“This place is set apart for prayers for honouring the name of John the Baptist, the prophet of Bethany and for the praise of the most holy name of our Lord.”
Rowan Williams in is Jordan today and while worshiping at the traditional site of Our Lord’s Baptism, the Archbishop expressed his grave concern at the “eroding” Christian presence in the Holy Land.
Rob Tish has put together another must see video, this time explaining how many ways you can be dead under the anti-gay bill before the
Paying the right kind of attention to the corruptions of language in our age is inseparable from attending to the corruptions of our economic exchanges; and it is no less of a religious obligation. – Rowan Williams
You can watch the Archbishop of Canterbury’s address to the General Synod of the Church of England online.
However, on the whole, restraint is still in general posed as restraint from action rather than restraint from reaction. It becomes a form of, “Please don’t do what the rest of us, or most of the rest of us, don’t like; or even, in the long run, what a few of us cannot bear.” ~Tobias Haller
Rowan Williams Trinity Institute Lecture
The Rev. Geoffrey Hoare heard Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, defend the proposed Anglican Covenant last week in terms that directly contradict the archbishop’s own convictions about the best way to maintain relationships.
The thrust of the Archbishop’s remarks to the Trinity Institute have been summarized in a short essay published in Newsweek. If you’re familiar with William’s theological writing, you’ll recognize his main themes in this piece.
The Archbishop of Canterbury told this year’s Trinity Institute that the global recession arose, in part, from a fundamental disconnect between economic activity and morality. His speech comes in the wake of the news that the Church of England will lose about $78 million invested in the largest real estate deal in American history.