The Church at a Crossroads

Archbishop Justin Welby resigned on 12 November after eleven years in office.

Independent investigation found he had failed to take action against the late barrister John Smyth , who had supervised Church of England boys’ camps in the 1970s and ’ 80s .

Marcus Walker , rector of the medieval Church of St Bartholomew the Great in London , has emerged as Welby ’s sternest critic.

Walker believes that the primacy of the Church has been neglected.

Archbishop of Canterbury Gavin Welby has described his childhood as “messy,” but he refused to shape it into a source of victimhood.

He underwent a deep conversion at Trinity College , which included speaking in tongues.

Welby supported the first of these, but balked at gay marriage.

He sought stability through compromise, which was a compromise.

Justin Welby's resignation has a number of implications, and these will only grow as the shock wears off.

The governing Labour Party has promised a series of reforms to the upper chamber, the first of which is to rid it of all its 88 hereditary life peers.