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
christian letting-go struggle
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 me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.
people church levels
The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
making-love truth-is possible-love
Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.
past
The past is what the present is doing now.
judging attention way
Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed international process, it acts in a way analogous to a private person. It purports to be judge of its own interest.
religious thinking long
Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.
powerful media action
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.