Describing his personal conversion experience, the Archbishop of Canterbury says he felt “a clear sense of something changing” but “I was desperately embarrassed that this had happened to me, like getting measles”.
Since then, says Archbishop Justin Welby, there have been long periods with “no sense of any presence at all’’, but he has never gone back on that night’s “decision to follow Christ’’.
He says it is not his doing: “It’s grace. Grace is a reality: feelings are ephemeral.”