The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God, as if we were that unconditional response to God's giving that God's self makes… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
I concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marriage, if and only if it had the about it the same character of… — 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 contingent events in Palestine, Christianity - almost without realizing it - closed off the path to 'timeless truth.' That is to say, it becomes increasingly difficult in the Christian world to see the ultimately important human… — 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 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 of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world… — 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 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 homosexual. Loneliness has to do with the sudden clefts we experience in every human relation, the gaps that open up with such stomach-turning unexpectedness. In a brief moment, I and my brother or sister have moved… — 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 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 life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near… — 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 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
