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It is not a crime to hold traditional values - Abp Rowan Williams
Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement Published: 10 December 2006 The belief among conservative Christians that some behaviour is sinful does not amount to an expression of hate, says Rowan Williams, so why have some student unions withdrawn recognition from religious societies? What is still puzzling about the debate over...
Continue reading...The Common Declaration of Pope Benedict XVI and the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
24. November 2006
Source Forty years ago, our predecessors, Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey, met together in this city sanctified by the ministry and the blood of the Apostles Peter and Paul. They began a new journey of reconciliation based on the Gospels and the ancient common traditions. Centuries of estrangement between Anglicans and...
Continue reading...A society that does not allow crosses or veils in public is a dangerous one - Rowan Williams
27. October 2006
Source: London Times COMING BACK from a fortnight in China at the beginning of this week, into the middle of what felt like a general panic about the role of religion in society, had a slightly surreal feel to it. The proverbial visitor from Mars might have imagined that the greatest immediate threat to British society was religious...
Continue reading...China emerging as senior partner in the fellowship of nation - Abp Rowan Williams
14. October 2006
Source: ACNS It’s a very great delight to be with you this evening and it’s another episode in what is beginning to be a trend in our visit to China so far. We came to find out something about the China of today and after our two days in Shanghai, and in the context of this evening, I feel we’re finding out a great deal about the...
Continue reading...Archbishop Williams Says Bishop in Central Africa Should Step Down
20. July 2006
Source: Living Church 7/19/2006 The Archbishop of Canterbury has called for the Bishop of Harare (Zimbabwe) to step down while misconduct charges against him are pending before the church courts of the Province of Central Africa. The call for the Rt. Rev. Nolbert Kunonga to go marks the most significant intervention by the Most Rev....
Continue reading...Rowan Williams–The Challenge and Hope of Being an Anglican Today
27. June 2006
Editorial: I suggest that readers read this first on their own instead of forming impressions through other reviewers. Don’t just glance through and better still, print it out using the print version option. Worth a careful read. A Reflection for the Bishops, Clergy and Faithful of the Anglican Communion The Anglican Communion: a...
Continue reading...Archbishop Rowan Williams: Sermon for Easter Day
16. April 2006
One of the ways in which we now celebrate the great Christian festivals in our society is by a little flurry of newspaper articles and television programmes raking over the coals of controversies about the historical basis of faith. So it was no huge surprise to see a fair bit of coverage given a couple of weeks ago to the discovery of a...
Continue reading...Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams - Easter Message to his Diocese
14. April 2006
Source: ACNS 11 APRIL 2006 I was always taught, of course, that you should never under any circumstances say ‘Alleluia’ during Lent. It was like giving up chocolate or alcohol. Save it till Easter, and then you’ll really enjoy it as it was meant to be enjoyed. There’s plenty of good sense about this, if we understand what Lent...
Continue reading...Archbishop Williams: Thought for the Day for Good Friday
14. April 2006
Source: ACNS Good Friday 14th April 2006 A novelist, some years back, put it very well when he described what it was like to arrive in the empty hallway of a monastery in Yorkshire for the first time; ‘There is an impression of intense activity elsewhere’. That’s a phrase that comes to my mind, sometimes, when...
Continue reading...Inter-faith Talks Working, Archbishop Williams Says
07. April 2006
Source: Living Church 04/05/2006 The cultural diversity of the Anglican Communion has worked in its favor, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The Most Rev. Rowan Williams launched the fifth Building Bridges seminar by stating that the diversity of the Communion has enabled it to foster relationships and significant interfaith...
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11. December 2006
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