The Knights Templar and the Rowan Williams crisis
I'm back! Got into Scotland a few days ago, and have been catching up with work while dealing with simultaneous jetlag and some kind of bug which has been knocking me out.
Internet access was not at a premium in the US, so didn't blog as I went. I will instead hopefully be posting up dispatches in the days and weeks to come.
For just now, I thought I'd share this from February's Emel magazine. It was an article by Robin Griffith-Jones, Master of Temple Church, writing excitedly in advance of a series of events he had planned around Islam and English Law. The first one would have the Archbishop of Canterbury speaking at what we now know was an ill-fated venture:
There can be no better place for these discussions than the Temple Church in London. It was built in 1185 by the Knights Templar, who were charged with the protection of pilgrims during the Crusades and were vital to the viability of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem. In past centuries the Temple represented the gulf between Christendom and Islam; it is time for this beautiful place to help heal the divisions it was built to foster.
Best laid plans and all that!
Welcome home. Och, don't be hasty, Osama. When all the meja hoo-ha has died down, (and anyway they are preoccupied right now), rely on the common sense of the general population.
Posted by:aineliva | 02 March 2008 at 07:08 AM