ABC warns against forgiving too easily
April 12, 2011
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Rowan Williams has warned that easy forgiveness can make suffering appear not to matter.
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To love and to cherish. (obey?)
April 2, 2011
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With all the media coverage on the upcoming royal wedding between Kate Middleton and Prince William, there’s not been much of a religious angle to
He’s a focal point not for unity, but for disgruntlement
March 14, 2011
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“[H]e has allowed others to frame the rationale for Communion unity—the establishment of a reactionary worldwide church distinctively un-Anglican in its ethos—and his rudimentary political skills have managed to alienate Anglicans of every persuasion.”
ABC Letter to the Primates
March 12, 2011
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“The unanimous judgement of those who were present was that the Meeting should not see itself as a ‘supreme court’, with canonical powers, but that it should nevertheless be profoundly and regularly concerned with looking for ways of securing unity and building relationships of trust.”
Archbishop of Canterbury laments Pakistan’s blasphemy law
March 7, 2011
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“The government of Pakistan and the great majority of its population are, in effect, being blackmailed. The widespread and deep desire for Pakistan to be what it was meant to be, for justice to be guaranteed for all, and for some of the most easily abused laws on the statute book to be reviewed is being paralysed by the threat of murder.”
What exactly is Rowan Williams saying about the new civil partnership bill?
February 28, 2011
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Under the plans no church, chapel, synagogue or mosque will be compelled to host any ceremony. Nor would changing the law – and so implementing an amendment to the Equalities Act, which the Lords passed with all-party support last year – create any new “right” for gay couples, as some have wrongly reported.
Rowan Williams takes a stand on church’s role in same-gender weddings
February 27, 2011
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The Archbishop of Canterbury has responded to recent advances by the British government to incorporate church buildings and liturgies into the weddings of same-gender couples. The move throws into sharp relief a number of restless questions.
Anglican Communion: The shape of things to come
February 7, 2011
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Paul Bagshaw has written an essay on the state of the Anglican Communion after the most recent Primates Meeting, and his thoughts are similar to
ABC statement on David Kato’s murder
January 28, 2011
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is currently in Dublin for the Primates’ meeting, has made the following statement regarding the murder of the gay human rights activist David Kato Kisulle in Uganda:
Of margins and the proposed Covenant
January 17, 2011
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It seems incongruous to argue, as supporters of the Covenant do, that it is exceedingly significant document that is required to save the Anglican Communion, but that it pass only the most minimal test a democracy allows.
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