In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
