Warning of worst times in 60 years
Apr 13 2009 By Sam Wood, The Journal
THE Bishop of Durham has said that we are living through the most 'threatening and disturbing' time of his life, in his Easter address.
As the Church celebrated its most holy day, the Rt Rev Tom Wright, Bishop of Durham, used his address to warn of the dangers acing the world.
A combination of the credit crunch, terrorism and environmental issues has created unprecedented uncertainty in the modern world, he said in his address.
As part of his sermon, he told the congregation: "Without wishing to be melodramatic, we live in times that are as disturbing and threatening as I have known in 60 years, with the world teetering on the brink of economic meltdown on the one hand and ecological meltdown on the other, with wars and rumours of wars which we’ve forgotten why we started but can’t figure out how to stop, with the secularists alternately sneering and screaming that they want us wiped off the map and with the fundamentalists trumpeting their righteousness and plotting their next bomb."
