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
assisted certainly defenders desire dying euthanasia motive people spare
I am certainly not ascribing to the defenders of euthanasia or assisted dying any motive but the desire to spare people unnecessary suffering,
marriage unique covenant-with-god
Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.
understanding world way
How do we live in a way that shows an understanding that we genuinely live in a shared world, not one that simply belongs to us?
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.
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.
fiction
A public is a necessary fiction.
christian thinking interest
I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
moral climate-change
It's a moral question.
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.
media maintenance common
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
christian what-matters killers
It does not matter to the killers if their victims are Christian or Muslim, Hindu or Humanist what matters is that they show that they can kill where they please.
marketing empires degrees
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.