Including the existence of god. He finally resigned from the church, accusing it of Persecuting Gay People. Did his own loss of faith betray those he once preached to . Richard holloway, welcome to hardtalk. At the age 01 14, you left your Working Class Home in the West Of Scotland and went off to a very austere place in england. It was to train as an anglican priest. Train as a monk. What was that like . It was lovely. I was a romantic wee boy who wandered the hills 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 and rescuing. I got kind of bitten by that. I was discovered by the local priest. He invited me to join the choir. The beauty of it somehow consumed me. He talked about the given away life, this mystical thing called a vocation that some people had, to give themselves to a greater purpose. I went to him when i was 13 and said tentatively, m
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
Question because i think you raised something and i want to be absolutely clear here. Godis an offense against because gods truth. The laws that god has set down in the ways of living that he has given us in order to make us happy and have good strong relationships to love one another those archers that do not change. Truths that do not change. A person who has samesex attraction that state of being is not a sin. What the bible does condemn his people who are acting on that, people engaging in homosexual behavior. Why . That is not the way our sexuality is to be lived. That is something off there. Thats an offense against god who created our bodies, male and female, to be intimate with male and female in order to not just bond in love, but to procreate. So homosexuality did upon acted upon, homosexual sex, is an offense against god in the church is not backing off of that. What i want to be clear is that i am talking about a person who experiences an attraction to someone of the same s
Changed. Inre was less and less room the Republican Party for moderates like me and into doesnt six, they had a primary because republicans didnt think they wanted a liberal moderate republican and i won the primary but issues were changing and prochoice. The priorities change in the Republican Party. The issues. Ought up Climate Change come economy, foreign policy. What do you think is the most important issue and challenge that will face the next president . Mr. Chafee i think these endless wars overseas. When made a huge mistake of taking down Saddam Hussein and getting into iraq. My feeling was we just finished the nominal of those veteran issues and the evidence was not there to do it. Now, we have to fix it and thats the biggest challenge. We just have to end this for future generations. Thats my view. The refugees fleeing these wartorn countries are potentially stabilizing for europe. Thats when you say what are the big priorities . Of course, the economy and building the middle