Archbishop of Canterbury – Page 40

Capturing the castle through the back door

April 9, 2009 2 Comments

Almost every recent document dealing with Anglican governance speaks of the Instruments of Communion as though they are well-established and widely supported. Yet the attempt to invest these instruments with ecclesiastical authority is barely a decade old, has never been examined in any formal way by the member Churches of the Communion and has never even been approved by the so-called instruments themselves.

ABC has a word with the BBC

March 29, 2009 No Comments

In a gathering of the Archbishops’ Council, the Church’s executive body, last week, Dr Williams agreed with suggestions that the future of religious broadcasting is under threat.

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s own shortcomings on climate change

March 26, 2009 3 Comments

Until he states clearly that powerful people in his own Communion don’t believe human activity contributes to global warming, and that he appeases these people so that they won’t split the Communion over the issue of homosexuality, he has little credibility on this matter.

Williams: a vision of the world and the humans in it free from possession

March 25, 2009 No Comments

If, as this whole section of Leviticus assumes, God’s people are called to make God’s holiness visible, then just or good action is action which reflects God’s purpose of liberating persons and environment from possession and the exploitation that comes from it.

Pullman lauds Williams, but asks if his strategy is working

March 22, 2009 No Comments

Philip Pullam has debated with, among others, the former Bishop of Oxford, Richard Harries, the local atheist, Richard Dawkins, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. Of the last, he says, with unmistakable awe in his voice: “Oh, I would not dare take my life in my hands by arguing with him. He is far too clever for me – I am a storyteller and that’s the beginning and end of it.”

Anglican reduction?
Anglican roux?

March 9, 2009 2 Comments

We commonly say that communion, and so the Communion, is God’s gift to us, and not simply ours to determine, much less to structure. There have been discussions about a distinctive Anglican charism, our own unique spiritual gift. Perhaps we need to rethink how we want to consider that gift, that charism. We have assumed that it is there, without thinking about why it is there.

At some point, someone will ask Rowan Williams this question:

March 5, 2009 3 Comments

Has the Anglican Communion, made any inquiries into what Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria knew or did not know about the organized massacre that took the lives of at least 660 Muslims in the Nigerian town of Yelwa in 2004?

Archbishop of Canterbury talks about Lent

March 3, 2009 No Comments

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, reflects on Lent as a time to: “Sweep and clean the room of our own minds and hearts so that the new life really may have room to come in and take over and transform us at Easter”.

Rowan Williams at General Convention?

February 20, 2009 27 Comments

We have heard from a pair of well-placed and unrelated sources that Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, may be coming to the General Convention

Rowan Williams profiled in The Atlantic

February 11, 2009 1 Comment

At a time when Christianity is twisted into a pretzel over the issue of homosexuality, Rowan Williams—alone among the top Christian leaders—is trying to carry on a conversation about it. His approach has been quixotic, at times baffling. But the long-term goal seems clear: to enable the church he leads to become fully open to gays and lesbians without breaking apart.

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