The Church of England must show it can manage disagreement "gracefully" over issues such as women bishops and gay marriage, the Archbishop of Canterbury has warned.
The Most Reverend Justin Welby said the Church faced a "challenge" to show the rest of society that its members can hold different views but still remain "gracefully and deeply committed to each other".
"We need to understand reconciliation within the Church as the transformation of destructive conflict, not unanimity," he said.
"It doesn't mean we all agree, it is that we find ways of disagreeing, perhaps very passionately but loving each other deeply at the same time, gracefully and deeply committed to each other.
"That is the challenge for the Church and that is the challenge if the Church is actually going to speak to our society which is increasingly divided in many different ways, here and overseas, over huge issues."
Mr Welby's remarks were part of a wide-ranging interview for an Easter Sunday broadcast of the Travellers' Tales slot on Premier Christian Radio.
They also come after the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister David Cameron.
Lord Carey has questioned the PM's support for Christians In an article for the Daily Mail, Lord Carey said on Saturday that many Christians doubt the PM's "sincerity" when he pledges to protect their religious freedoms and accuses ministers of "aiding and abetting" discrimination against believers.
Mr Welby, a former oil industry executive, was enthroned earlier this month at Canterbury Cathedral. He told the programme of how he first become a Christian and how he met his wife Caroline.
Speaking of how they had coped after their first born child, Johanna, died in a road accident in France in 1983, he said: "God is aware of our suffering, of the suffering of this very broken world and our suffering was as nothing compared to many people and he is at work even in the darkest places.
"I think the cross is the great point at which the suffering and sorrow, torture, trial and sin and yuck of the world ends up on God's shoulders out of love for us."
Mr Welby said he first experienced "something impinging on his consciousness" as part of a Christian Missionary Society (CMS) scheme to Kenya during his gap year between school and university when he was not a practising Christian.
But he said he "opened my life to Jesus" as a 19-year-old student at Cambridge University after a friend "explained the cross" to him following a church service.
The father-of-five, who left the oil industry in 1989 to be ordained, said working in the oil industry was "not even a quarter" as pressured as being a parish priest.
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