A Pragmatic Reasion I'm Glad Not to be Anglican...

In (this article, we hear the Archbishop of Canterbury offering the opinion that sharia law should be used among Great Britain's Muslim population to govern civil matters to which it speaks. He suggests that since Orthodox Jews have similar rights, it is time for Muslims to have the same.

Now, I don't know how true it is that Orthodox Jews can let their law supercede British law, but I also don't know that Orthodox legal opinions are quite as all encompassing as Muslim sharia law. And what makes things "civil" matters in one person's understanding may be radicially different in another's view.

I don't think episcopacy is a good idea theologically, but Rowan Williams makes quite a practical argument against it in my view, too. He has not been a great advocate for evangelical thinking (an understatement), and why he would feel compelled to promote Islamic law in a country whose monarch is still head of the church there is confusing.