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"The picture of [Jesus] which emerges from the gospels is of a person who was interested in the whole of life," said the Archbishop of Canterbury in a speech at St. German's Cathedral on the Isle of Man last fall. "He came from a rural community and knew all about the birds of the air, the flowers of the field and the animals with which he shared his surroundings. He was not the caricature that the novelist Nabokov described as 'a blond bearded faddist in a towelling robe' ... He was someone who loved life. And so should we. We are called to rejoice in God's creation; to care for it tendarly and to respect it. After all, there are challenges enough. Our world's population is now over the six billion mark. ... By 2030 the world's population will have doubled. We in the first world will have to learn to live more simply so that others may simply live."

"'Change and decay in all around I see':
Challenges facing the Church in the New Millennium"
Anglican Communion News Service

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