My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome. Rowan Williams Read Quote
Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it’s monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they’re working for themselves, not for the community. Rowan Williams Read Quote
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return. Rowan Williams Read Quote
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. Rowan Williams Read Quote
Keeping our eyes on journey’s end is what we need – the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety. Rowan Williams Read Quote
It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God’s call to reveal to the world what God’s purpose is for humanity. Rowan Williams Read Quote
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing. Rowan Williams Read Quote
In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention. Rowan Williams Read Quote
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation. Rowan Williams Read Quote
