate, the Most Revd Peter Akinola.
Ms Griswold got to interview him after she had visited the town of Yelwa, the scene of some pretty vigorous interfaith exchanges that left 800 people dead in 2004.
Read it all.
