Rowan D. Williams
Rowan D. Williams
company greatly human learn sorts whose
We have to learn to be human along-side all sorts of others, the ones whose company we don't greatly like.
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.
committed
We are still on that path, and irrevocably committed to it.
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.
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.
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,
anglican asking central executive good people ways
We don't have any kind of central executive in the Anglican communion, and in many ways that's a good thing. I don't think people are asking for that,
bound christian gospel organise political putting questions
I think the Christian gospel is bound to be putting questions as to how we organise our society, how we make our political decisions.
address happens listened predict run whatever
Whatever happens in the long run -- and I wouldn't want to predict -- I think there are things we can do at least to address that sense of not being listened to,
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.
above again capture country draw energies imagination strongest thinking
If there is one thing I long for above all else, it is that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture, to draw the strongest energies of our thinking and feeling.