Im alan little. My guest today is the former bishop of edinburgh, richard holloway. He entered a seminary at the age of 1a, intent on becoming a monk. He rose to become the leader of the Anglican Church in scotland. But he gradually lost faith in many of the certainties in christianity, including the existence of god. He finally resigned from the church, accusing it of cruelly persecuting gay people. So did his own loss of faith betray those he once preached to . Richard holloway, welcome to hardtalk. At the age of 1a, you left your Working Class Home in the West Of Scotland and went off to a very austere place in england called kelham hall, to train as an anglican priest. To train, in effect, as a monk. What was that like . It was lovely. I was a romantic wee boy who wandered the hills at loch lomond, where i grew up. The hills give you a sense of beyondness, of otherness, but that was also related to me and the kind of love for western movies, this Idea Of The Lonely Hero Riding on a
Im alan little. My guest today is the former bishop of edinburgh, richard holloway. He entered a seminary at the age of 1a, intent on becoming a monk. He rose to become the leader of the Anglican Church in scotland. But he gradually lost faith in many of the certainties in christianity, including the existence of god. He finally resigned from the church, accusing it of cruelly persecuting gay people. So did his own loss of faith betray those he once preached to . Richard holloway, welcome to hardtalk. At the age of 1a, you left your Working Class Home in the West Of Scotland and went off to a very austere place in england called kelham hall, to train as an anglican priest. To train, in effect, as a monk. What was that like . It was lovely. I was a romantic wee boy who wandered the hills at loch lomond, where i grew up. The hills give you a sense of beyondness, of otherness, but that was also related to me and the kind of love for western movies, this Idea Of The Lonely Hero Riding on a