The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share
Religion has always been a matter of community building; a matter of building precisely those relations of compassion, fellow feeling and - I dare… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
“By affirming that all 'meaning,' every assertion about the significance of life and reality, must be judged by reference to a brief succession of… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
We can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
Loneliness has little to do with what we do or where we do it, whether we're married or unmarried, optimists or pessimists, heterosexual or… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
At the end of the Middle Ages, nobody would ever have expected the monasteries to vanish from the scene within a generation - yet… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
I do feel that federation, loose parallel processes, are less than we've got, less than we could have and, in the very long run,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
Whether something is old-fashioned or not doesn't resolve the question of whether it's true or not. I can see the temptation of simply thinking,… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
“Two hermits lived together for many years without a quarrel. One said to the other, “Let’s have a quarrel with each other, as other… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
“Christians will be found in the neighbourhood of Jesus – but Jesus is found in the neighbourhood of human confusion and suffering, defencelessly alongside… — Rowan Williams Copy Share
