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
believe suffering would-be
The question, 'How can you believe in a God who permits suffering on this scale?' is therefore very much around at the moment, and it would be surprising if it weren't - indeed it would be wrong if it weren't.
moral climate-change
It's a moral question.
destiny our-world guarantees-that
... 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 we live in will 'tolerate' us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.
new-year real years
Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the next generation. Indeed to ask whether we have a real and vivid sense of that next generation.
self giving desire
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 in the life of the Trinity. We are created so that we may be caught up in this, so that we may grow into the wholehearted love of God by learning that God loves us as God loves God.
views world creation
The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.
christian thinking interest
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
real media people
Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.
average income littles
Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society.
brother loneliness reality
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 away into different worlds, and there is no language we can share.... It is in the middle of intimacy that the reality of loneliness most dramatically appears.
communication journalism social
To conclude: good journalism is one of the models of good conversation and communication in the wider social context.
jesus commitment shows
We are called to show utter commitment to the God who is revealed in Jesus and to all those to whom His invitation is addressed.
healthy trying limits
A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.
communication media democracy
Serving democracy and nourishing the common good is, for the media, something that requires not only attacking corrupt secrecies in a society, but also defending non-corrupt communication.