Lightning from Heaven

A dark day for the Church of England, but a victory for the Gospel

On July 9th 1984, Dr Robert Runcie, the Archbishop of Canterbury, stood outside York Minster, among the burning embers of a fire that had been raging all night and uttered these words, “the Lord was on our side as we battled with those flames”. He may have been the highest ranking churchman in the land … but he may also have been very wrong!