Within the space of a few days, two Church of England institutions were forced into humiliating retreats. At Lambeth Palace, the Archbishop of Canterbury withdrew an award she had personally presented to Hafiz Tahir Ashrafi, a leading Pakistani cleric who was honoured for “reconciliation and interfaith cooperation”. Ashrafi was no genuine interfaith operator. He helps uphold Pakistan’s brutal blasphemy laws, has supported the persecution of … Continue reading The Church of England is a runaway train – and its driver is out of her depth