Rowan D. Williams
Rowan D. Williams
community fallacy huge outrage prone somehow suppose violence
a huge fallacy to suppose that one community is somehow more intrinsically prone to violence or outrage than any other.
human levels life shared
In human life generally, information, significant and otherwise, is shared in such overlapping networks, and absorbed at different levels over time.
christian crime dear increased nuisance people public safety various
increased crime and disorder, public nuisance and decreased public safety at a place which is dear to people from various Christian traditions.
costs evils gained groups leaders religious repeating simply slogans
Not much is to be gained simply by religious groups and religious leaders repeating slogans about the costs and evils of globalisation.
consult hope time
I hope we can use the time between now and then to reflect, to pray, to consult and to take counsel,
committed
We are still on that path, and irrevocably committed to it.
full good shall share
I shall want to know more about how you will come to have a full share in the good things of this country.
britain character clear conflict ended moral perhaps sixty war
More perhaps than any war for centuries, the conflict that ended sixty years ago had for us in Britain the clear character of a moral struggle.
anxieties caused clear discuss point reached recent sit
I am clear that the anxieties caused by recent developments have reached the point where we will need to sit down and discuss their consequences,
believe god hope love opposite sitting trust
I believe there is a god with all the trust and the hope and the love that there is in me. I don't know that there is a god in the sense that I know you're sitting opposite me.
church shall speak week
Now the more we live and speak - this week and every week - as Church in this sense, the more we shall have to say to the real world.
less rather reading seems sex suddenly
It seems to me rather sad, and rather revealing, that when it comes to sex we suddenly become much less intelligent about our reading of the Bible,
matter particular target
It really doesn't matter who you are, what you have done or not done, what you think and believe, you are still a target just by being where you are at a particular time,
bonds forward hope preserve respect situation unite ways
I hope that in our deliberations we will find that there are ways forward in this situation which can preserve our respect for one another and for the bonds that unite us.