The Archive
Author: Jim Naughton
Live: ABC meets the press
Archbishop Rowan Williams met the press this morning in a facility know as the Missing Link building, and unlike Saturday’s “interview” with Tom Wright, I did not make that up. He answered one of the key questions put to him with great clarity, another with evasion, and a third with intriguing nuance.
Live: trivial pursuits
With so little happening, the media is parsing trivialities. It turns out that the purportedly Buddhist chant with which the Right Reverend Duleep de Chickera, the Bishop of Colombo, concluded his sermon at yesterday’s opening Eucharist was actually a profession of faith in the Trinity chanted in what struck many listeners as a Buddhist fashion.
Words and meanings: communion & community
In this brief space between GAFCON and the heart of Lambeth, I have been indulging in word play. It can be a vice. It can be seen as silly. But, here’s the thing: we are people of a faith in which words have meaning. God created by speaking. God came among us in the Word; and it is in the written Word that we in our generation know of these things
Roses and weeds
Building and nurturing community—relationships with common purpose and common support—is very much like planting and nurturing a garden. Just a few weeds, if not attended to, can kill what you are trying to grow. Like the weeds in a real garden, if considered alone, they are just healthy plants; in the context of the garden they are killers.
Live: For starters
From the opening Eucharist: “There is space equally for everyone and anyone regardless of color, gender, ability or sexual orientation. If we attempt some game of uprooting the unrighteous, then my sisters and brothers, none of us will remain.”
The Lambeth Reader now available
That Lambeth Reader discussed in earlier posts has been made available on the official Lambeth Conference website. Our earlier posts on the reader are here
Living with weeds
Matthew may have been clear that there are only two kinds of people in the world—the wheat and the weeds—but it is a clarity that escapes most of us, we who have encountered both kinds in ourselves, and in our neighbors, and in the world. Most of our fields are full of mixed plantings, or worse.
Live: a lesson in moral reasoning
Bishop Tom Wright last night compared his inability to find a parking space near his home to the firebombing of Dresden. Actually, he didn’t, but he may as well have.