“Our Speaker’s Chaplain, the Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin (who could be the first woman bishop), believes that the prospect of equality is nothing short of a “miracle” and says, as her first miracle, if elected, that she will turn the entire Thames River into wine and hold a huge banquet at the foot of Tower Bridge.

“It’s all in the bag now and we will have body bags for Anglo-Catholics and Evangelicals should they resist God’s total and absolute approval of what we have done.

VOL: Can you tell us the circumstances surrounding your kidnapping?

KATTEY: I was on my way with my wife to meet with the Standing Committee of the diocese at the Pt. Harcourt Hotel. It was 10:30 pm; we were driving overnight for a Saturday morning meeting. I had made the trip many times so I was well known in the area. I was wearing a full cassock, so the kidnappers knew who I was.

VOL sat down with Dr. Packer and asked him about his life, work, ministry and writings along with a few leading hot button questions that has brought the Anglican Communion to the edge of schism. He is physically somewhat frail but his mind is razor sharp. He admits to some short term memory loss, but one would never know it in discussion with him. He is alert, lucid, direct, and completely in charge of his thoughts. Next month he turns 88.

The archbishop’s words were met with a cool reception here, much like the reception he got at GAFCON II in Nairobi where he failed to connect with the vibrant evangelical movement that is the vanguard of revival on that continent.