13 February 2014
While the political blame game continues over who is responsible for the floods, waterlogged householders will be ticking “act of God” on insurance forms. So what do our leading religious figures make of it all?
There’s been no comment from Britain’s most senior Catholic, the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, not Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. The Muslim Council of Britain told us its congregations would “make special prayers”. And Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury?
In his Presidential Address to the General Synod, he remarked how God’s “abundant love overwhelms us when we make space to flood into our own lives, into institutions and systems.” Not the wisest choice of words, maybe.
