Rowan Williams
Rowan Williams
Rowan Douglas Williams, Baron Williams of Oystermouth PC FBA FRSL FLSWis a Welsh Anglican bishop, theologian and poet...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionReligious Leader
Date of Birth14 June 1950
CitySwansea, England
real failure issues
It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
church whole-truth whole
It takes the whole church to know the whole truth.
mistake cutting thinking
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 probably one of them.
christian justice church
Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.
numbers forums discourse
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
fiction
A public is a necessary fiction.
running long church
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, less than what God wants in the Church.
sex prayer character
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 about it the same character of absolute covenanted faithfulness. .. I have reached this definitive conclusion after 20 years of study and prayer.
christian heart community
It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
government people support
We must support government coercion over enforcing international protocols and speed limits on motorways if we want the global economy not to collapse and millions, billions of people to die.
autumn opportunity rome
My visit this autumn is an opportunity to continue that rich tradition of visits between Canterbury and Rome.
long liberty essentials
To help the poor to a capacity for action and liberty is something essential for one's own health as well as theirs: there is a needful gift they have to offer which cannot be offered so long as they are confined by poverty.
media maintenance common
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
people bishops wales
Even when I was Archbishop of Wales and working with new bishops, I used to say, not realising quite how true it was, 'One of the things you will do as a bishop is disappoint people'.