Tag: Archbishop of Canterbury

‘What is the form of legislation best adapted to the good of the Church as a body where The Others do not simply go away and become invisible?’

The Archbishop of Canterbury’s message this year will invite his hearers to take a moment and rethink their values in the coming year. Specifically he

In his Christmas sermon at Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury says that one of the lessons of the coming of Christ is that people shouldn’t waste time waiting for larger-than-life heroes to bring comprehensive and total solutions to the ills of the world.

Two Christmas messages, one from the Archbishop of Canterbury, the other from The Most Rev’d Martín Barahona, Bishop of the Episcopal Anglican Church of El

For Christmas, the Archbishop of Canterbury remembers Karl Barth who preached in 1931 about the action of God which is not based on principles but

Human beings, left to themselves, have imagined God in all sorts of shapes; but – although there were one or two instances, in Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt, of gods being pictured as boys – it took Christianity to introduce the world to the idea of God in the form of a baby…. If you stop to think about it, it is still shocking. And it is also deeply challenging.

Libby Purves, in The Times, expressed the disappointment of many kindly disposed observers at this early stage of Williams’s pontificate when she wrote: “Rowan Williams seemed like a wild card, a holy man from the West come to revive the Faith. Alas, the dreadful suspicion grows that he is just another Archbishop of Canterbury.”

I suppose if you did one of those word association tests on ‘Advent’, the other word you’d come up with straight away would be ‘calendar’. That’s all that most people these days are really aware of where Advent is concerned. The Advent Calendar is a countdown to Christmas, and it means daily sweets and chocolates. ~Rowan Cantaur