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
jesus names perspective
I have to go on being a priest and bishop, that is, to celebrate God and what God has done in Jesus, and to offer in God's name whatever I can discern of God's perspective on the world around - something which involves both challenge and comfort.
communication rooms grows
Bad human communication leaves us less room to grow.
eye animal vegetables
We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.
integrity silence silence-is
Silence is letting what there is be what it is. In that sense it has to do profoundly with God: the silence of simply being. We experience that at times when there is nothing we can say or do that would not intrude on the integrity and the beauty of that being.
letting-go self protected
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
letting-go self protected
We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
equality way rewards
Friendship is something that creates equality and mutuality, not a reward for finding equality or a way of intensifying existing mutuality.
order creative world
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
eye journey order
Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety.
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.
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.
powerful media action
One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest.
fiction
A public is a necessary fiction.
christian thinking interest
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.