I AM not saying that I would have made a better Archbishop of Canterbury, but Lord Williams could have been a first-rate profile writer: sympathetic, acute, and knowing when to shut up. His interview in The Sunday Times Magazine with the rock star Nick Cave (Features, 25 November), who has lost two sons, one in adolescence and one in adulthood, was a stunning exploration of grief and faith. “Cave’s faith is not that of a man looking for shortcuts or consolations. “Isn’t that, he asks, what the church is there for as well?” Lord Williams writes. I am part of a vast river of suffering.

Source: The Times March 10, 2023 00:18 UTC