We must think of God as a therapist, says Williams

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The Times
By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent


PEOPLE who are wrapped up in their own world should let God be their therapist, the Archbishop of Canterbury says in his Christmas message.

In his message to the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion, Dr Rowan Williams says that human beings are wrapped up in pride, fear and guilt. Like autistic children being helped by a therapist, he says, people must let themselves be touched by God in order to be changed and escape suffering.

Dr Williams makes no reference to the debate over gays, which has all but split the Anglican Church in recent months. But some are certain to see in his autistic analogy a measure of his frustration that, in spite of the closely argued Windsor Report, produced last month by the commission set up to find a way through, the Church is still at war with itself over gays.

In the message, published in French, Japanese, Spanish, Zulu and Afrikaans, as well as English, on the Anglican Communion website yesterday, Dr Williams says: “Human beings are wrapped up in themselves. Because of that great primitive betrayal that we call the fall of humanity, we are all afraid of God and the world and our real selves in some degree. We can’t cope with the light.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,174-1365096,00.html

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1. Liz Taylor: I'm not afraid to meet my maker

Liz: I'm not afraid to meet my maker
by NICOLE LAMPERT, Daily Mail

She was feted as the world's most beautiful woman and the ultimate movie star.

Her violet eyes, eight marriages to seven husbands and amazing jewellery collection all added to the legend of Elizabeth Taylor.

At the age of 72, however, her amazing life story appears to be drawing to a close.

The British-born Hollywood legend revealed just how ill she is in an extraordinary interview for an American magazine.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=326775&in_page_id=1773